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YOUTUBE ANNOUNCES THIRD-PARTY VERIFICATION PARTNERSHIPS FOR SHORTS AD PLACEMENTS

Marketers can now get more assurance that their YouTube Shorts campaigns are showing up adjacent to brand-safe and suitable content. Integral Ad Science (IAS) and Double Verify have expanded their measurement options to YouTube Shorts inventory, meaning that advertisers can access brand safety and suitability metrics for impressions on YouTube Shorts. Shorts has been YouTube’s fastest growing content format, increasing some 120% year over year, and now driving over 70 billion daily views.

HOW TO ADAPT YOUR CONTENT STRATEGY TO YOUR GROWTH STAGE

In the early stage, brands should aim for a minimum viable content strategy focused on experimentation, velocity, and a fast feedback loop. Appropriate content formats include social media lives, Reels, and emails – ideally planned in weekly sprints. In the growth stage, brands should build long-term content programs that support sustainable revenue and brand authority. This could include podcasts, SEO, and case studies – in addition to the formats that succeeded in the early stage.

IT TAKES 20 MINUTES TO COPYRIGHT A WEBSITE – HERE’S HOW

This guide explains the steps to copyright a website. Even though content may be inherently copyrighted upon publication, it lacks defense against plagiarism. To protect it, you can register your website with the US Copyright Office (USCO), ensuring ownership and protection against infringement and potential statutory damages. The process requires creating a USCO account, filling out an application, and submitting the necessary documents. Everything can be done online.

HOW RESEARCH RESCUED A WEBSITE REBRAND

RealEstateU, an online education site, saw a 30% drop in sales after completing a website redesign. Its team then completed a customer research study, which revealed that users perceived the site as sketchy and untrustworthy relative to competitors. They redesigned the site again, this time with a relaxed color palette, trust signals in the form of customer reviews, and persuasive copy. As a result, the site’s conversion rate exceeded its original level.

8 COGNITIVE BIASES TO INCREASE CONVERSION + EXAMPLES

This article describes 6 additional cognitive biases with examples. Cognitive biases are psychological tricks that can influence users’ choices and are a powerful lever to boost conversion. Authority Bias represents how people tend to have a higher perceived value of a product when a figure of authority is talking about it or validating a statement - Rise Science leveraged this in creating a “Learn” tab in its app, with scientific studies outlining the importance of sleep, which supports the app's main value proposition. Loss Aversion represents how people tend to avoid losses rather than acquire equivalent gains - Abode leverages this in its cancellation flow by reminding users of the products they’ll lose access to.

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