Three content trends are exploding right now that every social media manager should be integrating into their strategy. In my 2016 Social Fresh Workshop, we spent 90 minutes discussing and creating Content that Moves, Sings and Smiles
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LETS ALL AGREE ON THESE POINTS
CONTENT TRENDS RIGHT NOW
1. SOCIAL CHANNELS AS CONTENT HUBS
2. TARGETED REACH TRUMPS MASS REACH
3. SOCIAL MEDIA IS NOT FREE
5. VIDEO ON THE SMALL SCREEN
Cisco predicts mobile video will make up 69% of the
world’s internet traffic by 2018.
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CONTENT THAT MOVES
VIDEO IS KEY IN EVERY SOCIAL CHANNEL
▸ Social channels optimize for video that
is posted directly into their channel,
natively,
▸ Video links from YouTube, etc. are not
rewarded in news feed algorithms
▸ Will continue to see social channels
building out video functionality to
capture and keep audience attention.
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2.8X
A VIDEO UPLOADED DIRECTLY TO
TWITTER IS 2.8 TIMES MORE LIKELY
TO BE AMPLIFIED THAN VIDEO
SHARED FROM ANOTHER PLATFORM
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CONTENT THAT MOVES
KEYS TO PRODUCING SUCCESSFUL VIDEO FOR SOCIAL
▸ Lead with the take-home message or
call to action in the first 5 seconds
▸ Audiences won't stop scrolling to watch
through the end of every video
▸ Facebook counts a view after 3 seconds,
YouTube counts at 30 seconds
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CONTENT THAT MOVES
MAKE VIDEOS THAT SPEAK VOLUMES (WITHOUT SOUND)
▸ Assume your video is
watched on mute when
viewed in social media.
▸ Use captions, graphics, and
animation effectively to
present the full message,
or get users to click on the
video to hear the audio.
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CONTENT THAT MOVES
SEVERAL OPTIONS TO CREATE AND PRODUCE EFFECTIVE VIDEOS:
▸ GIFs, Cinemagraphs and Animations
▸ Under 10 seconds: Vine, Snapchat
▸ up to 140 seconds: Instagram, Twitter
▸ Longform and series
▸ Live: Periscope, Facebook Live, YouTube Live
▸ New Perspectives: 360* and Virtual Reality
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EMOJIS 😎
EMOJI WAS NAMED
WORD OF THE YEAR IN
2015 BY OXFORD
DICTIONARY, SIGNALING
A MAJOR SHIFT IN
CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
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EMOJIS AREN’T FILLER
FOUR IN 10 MILLENNIALS
SAID THEY WOULD
RATHER COMMUNICATE
WITH PICTURES THAN
WITH WORDS
Source: Deep Focus - The Cassandra Report
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EVERYONE USES EMOJI
LESS THAN 8% OF
ONLINE POPULATION
USES EMOJI LESS
THAN ONCE A YEAR
Source: Deep Focus - The Cassandra Report
Source: 2015 Emogi report
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CONTENT THAT SMILES
INTEGRATE EMOJI INTO YOUR MARKETING
▸ Email subject lines
▸ Mobile push notifications
▸ Traditional print / display advertising
▸ Replies and comments in social media
▸ Calls to action
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CONTENT THAT SMILES
ADOPTING EMOJI
▸ More than 120K characters are available for adoption
▸ Bronze: $100
▸ Silver: $1,000 (limited to five silver sponsors)
▸ Gold: $5,000 (exclusivity at gold level)
▸ Details at http://unicode.org/consortium/adopt-a-character.html
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CONTENT THAT SMILES
NEW! TWITTER STICKERS
‣ Stickers behave like
hashtags, are clickable within
the Twitter image.
‣ Allows Twitter to aggregate
tweets with images that have
the same sticker.
‣ See how and why other
people are using stickers in
their images