[inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”” suffix=””]As much as 85 percent of video views happen ,on facebook, with the sound off,[/inlinetweet] according to multiple publishers. Take, for instance, feel-good site LittleThings, which is averaging 150 million monthly views on Facebook so far this year. Eighty-five percent of its viewership is occurring without users turning the sound on. Similarly, millennial news site Mic, which is also averaging 150 million monthly Facebook views, said 85 percent of its 30-second views are without sound. PopSugar said its silent video views range between 50 and 80 percent.
Category Archive: Online branding & marketing
Post Summary: The Internet has not only empowered consumersconsumers, it has made them more informed about current issues with brands and products. Brands that hide from the truth or ignore social media buzz are going to pay a huge price as consumers drop them like a bad habit. UPS might learn this the hard way as they “failed to anticipate the demand” for Christmas delivery leaving a lot of people without Christmas presents.
Post Summary: When developing a branded online experience too many marketers let the budget dictate the strategy which can lead to shortcuts and and a digital marketing strategy that fails to deliver against key brand objectives.
Post Summary: Despite spending high amounts of money and energy acquiring traffic, marketers are not following through by devoting significant funds to optimization strategies that can increase their returns. In fact, 81% of the more than 1,700 digital marketers surveyed reported spending 15% or less of their marketing budgets on optimization activities. And beyond this lack of investment, many are also not exploiting critical opportunities: 53% are not optimizing the relevance of their on-site search results, and 52% say that testing consumer engagement is not a priority at their organization.
A report from The Incyte Group on social media marketing that states “U.S. marketers spent $3.08 billion on Facebook brand pages and social media advertisements and the investment return has been dismal” . The fact is, despite their reach, open social networks have not proven to be the most effective customer-acquisition or revenue-generation channels, and most businesses are still seeking to quantify the business value of their investments.
It is abundantly clear that there is a massive “digital divide” between consumers engaging in real-time across channels, versus the digital marketing industry that is still largely siloed and not executing in real-time. It appears that this digital divide is due, in large part, to two key challenges observed in this research, namely: Overwhelming Complexity and Lack of Unified Measurement.
With big brands General Mills has traditionally targeted its marketing to the masses with hefty TV ad budgets and messages carefully crafted to resonate with as many people as possible. But recently, they have begun to think a lot smaller, using digital to go after what they call “micro markets.” They are leveraging the power of digital to make their marketing more efficient.