April 9, 2020
by Harpreet Munjal / April 9, 2020
Today, video content is driving the internet.
People like to watch videos more than reading articles on the internet. That’s why most social media platforms have turned into video-inclusive platforms. Facebook has surpassed YouTube in daily view minutes.
Not only Facebook, but all other social media platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and many others are also getting more engagement from their users on videos. And it is increasing day by day.
If you are a marketer or a business owner, you should be including videos in your content marketing efforts. If you don’t, you’ll miss your marketing effort's potential and business as well.
Video content consumption is increasing because people love to watch videos more than other content formats. To engage your future customers with your business, social media promotion is key. By creating video content, customers are able to both consumer your content and engage with your brand.
Video content can deeply connect users with your brand than text or any other format. If you're still not convinced, ask a social media user about the importance of videos, and take a look at these stats from SmartInsights and Oberlo:
Videos are one of the hottest digital marketing trends and provide better results. That’s why most brands are using videos to grow their businesses online. It’s not about a single niche; videos are performing well for all types and levels of businesses.
No matter the kind of business or its size, videos can still help you grow your brand online and help you create deep connections with your audience. These days, there are many platforms to promote your business with videos, so it might be hard to choose the right one for your needs.
Here are the seven best social media platforms that support video marketing and can help almost every business grow.
There are many platforms that you can use to promote your business, but here are the most popular social media platforms that can be helpful for any business, and ultimately help you with video marketing.
YouTube is the home of videos and the one of the most popular search engines. Many businesses have got good results with YouTube marketing. There are few ways to use YouTube to grow your business.
You can use YouTube organically (free) to grow your business presence on YouTube. For that, you need to create your YouTube channel and publish quality videos on that. You need to optimize your videos with proper title and tags, detailed video descriptions, and attractive thumbnails.
To get the full advantage of YouTube organic, your videos must be able to engage your audience so you can get maximum watch time, views, shares, comments, and likes on your videos. If it happens, the YouTube algorithm will automatically show your videos to other YouTube users through their home feed, auto-suggested, similar videos, and YouTube search.
If you're really lucky, you'll end up on the YouTube trending list. But it could take some time, especially for a new channel. And to ensure your content ranks, you need to be familiar with YouTube SEO techniques.
YouTube ads are the paid method to reach your targeted audience. YouTube offers different types of ads like trueview ads, in-stream ads, and pre-roll ads. There are different cost criteria for different ads on different basis like CPV (cost per view), CPA (cost per action), and CPI (cost per install). YouTube ads can help you get instant results and to grow your new channel.
YouTube influencers are one of the trending ways to get advantage of YouTube. Brands are using this method to generate buzz and drive sales for their products. To do this, you need to hire (collab) YouTube creators who have a decent subscriber base. Then, that creator will create videos about your business or products and grow your business and sales.
If you optimize your videos properly with YouTube SEO techniques, then you can get tons of free traffic for your business with the help of YouTube videos. Google shows YouTube videos on Google SERP for various queries. If you optimize your videos, you can easily get more traffic from Google search, too.
It's easier than ranking a website on Google. Another method is going live on YouTube to show something exclusive or for Q&A sessions. It will help you engage and grow your audience.
Snapchat was the first platform to capitalize short-videos and now it is one of the most popular social media platforms. Snapchat has more than 360 million active users. Around 38% of Snapchat users are not using Facebook and Instagram or, at least, are not active users of both sites.
Most of their users are teenagers (13+) who are actively using Snapchat and spending an average of 30 minutes per day on the site. Women (around 70%) are their top audience. Snapchat could be a good option for you to promote your business, especially if you are in fashion, health, cosmetics, travel, or automotive niches – and better yet, if women or youth comprise your targeted audience.
Snapchat has a huge potential and scope to grow your business. You can take advantage of Stories and ads to promote your business. On top of that, you can collaborate with influencers to boost your followers and results. Snapchat has less competition than other popular platforms like Facebook and has very active users. So you can get good results with Snapchat marketing if you work with a strategy.
