Social media video experiment: LinkedIn vs Facebook vs Instragram
After 4 days, these were the results
- The Facebook video has gone from 545 views –> 676 view and 23 requests for the template grew to 26. Not a huge change.
- The Instagram video has gone from 289 views –> 312 views, and the 6 requests for the template has remained at 6. Very little change.
Facebook and Instagram remain essentially the same. But…..
- The LinkedIn video has nearly doubled in reach from 5,944 views –> 11,885 views and the 119 requests for the template has grown to 185. Wow!
The main insight: videos on LinkedIn have much more longevity before they lose momentum. I’m finding they continue to get views and comments for 7-10 days, whereas on Instagram and Facebook, nearly all the action happens in the first 2 days and visibility drops significantly after that.
Have you found the same?
Our sales coach Dave helped me dive deeper into the numbers and we extracted some useful stats based on the data from my experiment. For me, LinkedIn performs at orders of magnitude better than Facebook and Instagram.
Template requests per 1,000 contacts
LinkedIn: 55.6 requests
Facebook 12.0 requests
Instagram: 3.4 requests
Some more insights;
Videos on Linkedin will attract template requests 4.5x more than Facebook (per thousand contacts) and 16.3x more than Instagram.
Linkedin contacts are 6x more likely to watch the video (views) than Facebook contacts
But Facebook viewers are twice as responsive with videos than LinkedIn viewers (although the volume is way lower).
Moving forward I am going to double down on my social media video posts. Perhaps you’d like to do the same?
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In the course, you’ll create a social media strategy that you can stick to and it will be simple enough that you can repeat it on a regular basis without needing to get “technical”. If you can write a message, take a photo and record a video, you already have the technical skills to succeed on social media!
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The techniques I show you are designed to “win back your time” because you leverage the reach of platforms like LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
Remember
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