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Teads And Time Inc. Announce Strategic Outstream Video Advertising Partnership

« Time Inc. has a large stable of advanced advertising products. We are excited to add Teads’ highly viewable outstream video ad product to our current offerings. This product provides advertisers with another option for conveying their marketing message to our users, » said Andy Blau, Chief Business Officer, Time Inc. « As we continue to expand and enhance our video products across our ultra-premium content network, we are delighted to collaborate with Teads, a leader in the outstream video marketplace. »

Teads guarantees high viewability rates and gives the power of choice to the user with its flagship format, inRead. Teads’ inRead format places video ads within editorial content and plays only when viewable, allowing users to skip the video if they do not want to watch it.

Bertrand Quesada, CEO of Teads, commented, « We are extremely excited about our recent partnership with Time Inc. We look forward to building a long-lasting partnership and adding one of the most prestigious media companies to our portfolio of global media brands. »

In addition to Time Inc., Teads’ global premium marketplace includes The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Forbes, Bonnier, Mashable, Slate, The Guardian, The Telegraph and Nikkei, among many others.

ABOUT TEADS
Teads, founded in 2011, is the inventor of outstream video advertising and number one video advertising marketplace in the world. Publishers work with Teads to create brand new video inventory and manage their existing inventory, monetizing it through programmatic buying, their own sales forces or third parties.

Teads’ native video advertising solutions encompass a series of formats inserted deep into media content, like inRead playing inside articles. The company is changing the game in the video advertising market by creating unprecedented levels of premium inventory, which did not exist before.

Brands and agencies can access this top-tier, premium inventory, available on the web and on mobile, through programmatic or managed services. Through its managed services capabilities, the Teads team executes on its clients’ behalf using its platform.

Teads has over 450 employees, 100 of whom are in the innovation team, across 27 offices in 20 countries.

ABOUT TIME INC.
Time Inc. (NYSE: TIME) is one of the world’s leading media companies, with a monthly global print audience of over 120 million and worldwide digital properties that attract more than 150 million visitors each month, including over 60 websites. Our influential brands include People, Sports Illustrated, InStyle, Time, Real Simple and Southern Living, as well as more than 50 diverse titles in the United Kingdom.

CONTACTS
Nicole Matthews, Teads, 408-386-4244, Nicole.matthews@teads.tv
Jill S. Davison, Time Inc., 212-522-0105, Jill.davison@timeinc.com

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Interactive Video Drives Millennial Engagement for Cotton Inc.

Jill Orsini
Advertising Director
Cotton Incorporated

Interactive videos, an advertiser’s version of a “Choose Your Own Adventure” story, can deliver valuable data on consumer preferences and serve as engaging digital focus groups. Jill Orsini, advertising director of Cotton Incorporated, spoke with eMarketer’s Maria Minsker about what the company learned about its millennial audience through a recent interactive video project.

eMarketer: How did you incorporate interactive video into your marketing efforts?

Jill Orsini: Interactive videos became an extension of our Above the Line campaign and our “Your Favorite for a Reason” ads. The original campaign was about how people’s cotton items make them feel with that little extra breathability, easy wear and easy care.

Then came the idea of interactive videos, where users would be able to choose cotton-rich outfits for a heroine as she dressed for a typical day. There were 18 different scenarios—morning, night, working out, walking the dog, dressing for the office and others.

eMarketer: What made you want to experiment with interactive video?

Orsini: The elusive millennial audience is everywhere and nowhere all at once, and they’re evolving with the trends. We wanted to go where they are. Interactive video was appealing in its ability to offer consumers the freedom to create their own fashion journey while giving us granular data.

We were also able to make it shoppable by driving consumers back to The Fabric of Our Lives site, where they could learn more about cotton, be inspired and shop the looks from the video.

eMarketer: What goals were you trying to achieve by using interactive videos?

Orsini: With [interactive] video, consumers are constantly in lean-in mode, meaning they’re engaged and connected to our brand. This helps move them down the purchase funnel, which is ultimately our goal.

