Tuneup We Are Social Midweek Mashup #65 13 Feb 2013 Sina Weibo sets new record in the first second of Chinese New Year How many Twitter-like posts did China’s Sina Weibo register in the first second of the Chinese New Year of the Snake? 34,977 posts within a second, beating last year’s record of 32,312 posts in the first second of Chinese New Year. According […]
Five Friday Facts #64 8 Feb 2013 In China, most valuable brands are also the top brands on social media A recent report by Resonance China indicated that the top brands on social media are also the biggest and most valuable brands in China. The report refers to BrandZ’s annual report on the Top 50 Most Valuable Chinese Brands, and indicates that these […]
Connected Business in 2013 7 Feb 2013 Here’s a great infographic from 123Print that we discovered thanks to the wonderful folks over at The Curious Brain. It’s packed with great soundbites, but here are some of the ones that caught our eye: 56% of tweets to companies on Twitter are being ignored; Almost twice as many CEOs of top companies are tweeting […]
Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #64 5 Feb 2013 HootSuite social media dashboard goes Korean Social media dashboard HootSuite is now fully localized for Korean users. Though a Korean User Interface is not available on the mobile app yet, it’s in the works. Considering how often the Vancouver-based company has been rolling out updates to support Asian users, we reckon the months ahead will be interesting […]
Five Friday Facts #63 1 Feb 2013 Google+ is no longer a ghost town GlobalWebIndex(GWI) recently released its research results for Q4, 2012. The findings reveal that there are 343 million active users on Google+, making it the second largest social network in the world. Active users are defined as those who used or contributed to the site in the past month. […]
Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #63 29 Jan 2013 Mercedes-Benz sells limited edition Smart Cars on Sina Weibo Could this be the sign of things to come? Mercedes-Benz launched a Weibo app last Friday to sell 666 units of special edition smart cars priced at US$12,700 (S$25,328) each. For the first time, the lifestyle arm of the German luxury carmaker is collaborating with Chinese […]
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 […]
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% […]
Tuneup 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 […]
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 […]
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