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Aide à mourir: pas de funérailles refusées à Québec et à Montréal

Le cardinal de Québec Gérald Cyprien Lacroix a dit par communiqué, jeudi, ne pas envisager de «directives précises» qui auraient pour but de refuser l’accès au sacrement des malades et à la célébration des funérailles pour des personnes qui demandent l’«euthanasie» – «présentée sous le nom d’aide médicale à mourir».

Mgr Lacroix a ajouté vouloir «accompagner les personnes en fin de vie pour leur rappeler leur dignité inconditionnelle aux yeux de Dieu», et que le diocèse «opterait toujours pour des soins palliatifs accessibles à tous et à toutes plutôt que l’euthanasie».

L’archevêque de Montréal, Christian Lépine, a abondé dans le même sens.

Joint par téléphone alors qu’il venait de discuter de l’aide médicale à mourir dans le cadre de l’assemblée annuelle sur cinq jours de la Conférence des évêques catholiques du Canada (CECC) à Cornwall, en Ontario, Mgr Lépine a dit qu’il y avait un «angle d’approche» différent par rapport à ces pairs de l’Alberta et des Territoires du Nord-Ouest. Il a dit vouloir «accompagner les gens (dans leur choix), tout en reconnaissant la valeur de la vie».

Le document émanant des évêques de l’Alberta et des Territoires du Nord-Ouest qualifie le suicide assisté de «grave péché» contredisant les enseignements de l’Église catholique. Il précise que les prêtres devraient évaluer les circonstances entourant chaque demande de funérailles, mais qu’ils devraient refuser celles liées à des cas hautement médiatisés d’aide médicale à mourir.

Les évêques jugent également que les familles qui souhaitent célébrer la décision d’un proche d’avoir eu recours à l’aide médicale à mourir ne devraient pas avoir droit à des funérailles à l’église.

L’archevêque d’Edmonton, Richard Smith, souligne que les directives n’excluent pas les funérailles pour tout le monde et que les prêtres peuvent trouver d’autres solutions, en présidant plutôt une cérémonie au cimetière ou au salon funéraire, par exemple.

Mgr Smith estime qu’il s’agit des premières directives en ce sens transmises par un regroupement d’évêques au Canada.

PKP à l’inauguration de l’Institut de recherche sur l’autodétermination des peuples – ICI.Radio

Près de 250 personnes ont assisté au coup d’envoi des activités, à Montréal, jeudi soir.

L’IRAI est pour l’instant financé par l’ex-patron de Québecor, lui-même présent pour l’événement.

Pierre Karl Péladeau, qui en était à une première sortie publique depuis sa démission comme chef du Parti québécois, a été chaudement applaudi par les souverainistes de différents horizons réunis pour l’occasion.

L'ex-chef du Parti québécois, Pierre Karl Péladeau
L’ex-chef du Parti québécois, Pierre Karl Péladeau

Il n’a pas pris la parole, mais a répondu à une question des journalistes :

« Je suis très heureux d’être ici avec des hommes et des femmes qui ont l’intention de travailler pour faire en sorte qu’on fasse avancer les travaux sur l’indépendance. »

Pour l’ex-présidente de la Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), Claudette Carbonneau, l’IRAI va jouer un rôle crucial pour renouveler le discours souverainiste. Et elle ne craint pas par ailleurs une trop grande intellectualisation de la question.

« Je pense qu’on ne sera pas prêt à faire l’indépendance avec juste comme projet, dire « je change la feuille d’érable pour mettre une fleur de lys ». Les gens veulent des réponses. »

Ce constat est partagé par le député de Québec solidaire Amir Khadir, qui salue déjà sa contribution au débat.

« Ça traduit une certaine animation, un certain appétit de dégager des lignes de force. »

Daniel Turp, président de l'IRAI
Daniel Turp, président de l’IRAI

Même si Pierre Karl Péladeau a fourni le prêt pour que l’Institut puisse entamer ses travaux, le président de l’organisme, l’ancien député péquiste Daniel Turp, promet d’en préserver l’indépendance. Selon lui, l’Institut aura « un rôle de soutien par la recherche à l’ensemble du mouvement souverainiste. »

Les premiers résultats des recherches sont attendus au printemps 2017.

