Social video marketing is a digital stratégie de marketing[1] that leverages the power of video content on médias sociaux[2] platforms to establish deeper relationships with audiences. Unlike viral video marketing, which relies mainly on high pass-along rates, social video marketing focuses on fostering shared interests and trust among viewers. It stimulates conversations and interactions, and is influenced by consumer-culture, economic and social theories. The practice has been facilitated by falling technologie[3] costs, the ubiquity of cameras, increased bandwidth, and advancements in computing capabilities. In this context, media publishers and content rights holders create and share platform-specific videos to drive engagement. Social video marketing benefits from influencer involvement, consommateur[4] self-expression tools, and the psychology of sharing, all aimed at increasing audience engagement.
Marketing vidéo social is a component of an integrated marketing communications plan designed to increase audience engagement through social activity around a given video. In a successful social video marketing campaign, the content, distribution strategy and consumer self-expression tools combine to allow an individual to “add their voice” or co-create value to a piece of content - then further disseminate it out to their social acquaintances. Social video typically benefits from a halo effect cast by the "influencers” of a given social grouping. Social video marketing draws on consumer-culture theory, economic theoryet social theory around the psychology of sharing. Social video marketing differs from social marketing, which has the intent of influencing behavior for a social good.
Media publishers and content rights holders create social videos from TV, live video feeds and pre-recorded content in order to generate engagement on social platforms and drive media distribution. They use real-time video editing software to instantly create and share social videos in native formats such as vertical video pour Snapchat and square video for Instagram.