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3 Tips to Reach Generation Z on YouTube

Convince & Convert

percent of the population and contributing $44 billion to the economy, it’s no surprise that more and more brands are migrating toward more playful, entertaining, and personable strategies than ever before. They’d rather buy a story than a sale item , and they watch YouTube videos like there’s no tomorrow.

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Personal branding trends to tap into on social media

Sprout Social

Having a personal brand, whether you’re job hunting, running your own business or at any stage in your career, is essential. One of the best ways to enhance your personal brand is through social media. A great personal brand is one that is authentic and intrinsically connected to who you are as a person. Keep organized.

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

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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. Just how much traffic is that?

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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. Just how much traffic is that?

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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. According to the same report , Zenith predicts that the average person will spend 100 minutes a day in 2021 watching videos. To put that in perspective, that’s 25 whole days. Landscape feed. Portrait feed.

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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. Just how much traffic is that?

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