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Video: Taking the hardship out of silage bales – New Hayknife hits Irish market

Video: Taking the hardship out of silage bales – New Hayknife hits Irish market

Fastparts, a division of Farmhand, has recently launched a new Hayknife on the Irish market to take the hardship out of opening silage bales, hay bales and fertiliser bags.

Since its release, the Hayknife has made a big impact due to the number of benefits associated with the product.

The Hayknife is equipped with a blade, that folds in for safety, which cuts through silage plastic and netting with ease for the operator.

To reduce the need to handle silage plastic and netting, the Hayknife also features a hook to keep the user’s contact with silage netting or plastic to a minimum.

The long-handle design of the Hayknife also helps to reduce the likelihood of the user coming in contact with silage effluent.

This design also limits the user’s need to bend down or to reach underneath when opening either bales or fertiliser bags.

Along with being ideal for opening silage bales, the Hayknife is also an ideal solution for opening either fertiliser bags or hay bales on the farm.

Video: Hayknife in action

The size and colour of the Hayknife is also a major plus, as it can be easily stored in the tractor, while its yellow colour makes it ease to spot if it is mislaid.

Stephen Scrivener, Marketing Manager with Farmhand, the company behind Fastparts, said that the popularity of the Hayknife is down to a number of factors.

“Not only does the Hayknife prevent the need for bending down under bales and bags, which is an obvious hazard, it allows the user to put a few feet between them and the effluent pouring out of the wrapped bale.

This is something everybody who opens wrapped bales can appreciate!

Scrivener also said the Hayknife is unlikely to go missing:

“It’s not like a blade that you can put in your pocket and forget about, the big yellow handle is likely going to sit in the tractor where it belongs,” he said.

The Hayknife is available from Fastparts.ie

New AI Driven Video Marketing Platform Meets Accelerated Need …

MENLO PARK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Magisto, the world’s most popular smart video storytelling application,
today announced Magisto
for Marketers
, an amplification of its Magisto for Business platform
tailored specifically to marketers. The new platform uses artificial
intelligence to help drive the transition from traditional marketing
creative to digital-first, mobile video marketing for businesses of all
sizes.

Magisto for Marketers introduces Intelligent Marketing creative
into Magisto’s patented artificial intelligence engine – Emotional Sense
Technology™. This gives marketing professionals the ability to easily
create marketing videos for a variety of disciplines including content
marketing, product marketing, brand marketing and performance marketing.

Magisto’s new offering allows marketers to create multiple variations of
optimized videos by use case, platform, audience, message, product and
ROI performance. The AI technology incorporates easy-to-use editing
styles designed for businesses, the ability to add custom branding to
clone videos and to direct Magisto’s AI to refine messaging and produce
multiple A/B test creatives. It also includes themes that automatically
optimize marketing videos for Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

“For the first time, we’re making video marketing agile, completely
changing the economics of video production and drastically improving its
ROI,” said Magisto’s CEO and Founder, Oren Boiman. “Magisto for
Marketers distinctively meets a massive market need for producing
digital video with scale, velocity and creative variation.”

Magisto’s AI-powered platform is uniquely designed to help businesses
new to video creation easily deliver video marketing and help companies
that already use video transition to digital.

In fact, Borrell Associates highlights the importance and growth of
digital video. “As businesses work to include mobile with desktop and
video with print, the digital marketing space rapidly evolves,” says
Corey Elliott, VP of Research with Borrell Associates. “This year,
almost $29 billion will be spent in the U.S. to produce online video and
is predicted to grow to $41 billion in 2017.”

Shahar Erez, SVP Products at Kenshoo adds, “Marketers are facing a
creative log jam when it comes to scalable video advertising. Magisto is
a powerful video creative solution that allows marketers to refresh
video creative regularly, adjust by publisher, and to understand which
of these assets drives the best results. In partnership with Kenshoo’s Creative
Manager
and publisher network, marketers can deploy highly targeted
videos at the speed the market demands.”

New York City marketing and loyalty platform, flok, recently used
Magisto for Marketers as part of their customer acquisition efforts on Facebook.

“We see tremendous opportunity for video across all aspects of our
business from product marketing to customer acquisition,” said Ido
Gaver, CEO and co-founder of flok. “Magisto’s AI-driven creative
platform helped accelerate our video marketing efforts by an order of
magnitude compared to traditional video production.”

Magisto for Marketers is now available via the web and will be available
on mobile early in 2017. To learn more about the Magisto for Marketers,
click here;
for a full feature list and pricing click here.

