News Five Friday Facts #57 14 Dec 2012 Singapore turns to social media for travel & food products Nielsen recently released their annual global social media report, which showed that social media is playing a bigger role in influencing the purchasing decisions of Singaporeans when it comes to travel and food. 68% of Singaporeans turned to social media when choosing a restaurant. More […]
News Top Facebook Pages in Asia, Nov 2012 [Part 2] 12 Dec 2012 Earlier this week, we reported the top Facebook pages in Asia (Part 1) for the month of November. Here are a new selection of reports on the Southeast Asian countries as promised – Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Indonesia reached 50 million Facebook users last month, and is continuing to grow as the second largest Asian […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #58 11 Dec 2012 Indian & Indonesian users have easier access to Facebook Messenger Last week, we mentioned that the rumour mill was buzzing about a possible acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook. Shortly after, Facebook announced that users in India, Indonesia, Australia, Venezuela and South Africa will be able to sign up for Facebook Messenger IM service with only their […]
News Top Facebook Pages in Asia, Nov 2012 10 Dec 2012 SocialBakers have published their latest edition of Top Facebook Pages around the world for the month of November. Last month, many new features were added to the infographics. Again, there are a couple of new features this month, including change in engagement rate from the previous month and top content from each country. Here’s a selection of […]
News Five Friday Facts #56 7 Dec 2012 China’s professional social networking users to reach 100M Just a year after LinkedIn went public, China ushered its own professional social networks. As of today, there are at least 8 professional social networks in China with Tianji and Dajie being the biggest amongst them, both of which have about 12.3 million registered users each. According to […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #57 4 Dec 2012 China’s Renren launches Facebook-esque timeline interface Facebook’s timeline-like interface seems to be increasingly adopted by various social networking platforms with the latest being one of China’s social networking sites Renren. Like Facebook, Renren users can update their status, upload photos and share a story but are given the option to switch back to the old […]
News Five Friday Facts #55 30 Nov 2012 APAC travelers rely on social media to make travel choices According to a recent study, travellers in Asia Pacific rely heavily on social media platforms to make travel decisions. In a study that surveyed 4,600 people across 13 countries, 42% cited Facebook whilst 51% cited online travel forums as points of influence to help them make […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #56 27 Nov 2012 WeChat to implement payment services in 2 months Tencent has confirmed plans to launch payment services on WeChat, and will integrate the chat app with a PayPal-esque service within the next two months. This highly anticipated development offers greater money making opportunities for the company as retailers will be encouraged to sign up and advertise via […]
News Five Friday Facts #54 23 Nov 2012 Asia leads the way for mobile social media users According to statistics from Nielsen, 59% of social media users in Asia Pacific engage with Facebook, Twitter and other social networks from a mobile device. On the other hand, only 33% of social media users in Europe and the United States use mobile as their primary mode […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #55 20 Nov 2012 Daily deals expected on WeChat within next few weeks Two weeks back, we mentioned that the rumour mill was buzzing about WeChat launching discount coupons. The latest buzz is that in a matter of weeks, WeChat’s 200 million users could avail themselves of daily deals in China via Groupon’s Chinese site, Gaopeng. This move is […]
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