The U.S. Department of Labor predicts the Event Planning Industry to grow another 10% by 2024. The Department of Labor also predicts that your next event will be one out of 25 million by 2020. If your sister is having a Quinceañera, your school is gearing up for prom or your company is planning a fundraiser, the opportunity to make your next event a social media success is extremely obtainable. It’s actually quite simple. All you really need is a photo booth.
Instagram has become the requisite for life. Self-awareness and the selfie movement has incited mass sharing across all social media platforms. Selfies have actually been around for more than 90 years. The original photo booth began in 1925. It took 8 pictures, processed the film and printed out the photos all in about a ten-minute span. Nowadays, ten minutes can seem like ten human-years. Waiting for anything for ten minutes is simply maddening. Instantaneous gratification has stirred the desire to have an immediate audience. We all want to share with our audience in real-time. We’re watching each other and we’re having a good time doing it.
Photo booths are changing the event planning industry and are a must-have for any size event. With social media photo booth rentals, you can not only enhance the level of excitement at your event but you can also expand interest beyond the attendees who are physically present at your event. While photo booths amplify guest enjoyment at the actual event, they can also help create buzz for your company through social media. Photo Booths can increase excitement for your company’s brand, your organization, school, business or fundraiser through past, present and future activity all thanks to the ability of digital sharing.
INCREASE GUEST ENJOYMENT
Prom has always been the pinnacle moment of every high-school student’s teenage years. It’s the climactic scene in a movie, the memories you talk about in your middle ages, and a recollection of a lifetime that nobody can take away from you. Moments like these are perfect for the kind of keepsakes that a Photo Booth can provide. Guests will take pictures in the moment and walk away with something they’ll hang on their refrigerator, find a few years later in a box during an apartment move, or better yet stay on their Instagram page forever.
Photo Booths are almost like a mirage. They’re a little island of wonder that seems to come out of nowhere when placed in the right spot at your event. Regardless of what industry or event your company or organization is having, the Photo Booth offers an opportunity to reflect on the moment in the now. Guests are pleasantly surprised and end up taking a piece of the event home with them digitally.
A photo booth offers a chance for guests to mingle at an informal level. It’s a way to break the ice between attendees where relationships are created. Instagram photo booth rentals allow these guests to share these informal moments with their followers, family, and friends which ultimately present a valuable opportunity to create awareness for your event.
SHARING CREATES BUZZ
Building relationships out of existing relationships are the golden road of social media. People love sharing photos and even more so sharing photos of themselves. It’s not vanity as much as it’s just human nature these days. We all love sharing photos that have meaning to us or broadcast our experiences to the rest of the world. We want to share the good times!
Getting dressed up, looking fresh, fly, or living out the night with some finesse amplifies emotional excitement and we want to take pictures of ourselves with our friends or family during this moment of celebration. Using a photo booth that can share photos directly to the Internet gives you a chance to support your guests in sharing their experience. If you have customizable borders, branded backgrounds, overlays or borders with your organization’s brand you are becoming a part of their moment.
People will instantly share their photos on their social networks with your brand and/or event, which expose the fun and excitement within their direct social circle. Upon seeing these ‘Instahits’ and ‘photos-of-the-day’ a buzz will start to bumble around your brand and it’s exciting event.
As guests capture their fun and excitement it not only hypes up your event at the physical location but it creates curiosity for those that are not there ‘in-the-moment’ and perhaps encourage some audiences to attend future events.
BUILDS EXCITEMENT FOR YOUR BRAND
If online users are seeing the fun and exciting Instagram photo booth pictures or experiencing the instant sharing from the social media photo booth rental, it creates excitement for your organization or company. Attendees at your event are showing that working for your company is fun, this prom is the greatest prom anybody has ever been to, or this fundraiser is not just for a good cause but it’s also a party!
Instant sharing from a photo booth allows your brand to gain exposure from a larger presence online, increasing brand awareness. This intimate form of advertising will become a social media broadcast of your event. So much of social media revolves around living in the NOW. With all the digital messages and content constantly streaming online every day it’s easy to forget something that happened ten minutes ago. An increased presence for your brand develops recognition and familiarity. Perhaps the reputation of your school’s proms will be that they are classy and memorable for a lifetime. If your organization throws a fundraiser with a themed photo booth depending on what the cause is for, your company may gain the reputation for giving back to the community and having fun while doing it. With a Photo Booth, you get to create the mirage of enjoyment that guests will be using to connect emotionally to what’s happening.
GIF BOOTHS
Gif Booths offer a photo booth experience for your event that encapsulates an entirely different level of social engagement. While so much of our world is living in the NOW, animated photos bring your viewers into the room. These Gifs become teasers leaving the audience wanting more. Gifs are miniature commercials that allow us to see a quick movement of family, friends, or people we recognize in a moment of time that seems to be live. With a Gif Photo Booth your brand is happening right now and if you are using a Gif, you are now.
Gif Booths are fun for all types of events because they use authenticity to showcase the fun and excitement. A Gif Booth displays human movement as if the participants are sharing the excitement with their social world simultaneously.
Our GIF booths have the ability for users to put in their data and contact information to receive their photos and gifs for instant sharing. This enables your organization to track the kind of sharing with their friends and family that will allow you to grow your audience and promote past, present and future events. It also gives the event coordinator a deep bucket of fun images from the evening to use in newsletters, websites, etc.
PROMOTING PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE EVENTS
Making your photo booth or GIF booth rental an immediate social media success can be done easily with proper planning.
- Including your brand, logo, mantra or company’s culture within the visual aspect of your booth will shine a light on an attendee’s memorable photo or video with their friends. Essentially these memories will also be visual testimonies of the exciting and joyful times people at your event experienced. These testimonies will be shared within intimate networks and social circles of people that will take a liking to your organization, company, and brand. The element of sharing will create a fellowship for you and before you know it your audience will grow and your brand with become identifiable by recognition. Familiarity will help elevate your brand beyond the unknown to a personality of fun. Through social media sharing, you will provide a platform for a great experience and become an organization well-known for hosting great events.
- During the event, create an incentive for guests to share their photos online.
- After the event, use the photos in your newsletter, etc.