Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

If you’re working to build up your social media presence, you know that images are essential to boosting your online engagement. In fact, content with images gets almost twice as many views. If you’re not sharing images your audience loves, you’re missing out on serious engagement.

You need visual content, but figuring how to get it can be a challenge.

• Which images are best for your business?
• How can you find or create them?
• How can your images stand out among the avalanche of others on social media when Facebook alone sees more than 300 million images shared every single day?

In this post, you’ll get three great tips on how to up your social game so you can get more clicks, likes and follows. You’ll learn the elements of shareable images, what works on each platform, and design tips to create engaging images for social media....

But while it’s true that a picture can add some pizazz to your posts, it’s not always easy to determine the best type of image to publish. They can also take a long time to create, especially when you’re not sure what you’re trying to communicate.

Thankfully, deciding which format best suits your posts can be a straightforward process. In this post, I’ll outline a few simple image variations and show you when it might be best to use them. Ready to dig in? Let’s go!...

Visual content has become so prevalent that it’s no longer just a piece of the marketing industry, but its core. The widespread adoption of video across almost all platforms means that marketers need to refocus their efforts throughout 2017. An infographic from Venngage examines how marketers are using visual content and the challenges they face.

Venngage surveyed more than 300 marketers and found that the percentage using visual content as part of overall strategy is increasing. 53 percent of the survey participants said that between 91 and 100 percent of their published content contained visual material, and more than 90 percent are using visual content in at least one-half of their posts.

There seems to be a disconnect between methods and outcomes when it comes to which content marketers select. While 35 percent of the survey participants reported choosing stock images most frequently, fewer than 8 percent reported high engagement related to those photos. More than 40 percent reported infographics as most engaging, while 25 percent said the same of data visualizations and charts and 20.2 percent saw the most engagement with videos and presentations....

While GE has consumer-facing boards on Pinterest, it’s the company’s B2B boards that get the lion’s share of attention—especially its Badass Machines page. It features the “biggest and baddest technologies produced by GE.”

What’s sparking this major attraction? In a word, visuals. GE creates epic behind-the-scenes photos of everything from jet engines to gas and wind turbines. While GE’s products may not seem to be inherently visual, like food or fashion, close-up images of powerful machines are awe-inspiring. Which is why people can’t get enough of them. So much so that GE also posts the images on its popular Instagram page.