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IS IT MY FAULT?
By: Puja Krishnatraya
Tags: Pride, Feminism, Equality, Women Empowerment, LGBTQ

A question to society:

Is it my fault?

That I bleed on my periods without wanting to,

For I have to live aside for a day or two.

Is it my fault?

That I have growing breasts,

For I have to forcefully wear a bra to keep them tight in place.

Is it my fault?

That I am considered impure when I am down,

For me my mother tells me on certain occasions to keep that secret under my gown.

Is it my fault?

That I have ambitions beyond the barriers of society,

For my attitude of empowerment dooms patriarchy.

Is it my fault?

That my carrier took a leap,

For all colleagues thinking it was just for the sake of a night’s “sleep”.

Is it my fault?

That I have liked girls throughout my life,

For society expects me to unwillingly sleep with a man and be his good and caring wife.

Is it my fault?

That the boys continuously stared at me,

For people instead of blaming them judged my skirt going above the knee.

Is it my fault?

That my husband rapes me to satisfy his lust,

For whenever I complain I am told, “ You aren’t the first”.

Is it my fault?

That I face domestic violence?

For my husband needs to beat me when his anger climbs above his tolerance.

Is it my fault?

That my cousin sexually abuses me out of his unbounded “love” and bliss,

For my parents and relatives judge my over-friendliness indicating my crime above his.

I finally admit,

~It is my fault~

That I expected my parents, friends, relatives and our society to show their love and care and encourage me when I was harassed, beaten, raped, assaulted, abused and what not,

For they only came up to me and said — “It is your fault”.

Written by:

Puja Krishnatraya.
It’s Pride Month — that should mean purposeful change in Wyoming
By: Matthew Winterholler
Tags: Wyoming, Pride, LGBT Rights, LGBTQ, Legislation

As another Pride Month rolls around and LGBTQ+ individuals and allies across the state celebrate, will Wyoming let another year elapse without passing legislation to protect or affirm LGBTQ+ rights?

It’s no secret Wyoming lags in LGBTQ+ rights — the Human Rights Campaign has labeled the state as “high priority to achieve basic equality,” which is the worst rating by the LGBTQ+ rights organization. In fact, legislation that was presented in early 2019 to protect LGBTQ+ workers from being fired on the grounds of their sexual orientation was steamrolled when Speaker of the House Eric Barlow refused to bring the bill to the floor during session.

Wyoming Democrats and Wyoming Equality lobbied for the passage of HB 230 to protect LGBTQ+ worker rights, but the Speaker of the House failed to bring it to the floor.

The demand for LGBTQ+ protections is not a campaign to impose beliefs on others. Rather, it’s an affirmation that religious and cultural beliefs do not superimpose human rights. Yet, constituents continue to place people in positions of power — like Vicki Kissack of the Campbell County GOP and Gillette-based State Representative Scott Clem — who defame the LGBTQ+ community and those who fight for their rights.

In a since-deleted Facebook post, Vicki Kissack compared the LGBTQ+ community to Nazis. Image courtesy of the Casper Star Tribune.

As a gay man myself, it’s frustrating to see my home state sleep on protections for and discriminate against some of its own. Full discloser — I haven’t lived in Wyoming for nearly four years, but, being born and raised in the state, I still consider myself a faithful and proud Wyomingite. I want to make the state better and a more accepting place for everyone.

It offers hope that some leaders have taken steps to learn about LGBTQ+ individuals and have worked to challenge their internal biases. Take, for example, former Senator Mike Enzi — after making offensive comments about the gender expression of a Wyoming man, Sissy, Enzi sat down with him and had an open dialogue in which they came to a mutual respect. Unfortunately, that represents the minority of Wyoming’s leaders and does not equal legal protections or affirmation of rights.

That’s why, this Pride Month, legislators and leaders should work toward leveling the playing field for those who identify as LGBTQ+ by passing legislation that makes it illegal to discriminate against sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, education, adoption, and even insurance. Further, state law must grant the same permissions to same-sex couples as straight couples.

As many celebrate Pride Month and the LGBTQ+ people in our lives, let us not forget the work we still must complete.
Telling the tale of Pride in September, not June 🏳️‍🌈
Tags: Section 377, Pride, Queer, Inclusive Design, LGBTQ

The Pride flag or the rainbow did not come around for another decade. Today, the flag is central to the movement.

The Museum of Modern Art ranks the flag as an internationally recognised symbol, and as crucial as the one for recycling.

The rainbow symbolises the LGBTQIA+ social movements over the years and celebrates the spectrum of sexualities and orientation.

The plus sign at the left end is there to signify how there are no bounds to Pride’s inclusiveness. The sanctuary of Pride encompasses happiness, trust, comfort and celebration.

As we move along, we must pause and recognise that this is not just a story of triumph, joy and celebration.

