News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #20 20 Mar 2012 China’s social media and Internet landscape CIC has created a concise infographic that shows the leading Chinese web and social media platforms in each category alongside their western counterparts for 2012, from content-sharing services similar to Dropbox (which is blocked in China) to social aggregators and dating networks. Even though some don’t exactly fall within […]
News Five Friday Facts #19 16 Mar 2012 Mobile gaming app ‘Draw Something’ is on a roll OMGPOP‘s mobile app Draw Something is only 5 weeks old and has already amassed 20 million downloads, of which 12 million are active users. Shortly after it first launched, it was already downloaded more than 1.2 million times within 10 days. Altogether, users have produced more […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #19 13 Mar 2012 We Are Social across the pond This week’s big news is of course that We Are Social has opened in New York, our eighth office worldwide. Those who have been following us since the beginning know that this has been a long time coming, and we can’t wait to start making a difference for US based […]
News Five Friday Facts #18 9 Mar 2012 How Chinese users perceive their interactions with brands on social media Chinese Internet users generally have a more positive attitude towards interacting with brands on social networks as compared to their US counterparts. 23% of Chinese users find social networks a good source of word-of-mouth information, and 22% share brand information and experiences on social networks the […]
News A day in the life of the Internet 8 Mar 2012 We’ve recently posted about what happens on social media in 60 seconds, and now mbaonline has created a new infographic visualising what happens on the Internet in a single day. You may already be suffering from numbers fatigue, but still there are some noteworthy statistics illustrated here. 294 billion emails are sent, 2 million blog posts […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #18 6 Mar 2012 How Dove used Sina Weibo for its social media campaign For last year’s Chinese Valentine’s Day on August 6, Dove promoted its chocolate gift set in China through a social media campaign on Sina Weibo. To bring to life the idea of leveraging on Dove’s heart-shaped gift box as a way to express love, Dove brought in […]
News Five Friday Facts #17 2 Mar 2012 Mobile more popular than TV A new survey by InMobi has revealed some interesting statistics about how mobile has permeated the lives of Singaporeans. 50% of respondents regarded mobile as their primary or exclusive means of accessing the Internet. 44% had discovered something new while 27% found better options via mobile advertising, and 29% found relevant products […]
News Social Customer Service 1 Mar 2012 Useful infographic from zendesk that explores the value of CRM via social channels:
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #17 28 Feb 2012 How Sina Weibo is faring against Twitter worldwide There’s no doubt that Sina Weibo is big in China – it receives 1 in every 100 Internet visits in China. How then does it fare against Twitter, which is used internationally? Resonance China charted the percentage of visits both microblogging services received in the respective countries they’re […]
News Social Media Week Singapore 28 Feb 2012 Social Media Week Singapore was a whirlwind of events – we were rushing for sessions to and fro the office, intently listening to the speakers while live-tweeting, and at the same time reading activity from the tweetwall, and replying to those soundbites too. It was a sheer lesson in multi-tasking. It was interesting to see […]
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