On October 1st 2012 Target.com launched a new blend of entertainment and shopping. A 3 part series short film that simultaneously merchandises the complete outfit each actor is wearing. The user interface features the main target.com menu, a video player screen, merchansided product list on the right side of the video and shopping cart favorites at the bottome of the video:

Video has been a trend in fashion with brands like Topshop and Burberry, but those brands have yet to deliver sitcom type entertainment and retail merchandising. Typically the video has been product focused and less entertainment value. For example, …

Have you decided to make video a real strategy priority in your company? Not just one category of videos, a few short clips or your intern shooting video.  I’m talking about a real strategy – brainstorming, planning, and stuff on a whiteboard, budget allocation and delivery.

If you have, PERFECT, you are in the right place. This blog post will walk you through a turnkey process for developing a strategy for video. You would be surprised; there is a lot of risk in what you are about to do. It will take time; money and your end result will have …

What is the difference between potential and reality? Uncertainty. Think about it, if you are unclear about how to get something theoretically simple done, you are going to procrastinate.  Producing video is easy to visualize but hard to execute. For most, a library of great videos are potential, but not reality.

This article will demystify, simplify and give you practical tips for producing great e-commerce video.…