About Magisto

Magisto is the world’s most popular smart video storytelling application
that uses Emotional Sense Technology™, patented story detection that
automatically analyzes and edits raw video footage and photos into
produced personal movies and professional marketing videos. Businesses
use Magisto to create and deploy video marketing creative with
unprecedented ease, agility and speed. Magisto is available for iOS,
Android and the Web. It’s not magic, it’s Magisto. For more information,
visit magisto.com, magisto.com/business or find us @magisto.

Chrome 55 Now Blocks Flash, Uses HTML5 by Default

Chrome 55 Flash settings

Chrome 55, released earlier this week, now blocks all Adobe Flash content by default, according to a plan set in motion by Google engineers earlier this year.

Back in May, Google’s staff announced that starting with Q4 2016, Chrome would use HTML5 by default, while Flash would be turned off.

While some of the initial implementation details of the « HTML5 By Default » plan changed since May, Flash has been phased out in favor of HTML5 as the primary technology for playing multimedia content in Chrome.

Users have to allow Flash to run on non-HTML5 websites

Google’s plan is to turn off Flash and use HTML5 for all sites. Where HTML5 isn’t supported, Chrome will prompt users and ask them if they want to run Flash to view multimedia content.

The user’s option would be remembered for subsequent visits, but there’s also an option in the browser’s settings section, under Settings Content Settings Flash Manage Exceptions, where users can add the websites they want to allow Flash to run by default.

Chrome 55 Flash exceptions

Back in May, to avoid over-prompting users, Google said it would whitelist some of the Internet’s biggest web portals where HTML5 isn’t yet supported, or where not all content could be played back via HTML5 just yet. The list included YouTube, Flash, VK, and others.

This top 10 list has been dropped, in favor of a better system called Site Engagement (chrome://site-engagement) that gives scores to websites based on the number of visits and time spent on each site. The Site Engagement indicator takes a value from 1 to 100, and once it drops under 30, users will be prompted to enable Flash, regardless of the site’s popularity and Alexa ranking.

Flash, who’s been accused of being a resource hog and a security threat, will continue to ship with Chrome for the time being.

If you don’t like Google’s decision to go with HTML5 by default, there’s an option in the chrome://flags section where you can revert to using Flash.

Chrome 55 flags

Google has been preparing for a life without Flash for many years now. YouTube has dropped Flash support a long time ago, while starting with January 2, 2017, Google will stop accepting Flash ads in its AdWords program.

Both Chrome and Firefox now block non-essential Flash content, such as analytics and user fingerprinting scripts. Google has been doing this since Chrome 53, and Mozilla since Firefox 48.

Aucun remboursement pour les clients d’Air Miles

Air Miles n’offrira aucun remboursement aux clients qui se sont empressés de dépenser leurs points accumulés par peur de les perdre.

Questionnée par deux consommateurs mécontents sur Twitter, la compagnie a répondu: «nous n’accepterons aucun retour, aucune annulation ou échange en ce qui concerne l’annulation de la politique».

Le gestionnaire des points de fidélité LoyaltyOne a fait volte-face, jeudi, après l’implantation d’une politique qui aurait fait perdre les points fidélité inutilisés après une période de cinq ans.

Il faut dire qu’Air Miles faisait face à un recours collectif.

Cette politique devait entrer en vigueur le 31 décembre 2016.

Manifestation de la CSN pour les services éducatifs à Montréal

Les manifestants se sont rassemblés en début d’après-midi au Carré Saint-Louis dans le Quartier Latin, puis se sont dirigés vers le bureau du premier ministre Philippe Couillard à quelques kilomètres de là, au centre-ville de Montréal. Des dizaines de milliers de cartes postales devaient être déposées devant le bureau de M. Couillard au terme de la manifestation. Le même scénario se déroulait en parallèle à Saint-Félicien dans la circonscription du premier ministre.

«Ça fait deux ans et demi au Québec qu’on est en austérité ! Il y a eu des compressions budgétaires majeures qui ont frappé partout : dans les commissions scolaires, dans les services de garde, dans les milieux familiaux, dans les CPE. Là, on est en train de saupoudrer quelques investissements, mais ce n’est pas suffisant», a affirmé le président de la CSN Jacques Létourneau en mêlée de presse.

