
Facebook’s Marketplace gets the mobile home tab that was supposed to go to Live
Facebook had planned to add a Live tab to the bottom bar on its mobile app’s home screen. That picture above? That’s how Facebook’s...

How many videos top publishers post daily to Facebook, YouTube
Facebook’s video platform is out of the petri dish and approaching parity with YouTube’s dominant digital video service. Top...

Top 10 video creators in August: UNILAD keeps the lead with 2.9B video views
UNILAD kept its lead for the second month in a row on Tubular’s top ten list of most watched video creators in August. Earning 2.9...

2.3 million people tuned into Twitter’s NFL livestream, less than watched Yahoo’s
Twitter scored 2.3 million total viewers for its first-ever livestream of an NFL game on Thursday night, according to figures provided by...

Twitter’s NFL live stream and Facebook’s Sports Stadium should get married
Twitter’s NFL live stream last night was fine, but could have been better if the feeds of tweets attached to it had been better....

Twitter rolls out apps for Apple TV, Xbox One and Amazon’s Fire TV
Twitter’s TV apps will broadcast Thursday Night Football games, as well as other live shows, Periscope streams, Vine clips and normal...

Google introduces TrueView for Action ads on YouTube
Denys Prykhodov / Shutterstock.com Google introduced a new format for YouTube TrueView video ads on Wednesday: TrueView for action. With...

YouTube launches YouTube Community beta for select group of video creators
Designed to be a social platform for creators to engage with followers, YouTube Community will be housed under a new “Community” tab on...

Vimeo launches Vimeo Business — a video hosting & marketing plan aimed at SMBs
Video hosting platform Vimeo has launched a new membership plan aimed at small businesses, startups and agencies, offering...

Top 10 YouTube ads in August: Clash Royale breaks record with 5 ads in top 10
Last month, Nike’s Olympics-themed ad, “Unlimited You,” made it to the top of YouTube’s ad leaderboard for August with 36.2 million...

8 dos and don’ts of successful video advertising
Video ads are a great way to generate brand awareness and to educate your target audience on a topic/product/service. I’ve talked in the...

2016 is finally the “year of the video”
For us marketers, it’s a dream come true. Videos provide us with so much more opportunity to engage with our consumers than standard...

Jivox launches dynamic personalization for video ads
Ad personalization technology firm Jivox has launched dynamic video to complement its dynamic offerings in display. “Instead of...

Fuisz partners with Sizmek for automated object-recognition in video ads
Image from Fuisz Video Way back in the last century, I worked with interactive video’s first commercial incarnation, videodiscs tethered...

Top 10 video creators in July: After 7 months in the lead, Tasty loses #1 spot to Unilad
Since December of last year, BuzzFeed Tasty has been the No. 1 most-watched video creator across YouTube, Facebook, Vine and Instagram,...

Google Hangouts On Air moving from Google+ to YouTube Live on September 12
According to an update posted on the YouTube Help site, users will no longer be able to schedule Hangouts On Air events via Google+...

Blab shuts down its live video platform
Blab, the live video chat platform that launched in early 2015 and quickly grew to almost four million users, has closed its doors....

Facebook tests streaming videos to TV using Apple’s AirPlay, Google’s Chromecast
Facebook has overtaken the small screen in people’s pockets. Now it’s ready to take on the big screen in their living rooms. Facebook has...

Snapchat will air first NBCUniversal show on Discover on August 22
“The Voice on Snapchat” will be the first NBCUniversal program to air on Snapchat as part of the two companies’ deal. The semblance...
























