10 reasons why animated videos are great for your marketing campaigns

10 reasons why animated videos are great for your marketing campaigns

Video marketing is gaining a sense of authority when it comes to your overall rankings and sales. So why does a good animated video help with your overall marketing campaign? Well that's simply because people are impatient and don't want to read, but I'll get more into that later on in this discussion

The most dominant sense we have is sight/vision and this is one of the reasons that a good animated video can turn a bad campaign into a good one wit just a single submission to a video platform. There have been statistics on all of this and 65% of people actually learn better by watching something over reading it. There is another statistic that roughly 90% of all the information being absorbed by us is purely visual. If you don't think that's crazy enough to get you to make a good animated video for your campaigns, here are a few other statistics that might change your mind.

1. You can increase the conversion rates of your websites pages by 80% by adding a good animate video.
2. Roughly 33% of all the activity online is used to watch videos online.
3. There are around 3,000,000,000 hours of video watched every month by YouTube users. Yes, billions of hours!

So what are the 10 reasons why you should use animated videos? Read below


1. A great ROI
I've been doing online marketing for a long time and I've seen a huge ROI on my videos. Loads of other marketers claim the same thing, so it must be true lol. If a load of marketers and myself think it's a good thing to use, shouldn't you be thinking about it as well?


2. Unlimited and possibly untapped potential
You literally have your imagination at your fingertips when making an animated video. You're not limited because you can literally put whatever you want into the video. The amount of videos you can churn out is up to you, and if you're not doing any yet, it's an untapped market for you


3. Grab and Keeps attention
People will always watch a video if it peaks their curiosity. I know that I myself have clicked on random videos on YouTube because the thumbnail image or title intrigued me and I just needed to click through to see what was on the video lol. Videos will grab someones attention better than a basic text ad or banner ad. Usually animated videos are pretty short, which will keep your viewers attention. They will usually see how long the video is, and if it's under 3 minutes they will usually stay to watch... And that's why these videos are so powerful. You actually can convince people to sign up with you by pitching your services at the end of the video lol


4. Easy to measure success
Video hosting platforms such as YouTube and Vimeo will give you a basic dashboard that shows you some statistics, and for that simple reason you can measure the success of your videos. There are third party services that allow you to get more in depth statistics like how many times the video was re-watched, which shows you how many unique viewers you had and how many people are coming back for a second dose lol.


5. Psychologically play with people
If you can hit an emotional nerve with the viewer that brings them back to a positive memory, you will have a dedicated viewer on your hands. Anything that invokes a good emotion will usually be a winner, if you're setting it up right of course. You'll want to invoke the emotion eerie on to keep them watching and if they stay til the end, they will likely be signing up or at least sharing your video with others For this simple reason, animated videos can have a huge impact on your social media marketing.


6. Simplifies Topics
When it comes to conveying a difficult topic through text, it can get misread and interpreted. If you're putting together a detailed animated video for the same topic it will come across and be absorbed by the view much easier. This is usually a good thing for online services that people aren't sure if they want to sign up. You can explain what your service does in a simple way and then get into detail about the features.

For Example: My SEO Service

I would go over how we increase the users website rankings within Google, Yahoo! and Bing in order to obtain super targeted traffic that converts much higher than most advertising methods. But if I were to just write up a few paragraphs about this, I would lose a lot of people that didn't know everything about SEO already. I could get some nice images in there which will trigger the "Oh Yeah!" thought and they user would be on board


7. Better chance of going viral
Videos have a tendency to go viral more than anything else, even memes. This is due to everyone sharing them on facebook, reddit, and other platforms which have millions of viewers each day. Around 50% of the videos that go viral are humerous, so remember that when you're setting up your first videos If your video gets viewed a few thousand times and get shared a dozen times, you're not viral just yet. Getting millions of views over night means you're going viral


8. Easy to change your business around
When it comes to your business, you aren't sure what you'll be doing in 5 years. You could be doing something completely different than what you originally thought you'd be doing, and a good animated video is how you can change things around. Normally when a company wants to launch a new business video they will have to hire actors and go to different locations in order to get the right shots. With an animated video all you have to do is sit behind your computer and get to work. If you're outsourcing this, you can find someone here on SEOclerks to help you out, but if there isn't anyone who can do the quality of work you need you can always put up a page on your website as a job listing to see if you get any bites


9. They're good for any business
You can get pretty much any idea across with an animated video making this a great way to market to your viewers. There are actually business owners who focus solely on making animated videos for their clients because they work so well. You can have 100 different videos targeting 100 different keywords and all of them will work well


10. Animated videos are usually responsive
Mobile traffic is huge in todays world because of all the mobile devices that have internet access. Due to this, your videos could become more popular than you think. Google recently updated it's algorithm to prioritize mobile traffic and now every website needs to be responsive in order to accommodate it's traffic. If Google is optimizing it's algorithm to accommodate it's users, don't you think that a good video would work well at the same time? Well the answer is, it sure does!

When you upload a video to YouTube, Vimeo or other video platforms, your video becomes responsive and will automatically be formatted for any device. This is huge when it comes to pleasing your viewers. If they constantly had to stretch the screen to watch a video, they would get annoyed and leave before the video finished. I know that I've been on some websites and left immediately because I wanted to watch the video but it didn't fit in my screen.



In Conclusion:
If you're not using animated videos in your marketing campaigns, you're already falling behind your competition. Get to work and start churning out some videos and getting them everywhere you can in order to get those views



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