At the moment, 90 % Report that Video is Turning into a Extra Essential Content material Sort for Driving Enterprise Outcomes
KITCHENER, Ontario – November 2, 2017 – For the fourth 12 months in a row, Vidyard, the brand new era video platform for enterprise, has partnered with Demand Metric, the advertising and marketing analysis and advisory agency, to publish The 2017 State of Video Advertising and marketing report. Based mostly on analysis carried out with B2B advertising and marketing and gross sales groups throughout a variety of markets and firm sizes, this 12 months’s outcomes confirmed that the usage of video inside advertising and marketing groups is quickly accelerating with a big development within the variety of gross sales groups now additionally utilizing video:
Video Creation Stays Precedence as Utilization Quickly Will increase: Over 90 % of research individuals report that video is changing into extra necessary as a type of advertising and marketing content material, whereas 93 % report having some kind of video creation capabilities in-house to replicate these wants.
The Function of Video is Increasing from Advertising and marketing to Gross sales: 37 % of gross sales groups are actually utilizing video all through the gross sales cycle and 23 % are actually creating their very own video content material, each measures are up greater than 50% from the earlier 12 months.
Video is Turning into Extra Built-in with Enterprise Techniques: 45 % of entrepreneurs report integrating video knowledge inside their advertising and marketing automation or buyer relationship platforms, up greater than 30 % from the earlier 12 months.
Video Creation Stays Precedence as Utilization Quickly Will increase
For the fourth consecutive 12 months, over 90 % of research individuals report that video is changing into extra necessary as a type of advertising and marketing content material inside their companies. The proportion of individuals that report that video converts higher than different content material varieties have averaged 71 % over the 4 years of this research, with video remaining the favored content material kind. Essentially the most generally produced video continues to be Product movies, produced by 63 % of the organizations surveyed.
As companies proceed to create movies, budgets are following. This 12 months, 90 % of research individuals reported having the identical or a rising video funds. The utilization of video throughout web sites, social media, touchdown pages and gross sales conversations has elevated year-over-year, with the quantity of movies produced yearly rising to a median of 38 movies, up 31 % from 29 final 12 months. At the moment, solely seven % of research individuals rely completely on third-party manufacturing for video creation with 93 % having some kind of video creation manufacturing capabilities in-house.
“Entrepreneurs at present want little convincing that video is a robust content material type. By each measure —lead creation, conversions, SERP rating, time on web page, likes, shares and every other type of engagement—video’s energy to tell and persuade is unmatched,” says Jeff Loeb, CMO at Vidyard. “With the rise of new-generation video platforms, advertising and marketing and gross sales groups are utilizing video to drive extra certified leads, lower by way of the noise, and speed up pipeline”.
The Function of Video is Increasing from Advertising and marketing to Gross sales
There was a two-fold enhance within the variety of survey respondents who report utilizing video as a part of their account-based advertising and marketing (ABM) technique. Extra firms at present (37 %) use video as a part of their gross sales conversion course of, up from 25 % final 12 months. Video creation inside gross sales departments can be on the rise with the introduction of instruments like Vidyard GoVideo and others. Outcomes point out that 23 % of gross sales groups are creating extra of their very own video content material this 12 months, up from simply 15 % in 2016. Utilization of video viewing knowledge by gross sales groups to qualify, interact or affect offers can be up 13 % year-over-year which signifies that video has turn into extra accessible and fascinating for personalised communications.
Video is Turning into Extra Built-in with Enterprise Techniques
Integrating video viewing knowledge into advertising and marketing automation platforms (MAP) or buyer relationship administration platforms (CRM) like Salesforce, Marketo, Eloqua, Hubspot, and others allow advertising and marketing and gross sales groups to watch and observe video utilization metrics. In 2017, 45 % of entrepreneurs reported having built-in video viewing knowledge inside these purposes, up from 30 % every of the final two years. The proportion of organizations which have built-in video viewing knowledge – and are exploiting it – with key gross sales and advertising and marketing programs jumped from 13 to twenty % this 12 months.
Over 70 % of this research’s individuals had been in advertising and marketing roles in B2B or blended B2B/B2C organizations that reported income development in essentially the most lately accomplished fiscal 12 months. The entire organizations that participated on this research are utilizing video of their gross sales and advertising and marketing efforts. Businesses and studios had been disqualified from contributing to the research.
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About Vidyard
Vidyard is the brand new era video platform for enterprise that helps organizations drive extra income by way of the usage of on-line video. Going past video internet hosting and administration, Vidyard helps companies drive larger engagement of their video content material, observe the viewing actions of every particular person viewer, and switch these views into motion. World leaders comparable to Honeywell, McKesson, Lenovo, LinkedIn, Citibank, and Sharp depend on Vidyard to energy their video content material methods and switch viewers into clients.
About Demand Metric
Demand Metric is a advertising and marketing analysis and advisory agency serving a membership group of over 100,000 advertising and marketing professionals and consultants in 75 international locations. Providing consulting playbooks, advisory companies, and 500+ premium advertising and marketing instruments and templates, Demand Metric sources and experience assist the advertising and marketing group plan extra effectively and successfully, reply the troublesome questions on their work with authority and conviction, and full advertising and marketing initiatives extra rapidly and with larger confidence — thus boosting the respect of the advertising and marketing workforce and making it simpler to justify sources the workforce must succeed. To be taught extra about Demand Metric, please go to www.demandmetric.com
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Sandy Pell, Senior Supervisor, Company Communications, Vidyard
