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10 YouTube Pre-Roll Ads You'll Actually Enjoy

Hubspot

Last year at Sundance, YouTube unveiled a new ad format to brands : the unskippable, six second "bumper" ad. Suffering through 15, 30, or even 60 second pre-roll ads prompted so many head shakes and back button clicks that eventually YouTube added a skip button to their ads in 2009. 1) YouTube. 9) Airbnb.

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Online Marketing News in 2009: The Year’s Hottest Events

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Here is our 2009 year in review. December 2009 Online Marketing News. Top word of 2009: Twitter. November 2009 Online Marketing News. University of Missouri Researchers Find Search Process Affects Cognition and Emotion. October 2009 Online Marketing News. September 2009 Online Marketing News.

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Video for Financial Services: Banking and Beyond

Vidyard

YouTube is one of the main places, if not the first, people look for “how to” information on a new product. WealthSimple demonstrates this through powerful storytelling, with multiple videos generating over 1MM views on YouTube alone.

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Social Media's Next Victim?

The Effective Marketer

We all like stories of companies that mess up and in the process of trying to clean up their act end up messing up even more. And now with social media, there’s no telling who will be the next United to see its market cap hurt because of a blog post or youtube video. What stories or lessons learned do you have to share?

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When I Couldn’t Find Marketing Outlets to Elevate My Brand, I Created My Own

Buffer

When we were first getting started as a student club in 2009, I remember initially struggling to get my peers to join. It’s about promoting other leaders and influencers in the disability space, relying on the power of community and the network effect to raise their voices and raise our brand equity in the process.

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Video for Financial Services: Banking and Beyond

Vidyard

YouTube is one of the main places, if not the first, people look for “how to” information on a new product. WealthSimple demonstrates this through powerful storytelling, with multiple videos generating over 1MM views on YouTube alone. Who wants to spend time reading product pamphlets or a list of features when a video is available?

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Why Google is Going to Dominate TV Ads

Convince & Convert

They shut it down in 2009. So thanks very much to Tamsen, who also tipped me off to what I call the step-by-step process in my book, which is called, “The Hatrix.” JayToday is available on Youtube , iTunes (as a video podcast, and now as an audio podcast too), and at JayToday.tv.