19 Facebook Live Statistics That Will Make You Start Broadcasting Right Now

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Nothing beats visually appealing images and content for garnering huge amounts of engagement. What more if it's done live?

Last year, Facebook released a new feature called Facebook Live testing it out first for celebrities. Now, Facebook Live is available to everyone. Users now have a capability to share live-streaming videos on their Facebook account while your family and friends comment on it as it streams.

People love authenticity. Facebook Live videos will give you an "into-the-moment" feels, potentially increasing your views, shares and audience reach.

If you haven't heard of it yet, you are missing out a lot on the social media game. Not convinced yet? Here are 20 Facebook Live statistics that will surely make you start your first broadcast, now.

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FACEBOOK LIVE STATISTICS

[bctt tweet="People spend 3x longer watching video which is Live compared to video which is no longer Live. (SocialMediaToday)" username="kennyjahng"]

FACEBOOK VIDEO STATISTICS

[bctt tweet="Facebook users have watched more than one million hours with Samsung VR gear. (SocialMediaToday)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="The number of videos posted per person increased by users increased by 75% in 2015. (SocialMediaToday)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="Video posts have 135% greater organic reach than photo posts. (SocialMediaToday)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="Facebook generates 8 billion video views on average per day. (SocialMediaToday)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="The number of video posts per person increased by 94% in the USA and 75% globally in 2015. (Facebook Newsroom)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="Facebook now sees 100 million hours of daily video watch time. (TechCrunch)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="Users sharing video on retail and brand sites chose Facebook 46 percent of the time, with email accounting for 40 percent and Twitter capturing 14 percent of shares. (ReelnReel)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="People around the world are posting 75% more videos to Facebook than they did a year ago. (ReelnReel)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="The number of videos showing up in people’s news feeds has increased by 360% compared to last year. (ReelnReel)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="It seems that as Facebook transformed itself into a mobile-first company over the past few years, it is now being converted into a video-first property. (ReelnReel)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="Video views on Facebook grew by 50% between May 2014 and July 2014. (ReelnReel)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="More than 65% of those views are happening on smartphones and tablets. (ReelnReel)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="People are posting 94% more videos to Facebook. (ReelnReel)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="Brands posted 20,000 more videos on Facebook than on YouTube in Dec 2014. (ReelnReel)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="Starting in Jan content marketers have been uploading vids to Facebook directly: 50% increase from Jan-May. (ReelnReel)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="For video, that network is now Facebook. And it looks like that fact is here to stay. (ReelnReel)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="50% of Americans who use Facebook on a daily basis also watch at least 1 video on it every day. (BusinessInsider)" username="kennyjahng"]

[bctt tweet="Facebook's share of video posts uploaded directly to Fb overtook YouTube's videos on Fb for 1st time, according to Socialbakers' analysis of 20k Fb Pages." username="kennyjahng"]