News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #33 19 Jun 2012 YouTube launches in Indonesia YouTube launched a localised site for Indonesia last week at YouTube.co.id, which is available in the local Bahasa Indonesia language. To enrich the localised site, YouTube has also partnered with some of Indonesia’s top media companies such as Kompas TV, Kompas Cybermedia, Viva Media Group and MyTrans.com. Local musicians will also be able […]
News Five Friday Facts #32 15 Jun 2012 State of the global and local Internet Greg Dale, EVP, International of comScore, gave a keynote presentation at the recent ad:tech Singapore 2012 conference on the current digital landscape in Southeast Asia, and insights into what trends are shaping the future of this market. The global Internet user today spent 1 in 5 minutes social networking, a total […]
News Top Facebook Pages in Asia, May 2012 13 Jun 2012 SocialBakers has published its latest edition of Top Facebook Pages around the world for May 2012. Here’s a selection of infographics on Singapore, Indonesia, and Pakistan. Singapore Indonesia Pakistan
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #32 12 Jun 2012 Social networks around the world Social media strategist Vincenzo Cosenza updates his World Map of Social Networks twice a year in June and December, and has recently published his latest June 2012 map. Noticeably, China and Russia are still holding strong against the dominance of Facebook, which is the top social network in 126 out of the […]
News The Rise of Chinese Social Media 11 Jun 2012 Here’s another round of interesting ‘social soundbites’ on the world’s most populous nation – the standout nugget for us is the finding that 95% of people living in Tier 1, 2 and 3 cities in China have registered with a social media site: Infographic courtesy of Best Free Online
News Five Friday Facts #31 8 Jun 2012 DeNA brings social gaming to Renren Japanese mobile social gaming company DeNA has extended its reach and visibility in China after it announced a partnership with Chinese social networking site Renren that will see its social games included in Renren’s Android app. A dedicated section has been created for DeNA’s Mobage platform within the Renren Android app, which users can conveniently log-in to […]
News We Are Social Thursday TuneUp #31 7 Jun 2012 Downstream traffic from Sina Weibo According to Hitwise data, Sina Weibo plays an important role in driving downstream traffic to e-commerce websites in China, compared to Facebook and Twitter. 6.5% of Sina Weibo users visit e-commerce websites after visiting Weibo, including daily deal sites, C2C websites like Taobao.com and B2C websites such as 360buy.com. Across all three social media platforms, […]
News Five Friday Facts #30 1 Jun 2012 Number of LinkedIn users in India LinkedIn has now reached its 15 million user milestone in India. The professional networking site has increased its user base in India by over 300% within 3 years, and is LinkedIn’s largest market outside the US in terms of user numbers, accounting for 9.3% of the overall user base of […]
News We Are Social Tuesday TuneUp #30 29 May 2012 Sina Weibo officially implements ‘user contracts’ We previously wrote about Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo‘s new ‘user contracts’ that seek to further control and censor users’ posts through the creation of a user committee that will enforce the terms of the contract and mediate any issues. This new scheme has gone live and will apparently […]
News Five Friday Facts #29 25 May 2012 SingTel acquires food review site HungryGoWhere.com Singaporeans take food very seriously, and infocomms provider SingTel‘s acquisition of local food review and recommendation site HungryGoWhere for US$9.4 million or S$12 million is making waves in the country. HungryGoWhere will merge with inSing.com, a Singapore lifestyle and local search site, which is a subsidiary of Singtel as well. This merger will allow Singaporeans access to […]
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