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.

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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: jreed@zocalogroup.com LinkedIn: JessicaReed09 Twitter: JessicaReed09

Sources: EVZdrop, HubSpot, Curalate, Hello! Society, PinLeague, ROI Research,

Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Dan Zarrella, Mashable, Pinterest

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