Understanding how to spend on YouTube
Jul 16, 2015
South Africa’s most popular social networks in 2014
93% of major brands use Facebook – platform experienced 25% user growth 58% of major brands use YouTube - platform experienced 53% user growth 79% of major brands use Twitter – platform experienced 20% user growth
Stats credit to: World Wide Worx and Fuseware
YouTube
SA brands using the platform
SA growth of the platform
§ YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, behind Google
§ 72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
§ The average internet user is exposed to an average of 32.2 videos in a single month
§ Currently, YouTube advertising is one of the most cost effective ways to drive quality traffic to your owned platforms
Stop thinking of online media as something that is free. You need to remember what your content is competing with. Grumpy cat, wrecking balls and even Julius Malema at times. So we need to get over this formula...
First step:
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§ TV consumption is not evenly spread across
the advertisers’ target audience – this can lead to an unequal distribution of campaign exposure and wasted views.
§ The Internet, especially online video, can help
to optimize campaign frequency distribution and allow brands to reach the ‘low TV viewers’ Low TV
viewers Medium TV viewers
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Average TV viewing -me per day
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OTS OTS ‘wastage’
§ The recommended shift varies by the size of the TV campaign and the demographic target audience, but on average, a budget shift of 12% from TV media to YouTube media optimises net reach
§ Net reach is optimised by re-allocating budget of ‘wasted’ Opportunities To See (()TS) to the lower percentage of ‘Not exposed’ and ‘Low TV viewers’
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The larger the TV campaign, the larger the wastage & therefore the recommended shift from TV to YouTube
YouTube marketing offers you:
Better targeting
You can target people already watching similar content. You can even
narrow that down by gender and age.
The option to remarket
YouTube allows brands to take video marketing one step further buy adding
remarketing to your media plan.
Easier customer acquisition
Video marketing gives you more room to connect with customers, so when people do click – they are generally more likely
to convert.
REMARKABLE content
The ideal YouTube recipe is still:
Seeded to the RIGHT audience
Achieving RELEVANT actions