Marketing adidas, Video Production

Marketing adidas, Video Production

Corporate Video Production for adidas

Corporate Video Production for adidas

adidas

Thursday, September 08, 2011

The challenge: The annual manager meeting at adidas North America headquarters is a major team building event for the retail team, drawing nearly 200 regional managers from across the United States for a week of training and strategy sessions that will help guide the larger team over the entire year. adidas leadership needed to be able to capture the enthusiasm and excitement of this event in a format that could easily be translated into tools to motivate and train the rest of the adidas retail team. For the second year, adidas turned to Outlier for help with the project.

How did we help? The adidas team needed a partner that was flexible and able to handle several days of shooting with a quick turnaround on completed videos. The Outlier team captured 80 hours of video during the five day event alone--creating a series of instructional training videos that include executive speeches and training sessions, a fun kickoff video to energize and inspire event attendees and an event highlight reel for managers to take home with them to help keep the energy level up well after the event ended.

Corporate video production is one of Outlier’s most requested marketing services—video can help educate and entertain while helping your business reach new audiences, explore products and services, or train your workforce.

ALTEK Homepage

ALTEK Homepage

ALTEK - Contract Manufacturing

ALTEK - Contract Manufacturing

Altek

Saturday, April 23, 2011

ALTEK Inc. is a diverse manufacturer working in high-tech, medical, consumer and industrial markets. The creative process began with an existing capabilities piece that gave us a road map. From here we spent three days on site filming, planning, and discussing the web strategy.

The challenge: With the final objective being a rebranded website, short video presentations included for each service capability, and a marketing toolbox that would win new customers.

How did Outlier help? Each video tells a story of a product being completed from start to finish. Along the way, the viewer is able to learn about ALTEK’s product realization services including design and engineering talent. With a large scale injection molding division, precision machine shop, and a paint and marking department all under one roof, there was a lot of ground to cover. With two videographers and a photographer, we started rolling the cameras and covered ALTEK from floor to ceiling!

The bigger picture: In the end, we delivered a fully redesigned website with a new look, graphics, pages and blog. The six final videos are all branded with the new look, while the content gave specific overviews of the variety of capabilities and services you'd expect from an outstanding manufacturer.

Science Marketing Case Study

Science Marketing Case Study

Marketing Life Science

Marketing Life Science

Sheldon Manufacturing

Monday, April 11, 2011

Sheldon Mfg. has worked with Outlier Solutions to grow their SHEL LAB brand of laboratory equipment globally. Our close working relationship has created powerful marketing benefits -- intimate product knowledge, a wide variety of marketing tools, and most importantly, trust. Together we have designed over 20 marketing pieces, 6 videos, and conducted nearly 20 photo shoots.

Web Marketing: Sheldon Mfg. has a proud manufacturing history that has paid dividends as an OEM manufacturer for over three decades. Over the past 5 years, we have launched 3 different website designs -- an eCommerce presence, and 3 microsites to promote Sheldon's corporate culture and new products. With over 500 products in the online store, we have developed a maintenance schedule that ensures the catalog is always up-to-date.

Search Engine Optimization: Sheldon's search engine marketing (SEM), and search engine optimization (SEO) strategy was hand crafted at Outlier. Outlier started with the standard SEM and SEO activities to build a baseline search presence. Once an ROI was visible, Sheldon’s leadership team cut us loose, and since then Outlier has helped Sheldon own the top 10 search positions in each of their 11 product categories for multiple years. Traffic levels to their site has grown continuously along with conversion rates since 2005, and they multiplied their volume of traffic to their website 5x from when we began working together.

Integrated Marketing Campaigns: When a product launches we are prepared with photography and videography assets, brochure collateral, email announcements to internal and external customers, public relations pieces, and a proven web presence. We are continually creating new pieces for Sheldon and expanding their market reach.

Learn to leverage web video

Learn to leverage web video

Get tips on making effective videos

Get tips on making effective videos

Find out how Outlier can help you

Find out how Outlier can help you

Online Video Training and Promotion in the Scientific and Industrial Markets

Friday, January 22, 2010
Create online presence and support for technical products using video for web as a primary vehicle. This webinar will present ideas for creating, promoting and optimizing online videos for training, sales, and technical support of products. Video for the web fits especially well with products that require set up, calibration and regular maintenance such as laboratory instruments, equipment, and industrial products with technical applications.

