One way to show personality, and create a closer bond with customers on your corporate website or blog is to create a web video series. By providing your audience with a regular schedule of video content, you can keep them coming back for more and maintain their interest over the long haul.

Here are a few tips for preparing a web video series.

guidelines for creating a web video series

• Find the right theme
  As the first step towards creating a video series, your theme should fit your audience and your business. Some possibilities include how-to videos, tips

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With easy-to-use digital video cameras and editing software readily available, why do we still need video production companies? After all, they’re expensive, and if the footage is for the web it doesn’t need to be cinema quality. Someone in the marketing department can just shoot it, right?

Just because they can, doesn’t mean they should. Here are 7 reasons why calling in the pros is worthwhile.

Reasons to hire a video production company

1. Rising viewer expectations
   According to comScore’s 2012 US Digital Future In Focus report, 105.1 million Americans watch videos online each day, up 43%

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Making the most of any marketing video you create is important. After all, you put significant time, energy and money into developing your video assets.

Although your finished videos might be doing a good job for you in terms of driving traffic and boosting conversions on their own, shouldn’t you be getting a bit more mileage out of those costly assets?

Reimagining your video content

Here are 9 ways to repurpose or reimagine your video content to attract more attention and extend its value:

1. Transcripts
   One of the very first things you should do with your videos is transcribe

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I recently spoke with Jamie Salvatori, founder and owner of Vat19, about his company’s comprehensive video program. Vat19 is an established e-commerce retailer that sells unique and unusual gift items.

In this interview, Jamie talks about Vat19’s approach to video and shares his tips on building a successful video program.

Enjoy!

INTERVIEW WITH JAMIE SALVATORI

Amanda Dhalla: Please tell our readers a little about Vat19. What types of products do you sell?

Jamie Salvatori: Vat19 is an online gift store, and we try to find unique items that are fun and functional. We sell a wide variety of…

Luxury brands have traditionally relied on imagery in print catalogs and magazines to engage consumers and convey desirability.

But static images and written descriptions can’t compare to a well-executed interactive video experience. Video provides sensory information viewers can’t get through other media to help them imagine using the products in their own lives.

What types of video are luxury brands creating and how are they deploying their clips? Let’s take a look at some examples…

With so much video about, what factors contribute to helping one video spread across the web like wildfire while another receives a lacklustre reception?

A few months back, YouTube’s Trends Manager, Kevin Allocca, gave a presentation at TEDYouth on just this topic.

According to Allocca, there are three factors that lead to gazillions of views.

If you’re a B2C marketer, have you ever thought about running a video contest?

The prospect of including consumers in the brand communication process seems daunting at first. But let’s face it: your customers are already talking about you on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. So why not help shape the conversation?

guidelines for a winning video contest

Putting together a successful video contest is no simple matter, especially as video contests gain in popularity. While your contest may not capture the attention of Doritos’ Crash the Super Bowl Contest, these tips can give you a…

Incorporating video as a component of e-commerce strategy is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s a must-have. According to October data from the comScore Video Metrix, the average U.S. Internet user now watches over 21 hours of online video a month. That’s a lot of video!

Clearly, online video marketing can be effective in reaching your target audience, but how do you go about measuring success? No matter what type of video you’re producing, you need to be able to justify to senior management that marketing dollars are being spent wisely.

4 steps to measuring e-commerce video success

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People are always looking for deals for products purchased online and in-store. Learn in this post how offering incentives for people to watch your e-commerce and retail videos can be a great way to improve sales, expand your consumer base, and establish customer loyalty.

Despite this year’s record e-commerce consumer spending on Black Friday, creative online video ads and other video marketing content appear to have been widely underutilized. Nevertheless, I’ve managed to put together a list of what I’ve found to be the most notable Black Friday videos online, along with some holiday marketing tips on what retailers and e-commerce brands can do to utilize online video marketing for the rest of the holiday shopping season.