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The best ways to engage Facebook users with your status updates?

Author's avatar By Expert commentator 19 Dec, 2013
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Alert - new research shows popularity of sharing types for different content types and formats

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Recommended link: The Social Intelligence Report: Adobe Digital Index Q3, 2013

Interested in finding out how content is shared across Facebook and how to improve engagement, then Adobe Digital's regular consumer research report will provide some of these answers.

Adobe Digital's quarterly report analyses consumer Facebook data, over two years, from retail, media, entertainment, travel and websites. Their survey analysed 131 billion Facebook ad impressions, 400 million unique visitors, 1.04 billion Facebook posts and over 4 billion Facebook comments, shares and likes.

These are some highlights on Facebook engagement, though the full report shares information on ROI, click volume, geo-targeted posts, geographical and industry social sentiment.

Types of Facebook posts that engage?

Social engagement increases when posts include an image or video; posts with an image increase by 600% compared to a text link.

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Most popular sharing types on Facebook

As expected, the majority of engagement comes from Facebook 'Likes' - accounting for 87% of all social engagement. An example of this shows that on average a brand post would have 946 Likes, 88 shares and 55 comments.

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A tip is to add geo-targeting to your brand post to increase relevance.

We hope these charts may help you tweak how you or colleagues use Facebook.

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