60+ May Social Media Ideas – Videos, GIFs and more!

Need some May Social Media Ideas? In this post we share a packed list of Social Media Holidays for May in 2020, with bucketloads of social videos, GIFs and more! You'll never run out of May content ideas again!

We've rounded up a list of popular and international holidays as well as some weird and wacky celebration days for May – recently updated for 2020 dates!

You won't run out of ideas with our May Social Media ideas – from daily to weekly and even monthly celebrations in May. Bookmark this post and keep it for later reference on an annual basis. 

What Comes With The May Social Media Ideas?

Here's what we've included with our May Social Media Ideas:

  • a handy infographic to use as a quick reference guide for the main holidays for the month of May. 

  • Ideas for what to create in terms of visuals and how to create them – focusing on videos and GIFs…anything that moves, but of course you can use this post for static images and visuals too. Use your imagination!

  • tools and resources for creating visual content, using the Social Media Holidays as your inspiration. Refer back to this calendar at any time!

Tips for Scheduling Your May Content

Creating content can be time-consuming. The key is to schedule it ahead of time. Here are a few tips to make it easier for you!

If you follow the tips and ideas in this post you can literally have a month's worth of content created and scheduled out in no time at all. And if you're feeling lazy, we've got some videos and GIFs you can use right away to share! Try these tips for videos and GIFs:

  1. Use templates. I've recommended a bunch of tools at the end of this post and they include templates to help you design. Let the templates guide you! Why spend ages creating a design if you are not a designer? The designer has already done all the hard work creating templates for you – leverage them and use them to create something custom. Edit just the text or photo or colors, and not every single element of the design… the more you change the more chance you have of messing it up if you're a non-designer. (sorry, but it's true and that goes for me too!). 

  2. Create visual content in batches. If you're going to get into your creative space, make it worthwhile…. create a bunch of things at once – videos, GIFs, even regular images. With batching you are creating 5-10-20 pieces of content, not just one. Once you start creating you'll be on a roll, so it's much quicker to create more than one. Then you can free your time up for other important tasks.

  3. Create short social video for social media post – the focus of this post is more about short, easy consumed videos, vs long form YouTube video content (although that is also awesome). Think shorter, 15-30 second videos. Get more tips for creating 15 second videos, in this post.

  4. Create content we can easily consume. This includes quotes, tips and funny observational humour posts – great for engagement, especially on Facebook where we tend to scroll through and consume content quickly.

  5. Add more Personality with GIFs – Whether creating your own GIFs (I've added tips below for doing just that) or sharing one of millions of GIFs in the Giphy library, you'll add humor and personality with a GIF. Add them to your social media posts, emails or blog posts.

Quick Guide Infographic to March Social Media Ideas & Holidays

We've put together a quick reference guide to some of the important May Social Media Holidays for 2020. So, now you can share it or save it to Pinterest for later reference:

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Molly Ebert