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Top 4 Digital Marketing Trends for 2022

Digital marketing is a powerful way to reach customers. People exchange emails, search for information, and, most importantly, buy things online. Digital marketing allows businesses to target a larger audience at a lower cost than traditional methods. It can help build awareness and generate revenue by utilizing search engines, social media platforms, and online videos.

To help you stay up-to-date, we’ve collected the top four digital marketing trends you can use in 2022.

Shorter Videos

Videos have become increasingly popular on social media platforms. Studies show that visual content is perceived better by the human brain and has the ability to stay in your memory longer.

Videos can educate you on products and services. This helps companies improve their brand loyalty and increase their ROI. An estimated 33% of people stop watching a video after 30 seconds. Short videos are straight to the point and is one of the best things social media marketing currently has to offer.

Apps like TikTok and Instagram have adapted to this change to allow for more video content. TikTok alone has over 1.5 billion users as of 2022.

Why you should care: Short videos take up less bandwidth to make and in turn give you better retention rates.

Meta Takes Over

Facebook rebranded to Meta in October of 2021. Even though a majority of the functions that Facebook had were left untouched, Meta created a space for VR/AR experiences. This in tern has made Meta more successful than Facebook. As of 2021, 35% of marketers began leveraging some sort of AR or VR in their strategies. Both AR and VR enhance customer experiences online and at live events. This gave companies the upperhand in standing out from other companies.

Why you should care: AR and VR marketing is expensive but Meta provides you with affordable tools to stay ahead of the competition.

Digital Storytelling Will Reshape Brands

Advertising is an important part of any marketing strategy. Consumers nowadays want to have an authentic experience with a brand. They want a brand that aligns with their personality, principles and conceptions of the world. Digital storytelling can accomplish this for you. It allows you to streamline your company values, history, and stories behind your services and products. This is different that advertising because its a genuine and honest approach.

Why you should care: Digital storytelling will make you stand out from your competitors. In the long run, it will play a big role in your sales cycle journey.

Google Ads

Google Ads has introduced optimized targeting, which treats audience settings as signals to find audience segments that may improve campaign performance, to Display campaigns. Previously, this option was only available on Smart Display campaigns.  Google estimates that for every $1 spent on Google Ads, businesses receive $8 in profit.

Why you should care: Google Ads is a great tool and resource you can use to maximize your marketing strategy.

How Onimod Global Can Help

The future of B2B marketing for 2022 is simple. It’s time-saving, costs less, and allows us to reach a wider audience.

As Google Partners, Onimod Global has over a decade of experience and expertise when it comes to all things SEO, social media advertising, content marketing and paid search. Got questions about Google strategies or want to learn more about us? Contact us here today.

Why You Should Invest in Video Ad Marketing

Investing in video ads can help drive brand awareness, more engagement, foster a greater audience connection and ultimately boost sales. If you’ve yet to commit to a solid video marketing strategy, here are 3 reasons to consider. 

Better Engagement

Movement and sound are two elements of an ad that easily catch user attention. They also help convey efficient, effective messaging, both which lead to higher engagement. This format is additionally effective in delivering your narrative to the target audience with a tailored message that’s easy to consume. Video ads that capture the interest of users and follow through with a CTA are more likely to succeed with keeping audiences interested. 

Additionally, research has found that the average user remembers 95% of a message when watched, compared to 10% when read. Meaning potential customers are more likely to recollect your brand’s message through video content, rather than a static image or text ad. 

More Shareable

Video content is quick, concise and makes it very easy to tell stories that are easy to consume by users. Video ads offer brands the perfect opportunity to express themselves and tell consumers why they can be trusted and why their products or services are worth purchasing. All of these elements also make videos much more sherable. As seen on Twitter, where 700 videos are shared by users every minute. Posting more shareable content helps increase your brand reach, generate more awareness and put yourself in front of more customer prospects. 

Higher Click-Through Rate

Along with being more engaging, videos also get a much higher-click through rate. According to a Smaato study, the average CTR of video ads via mobile is 7.5 times higher than standard display ads. One particular brand even found that video ads generated 47% higher CTR on Facebook than text ads. 

Final Thoughts

Though video ads can be more time consuming and costly to create, their ability to effectively narrate your story allows you to engage more prospects, gain higher reach and generate more ad clicks. 

At Onimod Global, we’re experts in all things digital marketing, including SEO, SEM, social media, web dev, graphic design, branding and more. If you’re looking to get started on building a video marketing strategy, we can help. Contact us today. 

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Maximize the Potential of Your Social Video Marketing Strategy

Consumers are constantly shifting toward the convenient. This is exactly why popularity of video content has soared in 2017, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Users are able to more quickly absorb information through videos, which makes them a very attractive form of advertisement and promotion.

Advertising Implications

The world of digital marketing and advertising revolves around innovation. The goal is to continually adapt to the needs/wants of the consumer in order to be better able to promote products and services to them. Video marketing is proving to be a very effective method in accomplishing this exact objective.

An infographic by Rendrfx states that over 22 billion videos are viewed daily between Facebook (8 billion), Snapchat (10 billion), and YouTube (4 billion). Another statistic that they boast is an online video ad viewer attention rate that is 18.3 times higher than that of T.V. commercials.

The numbers do not lie. What’s more is that daily use of videos is only expected to increase in the next several years. So how can marketers and advertisers best utilize and optimize this trending marketing medium?

Social Spaces Are Best

Social medias have become a wealth of opportunity for digital marketers in recent years. It is a perfect way to tap into the daily activities of target consumers, and to appear as native as possible in advertising style. The more an advertisement looks like a normal piece of news feed foder, the better.

Facebook has become the single most dominant force in social media marketing. With over 2 billion active users, and more than $40 billion made in 2017 from advertisements, according to Statista, it is clear that Facebook is running the show when it comes to paid social media marketing.

Adweek contributor Aubrie Richey wrote a great article on how to get the best value from your Facebook video marketing campaign. Her article is summed up here in the following 5 tips:

  1. Design your ad in a mobile format to best reach potential customers.
  2. Keep the length of your video between 15-30 seconds.
  3. Do not stop being adaptable and flexible with your content!
  4. Your video does not need to be perfect. A less refined video will make the ad seem much more genuine and appealing.
  5. Use video as a supportive piece of the overall customer journey.

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