Online Content
A look at why more content is good & the various tools you
can use to create additional content
Agenda
• Housekeeping
    • Attendance
    • Socialnomics discussion
    • News
•   Video / YouTube
•   Photo Sharing
•   Check ins
•   Assignment
HOUSEKEEPING
YouTube, Vimeo

VIDEO
VIDEO – YOUTUBE
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN3uOf_lr
 qI
GuyGal - Recap
• Content is the currency of social media and search
• Prediction: 90% of digital consumption will be video
• “Video is the only medium that scales the full range of human
  emotions”.
• Example of Zappos – doing video demos of shoes. 20-30%
  increase in sales – Increases trust
• LOW cost to entry
• People pay with their time. So do a good job or don’t do it at
  all
• Subscribers > Viewers
Video – YouTube
•   Most familiar video platform
•   48 hours of video uploaded every minute
•   3 billion videos viewed everyday
•   490 Million Users average visit – 25 minutes
•   Monetization (CPM – Cost per 1000 views basis)
•   Brand Channels
•   Analytics suite
•   http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics
YouTube – Brand Channels
•   http://www.youtube.com/user/Starbucks/featured
•   http://www.youtube.com/thescore
•   http://www.youtube.com/user/McDonaldsCanada
•   Playlists
•   Promote videos
•   Advertising




    http://www.youtube.com/user/JimmyKimmelLive
Video - Vimeo
•   A community of film people
•   Quality is better on default embed
•   Not for “commercial usage”
•   No monetization
Why Video
•   SEO
•   Easily consumable (72% YOY Growth – Forrester Research)
•   Social media effect – shareable
•   If it’s good. Bounce rate goes down!
•   Alleviates doubt. And increases trust (Zappos)
•   Cost of entry all time low
•   More Memorable
Examples
• http://www.zappos.com/nike-eclipse-ii-white-black-varsity-
  red

• https://path.com/

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y81p9XsX3tQ – Various
  Examples

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHPok_lBmzM - HubSpot
Video – Recap
• Great reference, great for sharing, but the videos have to be
  great
• OR they have to be quick
• Build trust with your customers
• Make Money with advertising
• Reach your audience through various channels
• Get found faster.
Flickr, Twitpic, pic.twitter.com, Instagram, Pinterest

PHOTO SHARING
PHOTO SHARING - FLICKR
•Online photo management and sharing
• Great community
•Started out as a game
•You own the content
•Customize who sees the content
•Freemium model –ad-free unlimited photo storage
• 51 million users
•Owned by Yahoo (2005)
PHOTO SHARING - FLICKR
•Online photo management and sharing
• Great community
•You own the content
•Customize who sees the content
• Most frequently used for personal usage small businesses do use it though
•Creative Commons
PHOTO SHARING - FLICKR

• Creative Commons
•http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
•A great source to find images, and to have your images
discovered
PHOTO SHARING - INSTAGRAM


• iPhone (and Android) only photo sharing app
•No View Analytics
•“Sharability” & Early adopter factor
•http://instagr.am/p/HAb6d2Rc-j/
•10 Early Adopter Brands using Instagram -
http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2011/05/19/10-early-
adopter-brands-using-instagram/
•Many Brands on Instagram http://socialfresh.com/brands-
on-instagram/
•Bought by Facebook for $1B
TWITPIC, YFROG, LOCKERZ


•All popular photo sharing services
• Have web presence and mobile presence
•All have social media elements
• Choose one and stick with it (not lockerz.. unreliable)
• Yfrog has “views” updating issues no embeds (i.e Tweetdeck)
•Less a community, more a sharing utlitity to other networks
•Pic.twitter.com no analytics at all
•Twitter forcing more and more apps to use pic.twitter.com
SHARE OF VOICE – MAY 2011
(ANCIENT)
MORE NETWORKS MORE REACH

•Gary Vee on Pinterest
http://youtu.be/keMQasaECKM
PHOTO SHARING FOR BUSINESS
• Integrate into everything!
• Instagram – 9185 Likes - 21 Likes to Facebook (Share)
• Twitter - 370 Retweets
• Facebook – 44,998 Likes, 1,231 Comments, 2091 Shares
PHOTO SHARING BEST PRACTICES




•   Integrate as much as possible . Share across all networks
•   Find the channel(s) that work best for you
•   Be descriptive
•   Tell a story when uploading an album
•   Link back to your website!
•   Use pictures whenever possible
CHECKINS – FOURSQUARE, GET GLUE,
   FACEBOOK PLACES



•Foursquare – Check in any where with people who aren’t
your friends (Twitter)
•Facebook – Check in anywhere with your real friends
•Get Glue – Check in to what you’re watching, or reading or
listening to
CHECKINS – FOURSQUARE


• Foursquare – 15 million users
• More of a mobile app – users checkin when they’re at the
location
• Most check ins - Mayor
• Tips Promotions
• Badges based
• Share with social network
• Privacy
CHECKINS –GET GLUE

• 1.5 million users
• Stickers
•More for content providers & Personal usage
CHECKINS – FACEBOOK PLACES




•US around 750 000 checkins / day
•Only 4% of adult users use location based services
•http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/social-media-
stats/foursquare-facebook-places-checkins/
CHECKINS – WHY

• Free advertising. People care about where others do.
(Shop, Watch, Eat)
• Early adopter
• Meet up.
• Brand recognition.
• Tips
•Incentivize – Free beer? SURE!
•6 Successful Foursquare Marketing Campaigns to Learn
From
•5 Creative Facebook Places Marketing Campaigns
ASSIGNMENT


•Anthropological Introduction to YouTube
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU
•Questions to be posted!