37 Staggering Video Marketing Statistics for 2018

An amazing article by Mary Lister of Word Stream: Here is a link to the original article

Video Marketing Volume Statistics

· 82% of Twitter users watch video content on Twitter

· YouTube has over a billion users, almost one-third of total internet users.

· 45% of people watch more than an hour of Facebook or YouTube videos a week.

· More than 500 million hours of videos are watched on YouTube each day.

· More video content is uploaded in 30 days than the major U.S. television networks have created in 30 years.

· 87% of online marketers use video content.

· 72 Hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every 60 seconds.

· One-third of online activity is spent watching video.

· Saudi Arabia is the country with the highest daily online video access, with 98 percent of online video penetration among the population (via statista).

· 85% of the US internet audience watches videos online.

· Every second, a million minutes (17,000 hours) of video content will cross global IP networks by 2021, according to Cisco (via Forbes).

· The 25-34 (millennial) age group watches the most online videos and men spend 40% more time watching videos on the internet than women.

· Over 500 million (half a BILLION) people are watching video on Facebook every day (via Forbes).

Mobile Video Marketing Statistics

· Over half of video content is viewed on mobile.

· 92 percent of mobile video viewers share videos with others.

· 90% of Twitter video views happen on a mobile device.

· Periscope users have created more than 200 million broadcasts.

· 10 million videos are watched on Snapchat per day.

Video Marketing Engagement Statistics

· 51% of marketing professionals worldwide name video as the type of content with the best ROI.

· Marketers who use video grow revenue 49% faster than non-video users.

Sixty-four percent of consumers make a purchase after watching branded social videos (via tubularinsights).

· 59% of executives agree that if both text and video are available on the same topic, they are more likely to choose video.

· Social video generates 1200% more shares than text and images combined.

Views on branded video content have increased 258% on Facebook and 99% on YouTube as of June 2017 (via tubularinsights).

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· Video drives a 157% increase in organic traffic from SERPs.

· Videos up to 2 minutes long get the most engagement.

· 85% of Facebook videos are watched without sound.

· Video on a landing page can increase conversions by 80% or more.

· Native videos on Facebook have 10 times higher reach compared to YouTube links.

(Sprout Social’s Video Engagement)

· The average CVR for websites using video is 4.8%, compared to 2.9% for those that don’t use video.

· Having a video on a landing page makes it 53% more likely to show up on page 1 of the SERP.

· 46% of users act after viewing an ad.

· An initial email with a video receives an increase click-through rate by 96%.

· Cisco states that Live internet video will account for 13 percent of the total video traffic in 2018 (via Forbes).

· Video attracts two to three times as many monthly visitors.

· Blog posts incorporating video attract 3x as many inbound links as blog posts without video.

· Combining video with full-page ads boosts engagement by 22 percent.

Fun Video Marketing Facts

· Viewers retain 95% of a message when they watch it in a video compared to 10% when reading it in text.

· Internet video traffic made up 69% of all global consumer Internet traffic in 2017.

· By 2019, internet video traffic will account for 80% of all consumer Internet traffic.

· The average user spends 88% more time on a website with video.