YouTube has been the go-to platform for thousands of content creators in India by far. But with the introduction of “Facebook Watch,” many brands and independent creators are diverging towards creating more native content than they were before. This gargantuan shift is largely attributed to the increase in Facebook’s video share by 75% of every user-uploaded video content.
At present, Facebook’s video platform generates more than 8 billion video views per day and have 135% greater organic reach than images or photos posts. Following some crucial updates, Facebook has changed its ambition from becoming the most populated social media platform in the history of the Internet to developing new ways to advertise and on its videos.
In order to put effective social media strategies in place, we need to look at the data.
We at Vidooly came up with a comprehensive report on the most popular Facebook video landscape in India for every month of 2017. The report has an analysis of the top Facebook Pages from India that focus on online video.
Methodology
The ranking is based on the number of views clocked only for the respective month.
- Only India based Facebook pages are taken into consideration.
- Indian food recipe related videos are all considered under the Food category.
- The closest relevant category is picked for pages that upload different kinds of videos.
- The popular page ranking for each category is based only on pages that upload videos consistently. There might be other pages that have more ‘Page Likes’ than the ones mentioned in the ranking, but they might not focus as much on video.
- There is a slight chance that we might have missed some pages that are popular but do not upload videos consistently.
Categorization –
We have categorized all the pages into 8 major genres – Food, Lifestyle, New age Entertainment, Traditional Entertainment, New age – News, Traditional News, Independent creators, and Sports Creators.
- Fashion & lifestyle-related Facebook pages are included in Health & Lifestyle; whereas, Food-recipe content related pages are placed separately as mentioned above. [ NOTE: Facebook pages related to brands are not included ]
- New age Entertainment brands are digital-first brands like ScoopWhoop, Being Indian, AIB etc. Traditional Entertainment brands cover movie production houses, music labels, TV channels, and Print newspapers.
- Those who make videos like comedy sketches, vlogs, tutorials etc., fall under the Independent Creators category. Do note that we have not included popular singers, sportspersons and movie stars in this list.
Facebook Pages we missed –
If we happen to miss any Facebook page that you think should be on our list, then you can shoot us an email at akshay@vidooly.com & subrat@vidooly.com.
DECEMBER – OVERVIEW
- In the Food category, Hebbar’s Kitchen is the most viewed Facebook page for the month of December.
- Wedding Style is the most viewed beauty page for the month of December.
- Wittyfeed India is the most viewed new age entertainment Facebook page.
- ABP News is the most viewed traditional news page for the month of December.
- The Amit Bhadana is the most viewed Facebook page for in comedy channels.
NOVEMBER – OVERVIEW
- Hebbar’s Kitchen is the most viewed Food and Recipe page for the month of November.
- Glamrs is the most viewed How to style Facebook page.
- ScoopWhoop and BuzzFeed India are the most viewed new age entertainment pages.
- Vijay Television is the most viewed regional Facebook page for the month of November.
- Vikatan EMagazine is the most viewed new age news Facebook page.
- ABP News is the most viewed traditional news Facebook page.
OCTOBER – OVERVIEW
- In the Food and travel category on Facebook, Curly Tales is in the sixth position.
- For Fashion and lifestyle facebook pages, POPxo is performing really well with three of their Facebook channels on the list of top 10 Fashion content creators.
- Filter copy is doing really well as they are ahead of BuzzFeed with more than 71 million video views.
- In the traditional entertainment, Vijay Television still leads all the T.V channels on Facebook with more than 151 million views.
- ScoopWhoop News leads the most viewed new age news Facebook pages with more than 30 million views.
- ABP News is leading the traditional news channel’s Facebook pages which generated more views than Dainik Bhaskar, and Aaj Tak.
- BB Ki Vines is not in the top 10 independent content creators for the first time.
SEPTEMBER – OVERVIEW
- Recipe based Facebook page called “Home Cooking“ jumped from the fourth position to third for the month of September.
- Glamrs and Hauterfly are the How-to-style pages with more than 65 million total viewership from these pages.
- There are more 6 Facebook pages from South India in the category of “Traditional entertainment”.
- The report also includes the ranking of top 100 Facebook Video Publishers in India for the month of September.
