Seeing is believing.
These days, social media is an accumulation of content hoping to be noticed through the crowd and clutter. To cut through the noise, brands are telling a more impactful story through visuals as a way to better connect and engage consumer audiences.
Whether it’s through graphics, informative charts or videos, consumers and businesses alike are becoming reliant on visually stimulating content to fully grasp a brands marketing campaign. Here is a list of visual content marketing tools that can help your brand improve engagement.
Canva
Canva is an amazing graphic design platform simple for everyone. Create designs for web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and much more. You can also upload photos and graphics that can be stored into folders for reuse on future designs. Editing never came easier with tools for filtering, cropping, layering, texts and elements to make your graphics stand out.
Rawpixel
People love to see high-quality images that make them look twice. Rawpixel is ‘redefining stock imagery’ with a unique design and concepts you can use for repurposing for all of your need. These images are royalty-free and costs you nothing to download!
PlaceIt
Ever wonder how brands place their logos on iPhone images? No Photoshop needed here! PlaceIt lets you choose from thousands of iPhone, iPad, iMac and Macbook Mockups to create your own unique marketing graphics. This is a great way to showcase your designs in ‘realistic’ environments.
Piktochart
Take your visual communication to the next level with Piktochart. Create easy infographics, reports, and presentations using themes that requires very little effort. These visually enticing infographics are viewable online with multiple clickable elements for users. Help your brand’s audience visualize important news, updates and trends.
Slideshare
Get inspiration for your visual content by browsing other people’s work. While this isn’t an actual content creation tool, Slideshare offers users the ability to upload and share publicly or privately PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios. This is a great way to generate buzz on your work and get noticed by others.
Silk
Silk is a data publishing platform for anyone to browse specific topics. Users can sift through ‘silks’ to explore data and create interactive charts, maps and webpages. Use this program to make a fully interactive site that engages users and encourages them to play with your data.
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