Light painting illuminates Floating Points’ Silhouettes video – Dezeen
Music: patterns of light spring up around a Martian-like world in this music video that directors Pablo Barquin and Junior Martínez created for Floating Points (+ movie). Martínez already knew Sam Shepherd – the musician behind Floating Points – before the idea for the video…
Netflix “NightShift†caches shows on your home network to boost speed – Ars Technica
Are you having problems streaming Netflix? A startup called Aterlo Networks claims it has a solution: download Netflix shows and cache them locally so you can view them later without problems. Aterlo’s “NightShift” service could theoretically help anyone with slow home Internet connections access high-definition Netflix…
Digital Marketing: The 7 Essential Channels – Business 2 Community
When Henry Ford was selling automobiles in the early 20th century, all he had to do was assemble the cars and get them into show rooms as quickly as possible. By the time the cars were in the show room, there were several customers in…
What Brands Need to Know About Visual Social Media [Infographic] – MarketingProfs.com (subscription)
Today’s fastest growing social media channels are visually based, according to the following WebDAM infographic. Here’s the scoop for engaging your visuals-loving customers. Consider your brand across all visual touchpoints, suggests WebDAM. Include logos, typography, press kit, photography, and icons. Also, post images often. “Posts…
How to Leverage Social Media for SEO: Link Building – Marketing Land
I recently asked a room of experienced marketers how they thought social media marketing could assist their SEO efforts. The answers were more or less what I had expected to hear: Social media helps foster relationships, which in turn helps build links and improves rankings….
6 Video Solutions to Common Business Challenges – Business 2 Community
Branded videos have the power to be effective throughout most, if not all areas of your business. Contrary to popular belief, there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ video solution. In fact, there are several types of video, each catering to a specific business challenge. Here are 6…
This MIT grad student discovered a way to create sound from soundless video – Business Insider
TED Conference/Flickr Our recently published list of groundbreaking scientists highlighted the smartest and most innovative modern scientists and researchers in the field. Among them is Abe Davis, an MIT graduate student who has worked with researchers from MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe to publish their findings on “the visual…
Top 10 marketing trends you need to know – Marketing Dive
2015 has been all about social, mobile, video and more. With the better part of 2015 behind them, digital marketers continue to shift their attention (and budget dollars) towards mobile, video, and social media. Marketers this year have experienced a flood of real-time data, welcomed a slew of…