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How to Build a Following Using Video Marketing | Fox News

In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Jason Swenk discusses the keys to building a large following through video marketing.

Consistency, voice and an offer to help give videos traction. Being yourself will help you stand out from others and discover your company’s voice. It’s not easy though — it took Swenk years to get comfortable on video, so being patient is also important.

Videos that stand on their own and offer help to people lure followers. Even though it seems counterintuitive to give away your best advice for free, think of it like this: People are lazy. Even after you show them how to do something, they’ll still eventually come to you and ask you to do it for them.

Click play to learn how you can build your following through video marketing.

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JW Player adds VR/360° video to online video platform

In addition to the JW Player VR HTML5 plug-in that plays 360° content on desktop and mobile Web, the JW VR SDKs allow publishers to stream 360° content through their own native apps, which provide smoother and more performance immersive experiences.

In all, JW Player’s online video platform uses native mobile VR SDKs to empower publishers to create branded VR video apps. The JW VR products will also support immersive live action VR experiences with popular headsets such as Samsung GearVR, Google Cardboard and the upcoming Google Daydream View.

“JW Player has been a terrific partner in our early successes,” said The McClatchy Company’s director of video product and operations, Meghan Sims. « JW Player 360° video technology is an important piece in the evolution of video storytelling here at McClatchy. And it’s going to be a big part of some exciting things we have planned next year. » The McClatchy Company operates 29 daily newspapers in 14 states.

“The future is right here, right now for VR. We’ve designed easy to use tools to create an amazing immersive experience for our customers that will increase engagement and pull their audience into the next generation of storytelling,” said Chris Mahl, president and chief revenue officer at JW Player. “The way we tell stories is changing and it means putting the viewer in the centre of those stories – whether it’s watching news or documentaries, sports, concerts or business applications like real estate tours, millions are using JW technology to change audience growth and economics in a positive way. Our global publishers are pioneering the way to leverage 360/VR and create new levels of engagement and content interaction.”

HTML5 Provide Real Time IoT Data – HTML Goodies

An Inside Big Data reports more companies are deploying IoT devices in addition to consumer devices like coffee machines, house lighting, refrigerators, door locks, and so on. Enterprises are installing various IoT devices such as security systems, city-wide smart street lighting, robots, health monitoring devices, field sensors and more. Enterprise environments are increasingly challenged by this influx of IoT devices. Using a dashboard, companies have to deal with the task of visualizing, aggregating, interacting with and analyzing a variety of different data sources. Programmable APIs featured by many IoT devices are enabling companies to interact with them through some kind of front-end. Continue reading this story here.

Chrome 54 for Linux, Mac, Windows Brings HTML5 YouTube Video …

The team behind Chrome browser announced on Wednesday that the desktop version of Chrome 54 has moved to a stable channel and will be rolling out to Windows, Mac, and Linux in the days or weeks. The browser can be updated via the About section in the browser itself, or the new version can be downloaded from Chrome’s website.

Chrome 54 brings along bug and security fixes apart from performance improvements, but notably also changes the way browser handles the YouTube embeds on a webpage page. Instead of using the Flash Player, Chrome 54 uses HTML5 embed style for YouTube videos. Google confirmed in August that Chrome browser will start blocking Flash and switch to HTML5 as default from September.

With Chrome 54, the browser will support custom elements with V1 spec to allow developers to provide better communication with their custom tabs. Further, BroadcastChannel API has been added to the browser to allow messages to several different tabs or windows linked through single source.

Chrome 54 on Android will allow users to download webpages, pictures, music, and videos for offline viewing when users do not have proper Internet access. Further, new tabs in Chrome 54 will provide users with suggestions for articles when the update rolls out. The articles will be suggested on the basis of your reading habits learned by the browser. The update for Android is expected to roll out soon. The rollout for Chrome OS is also expected to follow shortly.

Manuel Valls voit dans la burqa un outil de revendication politique

Le premier ministre de France, Manuel Valls, n’adhère pas à la thèse multiculturaliste selon laquelle il faut accepter toutes les déclinaisons vestimentaires au motif qu’elles relèvent de la liberté individuelle. Au contraire, il voit dans la burqa ou encore le burkini des outils de revendication politique — parfois précurseurs d’un discours radical — qu’il faut condamner.

