visual content strategy for brands
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Images are proliferating social media, on visual networks like Pinterest and Instagram and proving more effective on Facebook and Twitter. Users are more likely to engage with brands that post pictures, so check out these best practices for visual content strategy, tactics for executing images in social media and resources for finding visual inspiration. There are also a few apps to check out for where visuals may go next, including ThingLink and DigiSocial.TRANSCRIPT
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June 2013
@JessicaReed09
WHY AND HOW OF VISUAL STRATEGY FOR BRANDS IN SOCIAL MEDIA
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Why Images?
83% of learning
occurs visually
90% of information transmitted to the brain
is visual
Images are processed 60,000X
faster in the brain than
text
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Why Now in Social?
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Images Taking Over Social Media
500 million photos are shared per day on average so far in 2013, which is on pace to become a 2x increase by the end of 2013, compared to share volume in 2012
“70% of all social media actions involve a picture” - Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Harvard University
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44% of users are more likely to engage with brands if they post pictures than any other media.
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Image Strategy
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Best Practices
Editorial
No faces
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Best Practices
Include Mascot
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“Quotes account for 10% of Pinterest’s traffic”
Best Practices
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Best Practices
Red Hues
Multiple Dominant
Colors
50% Color Saturation
Medium
Lightness
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Best Practices
Background no more than
40% of total image area
Vertical =
Better
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Description & Hashtag
To be
shared,
it must
be
found!
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Tactics
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Management Systems
Be Efficient
Be Responsive
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Pinnable Mail
Email templates to feature specific pins with call-to-action
Ensures Pinterest users receive email featuring images on topics they’ve recently pinned
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Contests
for the Win
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Gather the Influence
3,604,241
Followers
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Amplify through Paid
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Measure
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Analytic Platforms Offer More
Only about 10% of conversations mention
a brand explicitly on Pinterest
Track which images are being shared, when and where they’re shared to determine the why that will influence strategy
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Analytic Platforms Offer More
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Resources
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Popular Images
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Popular Images
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Where to go next?
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Add rich media tags to an
image to make it interactive
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150MM snaps shared daily globally vs. Instagram 40MM/Day
SnapChat
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DigiSocial
Audio with Images
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Questions? Jessica Reed Emerging Media Strategist Zócalo Group Email: [email protected] LinkedIn: JessicaReed09 Twitter: JessicaReed09
Sources: EVZdrop, HubSpot, Curalate, Hello! Society, PinLeague, ROI Research,
Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Dan Zarrella, Mashable, Pinterest