Pride tells us a story of struggle, shame, disgust, fear and anger. And we must tell that side of the story as ornamentally as we do with the other.

We might have an impression that LGBTQIA+ communities are flourishing across the globe. But studies have established that this growth has remained stagnated to the Global North, i.e. countries in North America and Western Europe. In the rest of the world, the community either has no, or limited rights, and it remains a criminal offence with a possible capital punishment in numerous other countries.

In India, folks from the queer community face domestic violence, the pressure to ‘convert’ and get lynched even after the landmark Section 377 judgement. The controversial Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, takes away a trans person’s right to self-identification and leaves them at the mercy of the state. The act was passed in spite of the multiple protests by the Trans community in India.

Despite high levels of acceptance in the United States, hate crimes against the community have only increased in the recent years. This trend is on the rise in other countries of the world as well. Human Rights Watch recorded 2020 as one of the most fatal years for the transgender community.

These facts are essential. Because it is easy to feign indifference to some history but the reminder that it is also the reality of our times is bound to leave a bitter taste in our mouths.

What we do with this, is our choice. Should we bury it, or do we recognise that Pride is an everyday battle?
Prideful Reflections
By: John Board Ct
Tags: Connecticut, Pride, New Britain, LGBTQ, Memories

It’s been an honor for the last 1500 days to lead New Britain’s LGBTQ+ outreach, as chair of New Britain Pride. We had tough discussions, marched in parades, raised the flag, contributed to changing policy, and collaborated with business and labor. Below you’ll see some of the memories we’ve created from day one to now. Today, I am able to step aside and hold my head high knowing the work we’ve done together has changed and improved lives.

Thank you Mayor Stewart for taking that call 4 years ago outside Stonewall and giving the go head to start this group! Thank you to our countless local partners for your time and support. To our state and federal delegation you’ve given so much time to us - each of you know how much I appreciate you taking the time to show up to our events!

Lastly, to my fellow members of the LGBTQ+ family, I’m still going to speak out and contribute to discussions within our community — I’m going to continue to do what is right- not what is easy. I’m going to challenge our paradigm and push us to expand our horizons. I’m going to stand up for principles. We are not a monolithic community, we are a community that has a variety of viewpoints and sub-groups/cultures and we have to respect our past, to build on their legacy.

This opportunity has been one of professional and personal growth. In the words of Torah — Lech Lecha — it is time for me to go forth and be a blessing.
3.29 — weeknotes — the importance of Pride — where did August go?
By: Mark Lumley
Tags: Digital, Pride, Hounslow

Well this is an improvement, fortnight notes! I am on leave next week so didn’t want to peak too soon with getting back to weeknotes, but the plan is certainly to get back to normal in a couple of weeks. Although I have liked some of the flexibility on the dates and not rushing to get something out each week. Will see where we get to.

August has flown past, I know I have had a couple of weeks of annual leave but it really has been a quite hectic month. Usually August is a time for playing catch up, but this year with the amount of work that we have going on across the council there hasn’t been any time for catching up and we continue to move forward at pace.

The council continues with its recovery plan as well as the transformation programme. There continues to be a range of digital projects and programmes in flight that are progressing well and starting to make some real inroads into the change that the organisation is aiming to achieve.

The council is also progressing with our world of work programme, and I have started to go into the office one day a week. We have also started to relax some of the restrictions that were still in place in the building to make the space work for us now. There are some amazing opportunities to be a very different organisation to provide even better services for our communities as we continue to be rooted in Hounslow. I certainly haven’t missed the hour and a half each way on a train though!

The situation in Afghanistan has meant that the council again goes into response mode with the refugees. Managing that together with the pandemic and as usual, Local Government at its finest to deliver what is needed.
How Minimalism Is Rooted in Fascism
By: Ronke Babajide
Tags: Design, Minimalism, UX, History, Fascism

Adolf Loos

Adolf Loos, a fellow Austrian, laid the foundations for the minimalist movement in architecture and design in the early 1900s and became one of its influential pioneers. He influenced the Bauhaus movement, pissed of Emperor Franz Josef, and is rightfully considered one of the godfathers of minimalism.

His designs and architecture are beautiful, no doubt. But, I have issues with the mindset behind it.

“The development of culture is concurrent with the removal of ornaments from objects of daily use.”

See how he links possessing “culture” with abandoning ornaments? If you look at the colorful, ornamental cultures of the Dual Monarchy he was born in, you’ll get the first indication of why this might be problematic.

Photo from Wiki Commons free license by CC BY-SA 3.0

In his 1910 essay “Ornament and Crime,” he introduces the “immorality” of ornament, describing it as “degenerate.” He describes the peasants in the countryside as pagans because they love ornamental articles and clothing.

