A pet-insurance brand used a cute emoji overlaid on a woodland scene to stop the scroll on Instagram, then pivoted to a serious message about dog waste and responsible ownership. Timing posts around World Environment Day and National Dog Day helped reach the right audience.
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Today we're looking at how using a fun image can create that stop scroll effect. Now, stop scroll effect on Instagram is quite literal. It is to stop me from scrolling past and moving on to another person's image. Now, this is just super cute. So here you've used the little emoji, and it is being superimposed in some woodlands. And the idea is it's by purely pet insurance. And they have done it because they want to talk about what happens, what happens to dog doo doo, if you like, when you don't pick it up. And then they're talking here about how it actually works, what you should actually do. It's very much using a funny image to kind of grab followers attention, but then using the caption to talk about something more serious. And I think what's really good is that they also use a lot of national days to. To bring more traffic to their page. So here it is, World Environment Day, which is why they're talking about it and talking about people being responsible pet owners equally. You can see they've used National Dog Day, they've done bring your dog to work day, that kind of thing. So national days is a way of them making sure that they drive more of the right people to their feed. And then they've used a fun image to actually then hammer home something that's much more important to them.