Does your business have a YouTube channel? If not, here’s a few good reasons why you should!
Over 77% of the population use YouTube every week – so whether you know it or not, you’re probably a regular user of the platform too!
YouTube was established in 2005 and has grown from strength to strength over the years – much helped, of course, by the explosion of video as a content marketing strategy. It is now the world’s second largest search engine (after Google) and the second most visited site after Facebook.
The average YouTube user spends an unbelievable 21 minutes per browsing session – compare this to Facebook at 11 minutes, Instagram at 6 and eBay at 6! (Similarweb.com 2019).
In fact, over one billion hours of videos are now watched on YouTube every day with 1.9 billion monthly active logged-in users. Of those 75% report watching YouTube on their mobile devices (Hubspot 2019) – a fact that should be kept in mind when designing YouTube content and adverts.
Useless Fact
The most watched video on YouTube is Despacito by Luis Fonsi. Gangnam Style was the first you-tube video to be watched over a billion times. It took five months to hit 1 billion views – in comparison to Despacito which took just over 97 days!
Moving swiftly on…
YouTube ads can be In-Stream, In-Search and In-Display and research has found that they are 84% more likely to hold attention than TV ads. After all, who watches live TV anymore!
YouTube ads can be especially good for building brand awareness, influencing behaviour and driving customers to your website…and who doesn’t want more customers, right?!
Of course, I can’t write a blog on YouTube without mentioning the important fact that it’s owned by Google and rates very highly in terms of SEO and SERP. Couple that with the fact that video gets up to 60% more interaction than images online and it makes Youtube a no brainer for any digital marketing strategy!
I bet you’ve been singing this in your head since I mentioned it, right? Here you go…
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