There’s a new academy in town: The Blue Billywig Academy. By engaging with interactive videos, you’ll learn more about how to best use online video to your advantage.
Time to have a chat with the Digital Learning Specialist for the Swedish Red Cross, Johanna Casimiro, to talk about the success of the interactive video and what the future holds.
As American academic Michael Porter states: "The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do." In other words, a good strategy is the result of making smart and incisive choices.
Given the consistent rise of video viewing, we’ll be running through some trends we can expect in the next 12 months or so and how it can affect you as a stakeholder within the video landscape.
Our online meeting rooms are a little busier now that we have eight new colleagues who have joined the team. It’s time for another round of introductions.
An appointment at the doctor’s office often brings on tension, nerves and high emotions. One in three patients reports that they don’t remember conversations with their doctor very well, if at all.
We previously introduced the dynamic loading of content based on local storage and Javascript, and now it’s possible to use the video’s embed URL with the improved Data Source Selector.
Unfortunately, there’s no photo of our Christmas tradition this year; this year everyone is cooking their own Christmas dinner. But we're keeping up the tradition of look back on the past year.
On 26 November 2020, Main Capital Partners published their annual top 50 list. We are proud to be recognized in the top 20 in this elite group of companies.
It's November and we have two brand new colleagues we'd like to introduce to you. These gentleman will join the development team as our Product Owner and Customer Support Engineer.
In times where we don’t physically get to travel, and Google Hangouts and Zoom meetings have become the new standard, we wanted our clients and prospects to still experience the excitement of travel.
This quarter our developers focused on ways to improve player reliability, speed, efficiency, and taking steps to ensure that our platform is future-proof.
We're happy to share some new features we've recently developed and added to the platform. Read on to find out more about moving thumbnails, usage statistics and automatic deeplink domains.
Make sure you stand out and that candidates remember your message by using interactive recruitment videos. Curious why this works so well? Read the top 5 reasons to use interactive recruitment videos in this blog!
While placing video content within articles is hardly a new trend, the market has advanced dramatically in recent years, with an array of new possibilities for both content selection and monetisation.
In April 2019 we launched our Prebid Player Bidding solution for outstream advertising. We are now pleased to share two major updates: the launch of our Prebid Bid Adaptor and Prebid Renderer.
Over the past few years autoplay has become more and more popular. However, when does autoplay lead to (feelings of) agitation and when does it benefit your desired goals? Keep reading to find out!
While we have recently highlighted the reasons why brands should adopt interactive video advertising as part of their digital strategy, the effectiveness of these innovative ad formats naturally varies based on the creative itself.
We are pleased to announce that as of January 2020, Blue Billywig joined a growing number in the international ad tech community, offering our unique video solutions to the APAC market.
From now until July 1, we'll offer the possibility of live streaming to our customers for free in support of their business communication. Read more or contact your customer success manager.
Dynamic advertising, or dynamic creative optimisation (DCO), is a term frequently used in digital marketing, and essentially provides marketeers with the ability to tailor advertising content to suit a particular criterion set.
Four new colleagues joined our growing team this February. They'll share the job title Video Consultant and in this role they will help companies achieve their video marketing goals.
Making use of captions is a great way of ensuring your video content is accessible for all your viewers. With this new product update adding captions becomes that much easier!
In addition to bug fixes, we've added some new features and have further improved existing features. Notably auto import of transcripts, adding playback speed to your playout and recording livestreams.
Blue Billywig is approved as a vendor of IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent framework (TCF).The added registration of Blue Billywig to the Framework, further bolsters IAB Europe’s mission to raise the standard and trust in digital advertising across Europe.
Creating a personalised video can be done in one of two ways: by using real-time data or by rendering the data into the video. Let's look at the difference.
In this blog we’ll take you through the different types of auctions, how they can benefit you and how our player helps overcoming the potential drawbacks of waterfall bidding.
A person choking. Someone having cardiac arrest. Finding an unconscious person in the street. Most people do not know how to react in these types of situations.
Creating an interactive video can be quite the project; setting up goals and KPIs, drawing out the various steps and paths in a flowchart and measuring these steps right down to the click.
The Blue Billywig office in downtown Stockholm is officially open for business! On November 1st, we realised a long term ambition of truly becoming an international company. The first three Swedish Video Consultants have been hired and Martijn has unpacked all his moving boxes.
The floating player is available to all of our clients and in this article we'll explain how it works and how you can use it for your communication purposes.
Dear clients, Today we're moving to a bigger office. Due to the move it will be difficult to reach us by phone. You can email us at support@bluebillywig.com or use the chat option when you're logged into the platform and someone from our team will help you through there.
Monetizing your in-app inventory has just become easier with the release of our iOS and Android SDK's for outstream video ads. Additionally, we are pleased to introduce an updated version of our VAST Tester.
Video advertisement budgets have been on the rise for more than a decade now, and more than ever, advertisers and agencies are looking to get more bang for their bucks.
