About a year and a half ago, I started doing a lot more short videos for my business and promoting them on Facebook. It worked for a while... then it just dropped in effectiveness.

My email newsletter still reaches people who want to read what I have to say. It's just a plain text email. No fancy graphics.

So yes, people do still read. Video can be a great way to learn specific things (how to videos are great), but for a lot of things it is better to search for specific text and read.