News Let’s Get Social 29 Jan 2013 Social Media Week returns to Singapore from Feb 18 to 22, and we’re bracing ourselves for an amazing variety of high-quality events taking place around the island. The We Are Social team will be out in force for many of these events, but we’re also delighted to be hosting a few sessions of our […]
News Five Friday Facts #62 25 Jan 2013 Top 10 luxury brands on Sina Weibo Automobile brands continue to top the luxury sector when it comes to presence on social media in China. The chart below shows the growth of top 10 luxury brands on Sina Weibo between August’11 and November’12. Within the 15 month period, there was a reported growth of 490% […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #62 22 Jan 2013 Sina Weibo launches promoted feed ads Still trying to find ways to monetize its popular Twitter-esque microblogging site, Sina Weibo has rolled out promoted feed advertisements to its 400 million users. Known as Weibo Tuiguang, the ads will appear in user feeds and be differentiated from user posts by a grey line and a notice indicating […]
News Social Service: Who Cares? 21 Jan 2013 Following our recent post on social customer service, we received this interesting infographic from the team over at SoftwareAdvice.com. The data in the findings speak for themselves, but the interesting thing to note is that so many brands seem to do nothing at all about responding to customer service enquiries via social media. The issue is […]
News Five Friday Facts #61 18 Jan 2013 WeChat surpasses 300 million users in January 2013 Tencent’s WeChat has recently announced an astonishing milestone, that it has officially surpassed 300 million registered users. TechInAsia reports further that the CEO of Tencent, Pony Ma, has confirmed the staggering user base of the chat app. This number is particularly impressive given the fact that WeChat […]
News Breakfast Bites 16 Jan 2013 16 Jan 2013 Facebook Graph Search Facebook has launched a ‘social search’ function that allows its users to make more specific searches for the content and information that has been shared within their ‘social graph. The service does not index the social web in the way that Google does, but instead references the things that have been shared […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #61 15 Jan 2013 China’s WeChat app gets flak for censoring messages globally Tencent WeChat’s international foray may have just hit a stumbling block in what previously seemed to be a virtually unhindered path of expansion. Some users reported being unable to send messages containing sensitive terms even when doing so outside of China. A screenshot below shows an error […]
News Top Facebook Pages in Asia, Dec 2012 15 Jan 2013 SocialBakers has published its latest edition of Top Facebook Pages around the world for the month of December. Last month, new features such as top content in the country and change in engagement rate were added to the infographics. This month there is yet another significant change – global pages are now included in the report with a count […]
News Social Service: Where’s The Love? 14 Jan 2013 We spotted the interesting infographics below – from software firm Synthetix and Salesforce’s Desk team – over at Econsultancy. The data themselves don’t offer any surprises, but given that it seems obvious people would like more online service options, the infographics’ findings beg the question: why aren’t companies investing more time, effort and resources into developing powerful […]
News Five Friday Facts #60 11 Jan 2013 40.8% of Japanese smartphone users on free voice call, chat apps in 2012 A recent survey by MMD Laboratory, a Japanese research house that specialises in mobile marketing, indicated that there were changes in how smartphone users in Japan used their mobile devices in 2012. In particular, there has been a noticeable uptake in the use […]
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