Share Of Video Posts By Social Network [VIDEO]

Share Of Video Posts By Social Network [CHART]

Socialbakers analyzed over 180,000 Facebook video posts across 20,000 Facebook pages – here’s what they found.

Back in 2012, marketers were not even considering alternative options for sharing video content on Facebook. The standard process was to create a video, publish it to YouTube and share it via Facebook. However, the recent trend is clearly showing that content marketers are directly uploading video content to Facebook, meaning that Facebook is retaining the traffic at the expense of YouTube.

At the beginning of 2014, YouTube clearly had the upper hand in regards to the share of number of video posts, nearly doubling that of the nearest contender. However, as the year progressed, we saw content marketers increasingly uploading videos to Facebook directly, with a 50% increase from May through July; and are trending to surpass YouTube by the end of the year. Read the rest at Socialbakers.

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