I thought this was an interesting article from MediaPost (one of the must read sites for those of us on the business end of the broadcasting business) regarding the future of mobile video. As content producers we (including you) want to stay on the forefront of technology — especially when it moves so fast.
Don’t get bogged down in all of the details, but I would like you to think about how video, even if it’s just something “short” — less than 2 minutes — can fit into your show marketing, product/service marketing and overall branding of your show and yourself.
There are some links in this story to Periscope (owned now by Twitter) and Facebook Live their new streaming inclusion on the popular social network. Check them out — they are a good place to start if you’re looking to ad video to your marketing mix. Here’s the article in it’s entirety (the original article can be found here).
Mobile Video To Hit $25B Globally In 5 Years
by Gavin O’Malley @mp_gavin
Worldwide revenue from mobile video will reach $25 billion by 2021, according to fresh research from Strategy Analytics.
The money is mostly coming from advertisers trying to reach a growing mobile-video audience.
“The strongest growth in mobile video revenue will come from advertising-funded content as advertisers look to catch up with the increasing quantity of video consumption,” Wei Shi, an analyst at Wireless Media Strategies, notes in the new report.
Over the next five years, ad spending on mobile video will grow at a 28% compound annual growth rate, Shi estimates.
The share of ad spend has increased dramatically over time. In 2010, advertising accounted for just 2% of worldwide mobile video revenue. That ballooned to 40% this year, and should swell to 66% by 2021, according to Strategy Analytics.
Inspiring this ad spend, the report also predicts that mobile-video viewers will more than double to 2 billion users by the end of 2022.
Presently, new mobile video services — like Twitter’s Periscope, Facebook Live, and other live streaming platforms — are still focused on building audience. “We expect direct monetization to follow,” Nitesh Patel, a director at Strategy Analytics, said in the report.
Top platforms like Facebook and Twitter are well aware of advertiser demand for video.
Indeed, brands don’t want to buy advertising that lacks a strong video component, Adam Bain, COO at Twitter, said earlier this year.
Among other responses, Twitter recently increased its allotted video upload length from 30 seconds to 140 seconds. In the near future, when users encounter videos in their Twitter timeline, they will be able to click that video to launch “Watch Mode.” That’s a separate section of the app featuring other videos they may like.
Separately, Facebook is dishing out around $50 million to coax top media publishers and celebs to use Facebook Live, while its Instagram unit recently debuted “Picked for You” channels, featuring videos grouped by users’ preferred topics and interests.
