BuzzFeed teamed up with WPP to form a content marketing behemoth this year, as native content got more sophisticated. With Facebook and Twitter becoming key news sources and brands becoming content factories, traditional media giants are worried. As part of our review of the year, we look back at the key trends that shaped content … [Read more…]
YouTube has assembled a list of the top ten trending videos of the year, based on “views, likes, shares, searches, parodies, remixes and responses.” Altogether, these ten videos account for over 500 million views and the firm has put together its annual Rewind video celebrating its biggest trends.
Tumblr has released its annual ‘Year in Review’ – a list of the top blogs, posts and topics featured on the site in 2015, revealing that ‘Pepe the Frog’ was the most reblogged meme of the year.
With “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” hitting cinemas worldwide next week, new data looks into how Facebook reacted to the final trailer in October, and how marketers can use social media data to plan future campaigns.
With 1.55 billion monthly active users, Facebook is the largest source of public opinion data on Earth. Marc Maley, CEO, Fuel Intelligence, looks at how using anonymised and aggregated Facebook topic data, film studios could use this human-generated data to tailor marketing efforts to maximise engagement ahead of movie releases.
Castrol is running a video viral campaign that pits top drivers to race ‘blindfolded’ in real cars on a virtual reality course, bring in Top Gear’s The Stig for its latest instalment. See why its our video viral of the week below…
Amazon has revealed a new hybrid delivery drone that can travel up to 15 miles at high speed, promoted by its latest recruit, Jeremy Clarkson.
From mystery X-rays to disobedient dogs, 2015 was another big year for video viral marketing case studies. Marketing stunts, long-form storytelling and cute animals (naturally) featured heavily this year. Perhaps more telling was the number of ads seeded on Facebook rather than YouTube, as the social network becomes the go-to place for sharing videos. To … [Read more…]
One of the big Super Bowl ads to air during half-time was a hilarious bit featuring Liam Neeson spoofing his super-spy role in Taken, Bryan Mills. The ad went on to become a massive hit on YouTube, getting 80 million views for SuperCell’s Clash of the Clans mobile game.
A year after its controversial advert showing a Christmas Day truce on the Western Front, Sainsbury’s called upon the powers of children’s writer Judith Kerr to create a heart-warming Christmas ad that rivaled John Lewis’ festive campaign.