Blue Billywig is very happy to announce the release of a brand new product - our Interactive Ads Studio! The studio involves a range of highly effective interactive video ad formats, easy to create and delivered as VPAID through any ad tech or player.
Instantly monitor the impact of your (email) campaign or check how many viewers are watching your livestream. It’s now much easier to monitor with the upgraded Realtime feature. The analytics in Realtime are always up-to-date and offer immediate insight into who is watching your content.
Everyone is familiar with the phrase: "don't judge a book by its cover". But we are all guilty of doing this sometimes. The saying also applies to online videos.
The word's out: the Blue Billywig Video Player has a new design. It is fresher, more innovative and focuses solely on the needs of the user. Plus, it offers minimal overlay, so that means maximum exposure for your video content.
Your video content deserves the largest audience possible. Preferably an audience that visits your own website. To attract these viewers, it is key to make sure that your video content can be found online.
Think: how many screens are present in your household? Besides a television, do you own a tablet, smartphone, laptop and desktop? And do you use all these screens to watch video content?
Getting feedback from the people that buy your product or use your services is very valuable, but how do you ask for their opinion or a review without it feeling intrusive?
Video SEO optimization gives your videos a higher chance of making it to the top of search engine results. Think of factors such as: the right thumbnail, subtitles and complete metadata. Use the following checklist and take the first steps to improve your video SEO.
Nobody wants to get the blues. Especially on Valentine's Day! To make sure you avoid feeling blue, Blue Billywig got the one and only Dr. Love to share his best tips and tricks.
It is one of the biggest annoyances for customers: long wait times for the customer service. Video offers a fitting solution. But implement it correctly to avoid these three common mistakes.
One of the key technical requirements of an Online Video Platform is the ability to process massive amounts of media data in order to provide accurate quality video on each platform and device.
Watching a series or film during a long train ride. Sharing a funny video with your colleagues over lunch. We are watching more and more video content every day.
Have you been diagnosed with FOMO? Everybody who owns a smartphone is familiar with this Fear Of Missing Out and is searching for ways to stay up-to-date.
We have added another platform to this list: WhatsApp. This newest addition makes it possible for viewers to share videos directly via WhatsApp. Social sharing has never been easier.
What is 360 video? 360 video is a video where the view in each direction has been recorded at the same time. The camera point can also move, making it not only possible to look all the way around, but do this also while the image is moving.
This time last week we celebrated 10 years of Blue Billywig together. The beautiful location in The Loft in the A'DAM Tower did not disappoint, and the stunning views on offer added to what was a great party and a memorable night.
Throughout this month, Blue Billywig will be celebrating it's 10th year. Way back on November 14th, 2006, our Founders Jeroen and Martijn met at the notary to officially register the company. From that moment, Blue Billywig was born.
Having previously won the FD Gazelle for fastest growing company on 4 occasions, this year is especially significant as it is the first time being categorised as a mid-sized company.
Every online publisher faces a similar dilemma - an increasing number of their users have shifted to accessing content on mobile devices, while monetising this volume with display or other ad positions remains extremely difficult, hence a drop in overall ad revenue.
We have some big news: we have developed software making it possible to watch 360 video in Safari, Apple’s default browser, without the need for an app. This confirms their status as a leading company in the field, not only in the Dutch market, but worldwide.
You might have noticed that video SEO has popped up a couple of times in our blog posts recently. Given the importance of SEO to your business, let us delve further into this topic.
When it comes to video SEO we realise it can get too technical too fast: it’s not always easy getting the right metadata on the same page with the accompanying video.
In part 1, we created our custom skin and added basic controls. In part 2, we added more advanced controls to further improve the user experience. In part 3, we will further improve our custom skin with a start- and end screen.
Have you ever wanted to add interactive elements to a video based on a design, but found that you couldn’t get it exactly right in your video? Well, recently I found myself in that situation.
The Blue Billywig video player already contains a skin that contains all functionality that you would expect from a video player, and can be perfectly tailored to your needs.
Doesn’t time fly: it’s December again and we’re heading into the festive season. The time when companies send Christmas greetings to their customers and employees. Wouldn’t it be great if you could send a personalised video as a Christmas greeting?
An open and interconnected application infrastructure is a reality for more and more companies each day. Keeping these types of open infrastructures secure for users is a challenge.
Recently, we started development on the new version of our Online Video Platform. We decided to build OVP6 using Javascript, and specifically the AngularJS framework.
You want to make the most of your existing ad inventory and increase it where possible. Video ads almost always deliver a higher CPM than normal display ads.
The Netherlands has a tremendous amount of interesting tech vendors, some of which get more attention than others. This time we take a closer look at those that are able to catch the limelight: the Dutch Tech Fab 50.
In this first blog I would like to let you in on our advances in VPAID technology, sparked from the often-overlooked Javascript/HTML5 section of the VPAID spec.
