Choosing the right channels.

For online marking using social media is a very strong platform to advertise, the most popular social media sites in 2019 are;

(MAUs stands for Monthly Active Users, and MUVs stands for Monthly Unique Visitors.)

• Facebook – 2.23 billion MAUs.
• YouTube – 1.9 billion MAUs.
• WhatsApp – 1.5 billion MAUs.
• Instagram – 1 billion MAUs.
• Tik Tok – 500 million MAUs.
• Twitter – 335 million MAUs.
• Snapchat – 255 million MAUs

(Lua, 2020)

For myself I will use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter as my Social Media Marketing channels, in my personal life I only use Instagram, but I can see how the others can help my marketing campaign, but I will need to set up a company only profile for each. Now I do have one on Instagram with a small following, but it can do with more work and more updates on my progress.

Page design.

So I have set an in Instagram for my company ‘forrest fire studios’ it's important to keep consistent with business branding so over all platforms consumers can recognise the brand. Here is the front page of my profile I have done a small introduction and have a link to my company’s website.

https://www.instagram.com/forrest_fire_studios/

Use hashtags and tags.

A lot of social media platforms have the tools to use hashtag and tag people or businesses. This is a good way to help boosts the visibility of your posts (Bagadiya, 2020).  I have a list of hashtags that I have saved, to copy and paste onto every post I make, and I can edit as I go.

 here is an example of what I use.

• #games
• #videogames
• #dev
• #design
• #gamesDrawing
• #gamestudio
• #forrestfiresstuios
• #conceptart
• #art
• #portfolio
• #code
• #coding
• #gamedev
• #unreal
• #leveldesign

Viral Marketing.

Using viral marking is powerful to get your ad out there, but it works by people sharing and reporting the content and then getting shared and posted again spreading like virus hence the name viral marketing,

It work by making an image or a video and putting on the internet with your target audience in mind and you just have to sit and wait to be picked up and carried on by the people, most things don’t and die because it’s not as infectious as you thought. Something things you didn’t except to go viral do. (Fraile, 2020) 

I have worked on films that use prank videos to be used as viral marketing that leads back to promote the film; it was successful and promoted the film and the main villain charter now is cosplayed round the world.

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