Most companies with any sense about modern marketing strategies understand the value of online video production Chicago, but they don’t always have the time or know-how to go through with the it. Enter Ogilvy, which offers an all new online video offering for clients in the dark about the medium. Below is an interview ReelSEO conducted with Robert Davis, Interactive Marketing Director and Director of Advanced Video Practice over at Ogilvy New York.
Video Production ChicagoWhat kind of video was being offered to Ogilvy clients before AVP?
There was some online video production Chicago prior to this but there wasn’t a team of specialists focused on it. 3.5 years ago Rob joined and they knew it was where the things were going so it was all hush hush top secret (sort of).
What does the Advanced Video Practice Team Offer?
Over at Ogilvy, Rob and the team believe that video strategies and technology are still different enough to require a specialized team that knows those factors well and can help guide the clients through the labyrinthine ways of online video for marketing and advertising. The dedicated team is aimed at getting any of the company’s clients up with strategic online video campaigns, SEO and distribution. Most creative is produced over in another group and that is exactly how Rob thought it should be. They didn’t want to strip away duties from the other departments and teams but wanted to be more like an internal resource to call upon to help clients get the most out of online video campaigns.
Essentially, they offer pre-production planning assistance and post-production distribution, campaign strategies and management along with things like SEO. Now you see why ReelSEO might be popular over there with them.
So they seem to be sort of like floaters who can meet with clients and talk to them about the options available as well as talk with other internal teams to get them up to speed on what they might be able to offer to the clients and when to call in the AVP crew.
Two Views Merge in one Person
Robert Davis came from the media side of things so he has a unique perspective as he has been on both the creative and the business sides of the coin. That combined experience definitely gives him an interesting breadth of knowledge.
Within all that came the belief that video is not just about massive, viral distribution, but more about a balanced approach that includes proper analysis as well as professionally made content that speaks to the consumers and pushes the message across clearly.
Two Places, One Campaign
Rob told me that while using YouTube has a long list of advantages including massive potential audiences and such, there’s also a rise of the .com or the brand specific online presence. He believes that a balanced approach is a better solution and that the .com is misused and should be ever-present in online video campaigns. Why? It’s the only place where the brand has 100% control over the content, the message and how the brand is represented. When placing ads or online videos on video sharing sites there is no way to control the content around your own message. So it could become muddled or interfered with. Rob believes that the company or brand homepage is just about the most controlled environment you can have online and that’s where you should be driving your traffic to.
But that also means that you need to leverage the massive amount of pre-existing, professional tools. No home-built ‘basement coded’ video production Chicago players here folks. We are talking about end-to-end interactive solutions that leverage the power of existing, proven technology to increase the effectiveness of the campaigns and beat the clients’ expectations while also moving everything forward.
With that in mind, they promote content strategies that are more informational, engaging, SEO-based, with easy interaction to get people into that ever-important sales funnel and increasing things like intent-to-purchase and actual purchase actions.
In a sentence Rob believes: Utilize YouTube and video sharing sites like that, but don’t neglect your core online presence, your own .com which needs a revitalization of sorts.
