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How to make engaging corporate videos

story telling in corporate videosSupposedly, if you haven’t jumped on the very fast moving band wagon of video production by the end of 2012, you will be behind the times. So if you have already starting using video as a way to promote your business, well done. If you haven’t, you might want to get a move on. Whether you are a seasoned pro or a nervous newbie you should find the information in this article useful to help you think about what to have in your videos or at least how to structure them to keep your watchers watching.

When producing corporate videos there is a lot we can learn from the film and documentary traditions. Think of your corporate video as a short film and imagine that the message you are trying to get across is a story you are trying to tell. (More and more we seeing television adverts that are more like short blockbuster movies). An understanding of storytelling and its link to emotions could help you produce corporate videos that provoke the responses you want from your audience.
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5 ways to get more visitors from your YouTube channel to your website

1) Clickable URL’s in your YouTube Channel and video descriptions

It is important to include clickable links in both your YouTube channel description and also the individual descriptions for each of your videos.

It is easy to create clickable links in your video descriptions and this is one of the best methods of getting traffic from YouTube. Just make sure you put the ‘http://’ at the start of your website URL.
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The growth of online video content in the UK

A leader in measuring digital media has recently released some statistics revealing the extent of online video consumption in the UK in January 2012.

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) made known that in January, online video reached 80 percent of the total Internet audience in the UK – this equates to 34 million people.

Areas of online video growth

The size of the UK video audience has not increased in the past 6 months but in January 8.4 billion videos were watched by 34.2 million people for a total of 58.8 billion minutes. Despite there being no growth in the size of the audience itself, there have been other significant areas of growth. There has been an increase of 28 percent in the number of videos seen and a growth of 42 percent in the amount of time spent watching videos online.
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How to grow your YouTube subscriptions

As part of your video marketing strategy you are likely to be sharing your videos on platforms like YouTube. There are different ways to measure the success of your videos and your presence on YouTube. These include the amount of videos you produce and upload, the amount of views your videos get and also the number of subscribers you have to your YouTube channel.

When someone subscribes to your YouTube channel, they will see all updates to your channel on a personalised feed. Subscribers represent a stable audience base with an active interest in your videos. This type of engagement enables viewers to feel part of a community in which they can interact with like-minded people and the makers of the videos themselves.

Subscribers are likely to be genuinely interested in your content. They are more likely to recommend you to others as a result.
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Tips for writing awesome video titles that will make you rich!

writing video headlines using tabloid learningsMaking a video can take up hours of your time, but believe it or not, coming up with the right title for your video could take you even longer! Writing attention grabbing titles or ‘headlines’ for your video’s is a guaranteed way of hooking in your audience and making them want to hear (and see) what you have to say. If your video is hosted externally from your website, this statement is truer than ever.

What is the key to crafting headlines and video titles so that that they provoke a particular emotional response from your audience? It is a skill in itself and so we have pulled together some handy advice to help you on your way.

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What Steve Jobs taught me about video production

what steve jobs taught me about video productionSteve Jobs for all his well-documented quirks is likely to go down in history alongside the likes of Henry Ford as one of the people who helped society to progress most rapidly through a devoted and passionate approach to his ideas.
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Who’s who in the world of video marketing

The scope of the Internet is a blessing and a curse. A blessing because you can find anything you need. A curse because you have to sift through reams and reams of rubbish looking for the gold. We have done the job for you in this case. Here is a list of some of the finest online video guru’s hidden out there in the world wide web.

This is a follow on from our previous post where we highlighted some of the top sites to learn about video marketing.
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Learn video marketing from the experts

Social media use and information sharing especially are at all time highs and are expected to rise over the next few years. YouTube is the number two search engine in the world. Video viewing accounts for just over half of all internet use, and David Hsieh of Cisco has predicted that this figure will be reaching 90% of internet use over the next few years. He is also not alone in this belief.

So, how can you best react to this? Well you have 2 choices really; 1) bury your head in the sand or 2) start to learn video marketing – obviously we are strong proponents of the latter and are keen to help you make a success of your video marketing; whatever form it may take.
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Video marketing without measurement is like flying blind on a rocket cycle

Creating a video marketing strategy is an investment; you want to make sure it has been worth the time, money and effort. Your strategy should therefore include details about how you are going to measure the success of your videos.

If you don’t know what your objectives are in the first place, you aren’t going to know what success looks like! So it is essential that your video marking strategy includes a statement (or a list of bullet points) to clarify what it is you want to achieve. In fact, it is beneficial to do this for each individual video you produce.
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Create and market a video using 2 hours per week

save time on video productionWe would like to introduce you to some video marketing tools that if used wisely, will save you time and money. Together, these tools will make it possible for you to produce, edit and distribute a video in less than two hours.
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