Snapchat! Facebook! Instagram! Other than all being social platforms what do they have in common? “Stories!” Snapchat created the original Stories feature where users could upload snippets of their life and offered fun photo filters that would change your face, voice or background. In the past nine months, both Instagram and Facebook have released their own Stories feature and it looks almost identical to Snapchat’s version.
Where should you tell your Story?
So now that the three big social media platforms have the same feature, which one should you use to tell your Story? Well first off, Facebook is seeing incredibly slow growth in utilization of the Story feature. Additionally, Facebook isn’t allowing Facebook Pages to create a Story yet, as this is currently only for individual profiles. We imagine this will be rolled out to Pages and advertisers sometime over the next year.
The advantage of Instagram Stories is that if you already have a maintained Instagram profile, you do not need to acquire new followers like with Snapchat – you have instant reach because of your existing followers. Additionally, Instagram Stories has surpassed Snapchat with the most daily users, with 50 million users using Stories!
Not surprisingly, there has been a significant decline in Snapchat usage and downloads since the launch of Instagram Stories. The functionality is just too similar. However, Snapchat has captured a much younger audience than Instagram, which is heavily used by Millennials that are starting to move into their thirties. Snapchat is still the perfect platform to capture this younger audience.
One of the great things about Stories is that you can save the video to your device from any of the three platforms, so there really is no reason to choose just one! Get out and make some great content and post it to Snapchat, save it and then upload it to Instagram Stories and finally head over to Facebook and upload your video to your Page’s timeline! Someday you should be able to upload directly to Facebook stories, but in the meantime, newsfeed videos are still very attention grabbing and successful.
As you know, video content is king, so get out that phone and start creating content!
