This week we see how a platform like Newscred is helping brand marketers assemble news stories to engage current and potential customers, and we find out what attributes contribute to a video going viral.
PART 1: Content marketing via Newscred
Newscred is one of several content marketing platforms designed to help commercial companies curate content for their target customers. The platform enables clients to browse and license material from more than 4,500 publishers, including big media organizations, as well as find custom content via a network of contributors. We find out how the service works and how traditional publishers also reap some benefit.
Reporting by Tatiana Darie.
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Newscred launched a partnership earlier this year with Getty Images. Together they published a guide for marketers that outlines four principles of successful visual media: authenticity, sensory, relevancy & archetype.
This summer NewsCred also announced a partnership with Outbrain that will enable brands to reach new audiences through Outbrain Amplify, a platform that gives users access to one of the largest networks of publisher sites to distribute content.
PART 2: Decoding the attributes of viral video
Wondering how to predict if a video will go viral? The team at the social video marketing platform Unruly says they have figured it out. We visit their office to learn how they decoded viral video and what attributes they found that cause a video to get widely shared.
Reporting by Tatiana Darie.
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Unruly’s Video Chart is a free resource that powers the company’s product, offering a data set of more than 430 billion video views and tracking around 24 million shares per day.
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