Avec les informations de Bruno Coulombe

Extrait du site de l’IRAI

« L’Institut de recherche sur l’autodétermination des peuples et les indépendances nationales (IRAI) est un laboratoire d’idées indépendant dont le mandat est de réaliser, diffuser et rendre accessibles des études de qualité à l’ensemble des citoyens et citoyennes du Québec, et ce, dans une perspective comparée et internationale. »

« Vision : Être une institution de référence crédible, originale et influente sur l’autodétermination des peuples et les indépendances nationales. »

« Mission : Réaliser, diffuser et rendre accessibles des recherches sur l’autodétermination des peuples et les indépendances nationales afin de favoriser un dialogue citoyen ouvert et constructif. »

« Valeurs : collaboration; dialogue; non-partisanerie; professionnalisme; rigueur; transparence »

NY Media Festival Looks at the State of Advertising and Marketing



“It’s easy to fall into this analysis paralysis area,” said David Gaines, chief planning officer for Maxus Americas, speaking today at the New York Media Festival in lower Manhattan.

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David Gaines of Maxus Americas and Robert Bardunias of Iris.TV

Gaines was part of a panel called “Advanced Advertising,” and what’s on the ad community’s mind is numbers: It’s getting a lot of big data and having a hard time making sense of it all.

Rather than simply distributing a video asset as widely as possible, new data allows advertisers to have earlier conversation about how ads can be effective in different areas, Gaines said. But having access to so much data from multiple platforms can be overwhelming. Instead of drowning in it, change the conversation: Think about the role of each video and what elements will work in each environment.

Panelist James Shears, general manager for advanced TV at The Trading Desk, said he’s having lot of discussions these days about connecting the different pieces from the avalanche of data that’s available. First we need to figure out the important data sets, he said, then we need to automate what’s important to buyers and sellers. It’s difficult to sift through big data, but that will lead to better media decisions for both sides.

Meanwhile, panelist Ashley J. Swartz, founder and CEO of Furious Minds, thinks we’re miles away from solving problems with big data because we haven’t agreed on the problems that need to be solved. The industry is simply getting wrapped up in confusing jargon. Better to relax and look at this rationally: “We’re not curing cancer. It’s just advertising,” she shrugged.

Immediately afterwards, a panel met to discuss the future of marketing. A calmer crew, they agreed that the difference between advertising and marketing is that people want to interact with marketing (well, ideally). Ads are interruptive, marketing is additive, noted Jeremiah Rosen, partner and managing director of Reason2Be.

While Zach Blume, managing partner with Portal A, described marketing videos as “entertainment with a purpose,” he also thought brands should focus on making entertaining content without worrying too much about ROI or delivering a message. Simply the act of making entertaining content shows the brand is forward-thinking. “it’s not easy to make entertaining content,” he said: People fail at it every day.

“Brands will try, brands will fail,” Blume said, and a few—like Red Bull and Lego—will rise to the top.

The panel was divided in its view of data and the personalization it offers. Some found it creepy and intrusive when they saw ads that felt a little too aware of their interests. Alison Hoffman, chief marketing officer for Starz, thinks that personalization is less important than quality: “You can personalize to an extent, but if something is good people are going to flock to it and they’re going to love it,” she said.


Do you judge a book by its cover?

To promote equal employment opportunities in Hong Kong, AIA MPF has launched the second video in its “Let’s Work Together” CSR campaign featuring people with disabilities.

Entitled “Blind Interview”, the video features Francis Ngai, founder and CEO of Social Ventures Hong Kong as the “interviewer” and four interviewees. The piece stresses that when evaluating an applicant’s competency, employers should go beyond looking at their physical condition.

With a white curtain setting separating the interviewer and interviewees in the scene, the video suggests that blind interviews are not only a better way to minimise inequality in hiring, but also a more effective way to select the right candidates with the right skill sets.

The idea was inspired by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which has hired elite musicians through blind auditions since the 1950’s.

