A Facebook exec recently predicted her platform would be "all video" in five years.
Her prediction should neither surprise nor disturb you in the least bit.
The social platforms like Facebook are becoming gargantuan public access TV stations. Think Wayne's World meets Warhol's World. Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes, because every schmo will have a show.
Face the fact: we are a nation of videots.
It's why we retweet videos more than text messages; why the appearance of the word “video” in an email's subject line boosts opens; why YouTube is the second most-used search engine; and why Facebook is going "all video."
Mindset, not media, determines what's expressed, as Aldous Huxley said 80 years ago. We like only what we can like; what we're psychologically capable of liking; what we're conditioned to like.
"The Zeitgeist is just professor Pavlov on a cosmic scale."
We like video.
That's why every marketer had better climb on the video bandwagon. And if you're not convinced, chew on these findings from Animato:
We like video.
That's why every marketer had better climb on the video bandwagon. And if you're not convinced, chew on these findings from Animato:
- 96% of customers find videos help purchase decisions
- 77% think companies that market with videos are more engaging
- 71% say those videos give them a positive impression of the company
- 58% consider companies that market with videos are more trustworthy
