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Why Most Online Video Companies Will Fail

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So my advice to many is to study online companies that understand how to use technology for audience development, engagement, viral distribution and subscriptions. Usually I tell them to study Upworthy & Buzzfeed. The former thinks it’s all about the content and the latter thinks it’s all about the tech.

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The Future of Advertising will be Integrated

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And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. As evidenced by the eye-tracking studies – they will remain in the stream. Nowadays banner ads get on average 0.2% CTR meaning for every 1,000 ads that are served up only 2 people click on them. Holy Shiitake ! It has for decades.