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!

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