There are approximately 180,000 people with disabilities (aged 18-65) in Hong Kong and just 65,000 of them are currently employed. To encourage more corporations to help make Hong Kong an inclusive society for everyone, AIA MPF offers management fees rebates to current employer members who are willing to hire people with disabilities.

Credits
Creative: Hungry Digital
Digital: CMRS Digital Solutions Ltd.

ANA demands greater transparency on Facebook metrics, local players agree

Facebook found itself in hot water a few days ago because of its inflated video metrics.The company apologised for miscalculating its viewership and admitted that it overstated average video view times by between 60-80%.

Since then, The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has prompted Facebook to reveal its metrics in a bid to help marketers better measure their ads on social media.

Addressing the need for such a disclosure, ANA CEO Bob Liodice on the company’s blog said, “While ANA recognises that mistakes do happen, we also recognise that Facebook has not yet achieved the level of measurement transparency that marketers need and require.”

He went on to point out that with more than US$6 billion of marketers’ media being directed to Facebook, it is time for the social media giant – and other such major media players – to be audited and accredited. He said:

That is the standard of accepted practice that marketers and agencies have relied on for decades.

In the backdrop of this crucial situation where marketers all across the globe seem to be affected in one way or the other, Marketing spoke to a few industry players to gauge the response ANA’s demand has generated.

Agreeing with Liodice was Phil Townend chief commercial officer, Unruly APAC. He said an audit must be demanded so that the historic data can be recalculated to enable marketers to make better decisions about future investment levels – and be aware of Facebook’s return on investment.

“Trillions of paid advertiser views globally have been the subject to miscalculation of some form. If a user has spent 60-80% less time on an ad as against what the agencies have calculated, multi-million dollar planned media investments can been skewed in a big way,” explained Phil Townend chief commercial officer, Unruly APAC.

In agreement with Townend’s opinion on the fact Facebook’s metrics must be audited, as it is a dominant player in the social media arena is Ryan Lim, Founder of QED Consulting. He explained that legal and ethical measures form the core of this need for disclosure.He added:

While legally Facebook may choose not to put the data out on the public platform, there needs to be some form of liquidity on the ethical front, without which marketers can be easily misguided.

Another digital agency lead who spoke to Marketing on grounds on anonymity strongly suggested that there needs to be a common unit of measurement across all public platforms.

Marketers need something concrete so as to not be conned in their spends. With the issue of inflation of video views coming forth, it is a tough time for marketers,” he said.

 

 

 

Personalized Videos: the Next Step in Marketing Automation

This article was written by Eldad Somech, CEO of VSM New Media.

Eldad Somech
Eldad Somech

If you want to stay ahead of the game in the competitive binary options marketplace, then you need to ensure that you harness the power of the most effective marketing tools. When it comes to attracting visitors to your website, encouraging those visitors to become paying customers and then retaining those clients, you need to be sure that you are active in all forms of marketing engagement.

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Within the current marketplace, there are numerous vendors fighting for attention. It can sometimes seem difficult to make yourself heard above that level of background noise. This is where personalized videos can really make a difference.

Think about your experiences as a consumer: you probably receive countless emails each days, as marketers attempt to capture your attention. Many of us, on the receiving end of such a steady flow of attempts at contact, simply react by deciding to ignore them all. Those marketers who aren’t receiving responses are often inclined to respond by sending out yet more emails. As consumers, we may well ignore those follow-up emails too. In essence, our interest in receiving such contact is low and our attention span is frequently limited.

Think about your experiences as a consumer

But, as a marketer, how can you reach out to potential customers? How do you get that initial foot in the door? As a starting point, there is a wealth of evidence that indicates that we are all more likely to react in a positive manner to someone who addresses us by name. Personalization must, as a result, be at the heart of any marketing effort.

Mentioning someone’s name, however, is only part of the story. On its own, this technique will have a limited impact. It’s critical that your entire message should be personalized, which is where video content can really deliver results.