Twitter is the second most popular social media platform that can help you spread your voice to the world and grow your business. Twitter has more than 400 million users.
Below are some insights to help you understand the power of Twitter marketing:
Twitter can be useful for any type of business or industry as it can be used for promotion, organic or paid. An optimized and complete profile, hashtags, images, and videos will all help you grow your following. You can upload videos to a tweet you post or as a reply to a tweet.
On top of this, Twitter is rolling out a new feature called Fleets, which is a stories feature, similar to that of Instagram and Facebook's offerings. Fleets is a new feature, so there are strong chances of higher organic reach you'll be able to garner.
Facebook is the most popular social media platform with more than two billion active users. Facebook videos get 32 billion views per day. So that makes it clear that you should include videos in your content marketing strategy and also should not ignore Facebook.
Facebook’s organic reach is almost dead. Even your followers or friends can’t find your posts. That makes it hard to spread your message to your audience on Facebook. But it could still be possible with Facebook videos. Facebook videos have more reach than images or text posts.
You can post or share videos on your home page, in your cover photo, and on any groups. Additionally, you can go live on Facebook to connect with your audience in real time.
Facebook Stories are also there to help you reach more people. You can use videos, images, and GIFs, as well as add your link to Facebook Stories to direct viewers to your website. Videos can help you get better results with Facebook ads. You will get more views and engagement with lower costs if you use videos for Facebook marketing.
Instagram is one of the most popular image-sharing social media platforms. But now it is far ahead than image sharing social sites. Now, Instagram is also a video sharing social media platform.
There are many ways to use videos on Instagram. You can use videos for Instagram feed posts, Stories, IG Live, and IGTV, which supports horizontal and vertical video formats. Longer videos mean more time to engage your audience and build more trust for your brand. Many brands use IGTV to boost their presence and engagement because it has higher organic reach than other IG post options.
LinkedIn is one of the biggest communities of professionals with more than 675 million active users. LinkedIn users are more engaged than other leading platforms like Facebook.
Check out these statistics about LinkedIn videos:
There are five ways to use videos on LinkedIn:
TikTok is the newest platform among popular social media platforms, which means marketers haven't fully realized its potential. But that could be a big mistake. You see, TikTok has more than 800 million active users, which means there are a lot of people who you can engage with on the platform.
Here are some other useful statistics about TikTok:
Here are some important tips that you must follow to get success with your social media video marketing efforts.
Before doing anything, you should plan a strategy for your social media marketing campaign. Plan everything like video types, number of videos, social media platforms, post schedule, and so on. Your strategy must be according to your goal that you want to achieve with this campaign.
If you want to get maximum results from your social media video marketing efforts, you need high-quality content to encourage users to watch the entire video content you put out into the world.
According to the nature of a video, use the right call-to-action for every video. For example, if you are publishing a product video then there should be clear calls to action like shop now, don’t miss this deal, register today, to visit your site and make a purchase. For each and every type of video, ask people to follow you on that platform. You can do cross-promotion.
If you are serious about the results then you need to be serious with this campaign. You need to be consistent to get results. Just publishing one video is not enough. If you have a shortage of time then you can use social media schedulers to schedule your posts. But you need to be consistent.
To find the right platforms for your campaign marketing, you need to try various platforms. Only one platform is not enough for you to get results. You can publish the same video on multiple platforms, which will ultimately help you choose the right platforms and reduce your marketing budget.
What's more, performing A/B testing for your campaigns will help you boost your performance and find you better results. It’s the right time to start using videos in your marketing campaigns. In the future, demand and consumption of video content will be continuously growing.
Track the success of your social campaigns through social media monitoring software. See statistics and find out which platforms work best for your needs!
Harpreet Munjal Is the founder of LoudGrowth, a digital marketing company helping businesses to grow their online presence and outrank their toughest competitors.
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