Cotton Incorporated is really unique in that we don’t actually make, sell or buy anything. We advertise to remind consumers that they have a choice when it comes to shopping for their home and clothing apparel, and that ingredients matter. We want to make sure that cotton remains top of mind when consumers make product decisions.

eMarketer: What are some of the unique types of data and analytics that you can get out of interactive video ads?

Orsini: On traditional videos, we can track time spent, views and clickthrough rates. With interactive video, we can gather more complex engagement data that reveals deeper insights about our audience.

For example, working out in the morning was a more popular scenario choice than waking up with coffee or taking the dog for a walk. It’s interesting because it supports proprietary data, which suggests consumers are interested in seeking cotton performance activewear. It’s great insight that helps us create more content around this product category.

eMarketer: How do these insights inform other areas of marketing?

Orsini: Developing more content around these insights is one key area of focus. Additionally, Cotton Incorporated is a nonprofit organization, so we report back to our board members and constituents several times a year.

A lot of them are importers and represent brands and retailers that use US cotton. Insight from interactive content gives us an opportunity to show them what resonates with consumers and what types of styles, silhouettes, looks, colors and prints millennial women like the most.

Election Day Brings Big Spending on Video Advertising

Rubicon Project said the battle between red and blue had it seeing a lot of green.

The nine-year-old ad tech company said it cashed in on Election Day as well as the day after, setting company records for the amount of revenue generated from video advertising. Nov. 8 brought in the most video advertising ad dollars in its history, and Nov. 9 got the second-most, it said.

Most of that video money came via desktop browsers as usual, but there was a shift within mobile. Rubicon said 85% of its mobile video revenue came via apps and 15% from mobile browsers. Normally that split is 50-50. The suggestion is that people turned en masse to apps from the mobile web to follow election news.

The bulk of ad dollars came from news apps similar to ones like CNN and the New York Times. A Rubicon Project insider told Ad Age the increase was « so significant it was more than twice our daily average of video ad revenue. »

Rubicon Project has been getting pummeled by investors after it said in July that it had been late in adopting a header bidding product; the company’s stock has tumbled more than 40% since. It introduced its header bidding solution, called FastLane, last year. Rubicon Project is banking on bringing a header bidding solution to apps and video on a large scale, something that has yet to be achieved by any major ad tech platform. (The tech is predominantly practiced on desktop websites.)

In-app advertising is poised for significant growth, according to the analytics firm App Annie, which estimates that gross revenue across all app stores will exceed $101 billion globally by 2020. Meanwhile, video advertising on smartphones and tablets in the first half grew 178% over the year-earlier period to $1.6 billion, according to a November report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

Un automobiliste de 41 ans perd la vie sur le chemin de Magog

La victime, un homme de 41 ans de Magog, ne portait vraisemblablement pas sa ceinture de sécurité.

Le décès du Magogois a été constaté à son arrivée à l’Hôpital de Magog.

L’accident est survenu à la sortie d’une courbe prononcée en direction de Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley.

«La vitesse suivie d’une perte de contrôle sur une chaussée humide pourraient être à l’origine de l’accident. À la suite de la perte de contrôle, le véhicule a frappé un ponceau du fossé avant de terminer sa course dans l’entrée d’une résidence. Le véhicule est gravement accidenté», mentionne le porte-parole de la Régie de police Memphrémagog, le lieutenant Sylvain Guay.

Le conducteur du véhicule impliqué y a été retrouvé inanimé près de l’entrée d’une résidence.

«L’homme à bord du véhicule ne répondait pas lorsque les policiers lui parlaient. Ils ont constaté qu’il n’avait pas de signes vitaux», explique le lieutenant Guay de la Régie de police Memphrémagog.

Les spécialistes en enquêtes collisions de la Régie de police Memphrémagog se sont rendus sur place pour y faire enquête.

Accident mortel sur la 175

Selon la sergente Ann Mathieu de la SQ, le conducteur circulait en direction sud et aurait perdu la maîtrise de son véhicule dans une courbe.

Il a été retrouvé vers 5h prisonnier de sa voiture et son décès a été constaté après que les secouristes aient réussi à l’extraire de l’habitacle.

