Marketers Move to Social Content as Legacy Marketing Strategies Fail to Deliver Return on Attention

New Study Shows How Marketers Use Video to Generate ROA by Socializing Business Narratives Rather Than Broadcasting Them

  • Half of companies are reallocating traditional media budget to fund social video, and 37 percent are reallocating digital media budget to video.
  • Marketers are 50 percent more likely to distribute video on social media vs. paid advertising.
  • Businesses now cite organic content engagement, over advertisement recall, as the core marketing metric.

New Study Shows How Marketers Use Video to Generate ROA by Socializing Business Narratives Rather Than Broadcasting Them (Graphic: Business Wire)

MENLO PARK, Calif.--()--Marketers are increasingly moving from broadcast advertising to social content to attract consumer attention in the melee of today’s media landscape. It’s a complex migration in both the medium and the message. In an attention economy, it’s not enough to merely win attention. In order to generate results, businesses must maintain and nurture hard won attention through genuine engagement and persistent media creation. This requirement has given rise to a new marketing metric aptly coined Return on Attention (ROA).

The magnitude of this shift is evident in a new report by Magisto, which finds that nearly half (46 percent) of marketers regard organic social engagement as the best assessment of campaign efficacy, compared to a mere 28 percent who say they still depend on advertising recall.

“Attention has become the only real currency today and customers offering that attention expect real value in exchange,” says Oren Boiman, CEO of Magisto. “The critical nuance is that it's not just a shift in the channel, but also in the voice, cadence and structure of communication. Today, the goal isn’t stamping out a company's brand message but rather contributing to the social narrative with the goal of ‘belonging.’ Modern marketers are using social content, and video in particular, as a way of being part of a 24/7 conversation.”

The survey report, the second in Magisto’s Video's Payday series, examines the details of the booming $135 billion video marketing industry, where and how that money is being spent, and which video strategies are proving most effective.

The heart of the report’s findings show how companies are using social video to scale authenticity, provide value, and deliver ROA.

“Social is no longer a channel but rather the definition of today’s media. It’s a mode of socializing through the creation and sharing of massive amounts of content,” said Reid Genauer, CMO at Magisto. “The ultimate takeaway from this data is that businesses are quickly learning how to use video creation as a strategy to thoughtfully socialize their message as opposed to broadcasting it with brute force.”

Magisto surveyed 545 marketing decision makers in the U.S. at small, medium and large businesses from July to August 2017. To view the full report, click here.

About Magisto

Magisto is the most popular smart video editing application for businesses and consumers around the world. Businesses use Magisto to create and deploy video marketing creative with unprecedented ease, agility, speed and Return on Attention (ROA).

Magisto uses Emotional Sense Technology™, a patented story detection feature that automatically analyzes and edits raw video footage and photos into produced personal movies and professional marketing videos. Magisto is available for iOS, Android and the Web. It’s not magic, it’s Magisto. For more information visit magisto.com or find us @magisto.

Contacts

104 West Partners for Magisto
Alissa Bushnell
alissa.bushnell@104west.com

Contacts

104 West Partners for Magisto
Alissa Bushnell
alissa.bushnell@104west.com