With a personalized video, you can insert an individual’s name within the content, but you can also go so much further: you could make reference to their job title, or to the city where they live; you might even include a review of their bidding history with relevant tutorials for better future investments. As you imagine those possibilities, you can start to see how quickly this type of content could transform your approach to binary options marketing. Here is your chance to really engage with potential customers.

Does this style of marketing automation deliver results, or is it simply a passing fad? Is there a danger that we convince ourselves, as marketers, that personalized videos look great, without really monitoring the impact? Understanding the metrics is vital to any marketing campaign and it’s no different in this case.

We’ve run our own experiments, providing a direct comparison between personalized videos and generic video marketing campaigns. The results that we have seen have been little short of extraordinary. We discovered that an individual receiving an email that includes a personalized video was 4.5 times more likely to click on the provided link. More than this, our analysis demonstrated that they were an incredible 16.5 times more likely to click to open. By any measure, those results are impressive.

Given the potential that is offered by personalized video campaigns, with transparent measurement of outcomes, they offer a strong presence within the binary options marketing toolset.

Advertising and Video Marketing Company Merchant’s Arena Adds Green Screen Studio Production In Sudbury …

Adding a green screen studio, Merchant’s Arena will now produce green screen effect videos in house, using local talent and working directly with clients who want to be their own spokesperson. Green screen videos, also referred to as blue screen, allows the editor to edit the green background out and replace it with another setting, video or backdrop related to the theme of the video. Merchant’s Arena, a Sudbury, Ontario based advertising agency and video studio, owned and operated by Mike Tersigni will continue to produce videos at client locations in addition to the new in studio productions. This will produce content for their additional services including, video testimonials, social media marketing, re-targeting campaigns, branding packages and optimizing the newly produced green screen videos for video marketing submissions and opportunities.

“The green screen setup will allow us to reduce production costs for our clients. A strong barrier to video production and marketing for businesses and practices is the huge costs and time involved in producing high quality commercials and ads and then marketing those videos in a way that will attract more customers or clients,” said Mike Tersigni, founder of Merchant’s Arena “We can now make the entry level easier for even small businesses to get involved with promoting themselves with video.” said Tersigni.

For more information visit MerchantsArena.com or call 705-419-0922

With an interesting portfolio of eCommerce web properties, Merchant’s Arena is approaching 20 years in the online retail and eCommerce space with warehouse distribution of consumer products based out of Toronto, Ontario. Originally offering services related to website creation, design and search engine optimization services, including in the classroom, teaching business owners how to manage their online business marketing efforts, Merchant’s Arena has expanded these services to encompass video production, interactive video marketing, authority branding and positioning, pay per click and pay per view advertising.

Online Video and Patient Engagement: Four Wise Moves

Marketers are aware that the rules of engagement with their customers have dramatically changed. Brands now need to offer content and information that is much less promotional, offering more of a shareable – and shared – experience. Online channels have driven much of the change, and the digital experience has rapidly evolved to short-form content that is easily consumed and can be shared among like-minded people and communities. Video is playing an ever-increasing role in our online experiences. It makes sense; humans react to visual stimulation very differently than they do to the written word – it’s just the way we’re wired. A short video that has free rein to use body language, facial expressions and vocal tonality to emphasize a range of emotions can be dramatically effective. When people hear information, they remember only 10% of that information three days later. But if a relevant image is paired with that information retention increases to 65%.

A number of video marketing statistics make a compelling case for developing a video strategy. Invodo reports that 92% of mobile video consumers share videos with others. Forrester research shows that video in emails leads to a whopping 200-300% increase in click-through rate, and including a video on a homepage can increase conversion rates by 20% or more.

Pharma may be using video as a tactical tool, but is video’s strategic value being fully realized? As with every strategy, in order to realize the full value there are strategic pillars that mark the difference between success and failure. At first glance the strategic pillars are the same for video as they are for any other medium, but there are significant nuances that make video strategy quite different.

  1. Know the video viewers

Telling a coherent, end-to-end brand story is a thing of the past. It has been disrupted in the digital age. Video content has to be entertaining, useful and relevant or the user will quickly click away. Users pick and choose when and where they tune in – and it’s easier than ever to tune out.