Un policier spécialiste des enquêtes en collisions a été dépêché sur place pour faire l’expertise de la scène et déterminer les causes et les circonstances de cet événement.

Israël pleure Leonard Cohen

Les réseaux sociaux et les sites internet israéliens débordaient des images et des paroles de Leonard Cohen postées par ses fans. Les personnalités politiques, à commencer par le Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu, se succédaient pour lui rendre hommage.

Cohen, décédé à l’âge de 82 ans, avait été élevé par un grand-père rabbin. Il n’avait jamais changé son nom si répandu parmi les juifs – Cohen signifie prêtre en hébreu – et certains de ses textes s’inspiraient de la tradition et de la liturgie juives.

Ses racines juives se retrouvaient dans son attachement à l’État d’Israël, qui s’était manifesté éloquemment lors de la guerre du Kippour en 1973.

«J’irai arrêter les balles égyptiennes», avait-il écrit dans un poème.

Cohen avait quitté la petite île grecque sur laquelle il vivait à l’époque le lendemain du déclenchement de la guerre entre Israël et une coalition d’États arabes conduite par l’Égypte et la Syrie.

À Tel-Aviv, il avait rencontré le musicien israélien Oshik Levi. Selon le récit fait par ce dernier, Cohen lui avait dit vouloir aider Israël en travaillant dans un kibboutz, l’une de ces communautés agricoles intimement liées à l’histoire d’Israël et d’où provenait une grande partie des hommes appelés à endosser l’uniforme.

Levi persuada Cohen de se joindre à un groupe de musiciens qu’il avait formé et avec lesquels il divertissait les soldats sur le front.

Cohen participa à l’entreprise pendant trois mois. Une photo publiée sur les réseaux sociaux vendredi le montre chantant dans la péninsule du Sinaï en présence du général Ariel Sharon.

«Je n’ai jamais dissimulé le fait que j’étais juif et que je serais toujours là en cas de crise en Israël», disait-il en 1974. «La survie du peuple juif fait partie de mes engagements».

«Bouclier contre l’ennemi»

Les deux principales radios israéliennes lui ont consacré des heures de programme vendredi. Les utilisateurs de Facebook et Twitter postaient des photos de lui, publiaient des liens avec ses chansons et ses textes, dans leur version originale en anglais ou leur traduction en hébreu.

Le président Reuven Rivlin a rapporté que l’un des succès de Cohen, Dance Me to The End of Love, avait «accompagné de nombreux moments de la vie de (son) couple et de (sa) famille».

«Merci pour tout ce que vous nous avez laissé», a-t-il écrit sur Facebook.

Benjamin Netanyahu a rendu hommage à un «grand créateur, un artiste de talent et un juif ardent qui aimait le peuple d’Israël et l’État d’Israël».

«Je n’oublierai jamais qu’un profond sentiment de communauté l’avait conduit à venir en Israël pendant la guerre du Kippour pour chanter devant les soldats de l’armée israélienne», a écrit M. Netanyahu sur Facebook.

Lors de ses tournées parmi les soldats en 1973, Cohen avait écrit la chanson «Lover Lover Lover» qui dit: «Que l’esprit de cette chanson s’élève, pur et libre. Qu’il soit un bouclier pour vous, un bouclier contre l’ennemi».

Cohen avait dédié cette chanson aussi bien aux soldats israéliens qu’égyptiens.

Cette fidélité se fit jour à nouveau en 2009 quand des supporteurs de la cause palestinienne et avocats d’un boycott d’Israël essayèrent de le convaincre d’annuler un concert prévu à Ramat Gan, près de Tel-Aviv.

Cohen résista mais essaya de doubler son spectacle d’un autre à Ramallah, en territoire palestinien occupé. Le spectacle avait finalement été annulé par les Palestiniens.

Cohen s’était servi des recettes du concert israélien pour soutenir un fonds en faveur de la paix.

Cohen avait clos son concert devant environ 50 000 personnes par la bénédiction juive qui s’achève par ces mots: «Que le seigneur lève son visage vers toi et te donne la paix».

