Discover how to leverage Facebook Live for your business, covering the importance of this new Facebook feature, suggested themes, live event logistics, successful examples and live question and answer session.
1. Sendible
Best Practices for Facebook Live
12th October 2016
Luke Knight
Partnerships Manager
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2. Agenda
Leveraging Facebook Live for your events
A best practice guide to using Facebook Live to connect with your audience.
• Why is Facebook Live important?
• Suggested themes
• Visuals & audio
• Live event logistics
• Re-purposing your Facebook Live Videos
• Optimizing Facebook Live
• Who’s doing it well?
• Q&A
3. Why is Facebook Live important?
• It’s growing at a phenomenal rate
• Creates a sense of urgency
• Extends your reach
• Provides engagement & interaction
• Gives your brand a human face
• Creates a source for shareable content
4. Suggested Themes
• Broadcast from a physical event
• Report on breaking news
• Interview an influencer
• Behind the scenes
• Tutorials
• Q&A
5. Visuals & Audio
Phone & Tablet
• Simplest way
• More flexibility
• Harder to keep up with comments
• Short range audio
Desktop
• Best quality
• More stable
• Easier to answer comments
• 3rd party software integration
6. Live Event Logistics
Getting started
• Target market
• Build anticipation
• Lead capture
• Test, test, test
Framing
• Get the right angle/distance
Supporting materials
• Pre event content
Dealing with comments
• Make it personal
General features
• Groups / Categories / Maps / Reactions / Filters
7. Repurposing your Facebook Live video
No brainers
• Embed it on your website
• Upload your video to other video sites YouTube/Vimeo
• Add the video to your regular emails
• Promote the video via your affiliates/advocates
• Ask your partners to host it on their websites
• Don’t forget to post to other social media channels!!
Bit more effort…
• Create micro-content
• Write a blog related to the video
• Create a whitepaper
8. Optimize
Before the event
• Interviews with presenters and/or influencers
• Snippets of your content
• Content updates – attendees, speakers etc
• Announce the special discounts that will be available during the live
broadcast
• Use event hashtags if you broadcast from a 3rd party event
• Automated Tweets based on keyword mentions
After the event
• Identify best times to post/repurpose
• Try different times / lengths / Categories / groups (open & private)
• Popular areas/segments of your video to repurpose
• Automate your after event social media marketing
• Report on your post event social media campaigns
9. Who’s doing it well?
Gary Vaynerchuk
• AskGaryVee. Daily Vee
Tony Hawk and friends skating
• Live skating events
Andrzej Duda, President of Poland
• Broadcasting live
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Live tours of Museum
Dunkin' Donuts
• Tour of the Dunkin' Donuts test kitchen
UFC, WWE the BBC's Match of the Day and Sky's Soccer
• All used Facebook Live to create additional teaser content.
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