Wednesday, 3 February 2016

Super Bowl Social Buzz: #AvosInSpace Earning Most Mentions So Far On Twitter

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Twitter users love avocados. Or, at least they love the Super Bowl commercial and teaser video that Avocados From Mexico has already released. The hashtag that accompanies the ad campaign, #AvosInSpace, is far outpacing all of its competitors when it comes to buzz on Twitter.

According to the social media monitoring company Brandwatch, #AvosInSpace has been mentioned more than 33,000 times since the commercial’s debut. That’s about 50 percent more mentions than the second-place hashtag, #Pokemon20, with more than 22,000 mentions.

Earlier this week, we sent Brandwatch a list of 22 hashtags that Super Bowl advertisers have pre-announced, all taken from our ongoing Super Bowl 50 commercial/advertiser tracker. Brandwatch ran the hashtags through its monitoring software to chart how often each one has been mentioned on Twitter.

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After #AvosInSpace and #Pokemon20, only one other hashtag — #RocketMortgage from Quicken Loans — has earned more than 10,000 mentions. The fourth and fifth most-tweeted hashtags so far are #DefyLabels (Mini) and #OLEDisHere (LG).

Not only is #AvosInSpace getting the most buzz, but it’s also positive buzz. Brandwatch tracked the mentions for positive or negative sentiments, and the avocado hashtag is practically all positive so far. Other Super Bowl advertiser hashtags scoring almost exclusively positive are #AddPizzazz (Kia), #EveryDropCounts (Colgate) and #GameDayStains (Persil ProClean).

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On the flip side, #BudLightParty is drawing the most negative sentiment among the 22 hashtags we sent to Brandwatch, and Mountain Dew’s #PuppyMonkeyBaby isn’t far behind.

The Brandwatch data is backed up by Salesforce’s Big Game Tracker, a public-facing tool that shows social activity data surrounding the Super Bowl and its advertisers. According to that tool, Avocados From Mexico is the most mentioned advertiser so far and the #AvosInSpace hashtag is one of the largest showing in the word cloud of most mentioned ad-related hashtags.

Pokémon Leading All Super Bowl Ad Videos With 11.4 Million Online Views

Pokémon has earned the most online video views (and social mentions, too) of all the brands that have pre-released teasers or actual Super Bowl ads for this Sunday’s game. But Heinz, with its popular “Wiener Stampede” commercial, is trending hot this week.

The TV ad analytics company iSpot.tv is tracking the online performance of the dozens of Super Bowl commercials that brands have already released or teased online.

Through February 2nd, the most popular overall online video is Pokémon’s extended version of its 20th anniversary commercial. iSpot.tv says that video has been seen more than 11.4 million times, and also earned more than 305,000 social mentions — tops in both categories among Super Bowl advertisers.

The Pokémon teaser is a longer version — 1:11 to be exact — of the 30-second commercial that the company plans to air on Sunday. That video was released online more than a week ago, giving it a head start over the more recently released Super Bowl videos.

The hot video this week, iSpot.tv says, comes from Heinz. Just in the past three days, its “Wiener Stampede” extended video has earned more than two million views and 85,000+ social mentions. That accounts for more than 25 percent “digital share of voice” among all pre-released videos over the past three days.

Overall, iSpot.tv says these pre-released Super Bowl ads and teasers have been viewed online almost 150 million times, with Facebook and YouTube splitting views almost evenly. See our story, Facebook Surpasses YouTube, Barely, In Super Bowl Commercial Video Views [Report] , for more on that.

Facebook Surpasses YouTube, Barely, In Super Bowl Commercial Video Views [Report]

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Let the YouTube vs. Facebook video view debate continue.

According to the TV ad analytics company iSpot.tv, more Super Bowl ads and teaser videos are being watched on Facebook than YouTube so far this year.

In data sent to Marketing Land counting video views through Tuesday (February 2nd), the company says there have been 75 million Super Bowl ad video views on Facebook, compared to 74.9 million on YouTube. Last year at this time, iSpot.tv says YouTube had a big lead in video views — 87.6 million to 45.5 million.

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Chart created with AMCharts.com.