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AUGUST – OVERVIEW
- With 85 million views in the month of August, Ashqeen1 is the most viewed independent creator followed by The Amit Bhadana, Varun Purthi, and 2 Foreigners in Bollywood.
- SportsKeeda Wrestling generates more viewership than ESPNCricinfo and Cricbuzz.
- Dainik Bhaskar is the third most viewed “Traditional news” page followed by ABP LIVE.
- The report also includes the ranking of top 100 Facebook Video Publishers in India for the month of August.
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JULY – OVERVIEW
- The Lallantop is one of the most viewed Facebook new-age news creator generating more than 36 million views in the month of July.
- Ashish Chanchlani Vines and 2 Foreigners In Bollywood and BB Ki Vines are the most viewed Facebook pages for the month of April, and May with a combined viewership of more than 100 million.
- The most viewed creators for the month of July are FilterCopy, Being Indian and Buzzfeed India in the new age entertainment category.
- The report also includes the ranking of top 100 Facebook Video Publishers in India for the month of July.
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JUNE – OVERVIEW
- POPxo Food generated more video views than Yum, and Awesome Sauce India for the second spot in the Food category.
- With more than 9 million video views on Facebook, TrobleSeeker Team gained 10 places in the top New Age Entertainment channels.
- The Lallantop is the most viewed New age news channel on Facebook with video viewership of 42 million views.
- 2 Foreigners In Bollywood is the most viewed Facebook page for the month of June.
- The report also includes the ranking of top 100 Facebook Video Publishers in India for the month of June.
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MAY – OVERVIEW
- The total video viewership clocked by the top 100 Facebook Pages in the month of may is 2,829,341,945 billion Facebook Video views.
- Traditional News is the most viewed Facebook genre, followed by Traditional Entertainment, and Health & Lifestyle related pages.
- Aaj Tak topped the list of top 100 Indian Facebook pages in terms of video views.
- India times reached the top spot on the list of top Facebook New age news category.
- The report also includes the ranking of top 100 Facebook Video Publishers in India for the month of May.
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APRIL – OVERVIEW
- Awesome Sauce India gained the third spot for the month of April with more than 42 million Facebook Video views.
- Filter Copy gained first place in the new age entertainment category for Facebook Video views ahead of Being Indian, and Buzzfeed India.
- ScoopWhoop News gained the top spot in the New Age news category with more than 349 million views.
- Ashish Chanchalani vines gained the top spot in the list of Independent creators with 503 thousand video views.
- The report also includes the ranking of top 100 Facebook Video Publishers in India for the month of April.
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MARCH – OVERVIEW
- Hebbar’s Kitchen is the most viewed Food Facebook page for the month of March.
- Glamrs is the most viewed fashion and beauty Facebook page for the month of March.
- The Tamil language still dominates the Facebook video viewership with more than 53 million views for Vijay Television.
- MTV Roadies gained some momentum with more than 14 million Facebook Video views as the TV show is on the air for the month of March.
- The report also includes the ranking of top 100 Facebook Video Publishers in India for the month of March.
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FEBRUARY – OVERVIEW
- Out of the top 10 in the category, 7 pages are related to Food!
- Fashion and lifestyle content is yet to go big on Facebook India when compared to food-related content.
- The top 50 Facebook pages of “Traditional News” media clock over 575 Million views in Feb 2017.
- Many popular YouTubers do not focus much on video on Facebook since monetization is not yet launched in India. Varun Pruthi has been consistently at the top of the list.
- The report also includes the ranking of top 100 Facebook Video Publishers in India for the month of February.
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JANUARY – OVERVIEW
- Hebbar’s Kitchen has been consistently clocking over 50 million video views every month since last year. Food-related pages are gaining massive traction on Facebook in India in the last 6 months.
- The recipe for success is different from YouTube and Facebook. That’s why you don’t see all the popular YouTube channels doing well on Facebook.
- Zee Kannada and Vijay Television are a couple of pages that found a place in the top 10 in January. Thus regional video content is going to gain more traction this year with increased smartphone penetration and better internet connectivity.
- The report also includes the ranking of top 100 Facebook Video Publishers in India for the month of January.
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Akshay Chandra
Being an artist, movie buff and a media enthusiast, content writing is my career train. I am a proud alumni of Symbiosis Institute of Media Communication (Pune) and currently working for Vidooly.
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