Visual outperforms text when it comes to social media engagement

According to a new study from M Booth and  Simply Measured, visual content is not only taking over the digital and social media landscape, it’s also outperforming all other mediums when it comes to engagement!

1. Videos are shared 12X more than links and text posts combined on Facebook
2. Photos are liked 2X more than text posts on Facebook
3. 48% of all Tumblr posts are photos.
4. On YouTube, 100 million users are liking, sharing or commenting on videos every week.
5. Pinterest refers more traffic than Twitter, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, and Google+ combined