{"id":4115,"date":"2018-04-05T21:30:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T20:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dental-focus.com\/marketing\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2018-04-05T21:35:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T20:35:26","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-video-ads-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/what-you-need-to-know-about-video-ads-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know about video ads on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_4151-e1522960130927.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Good morning, afternoon or evening,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over the years video has become an integral part of many businesses (small or large) advertising campaign on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are not already advertising through video, here is a breakdown of some of the key facts you should know before you get started.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Facebook:<\/p>\n<p>Where does it appear? News feeds, pages, User profiles, search results, stories, articles &amp; direct messages.<\/p>\n<p>Strengths? Large audience to target, can play on a variety of formats, targeting capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Weaknesses? Lack of control on where ads appear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Instagram:<\/p>\n<p>Where does it appear? Direct messages, user profiles, explore tab, stories, user feeds.<\/p>\n<p>Strengths? Large and engaging user base, powered by Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Weaknesses? Videos limited to 60 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Snapchat:<\/p>\n<p>Where does it appear? User stories, discover stories<\/p>\n<p>Strengths? Innovative ad formats, ability to reach a younger audience.<\/p>\n<p>Weaknesses? Narrow audience, Ad tools not as developed as other social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>What platform will you start posting your video ads on?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dominic Haslam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Media Guru <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Join us on the 25<sup>th<\/sup> of April 6:45pm for our webinar on GDPR &amp; websites, register <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/webinar\/\">here<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more about Dental Social Media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/dental-google-seo.html\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Call me on 020 7183 8388 for a friendly chat!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Good morning, afternoon or evening, &nbsp; Over the years video has become an integral part of many businesses (small or large) advertising campaign on social media. &nbsp; If you are not already advertising through video, here is a breakdown of some of the key facts you should know before you get started. &nbsp; Facebook: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doms-social-media-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4120,"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/4120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}