He uses their tattoos to claim that the Papuans haven’t evolved to modern man's moral and civilized standards. He even compares their evolutionary state to 2-year old “Teutonic” children!

the Papuan has not evolved to the moral and civilized circumstances of modern man, who, should he tattoo himself, would either be considered a criminal or a degenerate … Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.

Sorry, Adolf, that’s f*cked. As a card-carrying member of the tattooed tribe, I take personal offense.

My first Austrian boyfriend freaked out and threw a hissy fit when I contemplated getting a tattoo. He told me exactly this: only criminals have tattoos. I didn’t understand how he got to that conclusion, but there you have it, good Austrian conditioning surfacing in modern bias.
“When we judge this President’s character objectively, here are all the things he is.
By: Sally Pina
Tags: Culture, Trump, 2020 Presidential Race, Politics, Fascism

“When we judge this President’s character objectively, here are all the things he is. Prepare yourself — it’s a long, long list. A liar, a racist, a bigot, a sexist, an authoritarian, a fascist, a kleptocrat, an autocrat. He’s a coward, a bully, a sycophant, a moral weakling, an ignoramus, an unbelievably vain and greedy cretin. And a traitor.”

I’ve said often that there are not enough adjectives in any language on the planet to adequately describe the wannabe fascist is the White House. I have a much, much longer list than you laid out, but includes words I shouldn’t print here (I’m sure most of you know just what I’m saying). I started with every letter of the alphabet to come up with words to portray what a sorry excuse of a human being he is and then went back and started all over again.

The problem was as I did this, I got madder and madder and madder that our country has come to the point that people would actually put such an empty and dangerous suit in the White House, even though all the flashing lights were there to see for people who had their eyes open. The bullying, telling people at rallies to beat protesters up and he’d pay their legal bills (yeah right, like he pays his legal bills!), the condemnation of the free press (that alone should have shown everyone his true colors), the degradation of immigrants calling them rapists, murderers, drug smugglers, and terrorists — the list is as long as the list of words to describe him. And yet, that all seemed OK with a large swath of America. They were willing to run right through all those flashing lights when it was crystal clear that he didn’t give a damn about anyone except himself. WTF? It’s difficult to understand just why so many people couldn’t see that he knew exactly what he was doing and that his plan was always to do EXACTLY WHAT HE’S DONE AS POTUS — be the fascist he’s always wanted to be.

It’s incredibly scary to think of what the future will bring if that fascist is not run out town in the 2020 elections. And if he isn’t, then bye bye democracy and hello fascism in full color HD, no holds barred.

Thanks Umair. You are so right — America normalized being a terrible person. You see it everyday, everywhere you go, everything you see. I beat my head against the wall trying to get people to wake up, but everything is so polarized and dysfunctional that it becomes an excercise in futility. Almost. Because I will never give up as long as that fascist is in office.
Actually. History says it never works.
By: Chris M
Tags: Totalitarianism, Fascism

Actually. History says it never works. I am still to find a totalitarian country that done better than a progressive one based on inclusiveness.

Totalitarian regimes light gain power, and maintain it, but they always end up poorer and less advanced, and weaker.

Some people are sad fascists and totalitarian countries didn’t win the Second World War. Well they could if they had been inclusive and progressive. Then again, they wouldn’t have been fascists and totalitarian then.

Russia was temporarily successful, but that because it was at least inclusive. Women, Jews, Muslims (10 percent of its population) were not discarded as subspecies. Russia did relatively well because women had equal opportunities.

But, we should keep in mind that Russia would be the country with the highest living standards, way above Canada or the Scandinavian countries if it had their government model and a balanced distribution of power.

Like one can’t have the 50s standard of living without the high taxation, one can’t have a successful society without liberty and equality for all its citizens.
Spherical Coordinate System
By: Abhilash Nandy
Tags: Physics, 3d, Coordinate Systems, Spherical, Dimensions

This article is a very basic primer on the notion of Spherical Coordinate System, and how it is linked to the Cartesian Coordinate System

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

Suppose you are staring at a clock (I used to do so in every History Class ��). When it's 3 o’clock, we say that the hands of the clock are a right angle apart, and the same goes with 9 o’clock. We do not measure the distance between the tips of the hands, as doing that would be just plain absurd 😆. Similarly, in many other instances involving circles and spheres, measuring angles is a very intuitive way of quantifying relative position.

In order to assign the position of a point in space, coordinate systems were introduced. The world we live in 3-dimensional, so any point in space can be represented in terms of three independent quantities, the most intuitive (generally) being height, width, and depth. This notion is the root of the Cartesian Coordinate System. Here, an origin is considered, relative to which the position of all points in space would be measured, and three axes (usually denoted by X, Y, and Z)are defined, which are nothing but directed reference lines passing through the origin, which are at right angles to each other. Any point can be represented in the following way — imagine an insect (say the aesthetically beautiful ladybug 😍) is at the origin and can travel only parallel to the three axes (since we are imagining, anything can happen!). So, the set of distances it would travel parallel to each of the three axes (along with their directions considered) would define the three cartesian coordinates of the point.