David Reske to Present Webinar on How to Develop a Marketing Technology Architecture

WESTBOROUGH, MA – 11/11/2016 (PRESS RELEASE JET) — Join David Reske, Nowspeed’s President, on Wednesday November 16th at 12 noon ET for an in-depth video webinar, “How to Develop a Marketing Technology Architecture”. In this video webinar, David will give you a clear path to build a world-class marketing technology architecture by showing you how to develop the architecture, evaluate vendors, and integrate the best software tools to drive solid marketing results.

With thousands of marketing software tools and dozens of channels available, many marketing leaders struggle to select and manage the right digital marketing software to drive campaign results. It’s very common for marketers to live in a perpetual state of marketing tech confusion. Are you missing important software that could make a big impact on your business?

In this webinar you will learn:

  • How to create a marketing technology architecture that fits your business.
  • How to select the best software tools to meet your company’s needs.
  • How to keep up with the latest marketing technology
  • How to evaluate your software vendors to make sure they are working effectively and you are getting the value you are paying for

David Reske is a 20-year digital marketing veteran and author of the upcoming book, Digital Marketing in the Zone.   He founded Onward Tech in 1994 and Nowspeed in 2003, and he has worked with hundreds of B2B and B2C clients in marketing strategy, search marketing (SEO and PPC), social media, email, marketing automation and website design.  David is currently focused on delivering world-class digital marketing services to clients across the US through a team of awesome people at Nowspeed. He is originally from Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Ohio State University.  David is also the former President of the Entrepreneurs Organization, Boston Chapter, and a regular host on Radio Entrepreneurs. 

About Nowspeed

Nowspeed is a digital marketing agency providing innovative digital advertising, PPC, SEO, social media marketing, email marketing, marketing automation, and web design solutions. Nowspeed’s Accelerator marketing solutions drive, convert and nurture leads – generating more high-value sales faster for their clients. They provide expert marketing strategy, award-winning creative and flawless campaign execution across all of their services. To learn more about Nowspeed, or to get a free digital marketing consultation visit: http://nowspeed.com

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Instagram’s Stories adds deep links, becomes more shareable

Dive Brief:

  • Instagram is adding three new features to its video messaging Stories platform: “Boomerang,” user mentions and links, according to a company blog post.
  • Boomerang converts a series of still images into what is essentially a GIF that loops forwards and backwards; mentions allow users to tag profile names in Stories that then link back to that profile; links to Stories is only available for verified accounts for now, but lets users dig deeper into a profile’s content.
  • Stories, which launched in August and has accrued over 100 million daily active users since, is often seen as a blatant Snapchat copycat down to its name, so the new features could help distinguish the service in the social video space. 

Dive Insight:

As ephemeral social video messaging becomes more ubiquitous, platforms providing the service need to make their content models more distinctive. Snapchat recently upped its AR capabilities through ‘world lenses,’ and Facebook-owned Instagram seems to gunning for a more social, sharable angle with the Stories upgrades. 

The new features potentially present strong opportunities for brands on Instagram: Boomerang offers marketers a new content format to play with — the product looks a lot like GIFs, which are a solid source of short entertainment — and the mentions tool might be a better way to personalize 1:1 consumer conversations on posts, as people mentioned receive notifications. 

But the most powerful marketing tool might be the ability to add deep dive links to Stories for verified accounts. It could be useful for verified brands to build a longer narrative for campaigns, and could also extend to influencers who promote products through the site.

A standout content example: Budweiser and the Cubs

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So often we talk about what not to do in content marketing. Today, I want to share what I think is a perfect example of finding a way to be a part of the story without trying to make it about yourself. If brands can learn from examples like this, we will see a shift in our field and, in turn, a change in how content marketing and brands are viewed by consumers.

I’m sure that by now, you’ve heard the Cubs won the World Series in a very dramatic Game 7 against the Cleveland Indians last week. The game was up and down, and the lead was big. And then it was tied, and the stress levels were crazy. We saw fans literally biting their nails watching the game. It was that intense.