An enhanced understanding of what motivates the online video viewing audience, emotionally and psychologically, is needed. An emotional punchline at the end of your messaging is useless if the viewer isn’t willing to take the journey.

Psychodynamic theory says that both conscious and unconscious forces lead to ingrained desires and beliefs. When we understand both the open and hidden motivations of a given patient population it allows us to understand the patient on a gut level that can lead to deeply personal video engagement that is both relevant and useful.

  1. Be shareworthy, be short

Creating content is different with video. From the dawn of civilization, when we see something interesting and useful we have an ingrained need to pass the experience on. It so happens that online video begs to be shared – if and when it’s compelling. In order to be shareworthy, your branded video content can’t resemble anything like a traditional advertisement that talks at you instead of with you. The viewer is only watching based on his or her personal needs. If your brand connects quickly a viewer is then willing to watch and, hopefully, share.

Poor video content creation often falls into a structural trap when a marketer’s project brief is based on what he or she thinks should be in the video – a brand’s selling points – rather than exploring content that will most efficiently effect behavioral change in this medium.

According to statistics found in AdAge’s DigitalNext column, if you have not fully engaged your audience after the first 30 seconds, you’ve likely lost 33% of your viewers. After one minute, 45% have stopped watching, and the percentages go downhill from there. A rule of thumb is to keep the video as short as possible – but a variety of mitigating factors intervene (not the least being fair balance).

So what is the optimal video length? Well, it depends on where and how the audience is viewing the video. The optimal viewing on Facebook is 30- to 45-seconds while the average video on YouTube runs 4 minutes and 20 seconds. Video primarily intended for mobile viewership should almost always be shorter than video created primarily for desktop viewing. A short video that has free rein to use body language, facial expressions, and vocal tonality can connect with your audience like no other medium.

  1. Develop a smart distribution strategy

Now that you have great video, how will you get it in front of the right viewers? Distribution management is at the core of a successful video strategy. The combination of paid, owned, and earned media can be powerful.

Paid media placement should use the most effective technologies available – such as programmatic buying that targets users at page level, allowing brands to control the relevance of the environment in which the video is viewed. Page level targeting, as opposed to tracking with cookies, is much more relevant to the viewer because he or she has algorithmically chosen the type of environment in which the content is viewed.

Owned media, where the brand controls the channel, provides an opportunity for stickiness for branded and unbranded websites and other destinations like your YouTube channel or Facebook page.

And earned media, to the extent that user-generated and collaborative content can be created, is a powerful catalyst for deep engagement. While it’s true that pharma marketers remain somewhat handcuffed when it comes to social media, if a compelling video experience is collaboratively created with and for the audience it will be shared again and again. “Build it and they will come” can better be stated as “build it right and they will share,” which is the best media placement you can get.

  1. Pay attention to real-world performance

When you publish your video, you are not even close to being finished. You have to analyze, optimize, and analyze again. Careful analysis of your video viewership is as important as the analysis of any other strategic or tactical endeavor. A key metric is the point of abandonment while viewing; aggregation of this data can quickly lead to significant optimization of the video content. You should begin to monitor the viewers’ point of abandonment as soon as your video is online. You may be able to tell within a few days if you’ve hit the mark or you need to re-edit your award-winning masterpiece. To post it and forget it leaves the job unfinished and your ROI unrealized.

Video should be a key component in the current digital marketer’s toolkit. Its effectiveness depends on the key factors mentioned above. But a coherent, well thought-out approach following these four imperatives can make the difference between successful video tactics and a lost opportunity to engage your audience.

Robert Palmer

VideoAmp Achieves Video Advertising First

Video Advertising Platform Virool Poised for Further GrowthVideoAmp, a video platform for the TV and video ecosystem, announced Tuesday new industry-leading transparent video viewability measurement and optimization capabilities.

The capabilities are available in its self-serve console and as a campaign-based service, an emailed statement reads.

VideoAmp is able to achieve viewability rates of 80% and better through its proprietary multi-dimensional optimization capabilities within its software console, with the product enhanced by unique integrations and a partnership with Integral Ad Science (IAS).

