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TIPS
3 Ways Videos Are Powering ABM
The early 90’s saw the birth of the internet as we know it today. It was also during this time – between ‘Got Milk’ and the email marketing boom – that B2B businesses decided to borrow a page from the B2C communication playbook.
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TIPS
Three Easy To Make Business Videos For Holiday Seasons
As the year comes to an end and teams get thinner with well-deserved breaks, does your marketing funnel start to attenuate? For businesses that value growth, staying ‘always-on’ is an incredible way to build customer retention and acquisition throughout the customer life cycle.
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INSPIRATION
The world has reinvented video interviews
When creating videos, few things come close to building a connection with the audience like a professionally produced video interview.
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INSPIRATION
5 tips to shooting a great interview
Whether it’s for a customer testimonial video or a plug into a corporate video, interviews are a great way to bring in an endorsement, an interesting point of view or a human touch to a story. But shooting an interview can be quite challenging. There are a lot of variables to control, and you usually have only one chance to get it right, especially if you’re on a fixed time slot
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CONTENT MARKETING
How To Build Hype: Teaser Videos And Leveraging FOMO
Hype is most often used right before a product or event launch, creating a sense of urgency that puts your output in a bubble, forcing your audience to focus on nothing else. Take some of the top players who are killing it with hype marketing
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KNOWLEDGE
Virtual Shoots: Going from a marketing tool to a marketing hack
One of the most exciting and convenient developments in the world of video right now is the emergence of Virtual Shoots. We know that as a marketer, or an internal comms expert, you might have heard of this form of video making—especially during the time of social distancing—but you may not know exactly how much value you stand to leverage out of it.
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INSPIRATION
6 Incredible Recruitment Videos To Attract, Hire And Retain Talent
‘Digital-first’ as a communication theory has contributed towards the evolutionary cycle of industries across the spectrum. The world of HR and recruitment has evolved phenomenally owing to this change in the last few decades. From social media’s increasing role in recruitment (think: both social media companies like LinkedIn, as well as the success of hiring campaigns on other social platforms) to internet businesses such as Glassdoor, being digital-first has been a defining factor within hiring strategies for some of the largest brands in the world.
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INSPIRATION
6 of the most effective animated video styles for your marketing strategy
While COVID-19 has slowed down large-scale video production, how about a video format that the pandemic holds no sway over? A format that allows you an incredible amount of creative flexibility – one where the only limit is the one set by your imagination? Animated videos are the answer to a video marketing mix that will continue to drive value for your business.
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COLLAB FEATURE
Red Bangle Collaborator In Focus: Hugo Leenhardt
Hugo Leenhardt is a 29 years old filmmaker from Paris, France. He has been making films in both Paris and Vietnam for the last 7 years. We’ve worked with Hugo twice now – once in Vietnam and once in Paris.
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CONTENT MARKETING
Vlogging for Business – A Must Have in Your Marketing Mix
Vlogging, also known as video blogging is one of the most preferred ways to engage with your customers. If you thought that vlogging is a game reserved for social media influencers and start-ups, think again, and take a leaf out the books of successful business vloggers such as Roberto Blake and Gary Vaynerchuck.
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TIPS
The 6Ws of a Good Video Brief
The first step to a great video is a killer brief. Here’s our cheat sheet to write a smart, concise and wholesome brief that kickstarts the creative process and streamlines your marketing goals. All it takes is crafting the right answers to the 5Ws and 1H.
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TRENDS
The Best Ad Films of the Pandemic-Hit Year
The year 2020 is over but the pandemic continues. And so does working from home, avoiding crowds, maintaining social distance, and of course, the ubiquitous wearing of face masks.
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TRENDS
3 Powerful Marketing Predictions For 2021
In today’s post-pandemic ‘new normal’ saying ‘digital marketing is at an all-time high’ is an absolute understatement. With massive growths in screen-time during the pandemic, businesses will continue to find value in a digital-first advertising strategy.
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TRENDS
Welcome to the era of non-ad ad films
Let’s imagine you are scrolling on your newsfeed on Facebook and you come across a video. You start watching it, the story grips you and you are keen to find out what happens at the end. It is only in the last few seconds that you find out it was an advertisement and you go “What the…”. I don’t know about you, but these videos — let’s call them viral non-ad ads — are becoming a common phenomenon. Let me rephrase: more and more brands are trying to take this route (because who wouldn’t want their ad films to go viral) but only a few are succeeding in producing compelling narratives that reveal the brand at the very last second.
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CONTENT MARKETING
To Troll Or Not To Troll – Is That Even a Question?
Marketing is hard. At an age where consumers are faced with a deluge of ads, marketers are racking their brains to figure out how to stand out. But, what seems harder than that is trying to navigate online trolls.
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TRENDS
5 IPL ads we love
For a lot of Indians, cricket is religion and Dhoni, a God. But IPL is not just another cricket format, is it? As a brand, the Indian Premier League signifies a lot more than a sporting event. It’s entertainment power packed with bold colors and theme songs. It’s glamorous, complete with cheerleaders and celebrities. But above all, it’s very Indian, with a core ideology. Much like Dream11’s tagline: Yehan sab same hai, yeh apna game hai, IPL too captures the essence of Gully cricket where everyone is the same. IPL belongs not to the star-studded players who’ve been bought for crores, but to the common man. It is that one brand in the country that brings glamour and etertainment close to its viewers. It’s no wonder that the IPL season is almost like a festival.
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TIPS
5 To-Dos For A Successful UGC Video Campaign
Not only are UGC campaigns a useful tool for engaging with your existing customer base, they are extremely powerful in attracting new customers. It so happens that video-driven UGC campaigns fare much better than any other form. Why? Because videos are 12 times more likely to be watched by your consumers.
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TIPS
The complete video production cheat sheet you need for your business
In today’s day and age, people want dynamic content that’s short, crisp, and can be gobbled up on …
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INSPIRATION
8 brands that leveraged cause marketing to go viral and gain popularity
Contrary to popular belief, cause marketing is not a 21st century phenomenon. The earliest example is documented in 1976 when Marriott paired up with March of the Dimes – a nonprofit that worked towards preventing birth-defects in babies.
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