However, as already stated in the example of the clock, spherical coordinates are more intuitive than cartesian coordinates in cases involving circular and spherical symmetries. Let’s view the three-dimensional world through the eyes of spherical coordinates!

Consider a sphere of radius r with a center O. Let us consider a point P on the sphere. The angle made by OP with the Z-axis is denoted by θ. Also, let the projection of OP on the XY Plane be OQ. The angle between OQ and the X-axis be φ. The set (r, θ, φ) uniquely identifies the point P and distinguishes it from any other point in the three-dimensional space. In other words, point P can be uniquely represented by the spherical coordinates (r, θ, φ).

Connecting Spherical and Cartesian Coordinate Systems

Now that we are familiar with the very basics of the cartesian and the Spherical Coordinate Systems, let us use some simple trigonometry to convert the representation of a point in one coordinate system to the other. The following figure shows the relationship between the two coordinate systems (X, Y, Z) and (r, θ, φ).
How to create 3D models with Object Capture
By: Taeeun Kim
Tags: 3d, 3d Modeling, WWDC, iOS, Swift

Required tools: iPhone with iOS 15, Mac Device

I will explain making a 3D object by taking a picture as simple as possible.

Let’s go!

Go to the link on your iPhone, hit the install profile, and upgrade to ios15 developer beta.

As it is a beta version, it is unstable, so make a decision after careful consideration. [iOS 15 Beta Profile: https://betaprofiles.com] Go to the link on your mac, hit the download button “Creating a Photogrammetry Command-Line App” and “Taking Pictures for 3D Object Capture”. Go into the “Taking Pictures for 3D Object Capture” folder and double-click “CaptureSample.xcodeproj” to run it (Important! You must run it with Xcode beta version, Xcode 13) First, click on the “CaptureSample” on the left sidebar and click on “Signing & Capabilities” to enter your account into the Team. Then, click on CaptureSample at the top middle, select your iPhone, and click the Run button at the top left.

5. Then, an app called CaptureSample will be installed on your iPhone, and through it, you can take 20–200 pictures of the object you want.

In order to get good results, there are conditions such as low light reflection and sufficient amount of light, but it is better to experience it yourself.

6. You can find your saved photos folder by going to the Files app and searching for “Captures”. Touch and hold the folder to send it to your Mac via AirDrop.

7. Go to the “downloaded CreatingAPhotogrammetryCommandLineApp” folder and double-click “HelloPhotogrammetry.xcodeproj” to run it (Important! You must run it with Xcode beta version, Xcode 13)

8. You only need to change two lines of code.

@Argument(help: "The local input file folder of images.") private var inputFolder: String // this line! @Argument(help: "Full path to the USDZ output file.") private var outputFilename: String // and this line!

9. You just need to write the folder path of the photo where the object is taken and the path of the folder where the result will be saved. Below I have added my sample path.

@Argument(help: "The local input file folder of images.") private var inputFolder: String = "/Users/id/Documents/Input/" @Argument(help: "Full path to the USDZ output file.") private var outputFilename: String = "/Users/id/Documents/Output/"

10. Then, if you click the Run button, the operation proceeds, and when it is finished, success is displayed in the lower right console window. Then, if you go to the output folder, you can see the usda file and obj file, and you can check the created 3D object.

11. Now enjoy with your 3D Object.

Feel free to ask questions!

Links to related Apple official documentation: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10076/
What Makes a Virtual Showroom Unique?
By: Silversea Media Group
Tags: Virtual Showroom, 3d, Virtual Tour, Retail

We’ve all been to more Zoom meetings over the last year than we ever thought possible. But the pandemic has accelerated the digital revolution — and the adaptation of virtual showrooms.

Unlike a physical showroom, a virtual showroom allows you to reach people all over the world without being tied to a specific location. Visitors can see the history of your brand and discover your products in 3D through any mobile device. Read on to find out what makes a virtual showroom unique!

An advanced and precise visualization

A virtual showroom uses 3D photorealistic renderings that highlight the peculiarities of the product. Every item in a virtual reality environment is up for scrutiny by the user and has to look perfect from every angle. You can closely examine any of the objects in a virtual space, just as you would in real life.

Interactive elements

The immersive virtual showroom technology allows you to interact with objects on screen, bringing down the boundaries between reality and the virtual world. Interactive elements, such as experimenting with products and realistic sound techniques help to immerse you even more into the surroundings and make the experience hyperreal. You can also add videos, images, website links, and other contextual labels to allow visitors to learn more about items in the scene.

Unlimited

For businesses, it’s an opportunity to go beyond the limits of time and space. Due to the unlimited virtual environment, you can infinitely extend the number of displayed products. One of the major advantages of this is that you don’t have to wait for physical samples to start selling your products. Instead, you get a quick overview of your product assortment and can easily share it.