There’s been a battle going on over video views between Facebook and YouTube, and it includes last year’s Super Bowl. Shortly after the game, Visible Measures shared data showing that Facebook earned 25 percent of all Super Bowl commercial views online. YouTube took exception to the suggestion that its dominance of online video viewing was in jeopardy. Two days later, YouTube said it was still the king of Super Bowl commercial viewing online and that time spent watching Super Bowl ads had already surpassed all of the previous calendar year.

One of the challenges in making an apples-to-oranges comparison is how video views are counted. Facebook very generously counts a view when a user watches at least three seconds of video. On YouTube, a view is “around” 30 seconds, the company says.

But for the record, iSpot.tv says it uses the 3-second standard for counting both Facebook and YouTube views.

Google’s Play Store Rejects Ad Blocker App For Samsung Browser

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The Google Play app store has removed a newly popular ad blocking app for the Samsung mobile browser.

Adblock Fast, a mobile app in Google Play, works with the new Content Blocker Extension API that Samsung recently introduced in its mobile browser, which is installed as the default browser on its Android phones. The API supports third-party plugins that will block ads on the mobile web, and the free Adblock Fast was the first out the gate.

Adblock Fast is made by Rockship Apps, whose founder and CEO Brian Kennish told TechCrunch that Google cited a violation of a section of the Android Developer Distribution Agreement, which says in part:

“You agree that you will not engage in any activity with the Store, including the development or distribution of Products, that interferes with, disrupts, damages, or accesses in an unauthorized manner the devices, servers, networks, or other properties or services of any third party including, but not limited to, Android users, Google or any mobile network operator.”

The implication is that Adblock Fast somehow interferes with the Samsung browser. Kennish, however, has indicated that he has worked in cooperation with Samsung.

He told VentureBeat:

“The only app Adblock Fast interacted with in any way was the Samsung Internet browser and only using Samsung’s API [that we helped them define]. I wonder how many Google engineers would call using an API, ‘interfering’.”

A source close to the matter confirmed to Marketing Land that the app has been removed from the Play store, but added that it is a “unique” situation because it requires two apps — including the browser — to block.

Apparently, browsers that block ads by themselves are fine with Google. This includes ones with built-in blocking, like the Adblock Plus browser, or those that use extensions, like Firefox, Javelin, and Dolphin browsers. What’s not fine: extensions distributed as APKs in the Play store.

An APK is an Android application package used for distributing and installing mobile apps.

Other ad blockers that work with the Samsung browser, like Crystal and Adblock Plus, are still available on the store. But Crystal’s developer says a update has been declined by Google, which cited the same section in the developer’s agreement.

Google provided the same blanket statement to us as it has to other publications:

“While we don’t comment on specific apps, we can confirm that our policies are designed to provide a great experience for users and developers.”

Squarespace Super Bowl 50 Campaign Stars Comedians Key & Peele Bringing The #RealTalk

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Squarespace is bringing Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Comedy Central’s “Key and Peele” to Super Bowl 50 for its #RealTalk campaign.

The website development platform has released seven ads so far, but is holding its official Super Bowl spot for game day.

The campaign features Key and Peele portraying two aspiring sports commentators, and will include the comedians providing live commentary during the game that will be streamed on Squarespace’s website.

A three-time Super Bowl advertiser, Squarespace will air its official 30-second spot during the first half of the game, along with 30-second teaser ads that will run during the pre-game broadcast, and brand spots scheduled for after the game.

“Squarespace is the perfect platform for people to express their creativity,” said Keegan-Michael Key in a statement announcing the brand’s Super Bowl campaign, “Now that we’ve sold out, we’re just glad we did it with a brand like Squarespace.”

Here’s a playlist of the ads Squarespace has released so far:

Created by the agency Anomaly, Squarespace’s #RealTalk spots were directed by Jonathan Krisel – a writer and director who has worked on a number of comedy shows, including “Portlandia” and “Saturday Night Live.”

Marketing Day: Instagram’s 60-Second Ads, Google’s Search Chief Leaves & Budweiser’s Super Bowl Ad

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Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.

From Marketing Land:

Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:

Online Marketing News From Around The Web:

Affiliate Marketing

Analytics

Blogs & Blogging

Business Issues

Content Marketing

Conversion Optimization

Copywriting, Design & Usability

Display & Contextual Advertising

Domaining

E-Commerce

Email Marketing

General Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing Industry

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Mobile/Local Marketing

Social Media

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