Modernizing the Patient Experience in Reproductive Medicine: Part 6-Making You Tube Work for You and Your Clients/Patients

Let's start off with a You Tube Hot Fact:  Social media-related YouTube stats are impressive. 

YouTube Statistics 

• The very first YouTube video was uploaded on 23 April 2005.
• The total number of people who use YouTube – 1,300,000,000.
• 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute!
• Almost 5 billion videos are watched on Youtube every single day.
• YouTube gets over 30 million visitors per day
• In an average month, 8 out of 10 18-49 year-olds watch YouTube.
• By 2025, half of the viewers under 32 will not subscribe to a pay-TV service.
• 6 out of 10 people prefer online video platforms to live TV
• The total number of hours of video watched on YouTube each month – 3.25 billion.
• 10,113 Youtube videos generated over 1 billion views.
• 80% of YouTube’s views are from outside of the U.S.
• The average number of mobile YouTube video views per day is 1,000,000,000
• The average mobile viewing session lasts more than 40 minutes. This is up with more than 50% year-over-year.
• Female users are 38% and male users are 62%.
• User Percentage by Age 18-24 – 11%, 25-34 – 23%, 35-44 – 26%, 45-54 – 16%, 50-64 – 8%, 65+ – 3%, unknown age – 14%.
• More than half of YouTube views come from mobile devices.
• YouTube’s mobile revenue is up to 2x y/y.
• YouTube overall and even YouTube on mobile alone reaches more 18-34 and 18-49 year-olds than any cable network in the U.S.
• The number of hours people spend watching videos (aka watch time) on YouTube is up 60% year-over-year, the fastest growth we’ve seen in 2 years.
• You can navigate YouTube in a total of 76 different languages (covering 95% of the Internet population).
• YouTube has launched local versions in more than 88 countries.
• 9% of U.S small businesses use Youtube
• Approximately 20% of the people who start your video will leave after the first 10 seconds. Create a damn good intro.

*Credit to Fortunelords 

Let You Tube help you brand YOU!



Now that you have let that sink in, below are some tips for making You Tube work for you and your patients/clients:

●        Set up a channel to reflect your brand and engage with others.

●        Create short videos of valuable tips of interest to your clients and prospects to show off your expertise.

●        Share slides from presentations that weren’t recorded. (which, by the way, is exactly what I am doing here!!)

●        Put together a creative video explaining your services.

●        Promote your events using recordings of previous events.

●        Introduce your staff to add authenticity.

●        Post links to your videos on various social networks.

●        Display company information in every video including name, URL, phone number and email address.

More You Tube tips on the next post!

* This information is from 2017 so note that these numbers have changed