how brands celebrate father's day on social media

Father’sDayonSocialMedia

Jan1st,2012– Dec31st,2015

How Brands Celebrate Father’s Day on Facebook

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The Idea

We looked at the data to see how brands have evolved their messaging over the years around Father’s Day and understand how important this holiday has become for them.

What Does Father’s Day Even Have To Do With Social Media?

Father’s Day is a holiday to celebrate and appreciate fathers all over the world. Brands on Facebook can join in the festivities by creating interesting content that pertains to Father’s Day, for a bump in reach, and consequently potential consumers by hopping onto the Trending train.

Do Brands Even Care About Father’s Day?

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How much do brands even care about Father’s Day? Brands across social media are increasingly realizing the potential of posting content across social media.

When Is Father’s Day?

Father’s Day is celebrated on different days around the world, but it is most commonly celebrated on the 3rd Sunday of June.

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One Father’s Day to Rule Them All

Here we see that brands post accordingly and although they post the most when Father’s Day is celebrated the most, the other Fathers’ Days are not forgotten.

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Which Industries Post the most about Father’s Day

In this chart we can see just how much brands from each industry is posting about Father’s Day.

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Retail Chains

Retail Chains

Most brands keep their messages pretty simple, when it comes to wishing their consumers for Father’s Day.

Retail Chains

Sure, an image helps, but most retail brands stick to entirely text-based posts for father’s day.

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Retail

The popular posts from retail brands on Facebook often are posts that attempt to sell their product by evoking the relationship between a father and child.

Retail

Most of the popular posts from retail brands contain images, usually alluding to the relationship between a father and child, but there are exceptions.

Restaurants and Cafes

Restaurants and Cafes

Restaurants and cafes usually try to gain visibility with their posts on Father’s Day, and thus go for feel-good or fun posts.

Restaurants and Cafes

In this industry, posts with images, videos or just simply text can all do well in terms of engagement, but the posts with videos or images tend to be shared more, and thus have a broader reach.

Food/Beverages

Food/Beverages

Food/beverage brands tend to target a pre-teen-early teen audience, and therefore the imagery and/or text is adjusted accordingly.

Food/Beverages

Videos do not seem common amongst the popular posts, but image-based and text-based posts both do well in terms of engagement and number of shares.

Personal Care

Personal Care

The shaving sub-industry of the personal care industry does very well on Father’s Day, but a video by Dove Men+Care went viral in 2014, which should be watched to determine if there can be any learnings for your brand from what Dove did right for that video.

Personal Care

Posts by personal care brands usually have videos or images and attempt to highlight the joys and tender moments of being a father. Brands in the industry like Oral-B attempted to emulate the success of Dove’s Father’s Day commercial, giving them success as well.

Sports

Sports

Popular posts from sports brands on Father’s Day rely mostly on the popularity of the brand itself.

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The posts generally images attached to a simple message, but popular teams can get away with just a simple message and still score highly.

Hospitality

Hospitality

Posts from hospitality brands on Father’s Day are generally pretty straightforward with simple messages, but some brands try to get creative and more often than not it pays off.

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Images of the hotel itself or views from the hotel are common in posts from hotels on Father’s Day, but again, being creative seems to pay off for hospitality brands.

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Popular posts from alcohol brands on Father’s Day usually are confident and masculine, usually implying that a father would want their brand and theirs alone.

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The posts are generally fun with images to help sell their product.

My Favorites

My Favorites

These are a few of the Father’s Day posts that I felt were the most creative, appropriate and that did well with the rest of the public as well.

My Favorites

With so much content on Father’s Day available on Discover, I have seen only a fraction of the Father’s Day posts that have been posted for the past few years, but these are some of my favorites of the posts that I have seen.

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