Study: Brands still overwhelmingly prefer photos on Facebook

Though Facebook has tried to make its link share post format more visual, with bigger images, many marketers still prefer to simply post photos (usually with a link) to their Facebook pages.

A new study by Socialbakers, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer, of Facebook posts in a month by more than 30,000 brands shows that 75 percent of the content posted were photos. Links were the next biggest group, with 10 percent. The reason why? 87 percent of the engagement happens on photos, Socialbakers found among the top 10 percent of posts.

While page admins love posting single photos, only 4 percent of the content uploaded by the brands studied were photo albums.