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Of the top 10 most popular video ads on YouTube last month, four of them belonged to Supercell’s “Clash of Clans” video game, including the No. 1 spot, which was the first-ever 360-degree video to break into the top 10. With “Clash of Clans” ads taking the No. 1, No. 2, No. 5 and No. 6 spots, and “Boom Beach’s” “Dr. T” ad ranking No. 9, Supercell owned half of the list — a mighty achievement for the video gaming company, whose spots featured Oscar winner Christoph Waltz. Supercell’s five ads generated a combined 69.2 million video views in December. “Clash of Clans” spots earned 63 million views total, and “Boom Beach” earned 6.2 million. Its No. 1 ranking ad, “Experience a Virtual Reality Raid,” generated 30.2 million views alone, double the No. 2 video ad, which was also a Supercell spot. Other brands to edge in between Supercell’s rankings included GoPro, Volvo Trucks … [Read more...] about Clash Of Clans Dominates With A Combined 63M Views

"Clash of Clans" blew away the competition on YouTube's ad leaderboard last month. The video game's "How do we get over there?" spot owned 87.7 million of the combined 115.1 million views generated by the top 10 ads. Easily winning the No. 1 spot, "Clash of Clans" far outperformed brands like Heineken, Apple and Microsoft - all of which earned less than 7 million views. At No. 2, Heineken earned 6.5 million views, and Apple's iPhone 7 Plus spot ranked No. 3 with 4.2 million views. Disney helped Lego make its debut appearance on YouTube's ad leaderboard with the "Moana as told by Lego" mini-movie ranking No. 9. YouTube reports the combined 115.1 million views generated by May's top advertisers accounted for 1.9-million hours of watch time on the site. Top 10 Ads On YouTube in May 1. Clash of Clans: How Do We Get Over There? (87.7M Views) 2. Heineken: Worlds Apart | #OpenYourWorld (6.5M Views) 3. Apple: iPhone 7 Plus | Barbers (4.2M Views) 4. Microsoft: Introducing the new Surface Pro … [Read more...] about The top 10 YouTube ads in May earned a total 115M views, 87M belonged to Clash of Clans

Prolific celebrity investors such as Ellen DeGeneres and Ashton Kutcher are part of a new trend that has taken over Silicon Valley. Hollywood starlets have started to invest heavily in tech startups, and it could have a deep impact on the industry. Let’s look at why celebrities are investing in tech, particularly in apps, and how they are affecting the tech world. How Celebrity Investment Works A relatively new type of business is connecting Hollywood to Silicon Valley. These networks are designed to be the middleman between celebrities and startups. They help celebrities find and invest in tech start-ups and apps related to their personal brand. The celebs get a percentage of the company while offering branding and financial resources in return. Instead of being paid for an endorsement and benefitting financially for a limited time frame, they become investors and reap the rewards long-term should the investment turn out to be profitable. It Opens up New Career Paths for … [Read more...] about Celebrity Investment in Apps Search Engine Journal

Don’t you just love those map graphics that show what people call “soda” in every state? Or what the favorite local beer is? I do! That’s why I decided to create one for search. Behold: The top trending searches in every U.S. state from the past 12 months: Top Trending Searches: Methodology To determine the top trending searches, I used Google Trends data from the last 12 months (February 2014 to February 2015). In Google Trends, you can drill down to the state level and see both overall trends as well as rising trends (indicating a recent spike in search volume). For this graphic, I used the rising trends data. I also threw out the most common rising search terms that were common across all 50 states in the past 12 months. These included: ebola robin williams world cup iphone 6 iggy azalea fb google drive amazon prime ariana grande For each state, I looked for the first unique trending search (a trending query that wasn’t part of a nationwide trend). … [Read more...] about Search Trends in All 50 States

Search engines want to populate the results with quality content written by experts as acknowledged by other Internet users. Documents with links from websites that have lots of links and documents with links from websites that have high quality links get rewarded. It is no wonder that when you ask a search engine reps how to build links they will tell you to publish high quality, link worthy content. If only it were so simple. Are you responsible for a global 2000 company or international celebrity website? For you, getting links may be as simple as blogging a couple of half-interesting paragraphs. But if yours is a small and relatively unknown business, you need to be far more creative and effective at capturing people’s interest. The journey from obscurity to becoming a recognized and popular authority is daunting. For most small businesses, blogging for links probably feels like sitting alone in the classroom writing lines while your friends play at recess. Which brings us to … [Read more...] about How Celebrity & Authority Change Link Building In SEO