I very much agree with Ed in both accounts: 1) video production requires a professional team 2) Views were fairly high for the limited promotion and such put into sharing the videos.
I think though our social media reach in 2014 was a lot better because we had a lot if volunteers working around communications. Naureen On Friday, 14 August 2015, Edward Saperia <[email protected]> wrote: > > However, I would suggest looking hard at the stats on how often videos are >>> viewed (and if there is a way to know if they are viewed all the way >>> through or not). >> >> >> For Wikimania 2014, the Youtube page >> <https://www.youtube.com/user/WikimaniaLondon/videos> and livestream >> <https://livestream.com/wikimania> show some stats (videos are also >> available in Commons so some views may not be captured in the former >> pages). On livestream, were videos were shared first, the most viewed video >> shows 2,359 views, it is not hard to find videos in the 100-500 view range, >> and others just have less than 20 views. >> > > It's certainly a professional job to get all the session video produced > and published in good time after the conference. No volunteer team could do > this, it requires a LOT of equipment, professional expertise and hard work. > > To me, the view numbers seem *excellent -* if you consider the conference > in terms of price-per-attendee, spending <5% more so that additional > hundreds can see the content is an order of magnitude better value. > > *Edward Saperia* > Conference Director Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.com> > email <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> • facebook > <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter > <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 > 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG > > -- *Naureen Nayyar* Norabean.com +1.646.481.6672 @norabean
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