 

M. Valls, qui est au Canada depuis mercredi, a participé jeudi à Montréal à une conférence des premiers ministres sur l’accord de libre-échange entre le Canada et l’Union européenne. Mais au cours d’un déjeuner de presse en matinée jeudi, auquel a participé Le Devoir, il a été invité à se prononcer sur le débat entourant les voiles islamiques. Tout en disant respecter les divergences canadiennes sur la question, il souligne à gros traits à quel point ces voiles ne sont pas neutres et doivent être combattus.

 

« Il y a une bataille politique, culturelle qu’il faut mener. Et je pense en effet que les signes religieux sont souvent moins des signes religieux que des revendications politiques ou culturelles, a déclaré M. Valls aux quelques journalistes présents. Comment on le traite ? Chacun a son modèle, chacun a sa réponse. Mais je considère, moi, que la burqa, le voile intégral, est un élément profond de la négation de la femme. Cacher la femme de l’espace public, c’est la négation de la femme, et ça, ce n’est plus un problème de religion. C’est un problème de valeurs démocratiques. »

 

Selon Manuel Valls, pour justifier de « laisser les femmes s’habiller ainsi avec le niqab, le voile intégral, la revendication de la seule liberté ne m’apparaît pas suffisant ». Il rappelle que le voile a déjà été l’apanage, à une certaine époque, de « toutes les femmes du pourtour méditerranéen, quelle que soit la religion ». Mais le voile d’aujourd’hui doit se comprendre dans un contexte géopolitique large. « Dans les territoires délivrés en Irak par les forces kurdes ou les forces arabes, les gens de ces villages qui ont subi le joug de Daech [le groupe État islamique] enlèvent les voiles, écoutent de nouveau de la musique et se coupent la barbe. Parce qu’ils ont vécu avec ce joug. Qu’en Occident on puisse défendre comme un élément d’émancipation et de liberté, notamment la liberté de la femme, de porter un voile intégral ou un burkini sur la plage, personnellement, ça m’étonne toujours. »

 

D’ailleurs, lorsqu’on lui demande s’il voit le port de la burqa ou du burkini comme le précurseur d’une certaine radicalisation, le premier ministre français répond sans hésitation : « Oui, bien sûr. […] Oui, ce sont des signes politiques qui sont parfois, pas toujours, l’avant-garde de ce mouvement. »

 

Plus tard dans la journée, au cours d’une conférence de presse en présence de son homologue Justin Trudeau, M. Valls a réitéré quelques-uns de ses propos, mais de manière atténuée. Il a évité de dire ce qu’il pensait par exemple de la défense par M. Trudeau en campagne électorale du droit de Zunera Ishaq de prêter allégeance au Canada à visage voilé. « Je disais à Justin Trudeau combien nos sociétés ont un défi — et c’est vrai au Canada comme en France ou en Europe — de faire la démonstration que l’islam, puisqu’on parle de cela, est profondément compatible avec la démocratie, l’égalité femmes-hommes et, pour ce qui concerne la France, la laïcité. »

 

À ses côtés, Justin Trudeau a lui aussi évité d’exacerber publiquement les divergences, reprenant plutôt à son compte cette idée que le but est de « démontrer que Daech se trompe, que l’extrême droite dans nos pays se trompe aussi ».

   

Lisée se frotte les mains

 

Les déclarations de Manuel Valls n’ont pas tardé de résonner dans l’arène politique québécoise. Jean-François Lisée demande à Philippe Couillard d’entendre les arguments de son homologue français. « J’étais content que Philippe Couillard entende un démocrate socialiste dire qu’il est légitime d’aborder ces questions-là », a lancé le chef du Parti québécois. Cette fin de semaine, M. Couillard a dit du chef péquiste nouvellement élu qu’il incarne « une sorte de nationalisme d’assiégés, de nationalisme de peureux essentiellement, des gens qui ne veulent pas faire face à la diversité » et qu’il « ramène cette formation politique vers la voie des partis populistes d’Europe ».

 

M. Lisée comprend les propos de Manuel Valls comme une légitimation des siens. « Arrive un premier ministre français socialiste — pas des mouvements populistes européens — qui dit : “Moi je crois que l’égalité hommes-femmes nous a conduit, nous, le berceau des droits de l’Homme, la France, à dire que c’était normal de discuter de la présence du voile intégral dans l’espace public.” Alors j’espère que M. Couillard va en tirer une leçon, de se dire : “Ah, on peut, entre démocrates, et même avec des progressistes et des sociaux-démocrates, avoir ces idées-là sans être intolérants et arrogants envers les gens qui portent des propos comme ceux-là. »

 

Avec Jessica Nadeau

Le premier ministre de France, Manuel Valls
Manuel Valls est de passage au Canada pour rencontrer ses homologues canadien et québécois.

