Specs Who Co-founder, CEO Joe Speiser and president, COO Gretchen Tibbits What Branded content studio Where New York From tasty bacon hacks to soldiers' homecomings from overseas, publisher LittleThings has become a hub for useful and meaningful videos since 2014. After starting out as an ecommerce site for pet products, LittleThings expanded to mom-targeted branded content, with a focus on the buying power of women. The audience was "passionate about storytelling and watching inspirational content," explained co-founder Joe Speiser. In a bright office located near New York's Penn Station, LittleThings, with its 100 employees, creates instructional or emotionally resonant editorial posts and video series that connect with brand sponsors like Crisco, Applegate Farm and eBay. Eggland's Best recently sponsored a recipe video for "yummy egg bread bowls" on the website. Speiser says the company has grown rapidly in the past 36 months: LittleThings regularly sees 55 million unique visitors to its site each month and gets about 300 million video views from the site and its massive Facebook following combined. "You have to prove your content will resonate with your audience first, like a pilot episode," said Speiser. "Then take it to advertisers to see if it matches what they're trying to achieve. That's how we've carved out a large niche of meaningful content." This story first appeared in the January 16, 2017 issue of Adweek magazine. Click here to subscribe. Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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Facebook is positioning itself to become the data, media-consumption and content-sharing backbone for the entire digital media industry. Between making user data available in its video ad network LiveRail, making its video player embeddable on publishers' websites, growing its number of... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The march towards media companies publishing content directly to Facebook continues.Barely a month after Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox said publicly that the social network wants to host media companies' articles and videos, The New York Times reported that BuzzFeed, National... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Playster, a new subscription platform offering access to books, music, games and films, has added 14,000 backlist titles from HarperCollins. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On Wednesday afternoon, Facebook announced its video advertising platform LiveRail will enable publishers to use anonymized Facebook user data to target ads on their sites and mobile apps. It will provide assurance that media buyers are indeed buying the audience segments they want to reach,... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nothing attracts news organizations like Facebook. And nothing makes them more nervous. With 1.4 billion users, the social media site has become a vital source of traffic for publishers looking to reach an increasingly fragmented ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In his opening speech, Elsevier chairman Y. S. Chi emphasized the need to regard industry changes as opportunities instead of threats or diversions. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As Hearst Magazines president, David Carey is constantly on the lookout for growth, from Hearst's longstanding titles, acquisitions and new launches. But publishing a monthly magazine isn't what it used to be. In the first of our media CEO Q&A series, Carey talks about challenging... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The interactive portion of the South by Southwest festival in Austin may be over, but that doesn't mean that digital media brands have packed up their bags. Several digital-facing companies and publishers have decided to activate outside the traditional period reserved for their wares, further... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House UK is to launch a multi-million pound Penguin-branded consumer website in the second half of this year, but chief executive Tom Weldon reiterated the company's view that it had no plans to become a retailer, claiming that it would be "quicker for PRH to burn the money". Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Magazine publisher Meredith succeeds focusing on family, home, health information for women Continue reading at ABC News
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Livres Canada Books facilitates networking and connections to help the international publishing community to discover the latest from the vibrant Canadian publishing market. The post Livres Canada Books: Your Convenient Connection to Canadian Publishing appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The news last month that Harper Lee would be publishing a second book was met with a brief blip of exultation followed by skepticism from fans of To Kill a Mockingbird. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[Sponsored Content] Miami International Airport and HCP/Aboard Publishing takes a cutting-edge approach to engaging travelers while they are en route. The post MIA Connections Makes A Huge Impact In The Travel Industry appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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Vox Media -- the digital publisher behind sites like The Verge, SB Nation and Vox.com -- has opened a department in Los Angeles aimed at making more digital video and, possibly, traditional TV.As Vox Creative Director Chad Mumm told The Hollywood Reporter about the new Vox... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With so much content being produced online, it's hard to stand out as a digital publisher to your target crowd. Heard, a new anonymous social sharing app, believes it has solved the discovery problem. The platform applies the Netflix algorithm for films and TV shows to online content, ideally... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hybrid German author Karl Olsberg describes how he leveraged the huge audience of Minecraft fans to sell a series of novels based on the game. […] The post Tapping Into the Minecraft Audience to Market Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a heated exchange before a judge, YouTuber Commander Holly (real name: Holly Conrad) faces off against actress Tina Huang. The issue at hand is one that has divided many a Trekkie: William Riker, yay or nay? Welcome to Nerd Court, where arguments that one might normally witness at a comic... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook was a focus of the first day of the IPG spring conference in Chipping Norton yesterday (4th March), which saw Perseus reveal the inside story on having a book selected for the Facebook Book Club, while publishers told they are "too nice" and need to develop more attitude if they are to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Networking often feels like using people as a means to an end. A better strategy is to lead with giving rather than taking.Networking can, at times, feel downright slimy. How many times have you dragged yourself to a conference or a business mixer only to be confronted by a guy with slick hair... Continue reading at Fast Company
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Faber has acquired a book by comedian Sara Pascoe, a feminist exploration of the female body. Editor Sarah Savitt signed world rights at auction to Animal: How a Woman is Made, from Dawn Sedgwick at Dawn Sedgwick Management. The book will be published in Spring 2016. Savitt said: "I have... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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