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Visual search is quickly becoming an integral part of consumer search habits and digital marketing tactics.
What is Visual Search (VS)? VS uses images to promote online searches of products by consumers. Algorithms take an image online and generate buying options for that product or similar-looking products.
Check out the example below. The gray circle with a magnifying glass is part of Pinterest’s Visual Search tool.
Once you click on the tool, you’ll be taken to a page with images that match the content of your original searched Pin.
In this case, the Pinterest algorithm has understood the content of the Pin and related searches, then categorized them as "unique architecture."
Since releasing this tool in 2015, Pinterest now sees roughly 600 million visual searches monthly.
Companies like Google, Snapchat, Pinterest, and Amazon each have native visual search tools that produce image search results related to the product the consumer is looking for.
In 2018, Google Lens announced that it could detect over one billion objects.
With 62% of Millenials and GenZ preferring visual search and visual search projected to become a $40 billion industry by 2025, it’s time companies start thinking of ways they can integrate this feature into their services.
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Make sure the images on your website are optimized for size, quality, and appearance on both desktop and mobile displays.
One way is to compress your images to make sure they don’t slow down your website load time using tools like Optimizilla, CompressNow, and TinyPNG.
Image optimization on mobile sites is especially important as most people use their mobile devices to conduct image searches.
Ensure the image file names, titles, and alt-tags are SEO optimized and clearly indicate the contents and use case for each image.
Using alt-text also ensures that visually impaired users can access your images.
You should also submit your images to XML image sitemaps to make it easier for SEO website crawlers to categorize your images.
More information on image sitemaps can be found here.
According to Pinterest, 85% of weekly US Pinterest users have made a purchase based on Pins from brands.
With 478 million active monthly users globally (nearly 50% of those users in the U.S.), ranking on Pinterest for consumer brands could be a game-changer.
The platform acts as both a visual and traditional search engine, meaning that in addition to posting images with compelling content, you should also make use of keywords in your captions so the engine can categorize your content accordingly.
Pinterest has made a huge effort to grow the shoppability of their platform, making it simple for Pinners to not only save Pins but also quickly purchase items as well.
Research has shown that 47% of Pinterest users say they use the platform to find and shop for products.
Make sure you take advantage of consumers’ growing interest in visual search in order to better showcase products.
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Menu bars are a simple but great element to up your email game.
Check out this example from Native: 👇
The Pilothouse email team utilizes menus to understand where customers are clicking. Once you know what they’re shopping for, segment them!
Then use your segmenting to trigger a flow that follows up with the product they showed interest in. 👀
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