Facebook Videos Transforming The Digital Marketing Landscape

Facebook Videos Transforming The Digital Marketing Landscape
I created the graphic to drive traffic to my marketing blog as part of a buzz-building assignment for a graduate degree.
Anthony Carranza
6/11/2015
Updated:
4/23/2016

It seemed that once upon a time YouTube videos could never be dethroned, but that all changed very recently. As it turns out the social network with the most users today, Facebook, since adding native Facebook videos the narrative has shifted away from Google’s video-streaming site.

Facebook´s advertising platform or system is proving to be successful since marketers and advertisers are going native on the social channel. According to a blog post by Social Media analytics and Publishing Company, Socialbakers, the data collected suggests marketers are spending more money per post into videos compared to other types of content.

The spending on Video Views is attributed to two factors: great reach and engagement. If you happen to be on a desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile phone you will a nice amount of videos on your Facebook News Feed. You will see that they have a high number of views, Likes, comments and shares. All the more reason companies or businesses want to utilize video on Facebook for a great return on investment (ROI).

Taken from a sampling of 3,800 accounts and over 770,000 ads.
Taken from a sampling of 3,800 accounts and over 770,000 ads.

Digital Media Journalist! Existing contributor for Examiner and Social Media Today with a track record for web news. A former freelance writer for CBS Local Minnesota. Writing and reporting on the latest social media happenings.
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