VideoAmp’s integration combines “pre-bid” filtering for viewability, brand safety, and non-human traffic. Advertisers can leverage IAS data and settings within the VideoAmp console. This also includes complete post-campaign reporting.

Video is by nature a much more scarce inventory source than display, thus the incentive for fraud and other illicit behavior is more pronounced, the company says.

This makes dual goal advertising in high quality environments at scale extremely challenging. VideoAmp’s technology goes deeper, it can drill down to viewability scores of the operating system (Windows vs. Mac), browser type, or geographic location. Action can then be taken to optimize performance while preserving scale, since you wouldn’t have to stop buying a whole site, but perhaps just the browser type pushing down your scores.

“We’ve been working with several holding companies, with both the self serve programmatic and media investment teams, and the average performance on several recent campaigns have been ranging between 80% to 90% consistently, achieving significantly higher viewability rates, efficient viewability CPMs, and hitting overall reach goals,” said Jay Prasad, Chief Business Officer T VideoAmp. “We can provide campaign alternatives and pricing models that guarantee performance with confidence. By being able to combine ‘pre-bid,’ with real time control, we will stand by our clients and not charge them for any impression that was deemed fraudulent, or not brand safe, and furthermore not charge for any impression that is beneath 80%.”

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Cops make three arrests over sick online video of bullies knocking out schoolboy with punch to the head

THREE teens have been arrested over a sickening attack that saw a young victim punched to the floor twice.

Two  boys, aged 17, were arrested on Sunday and Monday with a third teen, also 17, arrested on Wednesday.

The young boy is punched by one of the bullies

The young boy is punched by one of the bullies, with the attack seeming to occur out of the blue

The victim, wearing dark blue trousers and a grey hoodie, struggles to get up after the first punch

The victim, wearing dark blue trousers and a grey hoodie, struggles to get up after the first punch

The victim is left on the ground crying after the vicious attack, which has been slammed on social media

The victim is left on the ground crying after the vicious attack, which has been slammed on social media

The third teen to be arrested was taken into custody at an east London police station while the other two were bailed.

They are now expected to attend a police station in late November.

The arrests come after a video of the horrific attack was released, showing three teens crowding around their victim and laughing as they punched him repeatedly, even kicking him while he lay dazed on the ground.

The identities of the attackers are not yet known, with the video posted in an effort to find them

The attackers were identified after the video was shared thousands of times

The boy goes flying after the first punch, with his legs thrown into the air

The boy goes flying after the first punch, with three 17-year-olds now arrested in relation to the attack

The victim is taunted by his bullies, who ask why he is on the floor

The victim is taunted by bullies, who ask why he is on the floor

In the video, the victim, holding a phone and listening to music on speaker, can be seen surrounded by three other males when he is suddenly sent crashing to the ground.

His tormentors can be heard laughing and taunting him, calling out “you got dropped bro” and “get up big man, get up”.

He struggles to stand up again but is punched again, falling to the floor.

It has now been reported that the July 21 attack took place in Raphael Park, Romford.

The lad is clearly dazed and crying after the attack, which appears to take place in a secluded area in the east London park.



 

The voice of the person believed to be filming the incident can then be heard telling the others to “leave him”.

He also calls out “don’t stamp on him” as the group crowds around the injured boy.

But one of the boys does kick the vulnerable victim, with the bullies continuing their taunts, asking “why you crying on the floor, bro?”.

Footage of the attack shows the group of young men with British accents standing around in a wooded area

Footage of the attack shows the group of young men with British accents, with it since revealed that the July 21 attack occurred in Raphael Park in Romford

The young man appears to be unconscious after the sickening attack

The young man appears to be unconscious after the sickening attack but is even kicked by one of his attackers

The identities of the attackers and their victim are so far unknown

The bullies have been tracked down by police who investigated the attack

The attack, shared on Pure Banter’s Facebook page, has since been viewed more than 1.2 million times.

Describing the video, the page called on people to help identify the attackers.

Officers are now appealing for anyone who has information about the attack to come forward.


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