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: Social Media Marketing
From a marketing standpoint, Twitter presents two enormous challenges: it’s difficult to stand out in users feeds, and the limited character count makes it difficult to get a full point across succinctly. Video can help tackle both of these challenges. Twitter video will automatically stand out in text-dominated feeds, and it simultaneously gives you a little more room to give customers information; even a few seconds of video can give you a lot more room than 120 characters. In this …
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 …
We already know that more people prefer to watch videos instead of reading text. But what about text in videos? How much text, if any, should be used? Though the emphasis is on the visual when it comes to videos, the text we use plays an important part, too. It can help provide context, and really drive your main point home. It’s effective- as long as it’s used correctly. In this post, we’re going to take a look at how …