The organic reach of brand content in Facebook posts is rapidly dwindling, to the point you can expect it to peter out to nothing in the coming months.
In general, brands have not tended to rely on Facebook for traffic since it dramatically reduced
the organic reach of branded content a little over three years ago, forcing brands to pay for reach or go elsewhere for traffic.
Not exact matches
Forrester VP and principal analyst Nate Elliot writes in a blog post marketers couldn't «count on much
organic reach or engagement anyway» and points to an Ogilvy report which stated large
brands» Facebook posts
reached only 2 percent
of fans.
With the rise
of paid social options, it's no surprise that
organic reach has become more difficult for
brands.
A survey
of 200
brands found that those that drive the highest
organic reach on Twitter utilize one or more
of these tactics:
A gradual, but noticeable shift in the Facebook and Instagram algorithm, plus an influx
of brand advertising on Facebook, meant that it was important for us to either start experimenting or we'd continue to see a decline in
organic reach and engagement.
Off the back
of this update, many marketers and
brands were curious whether their
organic reach would take another hit.
Many large
brands are realizing that the
organic reach of unpaid social media marketing channels especially Facebook continues to decline.
Some
of that
organic reach may have simply have been seeing in your timeline that a friend (whom you hardly even know) liked a certain
brand (that you hardly even care about!).
As Facebook's
organic reach continues to decline and new social media platforms emerge every day capturing the attention
of millennials,
brands are diversifying their investment in social media marketing.
By: Karina Munoz As Facebook's
organic reach continues to decline and new social media platforms emerge every day capturing the attention
of millennials,
brands are diversifying their investment in social media marketing.
Looking at more than 670,000 posts by 4,445
brand pages (not including celebrity, entertainment or media pages) between October 2014 and February 2015, Socialbakers found that video posts had
organic reach of 8.71 %, meaning an average
of nearly nine fans out
of 100 see such posts.
With the
reach of organic media dwindling, and
brands competing for impressions and clicks, providing your employees with strategic
brand and industry content ensures that your company's message is communicated in the appropriate voice and on diverse channels.
Analysts predicted that
brand owners might soon have to start paying in order to
reach out to their fans - and their worst fears were not unfounded after all because while the
organic reach of pages on the site was falling with every new algorithm roll out, that
of sponsored posts was on the rise.
At a side when the
organic reach of business pages is almost dead, the social networking giant is introducing features, such as Call to actions buttons and many more for to benefit
brands.
By February 2014, according to a Social@Ogilvy analysis
of more than 100
brand pages,
organic reach hovered at 6 percent, a decline
of 49 percent from peak levels in October.
Mark Schaefer and Tom Webster analyzed data on 8,000 Facebook pages (data courtesy
of AgoraPulse) to identify how
brands were impacted by the apparent drop in
organic reach.
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«We're finding that
brands benefit a great deal from this
organic media, both in terms
of their
reach and the customer response,» said Kim Westwood, managing director
of Shopping Links.
While
organic reach is best in terms
of SEO, advertising on Facebook to promote your author
brand and drive traffic to your author website has definite advantages.
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