1.Harness Storytelling For Promo’s 

Storytelling can humanize your brand. A crisp promo video with a good narrative can keep your audiences hooked until the end to create unmatched brand recall. Facebook and Instagram are the best mediums to share these promos and gain maximum visibility. Want to Entertain, Educate, and Inspire them through video? Learn 3 Ways of Storytelling to Boost Your Event Experience. 

2. Keep it Short and Engaging

We live in a digital ecosystem where our attention spans are short and we have no time to consume long, uninteresting content. Remember that you’re not the only one vying for their attention. Keep your promo videos under 60 seconds unless you want to bore your audiences. Use drones to give them a new perspective and a macro view of your venue. The bigger picture in a smaller frame works wonders. 

3. Clear CTA with Easy Shareability 

Your Call-To-Action is everything. Without a CTA it’s just another video. Whether you’re announcing a new festival or an annual expo, keep the messaging clear. Your event dates, venue, ticket price, etc are basic things that will decide your audience’s interest. If you catch one person’s attention, chances of that person sharing it with their friends are much higher. It’s your job to create a chain reaction. 

4. Keep the Buzz Going

You need to stay relevant in the minds of your audience. Create different variations of your videos that can be used smartly during the Pre-Buzz, Event Day, Post-Event phases of your campaign. Don’t bombard their feed with videos but don’t forget to stay active on their news feed. Use the Instagram Live Broadcast occasionally to give a glimpse for those who couldn’t make it. Make sure you keep a pulse on your online and offline audiences equally. 

5. Interview Attendees & Patrons

Event attendees and patrons love being a part of your event apart from just experiencing it. Interview some before the event and some after the event. Let them be your marketers while you record and put them in a video. This gives you an opportunity to create video testimonials that you can use on your website and for future event promotions. Read up more on Best Practices for Post-Event Follow-Ups that will further elevate your brand recall. 

6. Create a Highlight Reel 

A crucial yet overlooked video marketing tactic is to record and share highlights of your event. No one wants a 4K video with Dolby Surround, but at least make sure it’s 1080p. Utilize the power of video to create a highlight reel of the night to refresh their memories. A video montage of your past events, if done well, refreshes memories of your attendees and works as a magnet for new audiences. Don’t forget, your video might just be a few DMs away from being the talk of the town. 

We hope this quick guide gets your creative juices flowing. For more event industry insights in 2020, subscribe to our blog.

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• One billion hours of video viewed on YouTube every day
• Over 500 million people are watching video on Facebook daily
• Time spent watching video on Instagram is up more than 80% year over year
• Videos are six times more likely to be retweeted on Twitter than photos, and three times more likely to receive retweets than GIFs
• Snapchat has 10 billion daily video views

Here’s how video marketing can boost your social media marketing plan for events:

1. Broadcast live and get more attention

Using the ‘Facebook Live’ feature, you can broadcast videos to your audience in real-time. Apart from Facebook, social media platforms like YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Periscope also provide the live video feature.  You can rope in your event’s performing artists and use this feature for promotion in the run-up to the event.

According to Facebook, users spend 3x more time watching live videos than videos that aren’t broadcast in real-time.  Your Facebook followers automatically opt-in to get notifications when you are “going live” which further increases visibility. Once your live broadcast is complete, you can upload the video to your timeline for those users who missed it. This feature is also helpful to give a sneak peek of your event to potential attendees who might show interest at a later point in time.

2. Grab attention early and sell tickets quickly

It’s important to grab the attention of your audience within the first 10 seconds or less, failing which they’ll stop watching your videos and move on. Within the first few seconds, you must convey the purpose of the video to your viewers and also offer some interesting information about your event, like early-bird discounts, and offer for meet-n-greet with artists, etc. You should capture interest during the first or second frame of the video before users have a chance to scroll away.

