By the 1960's there was a television set in every American home. TV & Video truly impacted the world stage. For the first time ever people could turn on there TV's and see what is going on in the world and watch it from the comfort of their own homes.
Video & TV has brought us some of the most powerful world moments
Like The Civil Rights Movement, The Kennedy Assassination, The Vietnam war, The Cuban Missile Crisis, Water Gate, The Space Race & More.
On July 20th, 1969 People from all over the world tuned in to ABC News on their Television sets to watch one of the most monumental live events in our life time. For the first time in world history humanity gets to experience America being the first to land on the moon. The people watch as the Lunar Lander approaches the surface of the moon & Neil Armstrong takes the first step on the moon. When Neil Armstrong says that “This is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” This event kicked off the technical revolution.
An example of how far we have come.
Fact: Today Smart phones have the same amount of processing power that it took for the Lunar Landing.
As we can see through out time video has impacted humanity and changed the way we receive information & entertainment.
By 1991 The World Wide Web goes public. By 1998 Google launched the first major internet search engine. 1 one later in 1999 the first social network is kicked off called LiveJournal. But the popularity of Social Media didn't really kick off until the early 2000's. With sites like Friendster, MySpace, LinkedIn, & Photobucket.
In addition to the Social Media sites other innovative platforms were taking shape. Like Video Chat released by Skype in 2003, Podcasting in 2004, Video uploading by Youtube 2005, & Document sharing by Slideshare in 2006.
Social Media for Business
The Facts: January 2017
Online adults aged 18-34 are most likely follow a brand via social networking (95%).(Source:MarketingSherpa)
71% of consumers who have had a good social media service experience with a brand are likely to recommend it to others.(Source: Ambassador)
There are 1.65 billion active mobile social accounts globally with 1 million new active mobile social users added every day. (Source: We Are Social)
96% of the people that discuss brands online do not follow those brands’ owned profiles. (Source:Brandwatch)
Visual content is more than 40 times more likely to get shared on social media than other types of content. (Source:HubSpot)
There are 40 million active small business pages in Facebook and 4 million of those businesses pay for social media advertising on Facebook. (Source:Forbes)
There were over 4.4 million videos uploaded directly to Facebook in February 2016, generating over 199 billion views. (Source:ReelSEO)
More than half of YouTube views come from mobile devices and the average mobile viewing session lasts more than 40 minutes. (Source:YouTube
Using Video in 2017/Tools & Resources on How to Get Started
Best tool: Youtube Creators Academy
https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/education
Easy Online Video Editor Magisto
https://www.magisto.com/