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YouTube is entering the third-party streaming subscription market with the launch of Primetime Channels, a hub where consumers can sign up for Showtime, Starz, Paramount+ and more than 30 other services. The company confirmed the initiative is starting in the US in a blog post. YouTube users can access Primetime Channels through the Movies & …
YouTube is getting into the ad-supported long-form game by adding 4,000 library TV episodes and 1,500 movies as viewership in the living room continue to grow. With the move, Google will gain more visibility in the growing Advertising-based Video on Demand marketplace (AVOD). NBCUniversal, Paramount, Disney and Warner Bros Entertainment have all acquired or developed …
You have created a YouTube channel to promote your business or brand. Well, that is amazing! Congratulations on taking the first step. But the problem is, how to make your content stand out from the sea of content on YouTube. How to get views on your content? In 2020, over 500 hours of content was …
Now that you’ve decided to use video in your marketing efforts and decided which platform is best for you, how do you make sure your content is seen? Use SEO Search Engine Optimisation or SEO is a series of actions a website manager takes to ensure a website can be found in search engines for …
Mo Gilligan, better known as Mo the Comedian, has really put in the work over the last few years and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. I’ve been following Mo Gilligan on Twitter since 2009 and it brings a smile to my face to witness his rise in the game. His prolific work rate is worthy of …
When most people think of monetising their video channels, they think of YouTube but there are other ways to earn money through your video content. Yes, a lot of people have become start through YouTube earning millions in ad revenue. Many vloggers make money from company sponsorship. Many more receive free products in order to …
We previously wrote about the various video platforms in terms of technology. Here I will talk about the available platforms in a bit more detail and explain the individual benefits of each platform. A video hosting service allows individual end users to upload and share personal or business videos. There are over a dozen video …
Thanks to developments in technology, it’s easier than ever to create a fun video at little to no cost to enhance your content marketing efforts. Anybody can use their smartphone cameras to create video content on the fly. Of course, if you are going to create video content regularly you may consider buying a camera …
As with all marketing, promoting your video requires an effective strategy and clear objectives. If you don’t know what you are hoping to achieve with your video how will you measure the success or lack thereof? Objectives can be as simple as driving traffic to your website, improving SEO or raising brand awareness through customers …
Instagram is finally positioning itself as a YouTube rival. At an event in San Francisco, the company revealed that it will start allowing users to upload videos up to one hour in length, a huge increase from the previous one-minute limit. Instagram has launched IGTV to house the new longer-form videos from content creators and …
Instagram has become the latest social media company to embrace live video broadcasts. Following in the footsteps of YouTube, and Facebook, which owns Instagram and Twitter’s live-streaming app Periscope, Instagram has released a new feature that enables its users to broadcast live at any time. To go live, users can swipe right in their feed, …
It\’s just as easy to pin YouTube videos on Pinterest as it is embedding any other link from a websiteI’m really enjoying Pinterest. I just wish I could train myself to spend less time looking at cute cat pictures. I need to have a 30-minute rule or something. My time on Pinterest today was for …
