Harnessing the power of visual and user generated content

What is Visual Content?

• Photos and pics – Pinterest/Instagram• Infographics – Pinterest/Blogs• Video snippets – Vine/Instagram• Slightly longer video – YouTube/Vimeo• Live video – Periscope/Meerkat/Blab/Facebook

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What is User Generated Content? (UGC)

• Posts that your audience post on your platforms such as videos, selfies, hashtags, competition entries, ratings, polls, promotions, etc

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Your customers are sharing content about your brand anyway. Use it to present your brand in a new way and develop a stronger connection with your audience?

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In Generation C, 75% of YouTube users said, ‘If there’s a brand I love, I tend to tell everybody about it’. (YouTube Insights

2013)

UGC videos are trusted 50% more than information from other sources and is 35% more memorable than other sources amongst Millennials

Three technical innovations are merging to change the way that brands relate to their customers:

• The rise of mobile broadband• Smartphones with powerful cameras• Explosion of social media

Two thirds of content is created by consumers

• 72% of internet users are active on social media, and using it every day

• Facebook - 350m photos uploaded per day• Instagram - 55m photos posted per day• Twitter – 500m tweets per day• Pinterest - 5m articles pinned per day• Youtube – 300 minutes of video uploaded every

minute

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People upload and share over 1.8 billion photos a day across Flickr, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook & WhatsApp – 21000 photos/second!

Tips on the Use of Pics in Social Media

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Visual storytelling

Tips on the Use of Pics in Social Media

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Make an emotional connection

Tips on the Use of Pics in Social Media

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Match your brand

Tips on the Use of Pics in Social Media

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Similar style of pic

Tips on the Use of Pics in Social Media

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Mobile, mobile, mobile

Tips on the Use of Pics in Social Media

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Know your audience

Tips on the Use of Pics in Social

Media

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Happy moments

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Starbucks’ White Cup Contest Customers were asked to doodle on their Starbucks cups and submit pictures as entries. The winning entry would be the template for a new limited edition Starbucks cup. Nearly 4,000 customers submitted entries in 3 weeks.

Coca-Cola’s “Share a Coke” campaign

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Tips for UGC

• Promote the campaign over your website and social profiles

• Offer consumers a prize to encourage participation• Reward customers for presenting your products or

services positively

Match your promotion type to your audience.

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Make sure that you can use the entries in your marketing campaigns

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Get rid of the red tape

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Be aware of the legal issues

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