Vinnie Martorano with Sheldon MFG. will be presenting a case study on Sheldon's latest product launch the 3552 CO2 Incubator. Challenged with supporting and educating a worldwide dealer network, Sheldon MFG began using video to train and promote their line of laboratory incubators, ovens, and chambers. Using video Sheldon was able to launch the 3552 into the global marketplace quickly and clearly. Mr. Martorano will elaborate on the chosen content, format and results seen thus far in this latest product release.

What you’ll learn:
- How to plan for a sales vs training video
- How to use video for technical support
- Strategies for promoting your video
- Ideas for video content creation
- Tips for working with a video production company or agency

Click here to see more information.

New Outlier Solutions Video for Ignite 7!

Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Well yet another Ignite has come and gone, and it was a roaring success as usual. The Bagdad Theater was packed and the presenters were great. As proud sponsors of this great event, Outlier Solutions created a short video to be played during the intermissions and we thought we would share it with you, so enjoy!

Bag of Tricks - A new Outlier Video

Saturday, July 25, 2009
We wanted to share a fun video we made for our sponsorship in www.igniteportland.com By the way if you haven't ever been to an Ignite
they are really fun, and inspiring and are popping up all over the place.

This video also contributed to our "Be the Outlier" campaign that we just launched to show off a different dimension of our creative side.

Web Video Search Engines and Viral Marketing

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
You hear lots of talk about viral web video marketing and get excited about the possibilities. "What if we can get our target audience sharing videos we produce and self promoting our ideas and products?". It adds a lot of mileage to the return on investment for the initial video production. With viral video marketing the first step is getting your video in front of a wide enough audience to make a dent.

This means adding it to all of the major video communities, and directing customers to the video via PR and announcements. We typically also keep an eye on video search engines to see how complete and quickly updated they are.

One of the most popular video search engines, Blinkx, recently added AdHoc, a new ad program that encourages viewers to share their favorite videos.. This obviously helps spread the word on new video presentations.

Below is a list of video search engines that you may not have heard of yet:
We already mentioned Blinkx
Truveo
Fooooo - A leading video search engine from Japan
Dabble - Community driven, includes everything from vlogs, to movies shot on phones, and professionally produced videos
EveryZing - Uses a one of a kind audio translation technology
Pixsy - Images, Audio, Video

It always interesting to see how videos are categorized and how the channels are broken down.....




Where is Online Video Advertising Going?

Wednesday, November 08, 2006
A report released by eMarketer.com claims that online advertising revenues will increase to $775 million dollars by the end of 2007. Since the dawn of online video communities such as YouTube and MySpace, you are constantly hearing discussions of the video boom. For example, Businessweek.com released an article today discussing the eMarketer report. As a company that deals in online video production, we find this to be exciting news but have to constantly remind ourselves that online video communities aren't filled with advertisements.

We give a huge amount of credit to the web video communities for constructing a creative, shared environment that is very entertaining and user driven. Video advertising is currently not going this route. Instead, it serves as a precursor to interesting video content. For instance, when you see an interesting headline on Yahoo! but have to watch an ad first to get to the interesting video. That strategy flies in the face of what users like about these video communities. Forced exposure to your message is a turn off.

It is important to recognize that online video presentations can be very dynamic and should be used to engage users. Don't deliver the standard "auto pilot" TV formats. Give options and control of the presentation to the user. Our theory is if your viewer glosses over parts of the presentation / advertisement they aren't interested in because they want to navigate to a section they are interested in you will make a much longer impression. The alternative may be losing their attention and possibly not gaining it back.

Online video is a valued advertising media

Thursday, May 11, 2006
A recent study by the Online Publishers Association found that 1 in 4 web users view online videos at least once a week. Of those viewing online videos, 66% have watched web video advertisements. 44% of those viewers took action on what they saw. These statistics show that a large base of users find online video advertising appealing.

In addition to this trend, an advertising medium such as online video advertisements has inherent advantageous attributes. Using tailored web-marketing techniques your audience can be targeted to your specific consumer base. The amount of viewers can be directly measured and the proceeding actions of those viewers can be tracked.

Summarized well by Cari Weissberg, VP and Group Media Director of Universal McCann Interactive.

"Online video is an extremely powerful advertising tool - combining the emotional impact of TV with the measurability of online advertising,"