Le chef syndical espère que cette mobilisation arrivera à convaincre le ministre de l’Éducation Sébastien Proulx et le premier ministre Couillard de réinvestir dans les services éducatifs. «1,7 milliard de surplus a été annoncé hier, et va être réinvesti uniquement dans le Fonds des générations du Québec, alors qu’il y a des besoins, là, maintenant. Oui, c’est vrai qu’il faut se préoccuper de l’avenir du Québec sur le plan des finances publiques, mais si aujourd’hui on crée un déficit social et qu’on coupe des services à la population, ce sont les jeunes et le Québec qui vont en souffrir», a dénoncé Jacques Létourneau.

La représentante du secteur des centres de la petite enfance à la FSSS-CSN, Louise Labrie, qualifie pour sa part de «cadeaux de Père Noël» du gouvernement libéral les 120 millions d’investissements annoncés l’an dernier les 30 millions de cette année. «C’est de l’argent qui est non récurrent. Ce n’est pas ça qui va redonner de la qualité à nos services. […] Dans les CPE, il y a des coupures de budget dans l’alimentation des enfants, des coupures dans le matériel, il y a des coupures partout. Ce gouvernement est en train d’attaquer la qualité de nos services», a-t-elle déclaré, en mêlée de presse.

Incendie meurtrier en Californie – ICI.Radio

La directrice du service des incendies à Oakland, Teresa Deloche-Reed, a précisé qu’au moins 13 autres personnes étaient portées disparues, samedi matin.

Un porte-parole de la police d’Oakland a indiqué que le service des incendies avait répondu à un appel aux environs de 23 h 30, vendredi, et que les pompiers étaient encore sur les lieux tôt samedi matin. Des pompiers ont diffusé sur Twitter une vidéo du feu sortant du toit de l’édifice.

Les autorités ont indiqué à KTVU-TV qu’environ 50 personnes se trouvaient à l’intérieur de l’entrepôt, qui abrite un groupe d’artistes et leurs studios dans la région de la baie de San Francisco.

Les coroners se trouvaient aussi sur les lieux, samedi matin, mais n’étaient pas prêts à faire des commentaires dans l’immédiat.

Des pompiers interviennent sur les lieux de l'incendie qui a fait 9 morts à Oakland, en Californie.
Des pompiers interviennent sur les lieux de l’incendie qui a fait 9 morts à Oakland, en Californie. Photo : Reuters / Stephen Lam

Video marketing trends for 2017 – One of the biggest shifts in social …

Social media is always in the flow and it is going through one of the biggest shifts at present as videos are getting increasingly common among the target audience. The evolution of enhanced mobile technology has allowed widespread consumption of video which is always available to viewers. Though video content is not new, it is definitely growing and will also expand in 2017 and beyond that. Here are some video statistics which vouch for its popularity:

  • 1/3rd of all online activity consists of watching videos
  • An average user views 33.4 videos in a month
  • 80% of the online video viewers have sometime or the other interacted with an online video ad in a month
  • 76% of official people watch videos related to work on their business websites at least once in a week
  • 38% of online viewers usually consider video ads as credible

This makes it clear that video has a strong footing and it is most likely to grow in the near future. So, if you’re still confused about why use video marketing, here are some video marketing trends that you should know of.

  • There’ll be a huge increase in Facebook Videos

This shouldn’t come as a surprise as daily views on Facebook has jumped from 1 billion to 8 billion in 2015 and at the same time text posts are declining with time. Facebook is the only company which has invested heavily in video and the social media giant, Mark Zuckerberg has invented their recent video feature called Facebook Live. They are the ones who are constantly taking technology to the next level with their brand new innovations. If Facebook remains an innovator in the industry for video marketing, next year there will be a larger increase in the number of people sharing, uploading and discovering videos.

  • Live videos will take a quantum leap

The reception to the feature of Live Video has been extremely positive and consumers and brands have started utilizing Facebook Live as a measure to interact with their fans and followers in an improved way. Twitter also joined hands with Periscope to let users embed live videos into their tweets which too generated a massive audience. 85% of Twitter users agree that they watch videos on a daily basis.

  • Sales teams will need increased video resources in 2017

The fundamental reason behind the popularity of video marketing is that consumers love to watch videos. The easiest way of digesting information is watching videos and it is as good as watching the product which you’re about to buy. Hence sales teams of most companies will need increased video resources in 2017 as there are statistics to prove the statement. Nowadays only 4% of people prefer learning about a product by going through a manual, only 5% prefer speaking to someone and 45% prefer watching a video on the product.