Asie En noir et blanc, les Thaïlandais pleurent leur roi

La mort du monarque ouvre une page de grande incertitude pour un royaume dont il était la clef de voûte depuis 70 ans.

Des dizaines de milliers d’entre eux ont commencé à affluer vers le palais, pour voir arriver le cortège funéraire du roi Bhumibol Adulyadej, décédé hier à l’âge de 88 ans. Le parcours entre l’hôpital Siriraj et le palais a été fermé à la circulation avant l’aube.

Le prince héritier Maha Vajiralongkorn, 64 ans, doit ensuite conduire la cérémonie bouddhiste du «bain» du corps de son père. Il s’agit d’une première étape d’une longue série de rites qui durent plusieurs mois pour les membres de la famille royale.

Crémation tardive

Ils s’achèvent par la crémation du corps, plusieurs années après le décès pour un roi en Thaïlande.

Toute la Thaïlande était vendredi en noir et blanc, couleur du deuil en Asie.

La demande jeudi soir du prince de bénéficier d’«un délai» avant de monter sur le trône inquiète. Le bain donné à son père sera sa première apparition publique depuis l’annonce de la mort du plus vieux souverain en exercice au monde.

Il se dit néanmoins confiant dans le fait que les élections annoncées pour 2017 par le régime militaire ultraroyaliste seront maintenues. Les dix dernières années du règne de Bhumibol Adulyadej ont été marquées par une très grande instabilité politique, les élites ultraroyalistes (les «jaunes», couleur de la royauté) et les partisans de l’ex-Premier ministre Thaksin Shinawatra (qui ont pour symbole le rouge) s’affrontant.

Héritier instable

Le dernier coup d’Etat, en mai 2014, a été mené au nom de la sauvegarde de la monarchie, par une armée soucieuse de verrouiller la scène politique à l’approche de la succession, alors que la personnalité du prince héritier inquiète de nombreux Thaïlandais.

Le prince héritier passait jusqu’ici le plus clair de son temps en Allemagne. Et sa personnalité, réputée instable, fait débat, même au sein des conseillers du palais et des généraux aux manettes du gouvernement, soulignent les analystes. Avec ce délai demandé par le prince, «on dévie déjà de ce qui aurait dû être une succession normale», souligne David Streckfuss, historien spécialiste de la Thaïlande.

Mise en garde des ambassades

Les Thaïlandais ne parlent du prince qu’en privé, en raison d’une loi de lèse-majesté très stricte qui condamne à de lourdes peines de prison tout détracteur de la royauté.

Bhumibol Adulyadej, hospitalisé quasiment en continu ces deux dernières années, n’était pas apparu en public depuis près d’un an. Il n’en restait pas moins la figure tutélaire du royaume, rassurante pour de nombreux Thaïlandais, qui vivent dans l’idée qu’il était le «père de la nation», après des décennies de propagande assénée dans les écoles et à la télévision.

Plusieurs ambassades occidentales ont appelé leurs ressortissants à se faire discrets, et à «adopter une attitude discrète et sobre» selon l’expression de la diplomatie française. (ats/nxp)

(Créé: 14.10.2016, 09h44)

New Bestseller Offers Video Marketing Advice For Channel Chiefs

ALAMEDA, CA – October 13, 2016 – Helping channel marketing and channel sales leaders use video marketing to “growth hack” their channel enablement programs is the subject of a new Amazon #1 bestselling book by video marketing expert Robert Cassard, with a foreword by Heather Margolis, CEO of Channel Maven Consulting. Video Growth Hacking for Channel Chiefs: simple strategies to help your channel partners achieve double-digit growth explores the unique power of video to speed up sales of complex technology products and services.

“Channel Chiefs in the Technology sector work under constant pressure to grow channel sales by 10% or more every year,” says Cassard. “Many of them want to use video for marketing and sales enablement, but don’t know how. This book was written to demystify automated and personalized video marketing and how quickly it can generate demand and grow channel sales.”

Cassard and his colleagues at Voodoo Viral Marketing Systems have spent nearly a decade launching video campaigns on behalf of technology vendors, distributors and channel partners. The new book is based on data from thousands of these campaigns sent to millions of prospects and customers.

