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Original Video Content Impacts Technology Purchasing (REPORT ANALYSIS)

ReelSEO

A recent consumer survey by IDGTechNetwork showed that video plays a vital role in the purchasing decisions of today’s electronics and technology consumers. But it’s not just standard video advertising that we are talking about. They look for a variety of content that will help them make a better informed decision and then tend to act on the information that they’ve found. Here’s a quick breakdown of the survey results.

Before I talk about the results I wanted to give you a run down of how the data was collected. It was an online survey aimed at ‘better understanding the demographic profile of the IDGTechNetwork audience.‘ The research was done via online invitations to complete the survey by ‘editorial stakeholders of sites within the IDGTechNetwork.‘ The responses were collected from April 30th to August 24th of this year.

With an audience of 130 million unique visitors and 2,354 respondents we get a margin of error right around 2%. Of course, that’s about half of the US online audience. It’s hard to say what percentage of the online video viewing audience in the US it is though as we don’t know if all 130 million of them watch video online monthly. I haven’t seen IDG on any comScore or Nielsen report as either a publisher (10th place in May was 11.4M video viewers for Nielsen, comScore is much higher) or an online video ad network.

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Video Viewing Correlates With Purchase Behavior

IDG Research Solutions

Research: What Media and Devices Motivate BtoB Tech Buyers

Business and IT professionals are taking to social, mobile, and video in a big way in the US. They have several favorite sources of information on tech products. These are some of the findings in a recent IDG Research Services survey of more than 2, 200 visitors to IDG sites such as CIO, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Network World, and PCWorld. Tech savvy users, across multiple segments from healthcare to finance and manufacturing to government, are key indicators for marketers as they plan to reach a broader business audience.

For 95% of BtoB tech buyers, the web is a constant source of tech-related videos: 82% of the respondents post, forward, and share such videos.  Many are not passive viewers, either.  Almost half purchased a product, nearly three-quarters research an item, and approximately half visited a vendor site, contacted a vendor for more information, or looked for a product in a retail store.

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Video Ups Mobile Ad Engagement

MediaPost

Ad features such as video and image galleries help boost engagement with mobile ads, according to a new study commissioned by Say Media and conducted by comScore. For the ad-related part of the study, the companies looked at 100 recent mobile campaigns on the Say Network to understand which elements made them most effective.

The study found that rich media features, such as product carousels, mapping and “lookbooks,” saw click-to-site rates three times as high as similar mobile ads without these interactive tools. Video in mobile ads increased time spent. For auto ads, average time spent increased 28% compared to ads without video, and 32% for technology industry ads.

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Six tips for great B2B videos

eConsultancy

Thanks in large part to the popularity of video on the consumer internet, video has become a more important part of many companies’ B2B content marketing strategies. For obvious reasons, the process of creating an effective B2B video is a bit different than creating a B2C video, but that doesn’t mean that it’s an impossible undertaking.

Here are six tips for B2B companies looking to put video to use as a sales and marketing tool.

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YouTube to Double Down on Its ‘Channel’ Experiment

Wall Street Journal

For Google Inc.’s YouTube it was a $150 million experiment: Seed dozens of new video “channels” on its Web service and see what works. So far, Google likes what it sees from the eight-month effort. The company says it will put in another $200 million to market the channels as it attempts to upgrade its content from simple user-generated videos and to lure more viewers and advertising.

The site has launched nearly 100 new channels so far this year, attracting talent such as actor Amy Poehler to create or star in original episodes in an effort to draw new audiences—and blue-chip advertisers. YouTube has secured commitments from advertisers to run more than $150 million of ads on the channels this year, according to a person with direct knowledge of the sales.

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The NYT’s & WSJ’s Push To Online Video

Digiday

The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times often disagree, at least in their editorials, but both are in agreement that the future of the newspaper will involve a healthy dose of video. It’s not surprising that the leading newspapers are branching out to video. The Web is clearly moving in a less static direction, and big brand advertisers will pay more for sight, sound and motion. Both sites have produced video over the years, and lately it’s starting to pay off in numbers that aren’t exactly YouTube, but aren’t anything to sneeze at either.

According to ComScore, the Times had 561,000 viewers and 1.6 million video views in June. The WSJ had almost 1.3 million viewers who accounted for 4.2 million video views that month. Each company professes to be feeling its way with its video strategy, with some divergences in tactics, but both believe it is becoming critical to their businesses — and news missions.

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Online Video Breaks Ad, Viewer Records

MediaPost

While Google and YouTube continue to rule video advertising, a group of properties have come to underpin the broader marketplace. Indeed, each of the top five video ad properties,  including BrightRoll, Hulu, Adap.tv, and TubeMogul, as well as YouTube, delivered more than 1 billion video ads last month, according to the new data from comScore.

Following Google’s prized property — which ranked first with 1.41 billion ads — the BrightRoll Video Network accounted for nearly 1.39 billion ads; Hulu was responsible for 1.33 billion ads; Adap.tv chalked up 1.15 billion ads; while the TubeMogul Video Ad Platform recorded 1.04 billion ads.

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ANA Survey: Video is Hot for Marketing, but ROI is the Hot Button

Min

Viral Video is the most rapidly growing digital media platform for marketers, according to the ANA (Association of National Advertisers) 2012 Digital and Social Media Survey. Eighty percent of marketers are using video as a marketing channel in 2012 as compared with 64% a year ago. Viral video use has been steadily increasing from 25% of marketers surveyed in 2007 to 80% surveyed in 2012. Companies with larger revenues are more likely to use viral video — 95% of respondents whose companies earn more than $10B annually use viral video (compared to 75% surveyed whose companies earn less than $10B annually).

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Video Ads in Google Display Network Grow 70%

MediaPost

Google knows just a wee bit about display ads and a wee bit about video ads. But how do the two mediums play together? In its recent report, Display Business Trends: Publisher Edition, the search giant analyzed “tens of billions” of impressions across its publisher products including DoubleClick for Publishers, the DoubleClick Ad Exchange and the Google AdSense network. With video in particular, Google found several trends that may be useful for publishers to keep in mind as they peddle video ads. For starters, video advertising is one of the fastest growing segments in digital advertising, the report said. Google’s not the first company to note the rapidity of video’s growth; but corroboration from the Web behemoth on what countless other reports say is a good thing for the video ad business.

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Computer Maker Lenovo Drives Web Site Revenue Rise Via Product Videos

MediaPost

PC maker Lenovo said it boosted online sales with the addition of product videos to its Web site. Via a partnership with online video technology provider SundaySky, Lenovo integrated 1,300 personalized videos throughout its online product suite earlier this year. During a two-month test, Lenovo saw a two percent increase in revenue across all products. About five percent of visitors who watched the product videos made purchases. Lenovo and SundaySky also said the videos had an 88 percent viewing completion rate.

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