Hence, it looks like 2017 is definitely going to be another interesting year for video marketing. There are definitely some changes that are going to occur but videos will still stay prominent in the world of marketing.

Snapchat has Limited Roll-out Marketing Strategy for its Spectacles; Sparking Interests among Potential Users

Snap Inc., the developer of photo-messaging app Snapchat, recently announced its Snapchat Spectacle, which is the company’s gateway to the wearable device market.

With an initial public offering of about $25 billion, the company didn’t roll out their hardware the same way most tech companies would.

Snapchat Spectacles is a colorful pair of glasses that can record video snippets that goes directly to the users Snapchat Memories.

Instead of releasing it to the masses on holiday, it set up adorable roaming machines in different parts of the country, Fox reported. These machines are called Snapbot, each comes with a limited number of Snapchat Spectacle. These colorful glasses sell at a price of $130 each. 

Snapbot in California

A Snapbot was installed in downtown Las Angeles said the company last Thursday, Mashable reported. The roaiming vending machine is positioned inside Sklyspace LA in the U.S. Bank Tower. The location is an open-air observation deck that has a glass slide and is almost 1,000 feet above the ground.

Besides the observation deck, Snapbot has been dropped in six other locations in California, including the Venice Beach, Big Sur, Santa Monica, Brentwood, and Pasadena. The Grove shopping center near Beverly Hills also used to have a Snapbot.

Spectacles Brings Snap to the Wearable Market

Spectacles is an important product to Snap’s business model by diversifying its stream of income ahead of its big IPO. However, the wearables market isn’t bringing in big bucks for companies developing these products. GoPro, for example announced that it will cut down 15 percent of its workforce as part of its restructuring. Another is Fitbit’s reported acquisition of Pebble, a smartwatch start up company.

The market’s not so bright current status makes Snapchat Spectacles more interesting, especially with its limited rollout strategy. Snap’s marketing style for its Spectacles makes it unclear what the eyewear is really capable of.

TransWorld SNOWboarding Riders’ Poll 18 Online Video Series Of …

Earning a Riders’ Poll award for Best Online Video Series is arguably one of the most coveted awards for riders and crews to win. Let’s face it, we practically live on the internet, and with the constant barrage of edits, memes, and baby snowboarding videos that grab too much attention, sometimes great videos and content can get lost. What makes a solid video series is something that presents progressive snowboarding and filming and also impresses viewers episode after episode. Here are the nominees for the Best Online Video Series of the year.

BYND X MDLS, Season 4 — BYND X MDLS 

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In the lead up for their latest movie, Vacation Forever, the BYND x MDLS dudes cranked out Season 4 of their web series that followed the crew around the globe on all their antics. The impressive, high production value of the filming, along with insane tricks and rowdy antics, earned this series its nomination.

FLAV — Rusty Toothbrush 

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One of the most creative series to date, the Rusty Toothbrush mates who hail from Down Under, really outdid themselves with their edits this year. The episodes inject a bit of theatrics into snowboarding, as the crew intertwines skits and crazy ideas with ridiculous tricks. Have you seen the boomerang snowboard? It’s mind-bending. Also, the production value of these edits is outsanding, which played into FLAV’s nomination this series this year.

Insight Episodes — TransWorld SNOWboarding

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With our Insight series, we set out to expose what goes into making a snowboard film and highlighted each rider and crew that’s in the film with their own edits and a built out photo experience. These edits provide a raw view into what goes into making each rider’s full part, and offer a deeper view into the project as a whole. Featured riders include; RK1, Josh Dirksen, Dylan Alito, Red Gerard, Toni Kerkela, Bjorn Leines, Len Jorgensen, Alex Oestreng, Elias Elhardt, Jason Robinson, Victor Daviet, Victor De Le Rue, and Bear Mountain.

We’ll be announcing the winner at this year’s Riders’ Poll event in Breckenridge, CO on December 9th. Be there!

RSVP for free tickets here!

About Riders’ Poll:
For 18 years, TransWorld SNOWboarding has polled the professional snowboarding community to find their picks for the best riders of the year. Each season, these awards are decided by the opinions of over 100 pros. While TransWorld SNOWboarding hosts the awards, the winners are truly a reflection of peer acknowledgement—the highest honor any rider can receive. All TransWorld SNOWboarding Riders’ Poll winners will be announced and awarded in Breckenridge, CO on Friday December 9, 2016 during the Winter Dew Tour weekend.

Check out more about Riders’ Poll Here.