“We’ve watched traditional email and social media tools lose appeal and effectiveness,” Cassard says. “Today’s tech buyers demand video content when researching products and potential suppliers, and this book helps tech vendors and resellers learn how to fulfill that demand effectively.”

According to Online Publishers Association, viewers recall 95% of video content, but only 10% of printed content. Video also increases emotional engagement, resulting in higher click-through rates than any other online marketing tool. Despite these advantages, a significant number of channel marketing and sales leaders still perceive video marketing as mysterious and risky. Video Growth Hacking for Channel Chiefs helps eliminate their concerns by demonstrating how vendors can automate, custom-brand, personalize and track video content on behalf of channel partners.

The book also shows how Channel Chiefs can use automated video to help channel partners qualify prospects, shorten sales cycles, and increase customer satisfaction.

As Michael Bui, a Senior Manager of channel and distribution marketing at Intel says, “this book explains everything channel marketers at vendor and distributor companies need to know about automated video.”

About the Author:

Robert Cassard is a video writer-producer-director and content strategist. His growth strategies and award-winning video productions have generated hundreds of millions in sales for large companies, tech vendors, distributors and their channel partners. Cassard’s client list includes Avnet, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Logitech, Sprint and many more. He is the co-founder and CEO of Voodoo Viral Marketing Systems.

Robert Cassard is based in the San Francisco bay area and available for interviews and public speaking engagements internationally. For more information, or to arrange a review copy of the book or an interview with Robert Cassard, please contact: robert(at)videogrowthhacker(dot)com.

Video Growth Hacking for Channel Chiefs is published by Business Success Press and is available from Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle versions, and from booksellers everywhere.

ISBN: 9780730307006
Print Price: US $14.95/CAN $16.95
Kindle Price: US $10.99

How To Create Engaging Local Content For Any Audience

In this guest post, Daniel Littlepage (pictured below), Aussie MD of 90 Seconds, talks us through tips to make content that people actually want to consume…

According to Youtube a massive 300 hours of video are uploaded every minute. Snapchat and Facebook account for 14 billion video views every day[1]. And if those numbers don’t seem crazy enough, it’s predicted that by 2019, 80 percent of all internet traffic will be video[2].

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Consumer appetite for online video is growing rapidly across the world, and with this growth comes new challenges for brands and combined marketers as they work online video into their marketing plans. One of these challenges is how to localise video content effectively across regions.

We’ve heard for years that content is king, but without localising content effectively brands risk return on the investment. If you’re a brand that’s trying to stretch its video content across multiple markets, it’s important to design your content from the earliest stages for it to transition to other cultures and not lose its impact. When localisation is done correctly, a video can be as engaging and entertaining in a new culture as it was in its original one.

If you’re producing content that you want to multi-purpose to suit different audiences, considering the following will help ensure your localisation approach delivers effective and engaging results.

  1. Social is local

When it comes to marketing, many brands still focus on producing global content and don’t see the importance of local activation. However, when followers/fans can see a connection between their life situation and your brand, their interest increases. Context and cultural understanding is crucial in getting the right message to the right audience and in the right way. So make sure you consider the channel you will distribute your video content on.

  1. The impact of different languages

English requires fewer words to communicate a message than most other languages do. This can have a significant impact when translating from English into another language as you have to take into consideration that the spoken and written elements will be longer than the original English.

  1. Synchronised vs Non-Synchronised Dubbing 

The most basic form of voiceover is non-synchronised dubbing. In this process, the original language spoken is removed from the video and replaced with the language you are translating into. Although some attempt to synchronise the lip and mouth movement may occur, this form of dubbing is often of poor quality. In contrast synchronised dubbing attempts to sync word choices and the voiceover itself with the original actor’s lip movement.

The type of voiceover you choose might depend on your budget. Dubbing can be as much as 15 times costlier than subtitling, especially when attempting highly synchronised dubbing.

However, videos spoken in a native language can be very attractive to a potential audience so brands need to weigh up the investment.

  1. Music is often very culture-specific

Video localisation is not limited to spoken audio. If there is music within the video, you will most likely want to replace that as well. Music is often very culture-centric and has less of an impact when introduced into foreign cultures. In addition to changing the voiceover audio, you will want to use music that is culturally applicable and evokes the type of mood you desire. Choosing good music does not mean just choosing music common to a target culture, but one that evokes the emotions you want your audience to feel when watching the video.

