Looping video app Vine may be gone as a standalone offering, but the super short video format it helped popularize is only picking up more traction with both big brands and social platforms. "Super short videos have disrupted the world of video marketing and will continue to play a pivotal role throughout 2017," said Jaclyn Rose, digital marketing lead at G2 Crowd. “On social media, we make ads work in literally two seconds to three seconds, recognizing that people are whipping through their news feeds," Pritchard said in the Cincinnati Business Journal report. "We are optimizing medium mix by following consumer behavior to advertise based on when, where and how much time consumers spend engaging with ads on various media platforms.” Speaking to Pritchard's point, Snapchat users watch video ads for less than three seconds on average, according to recent estimates by the company. Keep it off-the-cuff One way to hook viewers quickly is to go for an off-the-cuff creative approach. For longer 10-second ads — the time ceiling usually assigned to this type of brand storytelling — there should be more of a premium put on production value. "Super short videos are intended to provide a real-time, on-the-fly, behind-the-scenes look," she said. Plan the concept and have an idea of what you want the final product to look like, but don’t stage a video that’s meant to be improvised." This is particularly true for spots aimed at the under-30 audience that tends to dominate platforms like Snapchat and Instagram, which are especially well-suited to this type of brand storytelling. "Snapchat automatically limits your video to 10 seconds, which allows you to easily create back-to-back videos.
Looping video app Vine may be gone as a standalone offering, but the super short video format it helped popularize is only picking up more traction with both big brands and social platforms.
Video messaging app Snapchat, for example, serves much of its advertising as quick Stories units lasting no more than 10 seconds and YouTube, a veteran of the social video space, launched a six-second “Bumper” format last year.
Procter & Gamble, the world’s largest advertiser, has similarly suggested that video shorter than the typical 30- or 60-second spots is becoming essential to its marketing strategy. “We’re […] increasingly using five-second to six-second formats that quickly convey the brand and the benefit, given the ad-skipping behavior that we know happens quite frequently,” the company’s Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard said in November, as reported by the Cincinnati Business Journal.
As consumer attention spans shrink — some research suggests they last eight seconds on average, shorter than that of a goldfish — marketers must figure out ways not only to attract eyeballs in a short period of time but also create a lasting impression thereafter.
“Super short videos have disrupted the world of video marketing and will continue to play a pivotal role throughout 2017,” said Jaclyn Rose, digital marketing lead at G2 Crowd. “The 10-seconds-or-less video format has capitalized on today’s increasingly short attention spans.
“It’s the hook, the foot-in-the-door, the branding and awareness play that will turn video viewers into interested buyers,” she said.
Video’s ‘elevator pitch’
Video is quickly becoming the dominant content type for digital marketers and its penetration is most apparent on mobile devices, especially among young demographic groups.
But while some platforms including Facebook and Snapchat have begun to focus on longer-form, premium video content offerings, short videos can serve as a sort of “elevator pitch” intended to interest an audience in continuing to learn about what a brand has to offer, according to Rose.
“On social media, we make ads work in literally two seconds to three seconds, recognizing that people are whipping through their news feeds,” Pritchard said in the Cincinnati Business Journal report. “We are optimizing medium mix by following consumer behavior to advertise based on when, where and how…
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