Johnson will assist Vidyard scale its video advertising platform as he did for Hootsuite’s social media platform.
KITCHENER, Ontario – March 24, 2016 –Vidyard, the video intelligence platform for enterprise, at present introduced the addition of Steve Johnson to function firm president and chief operations officer.
Johnson most lately held the function of chief income officer for Vancouver-based Hootsuite, the place he helped the corporate capitalize on the massive rise of social media for enterprise. Throughout Johnson’s tenure at Hootsuite, the corporate grew from a sub-$100 million valuation to over $1 billion and from 27 workers to greater than 800. He plans to assist Vidyard make comparable strides.
“I can hardly consider how a lot innovation is going on in advertising expertise nowadays,” Johnson stated. “Social media was the largest advertising development during the last 5 years, and now video is taking on that mantle. I’m excited to be on board to assist Vidyard proceed to dominate the video advertising world.”
5 years in the past, solely probably the most forward-looking firms had carried out social media packages. Many merely devoted an intern to handle the varied channels and push out content material. That developed into firms dedicating complete groups to social media, and each external-facing worker was anticipated to keep up a social media presence. Social media has develop into a crucial piece of almost each enterprise.
Video is in an identical state at present with probably the most progressive companies capitalizing on it. In response to a 2015 survey by Demand Metric, 74 p.c of promoting leaders say video converts higher than different types of content material, and Cisco predicts that 80 p.c of all Web site visitors will probably be dedicated to video by 2019. However even with the effectiveness of video rising, simply 14 p.c of firms leverage the complete functionality of superior video engagement analytics to prioritize and convert prospects into prospects, Demand Metric discovered. Video and social media additionally complement one another nicely. Social posts with video entice thrice extra inbound hyperlinks than these with out, in keeping with Advertising and marketing Sherpa.
In the meantime, Vidyard has tripled its year-over-year income for the final two years whereas rising its buyer base to incorporate world leaders together with Honeywell, Lenovo, LinkedIn, Cision, Citibank, Sharp and24 of the highest 100 world software program firms.
Johnson will probably be accountable for persevering with to scale Vidyard’s world gross sales and buyer success packages whereas serving to the corporate develop into new markets.
“Hiring an skilled skilled like Steve is a sign of issues to come back,” stated Vidyard CEO and co-founder Michael Litt. “We’re maturing our go-to-market mannequin, and together with his experience, we can present exemplary service to our prospects whereas persevering with to develop exponentially for years to come back. We’re the dominant participant on this huge untouched class. Our plans are to proceed main the business, aided by his expertise and affect.”
Along with his job at Vidyard, Johnson additionally serves on the advisory boards of Mobify, MarketLinc and Bench Accounting. Previous to his four-and-a-half years at Hootsuite, he was vice chairman for channel companions at Fixed Contact, vice chairman for companions at Blackbaud and vice chairman of gross sales at Voice Automation, along with a number of different gross sales and director roles at different firms going again to 1991.
About Vidyard
Vidyard (Twitter: @Vidyard) is the business’s main video advertising platform that helps entrepreneurs drive outcomes and ROI with on-line video content material. With Vidyard, prospects can add video to their web sites in minutes, get real-time analytics, syndicate video to social networks and YouTube, create calls to motion, optimize search engine hits, seize leads, and model their participant skins all from one place. Vidyard integrates with key advertising automation and CRM instruments to ship user-level video engagement knowledge, turning views into gross sales.
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