I was thinking recently about the better way of sharing videos on facebook. I saw people are using basically two options:
1. share the video directly on FB,
2. share the thumbnail or some picture on facebook with youtube link in the descriptions.
And now the question is which makes more sense and why. My own thoughts here... We know that youtube is checking social media engagement so the videos shared more are doing better on YT, so:
- If you shared with 1 - all the likes under that video are traceable for youtube, so it knows your vid has a lot of likes.
- if you share with method 2, I'm not sure if youtube can measure the number of likes on FB, but
- people who see #2 on FB will need to click the link and watch it on YT, and possibly they will engage on YT.
- if you share #1 I'm not sure if the views count will be included on YT, will it?
- if you share with your friends and most of them are not bikers, they will possibly just watch a few seconds and click like on FB. Not so much probable they will ever click like on YT though. In this case it seems a better way to post a picture with link, so those not interested that much will just give you like on FB, and they will skip the YT link. As the result they will not lower your watch time stats.
Thoughts for pennies. What do you reckon? Which option works better, pros and cons?
1. share the video directly on FB,
2. share the thumbnail or some picture on facebook with youtube link in the descriptions.
And now the question is which makes more sense and why. My own thoughts here... We know that youtube is checking social media engagement so the videos shared more are doing better on YT, so:
- If you shared with 1 - all the likes under that video are traceable for youtube, so it knows your vid has a lot of likes.
- if you share with method 2, I'm not sure if youtube can measure the number of likes on FB, but
- people who see #2 on FB will need to click the link and watch it on YT, and possibly they will engage on YT.
- if you share #1 I'm not sure if the views count will be included on YT, will it?
- if you share with your friends and most of them are not bikers, they will possibly just watch a few seconds and click like on FB. Not so much probable they will ever click like on YT though. In this case it seems a better way to post a picture with link, so those not interested that much will just give you like on FB, and they will skip the YT link. As the result they will not lower your watch time stats.
Thoughts for pennies. What do you reckon? Which option works better, pros and cons?