How Tasty Gets Billions of Facebook Video Views: 6 Secrets Any Business Can Use

The secret to Tasty's success (and how you can replicate it)

Even if you've never liked Tasty (the Buzzfeed-owned) food brand on Facebook or any other social channel, chances are you will have been exposed to one of its posts, and be familiar with its output. Since launching in 2015, its presence has exploded. Here's a few recent stats:

  • In September 2016, Tasty’s main Facebook page was the third-biggest video account on Facebook with nearly 1.7 billion video views.
  • Viewership per video is staggering: During the last three months, Tasty’s Facebook videos have averaged 22.8 million video views in their first 30 days alone.

Like Tasty's video setup, the thinking behind its social media strategy is deceptively simple. Of course, not every brand will have the resources to pump out videos daily or promote them with high-budget ads, but in this blog post I'll show you - by studying Tasty's output on Facebook and quoting the people directly behind Tasty's success - how you can take that same ingenious strategy and apply it to your business, whatever industry you are in. Ready? Let's go! 

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5 Awesome Facebook Video Ideas Your Business Should Try (Abel & Cole Case Study)

Are you producing video content for Facebook and other social networks? With image posts reaching something of a saturation point, videos are a relatively fresh way to break through the clutter and get your brand noticed.

Here are some recent video statistics, especially related to Facebook:

  •  Facebook now sees 100 million hours of daily video watch time.
  • Facebook generates 8 billion video views every day. 
  • Socialbakers’ data revealed that the average organic reach of videos uploaded directly to Facebook was more than twice that of photos - an increase in organic reach of 135%.

Abel & Cole is a provider of fresh seasonal organic fruit and veg, meat and household essentials, it does a really nice job of producing high quality, unique, and engaging video content for social media - not as much the ideas, but in the execution. In this blog post, I've picked out five examples of different short videos from Abel & Cole. I hope they will help to inspire you to make your own video content, so let's take a look:

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How to Make Video Playlists and Add A Featured Video on Facebook Pages

In my last blog post, I talked about how 2015 is going to be the year of video on Facebook, and shared five strategies for making the most of clips uploaded to your business Page. As if to demonstrate the case further, Facebook has now rolled out two new video features for brands - featured videos and playlists.

Creating featured videos and playlists is super easy - doing so will encourage more eyes on your most important content, and keep fans and customers watching your clips for longer. Let's take a look at how it's done, starting with featured videos...

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How to Make Videos Go Viral on Facebook - 5 Strategies For Business

2015 is the year that video on Facebook looks truly set to explode, even challenging YouTube for the crown of #1 destination for video-viewing online. In November 2014, the share of video posts uploaded directly to Facebook overtook YouTube video links on Facebook for the first time, according to a study by Social Bakers.

I've put together 5 strategies to help you make the most of video on Facebook, so let's go...

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