YouTube has introduced its newest tool, Campaigns, for non-profits, which helps create online initiatives aimed at raising awareness and increasing the number of views or subscribers, and track the progress of the initiative. The new feature was launched as part of the YouTube Nonprofit Program, and helps see in a “thermometer mode” how many people have viewed the campaign (in percents).
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Landor Associates, a global creative community of brand strategists and designers, has released the results of its 2012 Breakaway Brands Study, which demonstrates top ten US brands that have successfully progressed in brand strength over a three-year period from 2008 to 2011. Just like the last year, Facebook was identified as the brand with the leading brand position, which has grown by 206% over three years.
YouTube has been serving as a hub for both entertainment and news-related footage for years, and has turned into a platform for latest citizen-uploaded footage videos on things happening around the globe, from street disturbances and demonstrations, to on-the-spot reporting covering elections or natural disasters. Last month, the video sharing platform launched a face-blurring tool to help secure anonymity when posting footage, and now it presents a new channel, The I Files, dedicated to investigative reporting.
These days, Indio, CA is witnessing the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, one of the biggest music events in the country, hosted for two consecutive weekends—in 2012, it is rolling out on April 13-15 and April 20-22. A huge number of attendees prefer to stay on the event’s campsite in the desert settings during these two weekends, and since such festivals just can’t do without chilled beer, people will need a safe and cold place to keep their bottles in. Heineken is addressing this problem by offering Coachella guests to keep their precious beer in the Heineken Cold Storage Room, which is like a real beer bank.
Google celebrated the Fool’s day on April 1 with a range of fake products and services promoted online. Among the products offered were such innovations as Really Advanced Search, Kangaroo Camera Task Force, Interplanetary Analytics, Rotary Phones Site Optimization, Chrome Multitasking Extension and Google, Now With More Fiber, Mayors Like the Idea.
YouTube offers its global audience a unique opportunity to see the large-scale events live even if they can’t be there in person. Last year, the video-sharing website invited people from all over the globe to see the royal wedding ceremony straight from Westminster Abbey and watch the ritual of the Hajj on November 5 in Mecca to name but a few. The service is going to bring every major occasion online for those who can’t be there. Now, YouTube is streaming fashion shows live from the runaway of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (February 9-16), and is going to make this winter hot by showing its audience what will be going on at Brazil’s Carnival from February 16 to 21.
While automakers getting ready for the Super Bowl by creating new TV ads, Venables Bell & Partners, an independent San Francisco ad agency conducts a study regarding the game and Americans’ digital consumption habits. VB&P is Audi of America’s agency of record and creator of five years’ worth of Super Bowl spots.