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A leaked email from YouTube to creators outlines the new rules for joining its exclusive short-form community program

The number of daily shorts views reached 70 billion in Q3 2023, up from 50 billion at the beginning of the year, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during the company's most recent earnings call in October.

And according to data from the creator-marketing platform CreatorIQ, brands increased their influencer-marketing spend on YouTube shorts by 700% in 2023.

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Influencer marketers invested more in short-form video in 2023, with YouTube shorts getting a 700% boost

"This shift reflects a broader movement toward short-form video across both beauty and fashion and the social media landscape as a whole," Alexander Rawitz, director of content marketing at CreatorIQ, told Business Insider. "While long-form beauty and fashion tutorials remain a YouTube staple, their popularity is waning as Gen Z prioritizes short-form video content."

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Ally Financial made a bold commitment to women's sports last year. A marketing exec explains how it's increasing brand awareness and lowering the cost of acquiring customers.

Among women's sports fans, preference and awareness of Ally are up 20% from May 2022 to the end of the second quarter of 2023, and likeability of the brand increased 25% during the same period, the company found through surveys it conducted and commissioned. The data indicates these favorable consumers are six times more likely to become Ally customers and would cost the company 87% less to convert, Marciano said.

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Brands are investing more in influencer marketing, pulling funds from other areas like paid ads as overall budgets face scrutiny

A new study from the creator-focused marketing platform CreatorIQ shows brands are investing more in influencer marketing and seeing results. The company, which helps brands and creators manage their influencer-marketing campaigns, surveyed 132 marketers including agencies and brands from April 28 to May 8.

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Netflix is thinking about a free streaming service to boost its ads business, insiders say

A FAST would also help Netflix crack price-sensitive international markets, said Alan Wolk, cofounder at analyst group TVREV. "It's inevitable," he said. "We're at a point now where more people watch streaming than broadcast or cable. Cable and broadcast have been propped up by carriage and retrans fees, and they carry it over to the consumer. Streamers don't have that. As a result, they need that ad revenue."

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The 12 hottest adtech companies of 2022

iSpot.TV took aim at Nielsen's dominance as the de facto measurement provider for TV advertisers.

This year, it followed through on that promise by getting major media providers to use its measurement technology, working with a premiere ad buying platform, and nabbing a $325 million investment round from Goldman Sachs, while also investing in other companies. This activity was spearheaded by iSpot CEO Sean Muller.

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