As you know, at BuzzSumo we love discovering insights from big data. We took this to a new level in January when we analyzed over 1 billion posts from 30m brand pages on Facebook. We shared our findings with Neil Patel, who pulled out the key insights from this research for marketers. You can read his post on the implications for Facebook marketing here.
We have summarised the key findings from the research and analysis in the slides below.
In summary, the core findings are as follows:
- The post formats that get the most engagement are questions and images.
- Short form text posts of less than 50 characters get the most interaction. It seems Facebook is not a place for reading but finding and engaging.
- Videos that are directly embedded get over six times the engagement of embedded YouTube videos.
- Surprisingly posts without hashtags get more interaction than posts with hashtags.
- Posts published between 10 PM and Midnight of your audience’s local time get the most engagement. It seems publishing when there are less posts being published, and vying for attention, increases engagement. Thus you should zig when others zag.
- Posts published on Sunday get more engagement on average. Again this seems due to less competition from other posts.
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