To repost the same event for five days on social media?

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How many times do you expect to see footage of the same event on your feed on Instagram for example?

If a big event has taken place is it reasonable to post once a day for five days or is this just annoying to people?

Should you only post about a past event once?

Please only answer if you're familiar with social media and use it

Thanks in advance

If it's a company page, I'd split the footage up over 2 weeks - Monday, Weds, Fri one week, Tues/Thurs the next - and make sure it's different clips each time, not just the same video repeated.

I'm the social media manager for the company I work for, feel free to DM if you have any questions

It's for a new shop opening

I hope you are not amanaging any aocial media because this is painful drip of information 😂

And of course they will be heavily advertising their ahop opening.... I mean like... Of course

Providing it is different content it is fine.

A couple of posts in the run up giving details of the opening and plansand stuff, a post on the day of the actual opening and a day after sharing highlights of the event - Fine.

Posting the same thing five days running absolutely not.

Agreed

You would have been better putting all this relevant info in your first post OP rather than drip feeding. You would have received more useful replies

Foe a store opening then yes 5 days of posting is probably quite a good idea to get interest. It would be like having a countdown to opening so would be building excitement

Five days of you posting your holiday photos not so much but we didn’t know what you meant when you first posted

Then I'd expect frequent posts in the run up, a lot on the day, and then once the shop is open normal marketing thereafter with maybe one flashback / recap of opening day.

I don't see the point of constantly talking about a past event unless it's something that's going to be repeated, which a shop opening obviously won't me. It risks pissing off / alienating people who weren't there.

Well it needs to be a different angle each time. Like chapters in a story, that look well thought out - but also work individually. You can't just be repeating yourself.

Jesus wept if it's a shop opening it's an entirely different thing - even then, no, don't post it every day. 3 times will do. "Only a week to go", "only a few days to go", "less than 24 hours to go!"

I’d probably start blocking by day 3

My FB feed repeats the same stories for weeks on end so if you’re posting for five days in a row it’ll probably end up spamming me for months. And I’d unfriend you.

Following the big drip feed, not remotely unreasonable of them. Especially considering the problems a lot of people are having with Insta algorithms at the mo - they may have to post for five days just for some followers to see it once. I've been really frustrated to have missed flash sales or competitions by small businesses I follow because Insta only decided I'd want to see the posts four or five days later

I would expect to see a post every day leading up to a new shop opening, I think if any of your friends got annoyed I wouldn't want them as friends. I would say making the posts slightly different eg a countdown would work.

People on MN are very grumpy about social media. In RL I don't know anyone who gets so annoyed about any of it.

If it's a business promoting the same event every day I'd probably mute the page.

Is it your company?

That does sound very irritating. Sometimes less is more with social media. I block very readily

Depends, are you going to post literally the same thng every day or different posts for a countdown

I have no control over what I see on my social media so unless someone had very few friends/follows or your doing a sponsored post who knows if they'll even see it once never mind 5 times

I’ve managed social media for businesses. It would need to be new content every time, otherwise people will unfollow fast. So, on the 5th day I’d expect to see something like a video tour of a particular shop display / the modelling or a demo of a top selling item in the past few days etc, with a reference to your shop being newly opened. Eg ‘in case you couldn’t make our store opening, here’s a peek at our cake display’ / ‘these fabulous stretch jeans have been flying off the shelves since we opened’ / ‘here are some of our top guys under £20’ / ‘in case you’ve not heard, we are offering 10% off all purchases during our opening week!’… that kind of thing.

But definitely not the same post repeated daily.

*buys, not guys! Assume it’s not a brothel you’ve opened…

No sorry I should be clearer - it is not the same photos and content but it is all around the same Event.

Same event but different footage

Different footage sounds fine to me!

i hope your social media campaign doesn’t have as many drip feeds as your posts

If this is your communication style then your engagement is going to be pretty poor

So just ignore it. A friend goes on a walk daily and posts the same pic of herself with a statue of a horse on her head. Like she's posted it at least three dozen times (not everyday, but over the course of a year). I just scroll in by.

Bloody hell mate.
Is this drip on purpose???