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3 Tips to Reach Generation Z on YouTube

Convince & Convert

As the metrics come pouring in, however, the answer becomes more obvious: Adjust your marketing efforts to Gen Z buying preferences. They’d rather buy a story than a sale item , and they watch YouTube videos like there’s no tomorrow. Plan your marketing budget around YouTube. Meeting Generation Z With Video.

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Download the 2013 B2B Content Marketing Report

Everything Technology Marketing

Content marketing is going mainstream in 2013. B2B marketers are increasingly using content marketing tactics to engage B2B buyers with compelling content to educate, inform, entertain and guide them along their buying journey. But what’s behind the buzz and growing popularity of content marketing? Marketing automation is on the rise.

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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. But you wouldn't want to anyway.

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18 of the Best Content Marketing Strategy Guides of 2013

Webbiquity

Laura Patterson addresses the same topic as Tony does above, explaining how mapping content to the buying journey and customer lifecycle enables marketers to more strategically build out their content marketing editorial calendars. 2: 30 Remarkable Content Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2013 (and 2014).

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YouTube + Twitch Might Be Great, If Google Doesn’t Screw It Up

readwrite

YouTube is acquiring live video-game streaming service Twitch for $1 billion, entertainment magazine Variety reports , which would make it the largest acquisition for YouTube to date. In 2013, viewers watched 12 billion minutes of gaming each month. Buying Twitch makes sense for YouTube.

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YouTube + Twitch Might Be Great, If Google Doesn’t Screw It Up

readwrite

YouTube is acquiring live video-game streaming service Twitch for $1 billion, entertainment magazine Variety reports , which would make it the largest acquisition for YouTube to date. In 2013, viewers watched 12 billion minutes of gaming each month. Buying Twitch makes sense for YouTube.

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7 steps to a successful social media video marketing strategy

Sprout Social

Between 2013 and 2018, the amount of time that people spent watching videos online increased at an average rate of 32% per year. Finally, if you’re looking into recurring series, such as product how-to guides, take a look at networks like YouTube and Facebook where you can categorize them into playlists. Landscape feed. Portrait feed.