Live chat function

Integrate with a live chat function to make sure you’re always available. This allows buyers to reach out if they have questions while they’re viewing your products.

Streamlined sales tool

Companies can use virtual showrooms to expand their reach and streamline the B2B sales process. Using a secure payment gateway, visitors can conveniently explore your products digitally and then make purchases directly on the same platform. You can also use real-time analytics to quickly see which products are selling more than others and which products might not make the cut.

Digital models

The use of digital models or avatars to show your products can help create a more engaging experience for customers. For example, if you have a clothing brand, dress your avatar in digital garments to better represent the fit and drape of the products.

With travel restrictions and social distancing measures still in full swing in many regions, virtual showrooms are the best way to keep your business moving forward. Learn more about Silversea Media Group’s virtual showroom solutions: https://silversea-media.com/virtual-showroom/
LingoBlaster
By: Sudeep Chengappa
Tags: SEO, YouTube, Video Marketing, Youtube Seo, Translation

LingoBlaster — I just came across this cloud based app that will rank videos in foreign languages. This app allows you to break the language barrier. LingoBlaster allows you to target and rank for the top 100 most popular foreign languages! This can triple your web traffic overnight!

Watch this video to find out more

Until now to rank your videos for multiple foreign languages, you had to create one new video for each language. You had to write the title and the description for that on your own or you had to hire a translator and after that upload each video to YouTube.

That process would take days… if not weeks… and it would be ultra expensive.

But don’t worry… what used to take weeks …will now take only seconds! And you don’t even have to upload new videos.

With only a few clicks LingoBlaster will be able to translate your videos in over 100 foreign languages and profit from this huge untapped market.

Your videos will start to rank for foreign keywords — and it is 100 times easier to rank for let’s say “Apple phone review” in German than in English… or in Bulgarian, Spanish, Portuguese, Cantonese, and all the other 100 languages featured!

Your video will stand out from your competitors because you will be the only one who will address to your viewers in their native languages… and because of that, your traffic will convert 10 times better!

With only 3 clicks you can translate all your videos and make them start ranking for foreign search-terms!

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LingoBlaster uses YouTube API and will give you an unfair advantage over all the other videos.

You will just be using a YouTube feature that is in YouTube API and anybody can use it. The thing is that, nobody does that… because manually to translate your video titles and descriptions in 100 foreign languages is ultra expensive and a lot of work!

With LingoBlaster everything is automated, and there are no costs! After you get access , you can translate as many videos as you want! This is 100% white hat technique

The potential of LingoBlaster is extremely powerful. It gives you the ability to literally manipulate YouTube results in search. The ability to rank videos in foreign languages is one the most powerful traffic generating methods.

You can make the commitment to use this powerful traffic method only for the ultimate good of your customers.

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What if we tell you: Becoming a successful YouTuber is NOT as HARD as you THINK?
Tags: YouTube, Content Creation, Video Marketing, Marketing, Content Marketing

What if we tell you: Becoming a successful YouTuber is NOT as HARD as you THINK? #GGWP Feb 20, 2020·3 min read

Who are your favourite YouTubers?

Have you ever wished to turn back the time to 10 years ago where Youtube is still not as popular as it is today?

Well, in the current youtube world, if you are capable of getting 600k subscribers, with viewerships per video on an average of 500k,

you can be guaranteed to receive an approximate amount of USD3,000 ~ USD4,000 monthly, from Youtube.

What’s more, if your favourite YouTubers are either Logan Paul (20m subscribers) or PewDiePie (84m subscribers), these folks had apparently started their channel 10 years back, with so much hard work and perseverance, that managed to lead them to where they are today. Brand ambassadors, celebrity, actor, or anything that is related to the entertainment industry, these guys have it best.

However, getting to this number is not an easy feat. It requires so much effort on video editing, video concept, actors, scripts, photography & video graphing skills, and so much more. Taking for an example, where we are selling our T-Shirt during this Valentine’s, there is so much video marketing consideration that needs to be done.

Lucky for you, if you have been aspiring to become a successful Youtuber / Vlogger, but is either busy working with your full-time job, or is lacking such skills as mentioned above, no worries, look for us and we can help you out!

Your videos will be as fanciful as the prestigious Youtubers, and is capable of attracting viewerships in no time!

Contact us NOW, and you shall see the light!
SOME ESSENTIAL SOCIAL MEDIA STATS THAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW
Tags: Social Media Marketing, Video Marketing, Content Marketing

SOME ESSENTIAL SOCIAL MEDIA STATS THAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW Hinnalee Jul 6·2 min read

A computerized showcasing organization should know about the web-based media details and know about the social media marketing clients. Like, the quantity of Social media clients at a specific time, how long they spent on a web-based media stage or the web overall, or the quantity of clients every day and every month. Here are a few highlights to investigate by a digital marketing agency sheffield:

The progressions in the quest solicitations of the clients for items, administrations, or data.

