Even today, some businesses aren’t sold on the idea of branded video content. So perhaps these cynics might be persuaded by a simple list of facts and data about the power that video has in the digital marketing space—as well as video’s effect on a company’s bottom line.

Here are several statistics that might turn video doubters into believers.

The Power of Video

• Online video is consumed thoroughly by 55% of people—more than any other type of content. And 37% of viewers will watch a typical video all the way to the end.
• When people watch a video, they tend to retain 95% of its message. That compares to just 10% of the message retained by reading text.
• Eighty-five percent of the American internet audience watches online videos. In fact, about a third of all internet activity worldwide is spent viewing video content.

Facebook Video

• Facebook is the most impactful social media channel for video. In fact, it has at least 8.4 times the impact of any other social channel in cyberspace.
• Every day, people watch over 100 million hours of videos on Facebook. That amount of time is spread out over eight billion different videos.
• Eighty-five percent of all Facebook videos are viewed with no audio.
• The average video on Facebook garners 135% more organic reach than the typical photo on Facebook.

YouTube Videos

• More than half a billion hours of videos are viewed on YouTube every day. And every minute, another 72 hours of video content is uploaded to the YouTube platform.
• YouTube boasts about a billion users—or about 1/3 of the people who use the entire internet.
• During prime-time hours, YouTube reaches more adults on mobile platforms than any cable network reaches on television.

Video for Brand Marketing

• In 2016, three out of every five marketers incorporated video content into their social media marketing. That’s good—because 43% of people say they want to see more marketer-produced videos in the future.
• Seventy-three percent of marketers plan to increase their use of video in the near future. And 83% of them say they would produce more video content if they weren’t constrained by time, budget, or resources.
• Fifty-one percent of marketing professionals point to video as their content type of choice for achieving the highest return on investment.
• Seventy-three percent of B2B marketers report that video has a positive impact on their ROI.

Using Video Successfully

• Videos under two minutes in length tend to have the highest levels of engagement.
• In general, video tends to attract two to three times as many monthly visitors to a particular webpage as a standard one does.
• Despite the ubiquitousness of mobile, about 86% of all business-related video content is viewed on a desktop browser.
• The most popular time period during the week for watching business videos is on Wednesday between 10 am and 2 pm Eastern time.
• When a company incorporates video in its online marketing, it typically sees a clickthrough rate that is 27% higher and a web conversion rate that is 34% higher than a company that doesn’t use video.
• When a landing page contains a video, its conversion rate is more than 80% higher than a similar landing page with no video. Also, that page with a video is 53% more likely to appear on the first page of search engine rankings.

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