Anyone who has followed the Cubs knows who Harry Caray was. He was their beloved announcer for years. Caray didn’t live long enough to see the Cubs go to the World Series. Their win last week was the first one in 108 years for the franchise. And even though it’s been almost 20 years since Caray passed away, Anheuser-Busch found a way to bring him back to help celebrate the Cubs’ victory.

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In the two-minute video clip, Anheuser-Busch lets Caray call one last game, the most important one in the past 108 years for Cubs fans. They don’t try to make this video about Budweiser at all. This is 100 percent about a story their audience wanted.

The video starts with Caray saying, “Someday the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series. And maybe sooner than we think.” The video then immediately goes to present-day Chicago and celebrations the night of Game 7.

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There is no worry about product placement. Anheuser-Busch is not trying to make this video about Budweiser; they’re focused on telling the story.

Even in the bar crowd shots, there is not a focus on the beer in hand. I’ve heard people comment that it wasn’t until the third or fourth time they watched the video that they even realized the people in the bar had Budweiser beers in hand. The focus is on the fans watching the game together.

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Caray calls the game from Cleveland thanks to historical game footage. He’s able to call the last outs of the game and the Cubs winning it all.

As the fans celebrate, Budweiser continues to focus on the story, not on inserting the brand into it. And that’s what makes this such a standout example of content marketing, in my opinion.

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We see a few Budweiser logos or beers in the video, but they’re a natural part of the story, not a contrived product placement attempt. Yes, there are fans with beers in hand, but for many people, football and beer go together. And Budweiser is the “official beer” of Major League Baseball, so it’s natural that they’d have some logos within the story.

The most noticeable mention is in the closing of the video. Yet it just fits because it’s not calling out their brand, even though the logo is front and center. They continue to make the story about the Cubs’ win and Caray.

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Folks, Budweiser really did it. There’s a reason this video has amassed over three million views and close to 13,000 likes. They thought about their customers and gave them what they’d want. They gave Cubs fans a celebration with Harry Caray one last time. And that’s a beautiful piece of content that people want to see and share.

Personally, I first saw this video on Facebook on Thursday morning, shared from a friend who is a die-hard Cubs fan. As the day went on, I saw multiple friends share it; some were Cubs fans, and others were not. The sentiment from all was that this was worth watching.

Content marketers, take heed. We have a lot to learn from this standout example of telling a story without making it about the brand.


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Facebook Messenger to Launch HTML5 Based Game Platform

  • Facebook-Owned Mobile Messaging Application WhatsApp Adds End To End Encryption
  • Facebook Messenger is about to include games into its service offerings. Currently testing in New Zealand is Instant Games. This is aimed at rivals Google and Apple with a game platform of their own.
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Facebook Messenger is about to include games into its service offerings. Currently testing in New Zealand is Instant Games. This is aimed at rivals Google and Apple with a game platform of their own.

Google’s Android and Apple iOS has been platforms for games on mobile phones. Facebook cannot compete with them because it does not have a mobile phone OS. However, with Instant Games inside the Facebook Messenger, they can leverage their user base to run games. This would also help Google create a game platform or ecosystem within Messenger.

According to TechCrunch, Instant Games is already being tested in New Zealand with a game called « Shuffle Cats Mini ». The game is by King.com, the creator of Candy Crush. Expect that other game developers are also ready to put their games into the pipeline.

Earlier in April, 2016, TechCrunch also published that Facebook acquired personnel form Spaceport.io. These developers were mainliy into HTML5 development. Spaceport.io continues operations using Adobe Air as their platform of choice. Spaceport.io is noted for creating tools enabling developers to code using Javascript, and have it run on all smartphone operating systems. The resulting port would be hybrid HTML5 and native code, but running with a native code performance level.

Instant Games will be enabled to run initially on Facebook Messenger. However, because it uses HTML5, it can conceivably be able to run on any other platform, not just chat apps, but also on browsers and web pages. Currently, Instant Games has not been officially launched, and Facebook has not given any word on when it will be released. When it does, expect that one of the features would be the ability to share game scores and screenshots on Facebook.



Recently, Facebook reached a milestone 30,000 chatbots on Messenger. These chatbots allow for automated responses for corporate or support calls. As chatbots become more sophisticated, this number is also expected to increase.