3. Optimize for search to garner more views

As you would have noticed, most social media platforms have inbuilt search options wherein you can search using terms such as hashtags. Consequently, make sure that your videos are SEO optimized to get noticed in the search engines of these platforms as well as external search engines. To make sure your videos are optimized, add proper headline and description to your video posts. Also, add relevant hashtags on Twitter and Instagram to boost search results. On YouTube, apart from the title and description you can add keyword tags to your videos.

4. Keep clear call-to-action in your videos

A call-to-action is an invitation to your viewers to take action which is why you should end your videos with a bang. Video content marketing needs to garner certain user actions, whether it is getting them to visit your event, share your video, or purchase an event ticket. The most effective place to add a call-to-action in your video is at the end. While creating videos, you must define a proper flow viz. ‘Introduction – Content – Call-to-action’. Keeping call-to-action at the end helps to motivate them to take your desired action.

5. Take your audience behind the scenes

The reason your audience follow you on social media is to know you better and get glimpses of how you run your business. When you do the latter, they connect with your brand. Once they get connected to your brand, it improves brand loyalty which is vital to growing your business.

So, showing videos such as behind-the-scenes, artists performing rehearsals, or the crew setting up the event – can garner interest and brand familiarity as well as engage your audience.

6. Capitalize on trending topics and hashtags to boost engagement

Like all other posts on social media, you need to leverage trending hashtags and topics while posting your videos. Capitalizing on these can help you connect with your audience regularly and eventually lead to fulfilling 3 content-goals. Delivering content that interests your audience, increase engagement level, and boost the number of views for your videos.

7. Run video ads to a targeted audience

You can run video ads to a targeted audience, including relevant users whom you haven’t already connected with on social media and get them excited about your upcoming events. Marketing videos on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter all have ad options that focus on increasing  views and engagement.

If you want to be sure about your video ad campaign, make sure your YouTube marketing is on point. If you get good engagement and views after posting a video on your page, you are more likely to get better results when you turn that video into a video ad campaign. It will eventually help you save a lot of money, which you can otherwise use to promote your event on other channels.

To sum up

After having implemented the above elements if you do not check the performance of your videos, all efforts go in vain. Monitor video analytics components such as the number of views, reach, average view completion rate, average view duration, etc. – to keep a tab on the effectiveness of your videos.

To sum up, video marketing stands out as one of the most in-demand forms of marketing currently. If you aren’t including videos in your social media mix right now, you are incurring a lost opportunity.

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Here are a few tips on how you can use YouTube as a marketing tool for the promotion of your event –

• Firstly, you need to create a YouTube channel of yours. This step is required so that you can upload your promotional videos also testimonials from people if you have already organized one. You can also customize your account according to the need of your event. Allow the “Make Channel Visible” setting so that people can look to your event.
• Listing your event dates is necessary. People need to be clarified about the dates the nearby event and a buzz needs to be created. Use the “Event Dates” in the module option and list all the necessary information.
• Now, this third step is the most important, the “Call-to-attention” to your channel. It goes without saying that this step will help create the entire buzz. Hence, the main emphasis needs to be laid on this. Use keywords. Let people find you when they type the keyword, also keep suitable words, so that when people are searching for similar videos, they are transferred to your site.
• Filling up most of the details in your profile is also a must-do step. This lets the search engine’s finding easier for the audience.
• Create a stellar video of your event. Also, feature your promotional event on Facebook, twitter and other social networking sites. Leverage it everywhere, you can also consider giving away free ticket sales and show it on the video. You can also create a live streaming option to reach to your target audience. Video marketing and feature marketing are great tools to boost viewership.
• The event sponsorship is also important. Get great sponsors and spend it in making eye-balls grabbing video.
• The audience needs to talk about the event. Keep the audience hooked by interviews by engaging VJs. After, the event, share testimonials from the people who attended the event and keep the conversation going.

YouTube is surely a social media heavy weight. A sizeable portion of your audience is there on YouTube, which is why its video marketing is imperative that you use the platform to promote your event. So, hop in into these steps and give your event a get-set-go signal!

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