"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language." - Walt Disney Readers are more likely to view and remember blog posts that include visual content. According to speakerBOX , content with images get 94% more views than content without pictures. Also: 90%of information sent to our brain is visual, and visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text. Xerox researchers learned colored visuals increase people's willingness to read content by 80%. Facebook updates with images get 2.3 times more engagement than posts without images. 8 Reasons to Include VISUALS in Your Content Storytelling is not limited to text, visual images help convey our message. I like to incorporate original content when possible, but the pictures I find on sites like Photopin , Pixabay , and Flickr , are creative and of higher quality than what I can typically take with my smartphone. Photopin is my first stop...
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