5 Rules That Will Increase Your Landing Page Video Viewership

Here’s a fascinating stat for you: By 2017, video will account for 69% of all consumer internet traffic.

Translation: a high percentage of consumers are already using videos to seek out information about solving a problem. And as the graph below shows, this trend is growing for post-click landing pages.

Without video, you’re missing out on a huge chunk of conversion opportunity. Video in general (and post-click landing page videos, in particular), are the future of content marketing:

Why do videos wield so much power?

With the average user attention span in 2015 at only 8.25 seconds, adding video to your post-click landing page has the potential to better engage your visitors — helping increase your total conversions by as much as 86%!

Exciting stuff, right?

Not to put a damper on things, but not all post-click landing page videos are useful. Put some thought into the quality of your content. It’s not recommended you just throw together some mediocre footage. Instead, be a professional and invest a little more — leave the shaky hand-held videos to the amateurs.

If you want it to be the real deal and assist your conversion rate, follow the five basic post-click landing page video rules below.

But first…

What is a post-click landing page video?

A post-click landing page video is typically a 1-2 minute video that explains your offer in a more compact manner. Video allows your visitors to be more engaged than simply reading lines of copy — brief as the copy may be.

Here’s one of our post-click landing page videos we used to announce the Instapage pricing update in October 2015:

When creating a video, you have two choices: animated or live action.

Both types of videos work, and here’s why.

After Crazy Egg added an animated explainer video on their post-click landing page, they saw a 64% increase in their conversion rates. The short video helped them generate an additional $21,000 in monthly revenue:

When GrowYourOwnGroceries.com A/B tested video on their post-click landing page, they saw a 12.62% increase on their CTA button clicks:

Now that we have some background let’s get back to the post-click landing page video rules.

Rule #1: Say no to autoplay

Setting your video to autoplay is equivalent to shoving your message down your visitors’ throats. Yes, they arrived at your post-click landing page looking for a solution to their problem. But give them the opportunity to digest your information at their control (pressing play) and not annoying them with your autoplay video.

If you feel that autoplay is appropriate, try using a silent full-screen contextual video instead. These videos act as a replacement for your post-click landing page’s image, establish a context for your offer, and help you tell a compelling story.

Go here to see how Story & Heart uses a silent full-screen video on their website:

A/B test the autoplay video option before you decide to stick with it (more on A/B testing later).

Rule #2: Make the video the star

When you add a post-click landing page video, it’s important you center the video around all other post-click landing page elements. Accentuate your video, make it obvious to play that your visitors can’t resist playing it.

The Panorama9 website has an intriguing video that I want to see because the character mimicking a superhero makes me want to click play:

On the other hand, the Marketing 360’s homepage has such an obscure video that I can’t even find it at first glance, let alone play it:

Can you find the video?

Oh, there it is:

Don’t disguise your post-click landing page video, flaunt it!

Rule #3: Short and sweet is key

One of the main points in creating and uploading a video to your post-click landing page is to speed things up — explain your offer faster than copy.

Video can provide information about your offer faster than copy. So why would you create a long, drawn-out video and ruin the whole point of your video’s existence?

As a rule, keep your post-click landing page videos under 2 minutes. If you insist it be longer, test it.

Wistia did a study to find out the attention span by different video lengths, and this is what they discovered:

The shorter the video, the higher the attention span (vice versa). Keep your videos short, your conversion rate will thank you!

Rule #4: Aim for high-quality video

This is a no-brainer. Just because you have a webcam doesn’t mean that you should have a video on your post-click landing page. Always create a professional video for your pages, write out a proper script with no awkward pauses or breaks in the voice over. Hire a designer to do the graphics for you instead of randomly putting together a slide deck.

Gifs are good substitutes

If you feel you don’t have the budget to create a post-click landing page video, or simply feel that a video will distract your visitors from the main message, opt for a gif instead. Gifs play on a loop and demonstrate how your product is used.

This is what we do on one variation of our post-click landing page to demonstrate our fully customizable builder:

What’s more, gifs are less expensive to create than animated or live action video, and there are many gif-creating apps that can assist you.

Rule #5: A/B test your videos

Your post-click landing page video is one of the many post-click landing page elements, and it should be tested just like your headline, copy, form, page alignment, etc.

Some video variations you can test are:

• Autoplay vs. click-to-play
• Gif vs. video
• Animated vs. live action video
• Short (1-2 minutes) vs. long (greater than 2 minutes)
• Full-screen background video vs. click-to-play video

post-click landing page videos are the future of content marketing. Get with the program now and start creating videos for your pages that help you capture leads like crazy.

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