Brand Spur Issue 5 | Page 44

Retail Guide to Instagram: How Brands can Leverage the Platform to Grow Sales Welcome to the Instagram party. It’s where we get daily fashion and beauty inspiration, selfies, awe-inducing travel pics, delicious #foodporn, images of celebrities in their natural habitat, and a whole lot more. It’s the Instagram era, and we’re just living in it. Once simply a photo-sharing tool featuring image-enhancing filters, Instagram is now considered a platform for brands and regular folks to share content, and interact with others. According to L2’s Social Platforms briefing, Instagram “accounts for more than a third of brand interactions, in contrast to Facebook’s 6%.” Brands have adjusted their focus accordingly Read more...