Socioeconomics of online crowds are logically changing each day.

The effect of eCommerce and how it is developing quick.

Versatile is a fundamental key for web-based media details, yet there are different things to take care of.

Following the measurements associated with web-based media details and how changing the measurements is fundamental for a computerized showcasing organization.

A media purchasing office comprehends that web-based media is an always advancing spot. Utilizing this online framework as advertising trap needs close perception and reality checking of the insights once in a while. Here are some fundamental parts of Social media that impact advanced showcasing.

The principal thing first we need to know is the amount of the total populace is progressively getting advanced with online stages:

READ MORE: How to Manage Multiple Social Media Accounts?

Total populace:

7.83 billion of individuals were recorded toward the start of the year 2021. Reports say that there is a development in this figure of almost 1% every year.

Mobiles:

66% of the all out populace utilizes cell phones at the current age, making 5.22 billion individuals. This number is quickly developing every day, with an expansion of 1.8% of interesting portable clients and a 0.9% increment in versatile associations. It makes 8.02 billion portable associations toward the start of 2021.

Web:

Since last year, there has been a flood of 7.3% of web clients, making 4.66 billion individuals utilizing the web toward the start of 2021. As of now, the worldwide web entrance has reached 59.5%.

Social media:

As of now, 4.2 billion digital marketing agency stafford clients are recorded around the world. This figure makes a 13% flood inside a year, making 490 million new Social media clients. It is in entirety 53% of the all out total populace.

The above details depict how tremendously web-based media is developing every year and give a sufficient justification a media purchasing organization to look further into the Social media details.
Vlipsy + The Angry Birds Movie 2
By: Paul Alex Gray
Tags: Videos, Video Marketing, Movies, Content Marketing, Digital Marketing

Making Micro Moments Shareable

Enemies become frenemies in The Angry Birds Movie 2, in theaters August 14. A hilarious all-star cast of new and returning talent are brought together as the flightless birds & scheming green pigs take their beef to the next level.

Vlipsy is proud to team up with Columbia Tri-Star / Sony Pictures to bring hilarious moments from the movie for fans to discover and share in their favorite chat and social apps. Vlips are GIFs with sound. They’re easy to find and share anywhere online, from Skype to Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp to Twitter or via vlipsy.com or our apps for iOS and Android.

Angry Birds Micro Moments on Vlipsy

We’ve created 20 vlips — micro moments of pure hilarity, fun and joy from the movie. These vlips are available now on the official Angry Birds Movie channel on Vlipsy. These conversational moments are short and shareable.

Fans can also find these micro moments in Vlipsy’s integrations, with the vlips being featured through the summer and also discoverable through tags. For example, if a user in one of Vlipsy’s integration partners searches for the term ‘shocked’ they can find the below vlip in our results. It’s an easy way for Sony Pictures / Columbia Tri-Star’s content to make its way into conversations at scale.

What’s your fave vlip from The Angry Birds Movie 2?

Make sure to see the film in theaters August 14
About Video Marketing
Tags: Video Marketing

Video marketing is a system, utilized in business, which presents and advance items, brands and administrations of an organization. It was demonstrated that utilizing recordings for business has numerous advantages, for example, making the organization and items well known, and along these lines expanding the deals.

The “video marketing” is not complex.

A strong marketing campaign incorporates video into the mix. Customer testimonials, videos from live events, how-to videos, explainer videos, corporate training videos, viral (entertainment) videos — the list goes on.

Video Marketing can be utilized for everything from structure client affinity, to advancing your image, administrations or items. Also, video marketing can fill in as a medium to display how-to’s, advance client tributes, live-stream occasions and convey viral (engaging) content.

Key Benefits of Video Marketing:

· Video is a Gold Mine for SEO

· Video Boosts Conversion Rates

· Video is Easily Accessible

· Video is Effective

· Video is Emotional

While advantageous and productive for the buyer, video showcasing furnishes advertisers with an appealing, adaptable, and incredibly shareable medium to contact their crowds. Actually, Diode Digital as of late discovered that online video is a 600% more compelling promoting instrument than print and post office based mail joined.
A mistake I see all the time with social media videos
By: Richard Eaton
Tags: Marketing Tips, Video Marketing, Marketing, Video Tips, Free

Welcome to 1 Minute Marketing Monday! This week’s tip is about social media videos and a mistake I see people making all the time.

So what’s the mistake? People looking at themselves on their smartphone screen, rather than looking at the camera lens when recording a video. Why is this such a mistake? To the viewer, it looks like you are looking over their shoulder rather than at them. Imagine how unsettling this would be if you were sat with them in person.

Here are a couple of screengrabs from a video I recorded to illustrate the point.

