Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

Social video: it’s kind of a big deal. People watch more than 100 million hours of video on Facebook every single day, and YouTube reaches more viewers in the coveted 18- to 49-year-old demographic than any cable network in the United States. Snapchat has been reported to have 10 billion video views every day.

While those are already big numbers, the volume of social videos out there is still increasing. Tweets with videos increased more than 50 percent in the first half of 2016, and Cisco predicts that nearly 1 million minutes of video content will cross global IP networks every second by 2020. If you’re not incorporating social video into your online strategy, you’re going to be left behind.

But with so many videos popping up in social media feeds, it takes some planning to ensure your video content isn’t lost in the noise. We’ll start by looking at some general principles for social video, then dig a little deeper into the specific optimization strategies that work best for each network....

When it comes to marketing strategy, videos are powerful. How powerful? On Facebook, for example, videos are shared 12 times more than non-video posts. And let’s not forget YouTube, the second largest search engine in the world (after Google, of course). The ability of videos to increase user engagement is unsurpassed.

According to YouTube’s statistics page, they get over 800 million unique visitors each month, users view more than 4 billion hours of video each month and upload 72 hours of video every minute. That’s a lot of potential for your video....

What you have on your landing page can either make you or break you. Landing pages that work must be engaging, interesting and should capture the attention of visitors right away. Having a great landing page will ensure that more people take action making it possible for you to meet your company’s goals. Here is a look at why landing pages that work have video.

Creating videos in hopes of going viral is a popular marketing strategy used today.

Every business wants their content to land in front of a large audience in hopes of boosting their visibility, traffic, and ultimately, sales.

But what most people fail to realize is that there are certain tactics to implement in a viral video to ensure it’s successful for your company. If you’re going to make a viral video, be sure you’re not making any of the following mistakes....

Video content reach is at an all-time high, but brands still don't generate more than 1,000 views. Where has all the creativity gone?

...With Americans clicking on and watching more videos than ever, brands must set their campaigns apart from the competition, which Pixability, a YouTube-certified marketing company, found is easier said than done. The agency noted that more than 50 percent of 200,000 business videos across 1,270 YouTube Channels have fewer than 1,000 views. Because the aggregate production value totals more than $4.3 billion, it’s clear companies aren’t seeing the content ROI they hoped for during production....