Archive for the ‘New features’ Category

Give viewers the coupons they want

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

According to a MediaPost research brief, more than 20 percent of the US population uses coupons found online. Google searches for “Printable Coupons” increased 67 percent over a year ago. A Razorfish report says that the number one reason consumers followed or liked brands on Twitter or Facebook was access to exclusive deals or offers.

In an iMediaConnection article, Emily Girolamo points out that women are overtaking men online (56 percent of Facebook’s audience are women). What do these online women want? Brands that show they understand women’s worlds by giving them something of value to make their lives easier and smoother.

Now, you can take advantage of these timely trends and preferences by integrating printable coupons directly into your Mixpo Xspots as overlays.

For viewers, coupon overlays mean getting their hands on redeemable coupons without ever leaving a video ad. No webpages to visit. No browser window printing confusion to sort out.

For advertisers, coupon overlays mean maintaining complete creative control over the coupon’s appearance and the ability to easily track the number of times a coupon is printed.

Experience for yourself how smoothly printable coupons work by clicking the coupon in the following demo Xspot.

More Information

New to Mixpo? Explore our website today to learn more about dynamic video advertising.

Mixpo customer? Learn more now about adding a printable coupon to an Xspot by signing in to your account, opening the Client Resources home page, and then searching for “coupon.” In the topics about overlay actions, coupons are described in the Print action section.

Personalize each video ad viewer’s experience

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Local relevance. That’s what turns online video ads from one-sided sales pitches into personalized interactions with your brand.

With the latest Mixpo platform feature release, you now have an additional easy and effective way to make Xspots relevant on a viewer-by-viewer basis: the Map Directions overlay action.

In case you’re new to Mixpo, overlays are text, image, video, and widget objects that you place on top of the video content in an Xspot. For example, an auto dealer’s Xspot might include a text overlay that invites viewers to sign up for a test drive. A restaurant Xspot might include an image overlay of its logo.

As the examples imply, you can associate overlays with actions. The auto dealer’s text overlay is associated with a Lead Capture action. Viewers who click the overlay open a customizable form where they fill in their names, email addresses, and more. The restaurant’s logo is associated with a Link action. Viewers who click the logo open the restaurant’s website home page.

To add a Map Directions action to an overlay, you provide a destination address – the address of your dealership, restaurant, retail outlet, event, or other key location. Viewers who click the overlay see a tailor-made Google maps Get Directions page. The page shows viewers how to get from the zip code where they’re sitting to the destination address.

Google maps Get Directions page

Google maps Get Directions page (click for larger image)


To experience a Map Directions overlay for yourself, play the following Xspot of a recent Mixpo bowling party. Click the Find the Mixpo office overlay that appears a few seconds into the video. (If you can spare a few minutes, take in the rest of the video to enjoy our team at play. While you’re there, explore some of of the other dynamic and interactive features that you can add to your own Xspots.)

Is your business national or regional with franchises or dealerships in a number of cities or zip codes? By adding a geotargeting variable as the destination address, you can automatically show each viewer the closest location.

More Information

New to Mixpo? Explore our website today to learn more about dynamic video advertising.

Mixpo customer? Learn more now about overlay actions and geotargeting by signing in to your account, opening the Client Resources home page, and then searching for “actions” and “geotargeting.”

Live feeds bring customers closer to brands

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Consumers are more likely to buy from or recommend brands they follow on Facebook and Twitter.

Why? Brands with a social media presence engage their customers. This engagement brings customers closer to the brands.

Because Xspots are dynamic, they also provide advertisers with opportunities to bring customers closer. Four dynamic features with which you may already be familiar include:

  • Auto-optimization React automatically to viewer preferences and get the best performance by optimizing an Xspot while it’s running.
  • Message targeting Deliver the right message to the right viewer at the right time using geographical and other targeting methods.
  • Rapid response Respond to breaking news or date-specific offers by changing creative on the fly without re-trafficking ad tags.
  • Interactivity Increase engagement opportunities with links, forms, coupons, surveys, social media sharing actions, and other interactive features.

Now, advertisers have a new way to build rapport between customers and their brands. Xspots can include dynamic widget overlays that contain built-in animation and intelligence, such as XML, RSS, and other live feeds. As the Xspot plays, the widget continues to update in real time.

The possibilities are virtually limitless.

For example, a political Xspot might include a Twitter widget that streams the candidate’s most recent Tweets as the Xspot plays.

Or, as the following innovative demo Xspot illustrates, a lottery ad might include a widget that updates daily to show winning numbers.

More information

Interested in learning more about what dynamic Xspots can do for your ad campaign? Visit our Industries page now.

Mixpo customer? Learn more today about adding widget overlays to Xspots by signing in to your account, opening the Client Resources home page, and then searching for “widget.”