Firstly, here’s what it looks like when looking at the lens as you should do:

And then while looking at myself on the screen while recording:

Hopefully, that gets the point across and you found this tip to be useful :)

A lot of people do find it difficult not to look at themselves when recording a video, especially when they first start making them. So a simple little trick is to cover the screen so it’s impossible to do so! You can do this easily with a post-it note, a folded piece of paper, or a cloth (cleaning cloths for glasses are perfect).

Feel free to add your comments or questions over in the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/305509607053228/ where I’ll be adding an example of this with a video later today.

Thanks

Richard

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How to Write a Video Content Brief?
By: Volans Video Agency
Tags: Video Content Marketing, Videos, Videobrief, Video Marketing, Briefing

The only thing you need to pay attention to the agency briefing or preparing brief is to explain exactly what you want and need.

Before preparing the right video content, brief preparation guide is with you with Volans Video Agency.

Why Do You Need This Video?

Determine your video content needs clearly. Explain your aim to yourself and then to your agency. Your goal should be included in the brief.

Do not hesitate to give details, touch on specific topics. Be completely honest. The clearer the target audience you are trying to reach, the status of your brand, and the problem you are trying to solve by using video content, the more the point shot will be.

Who is The Target Audience?

You should have a clear stance on your target audience. Who will you watch your video on? Is it directly to consumers, to your employees or to your competitors?

Each video changes shape according to its target audience. The videos prepared for consumers or employees are different from each other. The audience you want to reach demographically will directly affect the visual and narrative language of the video.

And an indispensable detail; specify what your target audience will feel after watching your video, the message it will receive, or the sentence it will say to the person next to it.

What is Your Main Message?

You can determine the general lines and go to the main message of the video.

Keep your message as short and lean as possible. You must determine the right point where you want the team that will produce the video to focus on. Trying to say a lot with a single video often fails.

Once you have identified the main message, you can support it with a sub-message. These two related messages or ideas will be the starting point of your video during the production phase.

Which Platforms will You Use?

On which platforms you will publish your video, it is very important at the production stage. YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram… The dynamics of each platform work differently. The expectations and reflexes of the followers of each platform are different.

The production team will determine the equipment selection, video duration, design language or message type according to the platform on which your video will be published.
VSL Maker Review That Generates BOTH High Impact Video Scripts & Script-Based Videos By Simply Filling In The Blanks
By: Alexandra Davis
Tags: Video Marketing, Marketing, Movie Maker, Lead Generation, Vsl

VSL Maker Review That Generates BOTH High Impact Video Scripts & Script-Based Videos By Simply Filling In The Blanks

With VSL Maker people will be able to generate those scripts and script-based videos for lead capture, sales, affiliate reviews, explainers, webinar registration, case studies, keyword based SEO, and even video ads for every social platform.

What is VSL Maker?

VSL Maker Review: First to market solution which allows users to make both high impact video scripts and script-based videos by simply filling in the blanks and swiping done-for-you templates

People will be able to generate those scripts and script-based videos for lead capture, sales, affiliate reviews, explainers, webinar registration, case studies, keyword based SEO, and even video ads for every social platform.

With VSL maker every step that used to take days now just takes minutes.

It is the very first solution on our market which does all from start to finish.

In short it takes the user from nothing, not even a script all the way from script, to voice over, to fully ready to use video.

Users do not need a copywriter or copywriting skill or have any technical skill to have sales videos, explainer videos, affiliate “bridge video” or social ads videos done.

This is a First-To-Market complete solution like that from nothing to videos ready to sell products & services, and also advertising videos.

VSL Maker :Generates BOTH High Impact Video Scripts & Script-Based Videos

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VideoTours360 Overview in 2021 — How About Going on Virtual Travels?
Tags: Virtual Tour Software, 3d, Video Marketing, Virtual Tour, Virtual Reality

VideoTours360 Overview in 2021 — How About Going on Virtual Travels? VMN Sep 3·2 min read

I am going to write about VideoTours360 today.

Whether you want to give buyers the feeling of being in a new home, help guests start picturing their stay, or showcase the wonders of your venue to event planners and patrons — Video Tours 360 can help you do more business, faster.

What is VideoTours360 Ultimate Pro?

VideoTours360 Ultimate is a program that combines limitless power using futuristic AI Technology and creates virtual tours, Live Video calls, Ecommerce Portals, and highly interactive elements of everything in one software. (i.e. Turning your video tour into a live eCommerce store with a real-time video chat facility)

How to Use VideoTours360 Ultimate Pro?

You just need to upload a photo using your iPhone, Android, or 360 camera. (but you don’t need to have a 360 camera) Put your photo into VideoTours360 and create your own tour. Market since clients browse the tour or eCommerce store & Interact through Video chat.

Whether you use Mac or Windows user, you’ve got nothing to worry about. It can be accessed from any device and from any web browser safely and swiftly.

