Images and videos should be a part of every social media team’s arsenal. You can certainly get by with text-only posts, but if you want your brand to stand out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, or another platform, you have to create compelling visual posts, too. So what if [...]
It’s nice to imagine that if you present the right facts and statistics, the sheer weight of your logical arguments will convince people to buy your product or service. But that’s not really how most people make purchasing decisions. While facts, logic, and statistics are important, emotions play a critical [...]
Instagram has quickly become one of the world’s largest social media platforms. With more than 1 billion users worldwide and more than 100 million in the US, it’s no wonder businesses are using Instagram to connect with their target audience. But just because everyone is on it doesn’t mean it’s [...]
When Instagram first came on the scene in 2010, it was hard for most companies to imagine how it would be useful. The photo-focused social platform offered few opportunities for sales-centric marketing, and hashtags could only get you so far. But a lot has changed since then. All sorts of [...]
Creating videos is expensive. Even relatively low quality videos can take up a ton of time and resources to produce. A high-quality video could take weeks or even months of time from producers, directors, camera crew, editors, motion graphic artists, and actors, not to mention the costly equipment and software [...]
Facebook’s video ad specifications aren’t all that helpful when you’re trying to decide how long to make your ad. The minimum is one second. The maximum is 240 minutes. Your ad could be longer than The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition (235 minutes) and still fit [...]
When your ads aren’t getting results, there are a lot of things that could be going on. Maybe you’ve targeted the wrong audience. Maybe your message is off—or too hard to understand. Maybe it’s just not visually appealing, or your images are competing with your message. A lot of issues [...]
Facebook is a place people go to kill time, keep up with friends, and follow their favorite brands—not to see your ads. But the more your ads imitate the things people actually enjoy about Facebook, the less they’ll feel like an unwanted interruption. The savviest digital advertisers are masters of [...]
Optimization is about ensuring you’re getting the best possible result for the least amount of money, and it’s an essential part of digital advertising. It can make the difference between a campaign that costs you money and one that makes you money. And whatever your goals are, it’s hard to [...]