Thursday, 9 June 2016

Nike vs. Under Armour - Which one is more active on YouTube?

Which brand promotes more through YouTube video ads?
By: Zonaira Lone

Nike posts about 4-5 videos in a month to promote their professional athletes, introduce a new shoe design, trailers for web series, commercials, behind the scenes footage, and campaign ads. Under Armour posts on average 9 videos in a month to their channel. The content on their channel includes promotional videos for new technology products, new shoes and sportswear, commercials, and professional athlete videos. In the description box under Nikes videos, they describe what the video is about using some keywords and a link that leads you to their website where you can learn more about the campaign, read the athletes story, or the product page. Under Armour describes what the video is about including the hashtag for the campaign, a link leading to the product page on their website, and sometimes it includes the name of the soundtrack.

On Nikes Running channel, they have a total of 74,315 subscribers on their channel, 21,550,458 views, 254 videos and 5 links to other social sites. Nikes most successful video on their YouTube channel is the promo for the Nike Air Zoom Elite 8 running shoes. I believe this was a successful video post because of the unique way Nike compared the shoe to the mechanisms of a fast car. It must have intrigued runners to want to try the shoe considering its advertised for its performance.

Check out the full video here.

On Under Armours channel, they have 118,228 subscribers, 59,600,768 views, 305 videos, and 2 social links. Under Armours most successful video is their #RuleYourself campaign ad with Michael Phelps. This video must have become very successful because of how much Under Armour has advertised the campaign on their other social media platforms. The campaign is very encouraging and inspiring, which is the reason why so many viewers became so engaged with the campaign ad.

To watch the full campaign ad click here.

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