{"id":450,"date":"2008-04-06T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2008\/04\/daily-reading-04062008.html"},"modified":"2008-04-06T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T13:30:00","slug":"daily-reading-04062008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/daily-reading-04062008\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily reading 04\/06\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class='title'><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/node\/59489\/print\">Who Do You Love? How Some Brands Achieve True Authenticity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>tags: <a href='https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/pgillin\/daily_reading'>daily_reading<\/a>, <a href='https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/pgillin\/advertising'>advertising<\/a>, <a href='https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/pgillin\/marketing'>marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class='description'>It&#8217;s ease to praise the value of authenticity but a lot harder to achieve it. Many companies have stumbled badly in marketing campaigns because their efforts to sound genuine didn&#8217;t jive with the public&#8217;s perception of the brand. This Fast Company article from December looks at authenticity, insincerity and how even some big and successful brands manage to cultivate a distinct image.<\/p>\n<p class='title'><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu\/article.cfm?articleid=1930\">Getting Engaged: Advertisers Search for Their Voices on YouTube<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"LinkItem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/01msc\" style=\"font-size:.8em; font-style:italic; text-decoration:underline;\">Annotated<\/a><\/p>\n<p>tags: <a href='https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/pgillin\/daily_reading'>daily_reading<\/a>, <a href='https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/pgillin\/youtube'>youtube<\/a>, <a href='https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/pgillin\/advertising'>advertising<\/a><\/p>\n<p class='description'>Advertisers are already showing lack of creativity on YouTube, defaulting to the &#8220;safe&#8221; choice of pre-roll ads and sponsored contests. As this article notes, many of those campaigns underperform. To be successful on YouTube, you need to step outside your comfort zone and design content for the young audience.<\/p>\n<div class='highlights'>\n<div class=\"content\">Century 21 Real Estate, based in Parsippany, N.J., launched a video-contest channel on YouTube in mid-March. The idea is for home-sellers and their agents to collaborate on a video tour of the for-sale property &#8220;using humor and creativity.&#8221; The winner, to be announced in May, will take home $21,000 and an HDTV. Although the company raised expectations by touting the contest as the &#8220;Housing Industry&#8217;s First Branded YouTube Channel,&#8221; its introductory video hasn&#8217;t seemed to inspire much reaction: The contest channel currently features only four submissions. A viewer&#8217;s comment on one sample video posted by Century 21 itself stated: &#8220;This  is an excellent way not to sell this home.&#8221;<\/div>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class='highlights'>\n<div class=\"content\">When Bell&#8217;s firm launched a new anti-aging lotion for Johnson &amp; Johnson&#8217;s Aveeno brand, it built on the work of 3-D British chalk artist Julian Beever. A time-lapse video of Beever creating one of his trademark <em>trompe-l&#8217;oeil <\/em>drawings in New York&#8217;s Union Square, which included the Aveeno logo, has resulted in more than 1.2 million views on multiple video channels, says Bell. &#8220;We listened to an existing conversation among fans of the artists and gave them something of value. That&#8217;s what got them talking and sharing.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/div>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class='title'><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wiep.net\/link-value-factors\">17 SEO Experts Debate the Details<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>tags: <a href='https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/pgillin\/daily_reading'>daily_reading<\/a>, <a href='https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/pgillin\/search_engines'>search_engines<\/a><\/p>\n<p class='description'>The author polled 17 search engine optimization experts about the factors that count most in search rankings. The experts discuss 39 issues ranging from anchor text to page relevance to the age of inbound links. While they disagree in a lot of areas, some clear consensus does come through. The author has done a nice job of representing this consensus visually. His English isn&#8217;t great, but you can make out what he&#8217;s saying. This long document is a must-read if you&#8217;re interested in SEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who Do You Love? How Some Brands Achieve True Authenticity tags: daily_reading, advertising, marketing It&#8217;s ease to praise the value of authenticity but a lot harder to achieve it. 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