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92.7% of Facebook Posts Are Now Dominated By This Format

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Marketing, Careers, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In episode #2471, we’re looking at the format dominating 92.7% of Facebook posts! We’re referring, of course, to reels. Short-form content has proven to be effective across all platforms and seems to be single-handedly reviving Facebook. Tune in to find out why reels are so popular and how you can use the timeless art of storytelling to captivate audiences across platforms. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:00] Today’s topic: The format dominates 92.7% of Facebook posts. [00:06] Is Facebook making a comeback? [00:15] How reels are reviving Facebook. [00:33] The reach of Facebook reels compared to Instagram. [00:59] Why reels are so popular? [01:27] The timelessness of storytelling as a format. [03:12] The doom-scrolling epidemic. [03:42] Why you should focus on creating short-form content to post on ALL platforms. [04:42] That’s it for today! Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe! Go to https://www.marketingschool.io to learn more! Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Don’t forget to help us grow by subscribing and liking on YouTube! Leave Some Feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with Us:  Single Grain << Eric’s ad agency NP Digital << Neil’s ad agency Twitter @neilpatel  Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

All right, so we're going to talk about how 92.7% of Facebook posts are now dominated by this format.

0:06.3

So don't sleep on Facebook because Facebook's making a comeback.

0:10.4

And well, what is the format?

0:11.8

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, it's it's real and so I don't know why I said

0:14.8

ding ding ding but it's real it's it's real so Neil I don't know if you've

0:20.0

been looking at your Facebook I've been checking my there's a meta business suite iOS

0:24.1

app that I'm using now that's like oh my reach is up because I'm just cross

0:27.8

posting my Instagram reels to Facebook reels the reach is up like 300% so go for it.

0:33.6

But the reach on Facebook for real is from what I've seen is still not as good as

0:37.9

Instagram.

0:38.9

I don't know what it's not.

0:39.9

But what's interesting is Facebook is basically becoming Tik-Tok now. There's a lot less links the way it's changing quite a bit. Have you logged into Facebook recently? Uh-huh. I have you're totally spot on look Facebook is a original OGG you know not really the OG my space was but when you look at what they did a lot of the stuff is old school

0:58.9

people don't want to see what their friends are interested and that's part of it but what they want to see is their friends are interested in. And that's part of it.

1:02.8

But what they want to see is anything they would be interested in.

1:06.0

It's not like on a daily basis I live my life being like,

1:08.6

I only want to see what my friends are interested.

1:10.9

In reality, you want to learn and see anything that would peak your curiosity.

1:16.8

And these platforms have so much data on you, and I'm not trying to say this to creep you out,

1:21.1

but they have a really good understanding of what they think you'll like

1:24.5

that they can just show it to you. Even on Instagram, dude, I love those reels. I don't know if you've seen them

1:30.4

where they break down entrepreneurs and how they've done things.

1:35.0

Everyone's doing the story formats now.

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