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#SecretSantaSacrifice: Supporting Age UK

Secret Santa, the long-standing office tradition of buying awkward novelty gifts for someone you don’t really know. This year we wanted to find a better way for you to spend that fiver and do a Christmas good deed. And so we created #SecretSantaSacrifice. The idea stemmed from our ‘Innovation for Good’ principle, ensuring that when we […]

Spoiler Foiler wins at Eurobest

TV consumption is changing; we now watch what we want, when we want. But with that freedom comes the risk of seeing irritating spoilers on social media before you’ve watched the latest episode of your favourite show. This was the inspiration for Netflix and We Are Social’s Spoiler Foiler campaign, which picked up a […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #241

Facebook’s new CTA buttons for pages Facebook has added several call-to-action buttons for page owners: book now, contact us, use app, play game, shop now, sign up and watch video. Dollar Shave Club, which has been using the functionality in beta, has said that it saw a 2.5x higher conversion rate in a three-week test, […]

More Mobile Connections Than People

This month’s Digital Statshot – the third in We Are Social’s on-going series – brings another set of impressive numbers for Social, Digital and Mobile around the world. Mobile This month’s key headline relates to mobile, with GSMA Intelligence reporting that the number of active mobile subscriptions now exceeds the total world population. The site reports […]

We are Digital Agency of the Year!

As you may have already spotted on Twitter or Facebook this week, We Are Social was named Digital Agency of the Year at the Grand Prix des Agences de l’Année. This wouldn’t have been possible without the trust of our clients. Without this, we wouldn’t have been able to create work that meets their ambitions […]

Using Twitter to find perfect Xmas gifts

As I’m sure you’re all well aware, Christmas is fast approaching. Like every other year, we’re all in a mad, stressful rush to buy our loved ones the perfect Christmas gifts without breaking the bank. Luckily, as you may have read in Campaign or Creativity, we’ve been working with Tesco Clubcard to come to the […]

Tumblr making inroads in Asia

While Facebook continues to rule social networking with over 1.35 billion active monthly users, its growth is actually failing to keep pace with a number of other networks, according to the latest statistics recently released by GlobalWebIndex. According to GWI, Yahoo-owned Tumblr has demonstrated the largest jump in active users over the last six months […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #240

Over half of digital display ads are never seen According to Google research, 56.1% of all digital display ads are never seen by a human (we don’t have figures on any other life forms). Twitter execs are selling off stock Twitter’s top dogs sold off almost $50m in personal stock in November. The company’s CEO, […]

#IamSocial: Insight & Jazzy Jumpers

Blog four about the #IamSocial grad scheme is here! This month I’ve been getting locked in small rooms for fun, delving into spreadsheets with the ‘Research & Insight’ team and taking full advantage of the We Are Social free breakfasts. So, what is R&I? R&I (Research and Insight) is the one stop shop when you […]

Mobile+: new generation of developers

Marketing Magazine recently published this article by me about a new generation of developers arising as a result of new technologies. They’ve been kind enough to let us reproduce it in full below: Each year Apple and Google compete to bring increasingly audacious technologies to market. As a marketer it can sometimes be difficult to know […]