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Reasons: inspiring creative technologists

Two members of our Creative Technology team recently ventured down to LSO St Luke’s for the Reasons To Be Creative London Conference. ‘Reasons’ aims to educate and inspire with talks from the world’s best coders and designers. Here, our developers have described what stood out for them at the conference, and why it caught their attention. […]

Snapchat is the fastest growing social app

Following on from GlobalWebIndex’s Social report, they’ve produced an infographic to highlight the ten fastest growing social/messaging apps in 2014. Snapchat comes out on top, growing by 57% between Q1 and Q4 last year, closely followed by Facebook Messenger at 50%. The infographic also shows that 15% of teens are using Snapchat globally, and UK and Sweden […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #251

Facebook launches iOS Ads Manager app Facebook now has more than 2 million active advertisers, so the social advertising leader has launched a mobile app to help users manage their ads direct from their smartphones. The app will allow users to create ads, track spending, edit scheduling, view results and receive ad performance notifications. It […]

We Are Five in France!

We are half the age of Facebook, almost half the age of Twitter and nearly the same age as Instagram – We Are Social’s Paris office is now five years old! On 5th February 2015 we celebrated our fifth anniversary with all of our clients and friends in the industry. Over the last five years, […]

The social Battle of the Brits

The Brit Awards has never quite had the wow factor of its US music award counterpart The Grammys. Madonna’s gyrating comeback, Kim Kardashian sparkling in something glamorous and revealing, and Kanye West’s burgundy velour tracksuit and performing in his anticipated adidas Yeezys were all highlights of the Grammys 2015. In comparison, expectations of the Brits were so low; […]

One of the Best Companies to work for

For a second year running we’ve been recognised by Best Companies as a great organisation to work for

The Rise Of Democratic Brands

As part of our on-going work on #ProjectReconnect with the WFA, we have regularly seen evidence that ‘inclusive’ marketing approaches are amongst the most effective. We joined forces with the Project Reconnect team to explore this topic in more detail, and they’ve been kind enough to let us share our findings here. Marketing needs to […]

Pinterest is the fastest growing network

GlobalWebIndex has produced an infographic highlighting the fastest growing social networks, outside of China, in 2014. It shows that Pinterest was the fastest growing social platform last year, with a huge 97% increase in active users, closely followed by Tumblr at 95%. More information can be found in our blog post about GlobalWebIndex’s Social Report.

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #250

The Mashup is 250! I know, we’re all feeling very nostalgic. As a special treat, here’s the first ever Mashup from back in 2009, when the retweet button was just being introduced. Now, for this week… Digital to account for half of UK ad spend Research by Strategy Analytics has concluded that half of all UK […]

#WeWentSkiing 2015

Last month, on a quiet snowy evening in the idyllic Italian town of La Thuile, 225 We Are Social colleagues descended upon the slopes for the fourth annual #weareskiing winter conference. From the London, Paris, Munich and Milan offices, the troops were poised for what promised to be a weekend of extreme sports, extreme socialising […]