Laundry fail: Buzzfeed breaks native ad rules with Dylon
Buzzfeed and Dylon have had been censured by the Advertising Standards Authority over a recent advertorial that was insufficiently flagged as paid-for content. The move marks the first time BuzzFeed has fallen foul of the UK advertising watchdog. The ad for the...Out of date: Content traffic ‘drops by 98% after one month’
Online articles enjoy a very short period of high traffic, followed by a sharp decline, according to new research. The research, conducted by Boost the News, analyzes the traffic of 30 articles from different websites. The analysis points at the following phenomena:...Most popular UK YouTube ads of 2015 revealed
The success of John Lewis and Sainsbury’s Christmas ads saw them shoot to the top of the YouTube Year-End Ads Leaderboard, as revealed by Google. The UK leaderboard charts the most popular advertising videos of 2015, with the top 10 also including Christmas ads from...US online display adspend ‘to overtake search for first time’
Digital display advertising spend is set to overtake search in the US for the first time this year, accounting for 47.9% with a value of $32.17bn, according to new research. In a new eMarketer report. “Banners and other,” a category that includes native...Up Periscope: The rise of live streaming
With the likes of Meerkat, Periscope and even Facebook offering mobile broadcast tools, live streaming will become more popular in the year ahead, according to new data. Currently, it’s only tiny minorities of consumers who are using live-streaming apps; according to...Netflix launches worldwide (except China)
Netflix has launched its service in 130 countries, nearly the whole world, with the exception of China. Previously, Netflix has been limited to a number of regions but in recent years we have seen that number of services grow rapidly. Now the streaming giant has a...Periscope puddle: How brands waded in to a social media spectacle
On a wet Wednesday in the UK, thousands of people tuned in to watch a live stream of a large puddle in Newcastle, with a number of high-profile brands dipping their toes into the Twitter frenzy. The pool, which blocked a busy bridge crossing, was broadcast live on...IAB ‘concerned’ by new FTC guidelines for native ads
The Interactive Advertising Bureau has voiced concerns about details of the Federal Trade Commission’s new native ads guidelines, calling them “overly prescriptive.” “While guidance serves great benefit to industry, it must also be technically...Top US digital media trends of 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC]
From videos to music to apps, digital was at the forefront of consumers’ (and marketers’) minds this year. As 2015 comes to a close, Nielsen looks at some of the top trends in digital, including the top US smartphone apps and operating systems. In 2015, Facebook again...The year in digital: The best (and worst) of marketing in 2015
2015 was another big year for digital marketing, with the Apple Watch launch, the rise of ad blockers and mobile growth skyrocketing. This was the year that content went native, retargeted ads got smarter and global time on digital screens overtook TV. In this special...M&S ‘most emotionally engaging Christmas TV advert’
What’s the most emotional TV ad this Christmas from Britain’s big high street brands? ICM Unlimited used webcams as part of a survey to capture emotions on faces during a screening of six festive ads. ICM Unlimited found that ‘The Art of Christmas’ from M&S came...The most engaging High St Xmas ad is…not John Lewis’ Man on the Moon
Harvey Nichols and Kwik Fit produced the most engaging Christmas ads by high street retailers, according to Realeyes’ annual Christmas study, which measures how people feel while they watch ads by tracking their facial expressions. John Lewis – last year’s winner with...Content Marketing trends in 2015: BuzzFeed hits big leagues as video screen time matches TV
BuzzFeed teamed up with WPP to form a content marketing behemoth this year, as native content got more sophisticated. With Facebook and Twitter becoming key news sources and brands becoming content factories, traditional media giants are worried. As part of our review...YouTube’s top 10 trending videos of 2015
YouTube has assembled a list of the top ten trending videos of the year, based on “views, likes, shares, searches, parodies, remixes and responses.” Altogether, these ten videos account for over 500 million views and the firm has put together its annual Rewind video...Star Wars trailer: How Facebook reacted [INFOGRAPHIC]
With “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” hitting cinemas worldwide next week, new data looks into how Facebook reacted to the final trailer in October, and how marketers can use social media data to plan future campaigns. The infographic from DataSift and Fuel Intelligence...Facebook trends in 2015: The evolution of the ‘like’
Google be warned; Facebook is after your customers. In 2015, the social network was used by half the world’s online population, with a burgeoning ad ecosystem and ever-more engaging media tools to keep users glued to their newsfeeds. As part of our review of the...Spotify creates personal ‘Year in Music’ for listeners
Spotify has unveiled a new end-of-year feature that gives users a breakdown of what they’ve been listening to in 2015. The music streaming service’s ‘Year in Music’ interactive page lets users scroll through a compilation of their listening habits over the last year....Video viral of the week: Castrol hires ‘The Stig’ for virtual reality race
Castrol is running a video viral campaign that pits top drivers to race ‘blindfolded’ in real cars on a virtual reality course, bring in Top Gear’s The Stig for its latest instalment. See why its our video viral of the week below: This world first...Viral video marketing case studies: the 25 best virals of 2015
From mystery X-rays to disobedient dogs, 2015 was another big year for video viral marketing case studies. Marketing stunts, long-form storytelling and cute animals (naturally) featured heavily this year. Perhaps more telling was the number of ads seeded on Facebook rather than YouTube, as the social network becomes the go-to place for sharing videos. To round off the year, we’ve assembled our 25 favourite virals from around the world for your viewing pleasure…
