Square Video vs. Landscape Video - $1.5K Worth of Experiments: Here's How They Compare | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

In an effort to get to the bottom of what makes videos successful on social media, we set out to answer two not-so-simple questions: Where does video perform best? In what format does video perform best?


RWhat we found is that there are so many ways to go about it! Video format, length, content, captions, and graphics (to name a few) all play a big part in the success of your video content.


But one stat really stood out to us: Square video (1:1) takes up 78% more real estate in a person’smobile newsfeed than does landscape video (16:9).


That’s a lot of space! And with mobile content consumption on a dramatic rise, this felt like something we had to get to the bottom of....