Thanksgiving is a popular national holiday for brands as it provides them an opportunity to boost both sales and engagement with their clients. This infographic is a selection of Thanksgiving-related content by brands on social from 2012 through 2017.
While Facebook was once the preferred method of engagement, it has decreased in popularity in recent times. Brands now seem to be shifting to Instagram—for instance, in 2017, Instagram achieved two and ninety times more engagement than Facebook and Twitter respectively. On all these platforms, posts containing images were more successful on the engagement front. Image posts garnered eleven, five, and three times more interactions than those containing video or text on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter respectively.
In 2017, the hospitality industry posted the most about Thanksgiving. The highest engagement, however, was garnered by retail and consumer electronics brands for their posts focusing on discounts, special offers, and family-related themes.
This infographic can help you get inspired if you’re trying to create relevant social media content. These engaging content ideas can be developed further to suit your brand’s social media goals, tone, messaging style, principles, and more.
The ideas presented here were mined from Unmetric’s branded content catalog, Discover. With Unmetric Discover, you can search for any topic from over 500 million pieces of branded content, monitor trending topics and hashtags, zero in on the latest and the most engaging content published, and plan campaigns in advance using our calendar of important days, events, and holidays.
Infographic Source: https://unmetric.com/how-brands-engage-their-audience-for-Thanksgiving-Day