Why you should consider video marketing

When we talk about content marketing, many of us think about the print word- long form content and articles that people read and share, or share without reading. Many forget that video is a form of content as well, delivering a higher impact because of its engaging nature that requires more than just your visual sense.

1 minute of video = 1.8 million words, according to Forrester Research, enough said.

The case for video

It really takes quite little to justify why businesses should include video as part of their marketing mix. Statistics from research and media agencies have shown the overwhelming success of videos :

• 100 million internet users watch online videos each day
• 64% of customers are likely to buy a product online after watching a video
• Mobile video traffic takes up more than 50% of total mobile data traffic by the end of 2014
• The number of hours people are watching on YouTube each month is up 50% year over year
• Videos are processed by the brain 60,000 times faster than text and creates a more emotive experience

Endless ways to use video in your marketing toolkit

So how can businesses use videos to amplify their audience reach? At the heart of all video is about telling a story – your story to be precise. And the style, voice and length of your video can greatly impact what you are trying to achieve.

Corporate Videos: Marketers love using videos to tell their brand story, and it’s not hard to see why. It is much more interesting to tell the history of your brand, what you stand for and what you are trying to achieve via a 3-minute video compared to 3 pages of text on your website.

There are in fact many styles and types of corporate videos you can explore and a myriad of ways to use them. For example, corporate videos can include recruitment videos that emphasise company culture, corporate social responsibility videos or “before-and-after” case studies. When done right, these can help clients to identify with and feel closer to the brand.

Corporate videos are great for filling time before presentations, creating brand awareness at corporate events, used for sponsorship, as well as creating brand awareness via social media. Optimise the money you’ve spent on a good quality video by re-using it on different channels.

Product Explainer: Using a video to explain your product is one of the best ways for your audience to learn or understand how to use your product and highlight its unique selling points. This is especially efficient for explaining intangible products – software, technology, complex financial products or how an online platform works. Compared to reading a user manual, videos help the viewer to retain a better memory of the product and is pretty efficient as a sale kit as well.