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85%

85% -- videos watched without sound for Facebook videos (2017)

2017  · Digiday

85% of videos on Facebook are watched without sound according to Digiday.

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85%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2017
Entity
Facebook videos
Geography
Global
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Digiday Primary Tier C
https://virtualcauseway.com/video-will-dominate-marketing-landscape-year/ ↗
Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2017 Channel: Deep Crawl
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Video Will Dominate The Marketing Landscape This Year
Hop on the bandwagon, you’re missing out! Last year we saw the importance of visual content, such as video, emphasized by the changes that took place across almost every major social network such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter. Most notable were the launch of Facebook and Instagram’s …
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Period Value Change
2017 (current) 85%
2025 85% 0%
IndustryMedia RegionGlobal RoleAll marketers Channelsocial
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Facebook videos: 85% videos watched without sound. Source: Digiday (2017). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/facebook-videos-watched-without-sound
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/facebook-videos-watched-without-sound" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>85%</strong> -- videos watched without sound for Facebook videos<br><small>Source: Digiday (2017) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/facebook-videos-watched-without-sound" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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