The Forgotten Social Media Channel

YouTube Generation

With Facebook and Twitter taking so much of the limelight in recent months you'd be forgiven for thinking these were the only platforms in Social Media. Facebook definitely the "Star of the Show" in terms of audience, it currently has 53% of all visits to Social Media sites. In recent months this has been declining, albeit slowly. There is a big jump to Twitter, which takes only 3.2% of the visits and as the 3rd most popular social platform. Could this be slightly skewed by the fact that … [Read more...]

Effective Video Marketing by Email

Video in Email

We all know how powerful video can be be for presenting your products or services online. The popularity and growth of online video has been covered plenty of times before. Getting your video in front of the intended audience has always taken a little imagination, especially when it comes to promotion via email. Email clients have always lagged behind in supporting new web functionality and much of this is down to minimizing virus attacks from attachments or scripts running in hidden code. … [Read more...]

Who’s using Facebook anyway?

Your Asda

I have spent the last week with some very bright minds, leaders in the field of marketing and PR in London, at Marketing Weeks' Brands Summit conference. Now, I must highlight that this was at a "Brand" level, so discussions were not about on or offline tactics in terms of commerce but in how to create more brand awareness. Brands can be quite slow joining the online party and over the years they have been known to be way behind in terms of website development and online promotion. But what a … [Read more...]

Lights, Camera, Action could your business be an Oscar nominee?

Even though we have seen the popularity of YouTube and other online video channels grow massively, Internet users viewed 14.8 billion online videos in January 2009 alone*, many businesses still neglect this channel in their online marketing efforts. I have always enjoyed video production, in fact I dream of one day producing a Tarantino style short film, but at this level there are many layers of complication. Expensive HD Video cameras, sound equipment, complex editing suites running on … [Read more...]