Video Metrics- a great tool to use

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If you want to understand how people respond to your videos on Facebook, today you can use the new video metrics in Page Insights and Ads Reporting on Facebook.

Today, as a Page owner, you can only see how many people started watching your video. With the new metrics roll out over the coming weeks, you  can also see information like video views, unique video views, the average duration of the video view and audience retention. These new metrics are designed to help you learn what’s resonating with people and determine how to more effectively create and promote your videos on Facebook, which is a great news for us all.

But to help you understand how it works, we have prepared this guide for you on what to look after and how to interpret the data:

You can now see video views and the number of people that watched your video

You can now find both the total number of video views and the number of people who watched your video. A “video view” is defined as a view of three seconds or more and will appear for all videos, including those that come to life as people scroll through News Feed. You will also find renamed the “video plays” metric “clicks to play video.” These register after a person has clicked to play a video and it has started.

Understand your audience and learn what’s working

The audience retention graph in Page Insights shows the level of interest in different parts of your video. Spikes in the percentage of views at a certain point may indicate that people are re-watching particular moments, whereas a dip could show the precise moment when most people lost interest and stopped watching.

Page Insights View

These new metrics will also allow you to see the number of views that reached certain points in a video — 25%, 50%, 75%, 95% and 100%. This information can help you discover how your video is performing and help you determine where to place key messages.

Ads Reporting View

Using the “data breakdowns” feature in Ads Reporting, you can also learn how specific audiences responded to your video. For example, if females between 18 and 34 are a demographic you target in your campaign, the data breakdown will show the number of views you received from that demographic.

If all this information was useful for you, we invite you to use it wisely to speed up your online presence.

The business world is more and more prepared for businesses using video marketing strategies to grow as we can see from this  situation. If you are interested in having a collaboration with a professional video marketing company, please do not hesitate to contact us!

Michelle Phan – The road from a YouTube Star to $84 Million Startup Founder

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Michelle Phan is  the best example that you should not underestimate the YouTube power.

Makeup-tutorial starlet  shifted from having billion of views on Youtube and seven million followers to having her own L'Oreal line and lifestyle media network and a booming e-commerce beauty start-up called Ipsy. The next step for her was to release a  new book "Make up: Your Life Guide to Beauty, Style and Success - Online and Off"  which teaches people how to decorate their faces with more accuracy than any other sources.

The ferocious 27-year-old mogul had a modest start with her family  and now has a company with an $84 million annual sales run-rate. She has 700,000 subscribers who receive her Glam bags, which are little sacks of make up samples for $10 per month samples.Phan  gave an interview and  talked  about transforming YouTube stardom   into a real-world empire, which is a now a well- trodden path.

michelle phan book cover

Talking about her beginning, Phan began doing makeup tutorials. And people loved those makeup tutorials. Eyeliner technique turned into far more sophisticated lessons, like how to look like Lady Gaga in “Bad Romance.” “I showed people how they can transform their face,” she said. “[Lady Gaga] really helped put me on the map.”

Phan stated that in 2007, she was a waitress  and couldn’t even get a job at a beauty counter because she didn’t have sales experience. “YouTube was the biggest thing in the college community, and it just made so much sense for me to have a platform,” she said. “Instead of feeling down about it, I opened another door, and that door happened to be a laptop.”

Meanwhile, large makeup brands like Lancome were struggling to get hits with good viral makeup videos. In 2008, a Lancome executive Googled around and found a Phan tutorial in which she was cramped up on a plane, showing her fans how to do makeup on the plane. Lancome signed her as a spokesperson.

Phan says her shaky bedroom videos appealed to people more than big productions because they felt more authentic: “People need to understand that what makes YouTube so different is that you go on there because you want to connect with someone.”

When asked about the economics of YouTube, Phan said, “It’s like any medium — you have the subscription, but that’s not going to make all the money. You have to bring on sponsors, and you have to sell a product.”

And not every viral star has to have seven million followers — there’s a healthy YouTube middle class: “So many of my friends have 200,000 subscribers, and they make around five to six K a month,” she said. “Which is completely cool.”

“We’re living in an age where we should be collaborating. Because it’s the Internet now. It’s hard to say who owns what,” she said, looking out into the audience. “I believe in Team Internet, and I’m here to protect my fellow YouTubers. … I’m here to fight and stand my ground.”

The business world is more and more prepared for businesses using video marketing strategies to grow as we can see from this interview with Michelle. If you are interested in having a collaboration with a professional video marketing company, please do not hesitate to contact us!