may's spotlight on social video advertising
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The Ebuzzing Labs crawls thousands of branded video to reveal insights into the social video advertising industry.TRANSCRIPT
SPOTLIGHT ON SOCIAL VIDEO: MAY 2014
SECTOR ANALYSIS
EBUZZING LABS: SPOTLIGHT ON SOCIAL VIDEO
19% OF THE TOTAL VIDEOS PUBLISHED WERE FROM THE TECHNOLOGY SECTOR
Technology produced the most releases
Entertainment remains in second place
Games sector maintains fourth
16,000 VIDEOS PUBLISHED
IN MAY 2014
19%
14%
8% 6%
6%
5%
5%
5%
4%
4% 4% Technology
Entertainment
Retail
Games
Beverages
Services
Finance
Automotive
Travel
Health & Beauty
Sport
SHARE OF NUMBER OF VIDEOS PUBLISHED
EBUZZING LABS: SPOTLIGHT ON SOCIAL VIDEO
ENTERTAINMENT TAKES 26% OF THE TOTAL SHARE OF VIEWS
Entertainment takes top place
Technology takes second place thanks to video from Samsung
481 million views tracked
IN MAY 2014
26%
21% 10%
9%
6%
5%
3% 3%
3% 2% 2% Entertainment
Technology
Beverages
Games
Finance
Automotive
Sport
Luxury
Travel
Internet
Retail
SHARE OF NUMBER OF VIDEOS PUBLISHED
Beverages takes third place
EBUZZING LABS: SPOTLIGHT ON SOCIAL VIDEO
32% OF FACEBOOK INTERACTIONS WERE FROM ENTERTAINMENT BRANDS
SHARE OF FACEBOOK INTERACTIONS
32.0%
15.3% 13.8%
9.0% 5.8%
4.0% 3.6% 3.1% 2.4% 2.2% 2.0%
0.0%
5.0%
10.0%
15.0%
20.0%
25.0%
30.0%
35.0%
EBUZZING LABS: SPOTLIGHT ON SOCIAL VIDEO
THE AVERAGE INTERACTION RATE WAS 1.5% ACROSS ALL SECTORS
FACEBOOK INTERACTION RATE
5.5%
2.6% 2.3% 2.3%
2.0% 1.7% 1.6% 1.5% 1.4% 1.4% 1.4%
0.0%
1.0%
2.0%
3.0%
4.0%
5.0%
6.0%
EBUZZING LABS: SPOTLIGHT ON SOCIAL VIDEO
THE AVERAGE VIDEO LENGTH WAS 5.5 MINUTES
LENGTH (SECONDS)
1517
829 768 594
480 355 349 332 292 255 248
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
BRAND ANALYSIS
EBUZZING LABS: SPOTLIGHT ON SOCIAL VIDEO
2% OF THE TOTAL VIDEOS PUBLISHED WERE FROM GOOGLE
SHARE OF VIDEOS PUBLISHED
2.0% 1.8%
1.7%
1.2% 1.1% 1.1%
1.0% 0.9% 0.9% 0.9%
0.8%
0.0%
0.5%
1.0%
1.5%
2.0%
2.5%
Google Microsoft Lego Mattel Samsung Sony Coca Cola Philips Siemans Nokia Disney
EBUZZING LABS: SPOTLIGHT ON SOCIAL VIDEO
SAMSUNG TAKES 14.3% SHARE OF TOTAL VIEWS
SHARE OF TOTAL VIEWS
14.3%
6.4% 5.4%
3.9% 3.7% 2.3% 2.2% 2.2% 1.9% 1.9% 1.8%
0.0%
2.0%
4.0%
6.0%
8.0%
10.0%
12.0%
14.0%
16.0%
Samsung Disney Coca Cola Sony Pictures
Ubisoft Google Marvel GoPro Universal Pictures
Nike Red Bull
EBUZZING LABS: SPOTLIGHT ON SOCIAL VIDEO
SAMSUNG TAKE 9% TOTAL FACEBOOK INTERACTIONS
SHARE OF TOTAL FACEBOOK INTERACTIONS
9.0%
7.5%
6.0% 5.2%
4.1% 3.2% 3.1% 2.9%
2.3% 2.2% 2.0%
0.0%
1.0%
2.0%
3.0%
4.0%
5.0%
6.0%
7.0%
8.0%
9.0%
10.0%
Samsung Coca Cola Paramount Disney Ubisoft Red Bull 20th Century
Fox
Electronic Arts
Google Sony Pictures
Sony
EBUZZING LABS: SPOTLIGHT ON SOCIAL VIDEO
SAMSUNG DOMINATES MAY’S VIDEO BUZZ CHART
TOP RANKED VIDEOS MAY 2014
RANK Brand Sector Title VIEWS
1 Samsung Mobile Technology #Galaxy11 The Training 46 253 909
2 Ubisoft Games Amazing Street Hack 12 791 850
3 Samsung Mobile Technology LeBron James – Turn off to turn on 12 772 420
4 Fiat Automotive Godzilla 5 547 984
5 Samsung Technology The Curve Changes Everything 4 789 066
6 Coca Cola Beverages Coca Cola Friendly Twist 4 598 100
7 Save The Children NGO The Most Important Sexy Model Video Ever 3 362 341
8 Canon Technology Bring It 5 153 229
9 Chevrolet Automotive From One Pitch To Another 1 407 239
10 Dove Health & Beauty Mirrors 816 238
Samsung have an excellent month, landing three videos in the top 10 from two different accounts
EBUZZING LABS: SPOTLIGHT ON SOCIAL VIDEO
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Share of views = Total views by sector or brand / Total views
Share of Facebook interactions = Interactions on Facebook for a sector or brand / Total interactions on Facebook
Interaction rate = Interactions on Facebook / Number of views