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Getting your content shared by us need not be difficult. We're always on the lookout for fantastic, relevant content to share with our audience to inspire people on where they can visit in Scotland. A very effective way for us to do this is to showcase the content that industry, bloggers and visitors produce.
Our consumer social media activity aims to make Scotland one of the most desired destinations in the world. We do so by reaching new audiences with engaging content they will want to share to help spread the message.
Our audience want something that motivates them to explore for themselves. So, our content must be genuine and accessible to visit. We’re not so keen on staged, publicity-styled, commercial posts, or heavily branded or digitally altered photos.
We want to show the real Scotland. Images and video that are square or portrait work best for us. We also want to focus on the destination and not any sales or promotional messaging.
We’re always on the lookout for posts that are high in quality, have a location mentioned and have some further information provided, for example:
Join in our social media activities on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.
Our consumer Facebook page has a global audience with high levels of engagement. It mainly uses user generated content to show beautiful and inspiring images from all over Scotland. We encourage you to share your images, videos and stories in our Facebook group or to post your content directly to our wall. These posts will then sit on the visitor post section of our page which we check daily.
Make sure you use our hashtags (#VisitScotland and #ScotlandIsCalling). And don't forget to include a hashtag of the location as well as the region of Scotland. This is also checked daily - but on average we get 40,000 uses of this hashtag every month. Make sure your caption includes key information (location, region, facts, tips) to make it easier for us to find what we're looking for.
Add our handle @VisitScotland to your tweets for us to see them. We also check #VisitScotland and #ScotlandIsCalling on Twitter.
We like to retweet to make sure we're giving our audience a variety of content. This must:
TikTok has been the fastest growing social media platform over the past few years. It disrupted the established platforms and shaped their trends.
TikTok has a greater reach to a younger audience than our established channels. So, the Social team were keen to get stuck in and start leveraging this audience. Check out our @visitscotland TikTok channel that we quietly launched early June 2022. On it, we post a mix of user generated content from trusted creators and content produced by our Social and Multimedia teams.