Wednesday, July 7, 2010

marketing videos and the video platform

marketing videos and the video platform


If you want to make successful marketing videos, your videos should be relevant to your products and services, and should help viewers to solve problems, or find innovative products that you sell, that will make their life easier.


Videos include visual stimulation, which conveys your message very well, and it does so even better than the best of copywriters can do it. Capture the viewer's interest in the first few moments, and you can give them more information about your products and services.


Videos actually don't take that long to make, if you're working with someone who knows what they're doing. You can also take a short time to learn to make them yourself. You can make a thirty second video with background music and proper transitions, using software that is made for this purpose. Marketing videos can actually take a shorter amount of time than crafting articles.


The biggest benefit of video marketing is making an impact on the people who see your video. Humans memorize sound and motion better than text, so even if the leads don't convert to sales right away, you shouldn't be discouraged. Your brand will still be playing somewhere in their heads, and they may get back to you.


Consumers are online more now than ever, on PC's, laptops and netbooks, and iPhones, iPads, etc. When you have a proper video platform in use, you can check to see what is being watched, and what potential customers are looking at.


The platform does its task by sorting out the online addresses for the various portals, and then separates views by categories like videos, channels and devices. Then your publishers or marketers will be able to obtain statistics for single views of the videos, or views of an entire library.


If you're not sure how much video content is actually being watched, the stats will tell you than in an average month, consumers in the United States watch over thirty billion video clips. Each clip averages 4.4 minutes in length.


A video platform generally is an outsourced application, used to upload, store, encode, publish, report and deliver the product to the appropriate website or network. Not long ago, these platforms were focused on revenue models supported by ads. But the revenue model is a difficult way to predict profitability.


The new types of platforms perform a task more like selling access to the videos, rather than selling the advertising spaced around the actual videos themselves. The access sold may be one view, an unlimited number of views within a given time period, or the actual downloading and ownership, that is similar to buying a DVD.


This model is different because the process of paying is built into the platform, and the publisher can conduct sales transactions and stream videos from the same platform. In this way, the experience is seamless for the publisher as well as the user. This is the main distinction between the traditional video platforms that were ad-supported, and the new video sales platforms. A video that has been published through a sales platform will be sold as a product, rather than being given away for free, along with advertising.  

 

Sean Allen  
Director of Social Media and Sales
Cell: 619 301 4533


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