Features of VideoTours360

Drag, Drop & Customize Unlimited Hotspots With Ease — You can simply add and edit hotspots as you like. Select the size, color, icons of your choice & lots more!

Sell Your Products With The Inbuilt Ecommerce Engine — You can even sell your products with eCommerce, run an online 360° store tour and sell products directly to your audience. Simply connect your PayPal or Stripe account to receive payments in minutes.

Share Everywhere. Embed Anywhere — Embed your tours anywhere for maximum exposure: Sales page, blogging platforms, site builders, e-commerce stores, etc.

There are more features

The Fastest & Easiest Drag n Drop Video Tour Builder Seamless Integration With All The Popular Marketing Apps

Analytics & Retargeting — Google And Facebook Ads Pixels

Remove Its Logo & Branding — Create your own

Tour Experience Optimization Powered By Artificial Intelligence (A.I) & Machine Learning

3D virtual helps a firm to understand the market and what customers expect from new products which are quintessential to stay in the competition.

Make your business interactive and practical!

Go get VideoTours360 here
Is video marketing is the future of content marketing?
Tags: Content Marketing Blogs, Video Content Marketing, Marketing Trends 2021, Video Marketing, Sales And Marketing

There are many content creators out there who all are creative and talented in their own ways. But not all of them are able to connect with the audience and get their attention. So what could be the reason for that? Sometimes, it’s because of the unique content they produce or the different ways they interact with the audience.

But recently we are seeing that video content has more reach to the audience than a picture or a quote or an article. Video-sharing platforms like TikTok, Instagram reels, Facebook videos, etc are getting more popular these days compared to any other platform. Creators on these available platforms are getting more views and recognition than any other creators.

Video content is playing a big role in marketing these days. Massive industries are investing most of their money on video marketing rather than big banners on the streets now. They are approaching the influencers or public figures who have a certain following in their niche and get them to market their products or services through their videos.

Now comes the real question…Why video content is gaining more popularity and is this the future of content marketing?

Let's focus on our first question, which is “why video content is getting more popularity than any other type of content in marketing?”
VidMagnet Review: By Ugoo Carson
By: Cheryline Lawson
Tags: Vidmagnet Reviews, Video Marketing Tips, Vidmagnet, Video Marketing

VidMagnet is a brand new product by Ugoo Carson and there’s been lots of buzz around it as many internet marketers have been recommending it to their email lists. Most likely you have seen their promotions and came here in search of an unbiased VidMagnet review to see what it’s all about.

VidMagnet — My take on this product

As seen on their sales page and from their emails you can expect many things from this product. But, as usual with these forms of endorsements VidMagnet promises a lot gives you a ton of reasons why you should purchase it. We, on the other hand, always advocate doing your research and not rushing into it. Even if the owner/s will close the VidMagnet product there will be other alternatives, or better yet, a much better marketing product to follow like my #1 recommended source. So no worries, you will not miss the opportunity to make money with this one.

So when is the right time to buy VidMagnet, if ever?

First, you really should think about whether the VidMagnet product is something you can invest your money and time in. Remember that any investment is risky and you might lose your money. No matter what the announcement is promising you, at all times try to see through hype.

Finally, this page should serve as a VidMagnet review where users leave reviews after experiencing the product, or report a scam if it ever comes to it. If you have something to say in relation to this product or its creator/s in general feel free to place it below. That way we will be able to see at a glance what the majority of VidMagnet users think.

Conclusion

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100 WAYS TO LEAVE A LOVER by Jackson Wang | A Comprehensive Review!
By: Hafsa Riaz
Tags: Lyrics Of 100 Ways, Lyrics, Video Marketing, Lyrics Of All New Song, Review

100 WAYS TO LEAVE A LOVER by Jackson Wang | A Comprehensive Review! Hafsa Riaz Sep 1·5 min read

Music is something embedded in our hearts and souls. Especially from the ones, we get hooked on! The same goes for Jackson Wang, the top-notch Songwriter, and singer from GOT7, and a businessman for music too. I became a diehard fan of his music from the very first song PAPILLION, which he sang back in 2017.

Jackson Wang, the most renowned singer and member of the Korean music industry brought this unique concept of artistic and aesthetic feel into the Music and video industry.

Familiarising the industry with the Luscious and alluring style of Describing a Romantic Historic concept in Music words and embedding the artistic feel in Videos.

100 Ways; An extremely artistic style choice from the director and team working with Jackson, and it definitely paid off. I was not expecting such simplicity and elegance combining to produce such powerful imagery that complements Jackson’s stage

Let me give my Personalized Review On this elite Music Video.

The lyrics of this song are so precious that even a rock could melt from such mushy words. Then comes the Video, No I should say: THe whole historic drama in such a short clip. It is so soothing.

As the lyrics go like: