September 11, 2025 Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk’s killing reach the feeds of unwitting social media users with auto-play BY María José Gutierrez Chavez On the afternoon of September 10, shortly after right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in front of a crowd at Utah Valley University, videos of the Turning Point USA cofounder getting … Continue reading Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk’s killing reach the feeds of unwitting social media users with auto-play
In May, Pinterest began testing the ads that play automatically with the sound off and appear within people’s feeds and among search results. Tim Peterson on August 8, 2017 Pinterest is officially pressing play on its autoplay video ad business. A few months after it began testing autoplay video ads, Pinterest is opening up … Continue reading Pinterest opens up autoplay video ads to self-serve advertisers
Pinterest Ups Video, Adds Autoplay Function by Gavin O’Malley @mp_gavin, May 24, 2017 Following the lead of Facebook and other social rivals, Pinterest is adding an autoplay function to its Promoted Video offering. With autoplay video, platforms risk intruding on users’ highly personalized viewing experiences. Yet that can be avoided with the use of smart … Continue reading Pinterest Ups Video, Adds Autoplay Function
Amy Campbell — April 10, 2017 — April 10, 2017 What is Apple’s new video editing app all about? You may have heard chatter about Clips, Apple’s new editing app that allows you to create and design video content. It’s easy to make direct comparisons between Clip’s editing capabilities and those of Instagram and Snapchat. … Continue reading Clips, Captioning, and the Catastrophic Autoplay: An Update on Social Video
American Express, The Home Depot, Macy’s and Sony Pictures are among the first brands to test Pinterest’s autoplay video ads. Tim Peterson on November 15, 2016 A few months after introducing click-to-play video ads, Pinterest is catching up with the times — and competitors like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat — and testing … Continue reading Pinterest queues up autoplay video ads for new Explore tab
Andre OentoroSeptember 28, 2015 Videos are important aspect of your online marketing efforts. They can help explain your products, brand message and other aspects significantly better than text can. So when you place a video upon your website, you might be tempted to put the video on auto-play. While this is understandable, is it a … Continue reading The Pros And Cons Of Video Auto-Play For Websites
Denise McArthurSeptember 26, 2015 As video becomes a larger piece of the digital landscape, more and more content providers are faced with a dilemma: to autoplay or not? For those unfamiliar with autoplay, it’s a feature that will automatically begin streaming your video as soon as a user visits your website. This approach being in … Continue reading To Autoplay Or Not To Autoplay
