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How to Use Visuals to Strengthen Your Social Media Posts

by Jennifer Clare|May, 2017

Visual media has become a must on social media. Studies show that social media users across all platforms respond better to and interact more with pictures and images compared to plain text. Tweets with images receive 150 percent more retweets than tweets without images. Facebook posts with images see twice as much engagement as those without. And Instagram, a platform specifically designed for image-sharing, recorded more than 500 million users in June 2016. Read more

Using Instagram Stories to Build Reader Engagement

by Phil Stamper-Halpin with Natasha Minoso|March, 2017

In January, we hosted a webinar on Instagram Stories with Natasha Minoso from our consumer engagement team. She offered tips and best practices on how to make the most of this new addition to Instagram. Read more