SHARING TO STORIES
iCook
Spreading love and joy through favorite recipes on Instagram Stories
THEIR STORY
Building community through cooking and food
With more than 230,000 recipes, and over 5 million monthly unique active users, iCook is the one of largest and most popular social platforms for recipe sharing in Hong Kong and Taiwan, where one out of every three women uses iCook, as per the site (source). Beyond recipes, iCook also provides content about food, cooking, and general health knowledge in several formats, including blog posts, videos, and other rich-format experiences.
higher sharing rates for sharing to Instagram Stories compared to the average of all other sharing methods
higher retention rates for users who shared via Instagram Stories than for people who did not share
THEIR GOAL
Reaching home cooks with Instagram Stories
iCook wanted to give people an easy way to share the recipes they use to cook the food that they love and wanted to reach a wider audience. The recipe site knew Instagram was popular amongst its users and aimed to find a solution for sharing recipes to Instagram Stories.
OUR SOLUTION
Designing a simple and effective sharing experience
iCook’s in-house developer team integrated the Sharing to Stories platform after building a simple proof-of-concept, defined key metrics and proposed user flows for iOS. Because they wanted users to understand the “share” button immediately, the team built an entirely new user interface flow so that previews of the images once shared would pop-up when a person hovered over the button. To complete the integration with Sharing to Stories, the iCook team referenced the developer documentation on the Facebook for Developers website, which helped them implement the platform’s API quickly and easily.
OUR SUCCESS
Higher sharing rates and user retention
The iCook team built a new user interface flow, integrated Sharing to Stories, and launched the new sharing tool within one month, allowing the site’s users to share their recipes quickly and easily.
- 1.2x higher sharing rates for sharing to Instagram Stories compared to the average of all other sharing methods
- 30% higher retention rates for users who shared via Instagram Stories than for people who did not share
“Cooking is always about love and sharing. We’re pleased to work with the Facebook team to let our users not only share their food but also their joy with friends on their social networks. By integrating Sharing to Stories, our users can now quickly and effortlessly post their cooking results with their friends on Instagram Stories. Since the integration, we’ve learnt from our users that they value the ability to share recipes and iCook content to Instagram Stories and that many of them are also using Instagram direct messages to share the content privately. After seeing the initial success of Sharing to Stories, we’ve expanded more image style options for sharing and will continue to update the feature.”
PRODUCTS USED
Sharing to Stories
With millions of daily active users on Facebook Stories and Instagram Stories, Sharing to Stories is a scalable, immersive, and open platform for developer partners to build with.