Score A (Latest 2022/2023).
youtube stats - ✔✔✔✔-- first video aired on 4/23/05
- over 1 billion unique visitors/month, 6 billion hours of videos/month
- 25% of views come from mobile devices
- second largest search engine behind google
- 17% of all internet traffic
- 56% of vides are <2minsans-most common videos - ✔✔✔✔-- explainers
- product demos
- how-tos
- testimonialsans-video stats - ✔✔✔✔->4/5 twitter users watch video content
on twitter
10billion videos/day are watched on snapchat
500million people/day watch videos on facebook
85% of videos watched on facebook are watched without soundans-video
views - ✔✔✔✔-a video is considered a view on facebook if it runs for at least 3
secondsans-impact on video on email - ✔✔✔✔-including video in email
,increase consumer engagement and has an overall positive impact on the
channel
the word "video" in email subject line
- increases open rates by ~20%
- increases ctrs by ~65%
- reduces unsubscribes by 26%
a video included in the email increases ctr by 200-300%ans-impact of video
on websites - ✔✔✔✔-video has a roughly 100% increase in conversion
ratesans-online video stats - ✔✔✔✔-- online videos will account for 80% of all
consumer web traffic by 2020
- flags: users can flag videos with the report featureans-video on facebook -
✔✔✔✔-- 8 billion daily video views on facebook
- 85% of users watch the videos with the sound off
- videos are in the highest engagement rate despite making up only 3% of
contentans-facebook video best practices - ✔✔✔✔-- set the user's
expectation: provide a brief explanation of the video
- keep the video short: preferably 60 seconds or less
- hyper optimize the first 4-5 seconds: consider ways to capture their
curiosity
, - select your thumbnail wisely: select an image that is intriguing and entices
the user to press the play button
- include ctas: encourage deeper engagement when that's the goal.ans-video
on other social media sites - ✔✔✔✔-- consider platform
capabilities/constraints:
o length
o sound
o aspect ration
o optimize (keywords & hashtags)
o ctas
- contemplate user behaviors on the platformans-measurement & reporting -
✔✔✔✔-- watch time
- views
- average view duration
- likes and dislikes
- comments
- shares
- videos in playlists
- subscribers
- audience retention
- demographics (age, gender, and geography)
- traffic sources
- playback locationsans-media types - ✔✔✔✔-- paid media: this is media where
we have to pay for it. we can think about this as advertising.