Welcome to Part 2 of our Meta Insight Series from Sydney based Digital Agency Remap Online.
This four-part series brings you key insights directly from Meta Senior team in Silicon Valley to help your business thrive post-pandemic.
If you missed Part 1 – you can catch up on it here. We explored why Data now Comes with a Health Warning.
As an Official Meta Marketing Partner, Remap Online have a direct line into the US that gives you behind-the-scenes access to information that other agencies simply do not have.
This week, Insight #2 will show you why creativity on mobile is just so important.
Meta’s Global Creative Director, Andrew Keller, illustrated this very clearly by outlining four main points (below).
We’re not overstating it, and we can’t stress this enough. Creativity on mobile is just so important for your brand to succeed.
Here’s why.
Firstly, (and unfortunately) creativity is the most overlooked aspect of digital advertising in Australia today. Especially by SMEs.
It’s seen by many businesses as a “nice to have” rather than a “must-have”.
Technology and all of the “tactics” you can employ to win in digital marketing tends to take centre stage in so many discussions – but on mobile, there would be very few mistakes that you could make that are bigger than this.
Creativity on mobile is just so important, and it’s nothing like TV.
It is true that cinematography, graphic design, art direction, photography and copywriting all still play lead roles. Mobile is personal and portable.
On mobile, nothing is passive. Ever. Scrolling by is always an option. An entire world of content is only ever a few taps away. This makes it hyper-competitive, and the small screen leaves no room for error.
But mobile is the dominant screen of our time, and this is especially true here in Australia.
As a population, we spend more time glued to the small portable one in our hand than we do to the larger one in our living room.
TV became the #1 screen over many decades, so brands had time to learn how to harness it. Mobile, however, has catapulted its way there far more quickly, and this is one of the fundamental reasons that creativity so often gets overlooked.
Because it’s challenging to learn and almost impossible to master, it’s too easy to wave it away because no one has the time.
But it’s far too important to let it slip.
Storytelling is (and always has been) the most potent advertising format ever used.
Telling stories on mobile, however, is a new challenge altogether.
Here are the four main points that Meta’s Global Creative Director – Andrew Keller – uses to illustrate why creativity matters more in the age of mobile:
- Content consumption on mobile is non-linear.
- Meta and especially Instagram, are visual first.
- Mobile consumption is not TV consumption.
- Different mindsets mean different perceptions.
Learn more about these four points and why creativity on mobile is just so important.
Or read the full report from Meta on Why Creativity Matters More in the Age of Mobile.
The insights in this article were supplied by Stu Stevens, Managing Director of Remap Online – an Official Meta Marketing Partner.
