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Mar 8, 2023
“Personalized Video Content Can Be The Marketing Breakthrough Brands Need”
Above all, that’s the title of a Forbes report from earlier this year. And it isn’t surprising at all.
Videos now top the list of all Marketing content, be it internal comms, ABM, or e-commerce listings. Marketers are scrambling to account for personalized videos in their strategies, marketing budgets, and team structures. This savvy idea of engaging clients with exclusive, targeted content personalized to them is certainly attractive.
Now, thanks to one-click video creation and distribution, it’s simpler to tailor content to your customers, get their attention, and create a lasting relationship with them.
Why is personalization suddenly the latest hype in marketing concepts, though? Intuitively, it feels right to personalize all your content for your prospects and customers but let’s understand the reasoning behind the trend. How? With good old numbers.
So ads perform more poorly than ever, customer engagement is on the up and up, and people want brands to speak to them alone. Add to this that videos are the most engaging content asset and you have your answer.
Pro Tip: for video advertisements, you can use an online video maker to make the process easier and more cost-efficient.
A personalized video is any video content that’s customized and relevant to each one of your audience groups, be it prospects, customers, or influencers. Given that, there are as many ways of personalizing videos as there are brands, marketers, and audiences.
A holiday greeting with your customer’s name on it, a series of picture slides when your client last visited your offices, or a video of your colleagues chanting your top client’s name are all good examples of personalization in videos. The more nuanced use cases of personalized videos, though, come up in Account-Based Marketing (ABM) where a series of videos customized to your website visitors or e-mail subscribers show up when they first interact with your brand.
Entertainment is not the only goal of videos.
They can be a rescue boat for your stagnating relationships with some customers and increase sales, too.
Personalized videos contain the recipient’s personal information such as name, gender, age, city, and such. Each video generated has details and messaging, aimed at talking to the recipient one-on-one.
Imagine you had to send out a Christmas video to your audience, and each video had a different name in it. That would be personalization for sure, but to achieve this for thousands of customers, you would need a hundred people and months of planning. Not very scalable, is it?
There are several tools to help you create individualized videos from your structured data and applications. Rocketium is one. With automation, you can create thousands of videos in an unbelievably short period of time. You can use an existing video as a template and or make a brand new one in minutes that you will then use to individualize to your users.
“The number of businesses using video in email jumped from 36% to 46%.”
Next, you need to link data from your marketing automation platform to both bring in unique details about your users and also track performance. With API monitoring to quickly check functionality, this isn’t too difficult.
Delivery of such videos depends on the channel you think will work best for your customers. Let’s go with e-mails for now. A thumbnail of the video (this is what you see before playing a video on YouTube) linking to a unique page that has the personalized video is good to embed in e-mails. Add a nice message on top of it, choose a subject line that’s bound to get opens, and watch the views go up. Tip: an exciting subject line plays a major role in email open rates.
PRO TIP: Don’t direct traffic from your e-mails to YouTube or another hosting service. Host it on your website and use an affordable web hosting service or web hosting provider. Get a player that goes deep into engagement analytics, and slice+dice data to see what works for who. As with all content, analytics is the wood behind the arrow. Using a reliable VDS hosting provider will help your videos load quickly and smoothly, providing a seamless viewing experience for the audience.
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Salesforce’s Fourth Annual State Of Marketing Report shows 52% of consumers, as well as 65% of business buyers, will switch brands if they don’t receive personalized communication from vendors. Cookies, IP addresses, platforms, and other information and metrics about consumers can help you get pretty creative and accurate with personalization. Here’s a cool cheatsheet for doing just that.
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Source A lot depends on what your brand is, how prepped you are for videos and personalization, and if you have the tools you need to connect data with creativity. Having said that, here are a few areas that can truly benefit from personalized videos. So much that you’ll wonder how you never tried it yet:
Most noteworthy e-mail is the most preferred channel for personalized video, but try others, too. The best video-making tools enable easy integration and distribution of your personalized videos.
Here is an excellent example of a personalized e-mail video for Derek inviting him to an insightful conference.
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Here’s a beautiful example from Breast Cancer Now. They used personalized videos on social media to show their gratitude to donors for a successful campaign. The organization targeted people who used #wearitpink or mentioned the brand. Also, they employed their personal data like name, Twitter profile pics, and photos from the fundraising event to truly execute a wow campaign. Have a look at their video:
Almost 50% of people retweeted and almost 80% of people liked these personalized videos. The videos reached around 77,000 users on social media. That’s phenomenal for a non-profit!
For example, the video campaign “Your Year with Nike+” is a great example of using user data beautifully to personalize content. Nike created around 100,000 personalized animated videos, drawing users’ data from their fitness app — data that included weather, movement activity, and location — to tell individual stories of fitness goals achieved by the users of the apps in the previous year, inspiring users to continue engagement with the app. Here’s how they motivated Carlo to do more in 2015.
Adding personalized videos to your marketing plan can give you the best results in the acquisition phase of your marketing plan. A potential customer provides his information through website activities, filling out forms, being active on social media, etc. Here are some perks of including these valuable data in creating a personalized video for your audience:
Marketers can see an exponential increase in acquisition and conversion through personalized video marketing. Furthermore, it can help you achieve elevated brand awareness, acquire new customers, and build a long-lasting relationship with your customers. While this video content type is like a swiss knife, marketers often find it challenging to wield it.
According to Rapt Media, 83% of marketers say that creating personalized content is their biggest challenge. Translating that to videos, the #1 hurdle in the path to personalized videos is the absence of a tool that churns out videos at scale without breaking the bank or compromising on quality.
Krishna is a Content Marketer at Rocketium, a video creation tool for marketers. She is an expert in Social Media content and loves experimenting with GIFs and memes. Her favorite part of the job is to create outstanding videos with Rocketium.
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