Keep in mind, however, that not all brands are opting to localise; many are starting to invest in creating more local content. Uber recently shot a TVC in 36 locations, across eight countries to ensure customers in Paris, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Berlin, Madrid, Edinburgh, Warsaw and Brussels saw recognisable local landmarks.  In less than 12 days, Uber produced near-identical videos localised for each market by shooting in multiple locations, that were then edited centrally through the 90 Seconds cloud platform to streamline costs. This meant Uber could ensure consistency of branding and quality without the cost of hiring production teams in every market around the globe.

In 2016, content localisation can no longer be an afterthought. Consumers are demanding personalised marketing and localised content. The good news is this no longer needs to be overly time-consuming or expensive. With cloud solutions there are more options available to brands than ever before when localising video.

 

 

 

Tourism video highlights the ‘Real’ West Virginia – The Inter

The 9-minute video will be available on DVD and on Adaland’s new revised website, adaland.org, volunteer marketing director Karen Larry said.

“The completion of both the video and the new website will help propel us into the digital age,” Larry said. “We’ll be able to use pieces of it in our social media campaigns, which will be a real plus.”

Adaland Mansion Executive Director Dr. Ann Serafin welcomed more than 30 attendees to the gathering representing USDA Rural Business Development, the Barbour County Commission, Barbour County Economic Development Authority, Barbour County Chamber of Commerce, city of Philippi, Philippi Convention and Visitors Bureau, Philippi Main Street and Adaland Board of Directors President Okey Gallien.

West Virginia state Senators Bob Williams and Dave Sypolt and Delegate Danny Wagner also attended the event, which included a showing of the video and a presentation on the growth of West Virginia tourism by Goodwin.

“We have invited you here to show you what we are doing in tourism with Adaland Mansion,” she said. “I can see by the showing that there’s interest in tourism. It’s wonderful to be with friends.”

The video and new website are a part of a new marketing phase for Adaland that was written into a USDA Rural Business Development grant a few years ago and is just now coming to fruition.

“There could not be a better group to work with when it comes to business development. They make you stick to the plan, accomplish what’s in the plan… then they give you the money,” Sarafin said.

Upon introduction, Robert Tinnell, producer and writer for the video, noted the Adaland project has been a “special one” for him as a writer since his interests are genealogy and history.

“My wife has roots in Barbour County, and we have come here often to research genealogy,” he explained. “The Adaland video is unique in its historical aspects as it relates to architecture and period timelines.”

Tinnell’s company, Allegheny Image Factory, has worked closely with the West Virginia Tourism Office and Commissioner Goodwin on the new “Real” campaign that captures myriad unique stories of the state and its people.  The 2-3 minute videos have included locales, activities and people in Jefferson, Braxton and Lewis counties and the cities of Morgantown, Charleston, Huntington and Wheeling.

Goodwin noted “Real” launched in 2014 and focused on the state’s unique assets.

The campaign was a byproduct of an “Image and Advertising Accountability Research Study” spearheaded by the Division of Tourism under Goodwin, and was then conducted by Longwoods International.

“We developed a new logo, a new web portal and created fresh content showcasing real people and authentic experiences,” she explained. “We achieved this by traveling across the state to film engaging videos and build a library of compelling new photos.”

“By creating fresh content we were able to develop and put into action a social media strategy, and was able to achieve these successes because we took time to recognize the critical role research, data collection, measurement and tracking play in effectively marketing the Mountain State as a world-class destination.”

According to the 2015 Annual Report for the West Virginia Division of Tourism, which was used to lobby for additional marketing funds for tourism in West Virginia, tourism is a “near $5 billion economy which supports 46,000 jobs,” and said Goodwin, “$16 million of that is Barbour County and that economy supports 150 jobs in this county.”

“Ours was the only budget that was not cut, but increased this year,” she noted. “We had the facts and the data to prove that tourism is a good return on investment.”

Goodwin said tracking is the key and, with the online marketing tools available now, tracking is getting easier, albeit extremely intense.

Although compared to other states that can receive anywhere from $20 to $120 million for tourism marketing and advertising, the West Virginia Division of Tourism appreciated receiving the additional $4.2 million to add to their $2.3 budget from 2015. Goodwin said she is happy with that.

“We’re working with a $6.5 million budget now. In 2015, we brought in 15.9 million visitors, up 6 percent from 2014. We can, hopefully, increase that number for 2016, putting into action our already robust social media strategy and keeping to the message that there’s a lot to see and do in West Virginia… that it’s a ‘Real’ and genuine experience.”