Facebook Isn’t Only for “Social” Networking
Mar 31, 2011 Promoting Your Band With Video
Facebook is considered a “social” network, but it’s also a great place to promote your music career.
If you are reading this, you already have a profile on Facebook, and you likely have a page for yourself as a musician or for your band.
That means you know how important it is to promote yourself as a musician on social networking sites like Facebook, but are you using it to the fullest potential to promote your music career?
Using video on Facebook AMP~lifies fan excitement, drives traffic to your website, sells your music, and fills seats at your gigs.
Check out these recent statistics gleaned from www.strangelove.com/blog regarding video viewing on Faceook. Isn’t it time you caught the attention of millions of Facebook video viewers?
Facebook: 141 million unique visitors in the U.S in June, 14 July 2010
“Year-over-year, Facebook’s traffic has nearly doubled, from 77 million unique U.S. visitors in June 2009 to 141 million unique visitors in the U.S in June 2010.” — Mashable
Video on Facebook Grows 300%, 7 June 2010
“Clips generated by Facebook users were watched by 41 million people in April, more than three times as many as a year earlier, when there were 13 million. YouTube grew 25 percent to 135 million unique viewers over the same period, says Reston, Virginia-based data researcher ComScore Inc.
Facebook 5th Largest Provider of Videos, 9 June 2010
“Facebook is now the 5th largest provider of videos. They had over 41 million unique video views in the month of April 2010—that’s more than CBS, Microsoft, Hulu, Viacom, or Turner (the rest of the top 10).
Facebook is the number 2 referrer of traffic to YouTube, accounting for more than 16% of YouTube’s views. Just to put that in perspective: Google is the number 1 referrer to YouTube, sending the video portal 18% of the overall traffic. And it drops off considerably after that, with MySpace taking the third spot by accounting for a measly 4% of YouTube referrals.” — Jeremey Scott, ReelSEO
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Are They Watching Your Movie on the Internet?
Mar 31, 2011 Promoting Your Band With Video
You know the importance of promoting yourself as a musician, but do you use online movies to amp~lify fan excitement, drive traffic to your website, sell your music, and fill seats at your gigs?
If not, check out these recent statistics gleaned from www.strangelove.com/blog regarding online video viewing.
Isn’t it time you caught the attention of millions of online video viewers?
May 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings, 25 June 2010
“Nearly 183 million viewers watched an average of 186 videos per viewer during the month of May. YouTube.com achieved record levels of viewing activity in May 2010, an all-time high 144.1 million viewers watched 14.6 billion videos on YouTube.com (101.2 videos per viewer) representing 43.1 percent of all videos viewed online, and surpassing the threshold of 100 videos per viewer for the first time.” — comScore
Watching Online Video Growing 4x faster Than Watching TV, 11 June 2010
Between the first quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, watching video on the Internet grew 2.6% — over 400% faster than watching TV in the home, which grew a mere 0.6%. The duration of the average online video was 4.3 minutes.
In the same time frame, the total number of minutes watching online video in the first quarter of 2010 by age group is:
Ages 18-24…5:33 minutes
Ages 25-34…4:30 minutes
Ages 35-49…3:34 minutes
Ages 50-64…2:20 minutes
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