LinkedIn Launches Video for Sponsored Content and Company Pages

LinkedIn Launches Video for Sponsored Content and Company Pages

LinkedIn has launched video for Sponsored Content and Company Pages, letting B2B marketers post ‘visually compelling stories’ to their audience on the business-focussed social network. Marketers will be able to use LinkedIn’s suite of B2B targeting capabilities available for video for Sponsored Content, to target audiences by traits including job title, seniority, company name, industry, […]

YouTube turns to Wikipedia to help it fight conspiracy theory videos

YouTube turns to Wikipedia to help it fight conspiracy theory videos

YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about popular conspiracy theories to provide alternative viewpoints on controversial subjects, its CEO said. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said that these text boxes, which the company is calling “information cues,” would begin appearing on conspiracy-related videos within the next couple of weeks. Wojcicki, who spoke at a […]

Mobile ads takes biggest share in Korean ad market with spending topping $2 bn

Mobile ads takes biggest share in Korean ad market with spending topping $2 bn

Mobile advertisement accounted for the largest share in the South Korean advertisement market for the first time last year with mobile ad spending exceeding 2.2 trillion won ($2 billion). According to the nation’s leading advertising agency Cheil Worldwide, total ad spending rose 1.8 percent from a year ago to 11.1 trillion won last year. The […]

Sprint introduces ‘Evelyn’ – an AI who doesn’t mince her words

Sprint introduces ‘Evelyn’ – an AI who doesn’t mince her words

Sprint has introduced the world to “Evelyn,” a highly intelligent robot and star of its Super Bowl LII commercial. The 60-second commercial, which ran in the first quarter, is titled “Evelyn” and captures her making smart, rational decisions and questioning her human creator’s choice of wireless carrier. He just happens to be on Verizon. Evelyn […]

YouTube’s UK viewership stagnates as platform nears saturation point, according to eMarketer

YouTube’s UK viewership stagnates as platform nears saturation point, according to eMarketer

More than 90% of digital video viewers in the UK regularly visit YouTube and its viewership is nearing saturation point, according to a report from eMarketer. YouTube’s prevalence across the Google platform and its easy integration across other content platforms has helped contribute to its rise. This year, 40.4 million people, or six out of […]

BuzzFeed to reach audiences in China through licensing deal with Bytedance

BuzzFeed to reach audiences in China through licensing deal with Bytedance

BuzzFeed has signed a licensing deal with China’s Bytedance Technology Co, which will help the American publisher circumvent the country’s firewall and enter the Chinese market. The Chinese publisher owns Toutiao, a news and videos aggregator platform, and Xigua, which focuses on short video clips. It currently has about 200 million daily active users around […]

YouTube to invest $5 million in ‘positive’ video content

YouTube to invest $5 million in ‘positive’ video content

Following a series of scandals for YouTube’s video-sharing network, the company has announced it’s investing $5 million in creators who use the service in “positive ways” to create change and empower young people. The investment is going towards YouTube’s Creators for Change, its two-year old program focused on countering hate and promoting tolerance. In its […]

YouTube tightens monetisation rules for video creators

YouTube tightens monetisation rules for video creators

Google has announced stricter entry requirements for its YouTube Partner Program, which allows publishers to make money from their videos. Earlier, publishers required 10,000 total views to join the programme. But from Tuesday, channels that want to get into the programme will also need to have 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of view time in the […]