Why You Need Online Video

By Devon Molark


Consumers are spending more and more time consuming media on desktop and mobile devices, providing new opportunities for marketers to use highly engaging videos to connect with their audiences. Video ad campaigns are being launched more and more all the time because of the extra opportunities that internet and mobile video give to a company.

The consumer can be reached in a more personalized way using online video. When trying to connect with your potential customer, the use of video allows a company to get more specific than search, social site ads, or regular displays, to highlight the product and company ideals. ` These online videos can be specifically targeted to further strengthen a brand and engage people.

When someone sees an video on their mobile unit, they typically spend three times longer viewing it than they would at their home computer. With tablet ownership steadily increasing and mobile becoming the screen of choice for media consumption, the opportunities for engagement are only going to grow in the coming years.

Video is the next best thing to talking to your prospect one to one. It allows you to convey emotion and personality. Video will allow the customer to have a deeper experience and will have a greater understanding of the company. Having a video increases the chance that your target audience will find you, and your opportunity to speak to them will be more effective through the use of online video.

Why are web visitors so drawn to video? Video adds a dimension to the web that text and imagery alone cannot achieve. Music, narration, and movement provide a richer experience, which can more easily educate, entertain or inform your audience.

Online videos impact the time that people will spend on a website, and this is important because Google factors time spent on a page into their search ranking results. Over the last couple of years online videos have risen to the top of the ranks in Google's Universal Search. No matter whether you are a small business selling widgets or a multinational, online video is one of the most valuable and effective means of promoting your business.

At what point in a business plan should online videos be introduced?

When the consumers you are marketing toward need to be informed. Product features and demonstrations are most clearly shown using video presentations.

Customer testimonials lend themselves to the story-telling side of online video. They can come across more powerfully and be more attractive to a web visitor to view than a long article.

A proper demonstration is not possible without showing the product in action, and video is needed for that.

Seeing a video adds an exciting new element for your website's audience, and this is a great opportunity for your company to get your message across in the most effective way.

With an inexpensive camera and the free editing software that comes on your computer, anyone can make a video now when in the past, only large corporations could afford it.



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