Picture Perfect Advertising, Best Practices for Using Images in Native Advertising

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Best Practices for Visual Marketing

PICTURE PERFECT ADVERTISING

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A PICTURE MAY BE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS...

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BUT CERTAIN ELEMENTS OF THE PICTURE CAN

BE PRICELESS

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But you're probably asking yourself...Where do I begin? What works? What doesn’t? And what exactly is native advertising, once and for all?

SO YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT EXECUTING SOME KILLER NATIVE ADS

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Products in action (product set in real environment) vs. products in isolation (product by its lonesome) accounted for 6x more shares.

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pump up the CHROMA

pop with tropic BRIGHTS

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IMAGE IS EVERY THING

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Don’t be so quick to use the photo of that fabulous model on the catwalk. Real-life models in natural settings drove 45% higher CTR and generated 15x more shares than models in posed, studio environments.

MODEL REAL PEOPLE

MODEL IMAGES

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Sending users to a product gallery vs. a stand-alone product resulted in 72% more page visits and 164% more time spent on a brand’s site.

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Women were 2x more likely then men to share an image on social media. Women were also more likely to share products that were targeted to men vs. men themselves.

MEN SHARING WOMEN SHARING

SHARING IS CARING

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SOCIAL AMPLIFICATION

THE POWER OF A SOCIAL SHARE

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CTR for in-feed ads were 6x higher than ads on the right rail.(YHQ�ZLWK�ODUJHU�DGV�RQ�WKH�ULJKW�UDLO��PHWULFV�ZHUH�QRW�DHFWHG�Banner blindness anyone?

IN-FEED RIGHT-RAIL

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In-feed, below the fold ads still out-performed ads on the right rail, above the fold, with CTR 270% higher. Performance remained constant no matter where the in-feed ad was placed.

BELOW THE FOLD RIGHT-RAIL

RISING TO THE TOP

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CAPTURE THE PICTURE PERFECT IMAGE

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Blog & Social Media Pages

Where images are being used to tell brand stories.

Product Galleries

The product says it all, showcase it!

Social Media Followers Many of your customers are

acting as brand ambassadors.

As you can tell, a picture is worth a thousand words, but every picture has its own value. 7KH�W\SH�RI�LPDJH�\RX�FKRRVH�WR�XVH��DQG�ZKHUH�LW�UXQV��FRXOG�KDYH�D�VXEVWDQWLDO�HHFW�RQ�brand awareness and customer engagement.

Worried you don’t have enough images? Don’t sweat it! You don’t have to stage an elaborate photo shoot or hire professional models - chances are your brand assets can be tuned into powerful ads. Keep in mind some of the tips we presented here and pull from the following resources:

SOURCING IMAGES

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BRING YOUR ADVERTISING INTO FOCUS

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