How Corning broke the rules in online video - and won
Geoffrey Precourt Warc
When Corning, a company that makes glass, decided to experiment with marketing via online video, it seemed to break every rule:
- Shorter is generally seen as better. But Corning's online-video debut came in at five-and-a-half minutes.
- No one lets a corporate logo run on screen throughout the entire video. When Corning did exactly that (the logo sits in the upper right-hand corner throughout the video), the creative team at its agency was "horrified."
- Platforms like YouTube are seen as a strictly consumer play....