For most social platforms, you have up to 5 seconds to capture a users’ interest before they click away. On some, you have as little as three seconds. And here’s the kicker: in many cases, you need to capture viewer interest without any sound. It’s not all that hard to create a strong video. It’s a lot harder to make viewers care in the same amount of time it takes to ask someone “how are you doing today?” It clearly …
Category: Facebook
If you’ve watched any videos on Facebook or Instagram lately, you may have noticed that underneath the video, it will tell you how many views the video got. Not only will the person or Page who posted the video be able to see this, everyone else will, too. The number of views your video received is now public knowledge. At a first glance, it’s easy to think “so what, does that really matter?” It does, in fact, matter quite a …
There’s a lot of choices that businesses have to face when taking over their marketing. They have to decide which social media profiles to choose, which web host to go with, and what you want your primary strategies to be. When it comes to video marketing, there’s another big decision that can often stump businesses and some marketers alike: native video or YouTube? Uploading your content with native videos and through YouTube each have their own unique benefits and potential …
Running a Facebook video ad is pretty simple thanks to the incredibly user-friendly and intuitive Facebook Ads Manager. It doesn’t take a lot of outside knowledge to run a campaign, or even to boost a video post. Interpreting your campaign results, however, is another story. It’s easy to run a Facebook video campaign, see a bunch of numbers, and go “well I guess that went ok” without really having any idea how well your campaign did—or didn’t—perform. Without the ability …
The last time you made a video for social media, did you keep mobile users in mind? For the majority of businesses, the answer to this question would be “no.” Social media is already mobile-optimized after all—why should your social video not automatically be optimized for mobile? As it turns out, there are several important creative considerations to keep in mind when you’re creating Facebook mobile videos. This goes for both video ad campaigns and Facebook mobile videos that will …