Jun 12, 2018

4 VISUAL MARKETING TIPS FOR A BRAND

visual marketing by ko-kane

Visual platforms have dominated the social media space for few years now and have created a shift. The domination of YouTube, Pinterest and Instagram has made social media an increasingly visual platform over the past couple of years. Users find content more engaging when it’s accompanied by visual.

Now users are limited to shorter text (twitter – 140 characters), while longer post runs the risk of being ignored whereas graphics and videos can more rapidly provide information, often in more engaging and fun way. For example see below Infographic in which we have shared some tips for you. It’s more appealing to look at and easy to grasp…isn’t? 🙂

Here are some facts and tips without the visuals:

YouTube

  • 300 hours of video are uploaded to Youtube every minute
  • 3.25 billion hours of video watched every month
  • On average, there are 1000,000,000 mobile video views per day
  • 9% of US small businesses use YouTube


Pinterest

  • 100 million users
  • 42% female users
  • The best time to pin is Saturday from 8pm-11pm
  • 66% of content that users Pin comes from brand websites


Instagram

  • 400 million monthly active users
  • 80 million photos are uploaded each day
  • 90% of instagram users are younger than 35
  • 37% follow between 1-5 brand accounts

*( facts provided by brandwatch)

We state our point clearly here that how visuals are more powerful and fun. You must have heard that a picture is worth 1000 words, and the same concept applies with graphics and videos They have the ability to create an emotional appeal and, to do so, is the most important element of visual marketing.

Now lets find out how a brand can leverage it? Here are some tips to make a bold statement on social media.

  • Whenever possible use visuals
  • Create original visual content
  • Crowd source visual content
  • Create community and share visuals
  • Connect and promote your brand visually


MIX IT UP

  • Tweet images & Pinterest pins
  • Use more images on FB
  • Include quality images on blog
  • Add caption & descriptions to images and video
  • Add #tags and keywords to images description
  • Bold *Call to Action*

We hope this post was useful and love to hear your thoughts.

KK – Team

Category
UI/UX