{"id":224,"date":"2011-03-31T20:55:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T20:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ampsf.net\/wp\/?p=224"},"modified":"2017-01-14T20:25:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T20:25:14","slug":"facebook-isn%e2%80%99t-only-for-%e2%80%9csocial%e2%80%9d-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviesformusicians.com\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Isn\u2019t Only for \u201cSocial\u201d Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Facebook is considered a \u201csocial\u201d network, but it\u2019s also a great place to promote your music career.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are reading this, you already have a profile on Facebook, and you likely have a page for yourself as a musician or for your band.<\/p>\n<p>That means you know how important it is to promote yourself as a musician on social networking sites like Facebook, but are you using it to the fullest potential to promote your music career?<\/p>\n<p>Using video on Facebook <strong>AMP<\/strong>~lifies fan excitement, drives traffic to your website, sells your music, and fills seats at your gigs.<\/p>\n<p>Check out these recent statistics gleaned from www.strangelove.com\/blog regarding video viewing on Faceook. <strong>Isn\u2019t it time you caught the attention of millions of Facebook video viewers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook: 141 million unique visitors in the U.S in June, 14 July 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYear-over-year, Facebook\u2019s traffic has nearly doubled, from 77 million unique U.S. visitors in June 2009 to 141 million unique visitors in the U.S in June 2010.\u201d \u2014 Mashable<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video on Facebook Grows 300%, 7 June 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClips generated by Facebook users were watched by 41 million people in April, more than three times as many as a year earlier, when there were 13 million. YouTube grew 25 percent to 135 million unique viewers over the same period, says Reston, Virginia-based data researcher ComScore Inc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook 5th Largest Provider of Videos, 9 June 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook is now the 5th largest provider of videos. They had over 41 million unique video views in the month of April 2010\u2014that\u2019s more than CBS, Microsoft, Hulu, Viacom, or Turner (the rest of the top 10).<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is the number 2 referrer of traffic to YouTube, accounting for more than 16% of YouTube\u2019s views. Just to put that in perspective:\u00a0 Google is the number 1 referrer to YouTube, sending the video portal 18% of the overall traffic. And it drops off considerably after that, with MySpace taking the third spot by accounting for a measly 4% of YouTube referrals.\u201d \u2014 Jeremey Scott, ReelSEO<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please visit <\/strong><strong><em>www.MoviesforMusicians.com<\/em><\/strong><strong> to view movie samples and learn about our services.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is considered a \u201csocial\u201d network, but it\u2019s also a great place to promote your music career. If you are reading this, you already have a profile on Facebook, and you likely have a page for yourself as a musician or for your band. That means you know how important it is to promote yourself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promoting-your-band-with-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviesformusicians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviesformusicians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviesformusicians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviesformusicians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviesformusicians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviesformusicians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviesformusicians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviesformusicians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviesformusicians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviesformusicians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}