In April, for example, the Daily Mail pulled in over 950 million total video views on Facebook. The Daily Mail Thrives on Experimental, Heartfelt Content Despite being known as a news outlet, the Daily Mail takes a decidedly less hard-news stance with its content and relies on more entertainment-based videos to draw in views. Experimental-style videos which pose questions or compelling social situations viewers can’t help but click and watch. For example, a clip from September 2016, featuring a little girl giving her dinner to a homeless man, claims the highest view count of all time for the Daily Mail at 154 million views; about a third of these views, around 50 million, were generated in just three days’ time. In terms of views in the first 30 days (V30), the Daily Mail video owning that accolade belongs to (surprisingly) the media brand’s tenth most-watched Facebook clip of all time. Engagement Runs High on the Daily Mail’s YouTube Account The Daily Mail can also claim social video accounts on Instagram, Twitter, and the now defunct Vine. On average across all its accounts, the Daily Mail boasts an ER30 of 0.8x. While many of its clips of course have ER30 stats higher than this, the video with the highest ER30 of all Daily Mail accounts lives on YouTube. Its audience on that platform is highly invested in its content, so much so they interact with it, share it, like it, and comment on it. Overall, it’s quite clear the Daily Mail knows exactly the type of content its followers are willing to watch over and over again, as well as what videos its fans are willing to interact with on a regular basis.
Since its inception in 1896, the Daily Mail has been a huge hit with readers and audiences around the world, thanks to its long history of independent reporting, coverage of foreign affairs, and mass appeal. In its early days, the middle-market newspaper grew so quickly the owners had to find more printing facilities; by 1902, the Daily Mail boasted the largest circulation in the entire world at one million, rivaling top competitors The New York World and The New York Journal.
Now, the Daily Mail’s popularity has gone digital. With over 11.3 million followers on Facebook alone, the news outlet is one of the most-watched video producers around, frequently claiming a top ten position on Tubular’s monthly Facebook and cross-platform leaderboards. In April, for example, the Daily Mail pulled in over 950 million total video views on Facebook. What makes the brand’s videos so appealing? Here’s what we discovered when we analyzed the Daily Mail’s video content.
The Daily Mail Thrives on Experimental, Heartfelt Content
Despite being known as a news outlet, the Daily Mail takes a decidedly less hard-news stance with its content and relies on more entertainment-based videos to draw in views. And it’s worked. The brand’s most-watched Facebook videos of all time have raked in almost 1.4 billion total views to date. Where do the majority of these views come from? Experimental-style videos which pose questions or compelling social situations viewers can’t help but click and watch.
With 97% of its total social reach stemming from Facebook, the Daily Mail has seen some impressive view counts on individual videos on that platform. For example, a clip from September 2016, featuring a little girl giving her dinner to a homeless man, claims the highest view count of all time for the Daily Mail at 154 million views; about a third of these views, around 50 million, were generated in just…
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