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Five wins at The Drum Network Awards

Last night was another hugely successful night for We Are Social. Following last month’s Best Large Agency award win at the UK Social Media Communications Awards and picking up The Holmes Report’s Best Digital/Social Agency in the World title, we went along to The Drum Network Awards at the Emirates Stadium hoping for another big […]

Stop Check Post? Brands, stop oversharing

The Wall recently published this article by me about brands oversharing on social media. They’ve been kind enough to let us reproduce it in full below. We are in an age of Too Much Information. The proliferation of social media, coupled with our desire to share every moment of our lives with friends and followers […]

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare on social

As one of the largest console franchises of this generation, the launch of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was always going to generate plenty of buzz, especially after the success of its predecessors in the lucrative franchise, which is now over 10-years-old. As you may have read in Venture Beat, we’ve been looking at the […]

Lessons in 24/7 marketing

The Guardian recently published this article by me about what the approach of Bauer Media’s new lifestyle magazine The Debrief can teach marketers. They’ve been kind enough to let us reproduce it in full below. If you’ve been thrown into a panic to publish a branded #bendgate or #royalbaby tweet, brace yourself. The Debrief, Bauer […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #235

A mixed financial week for Facebook Imagine you’re a Facebook investor, and you hear that you’re about to be taken on a roller coaster. Great news, right? WRONG. This roller coaster means share price fluctuation throughout the week. First of all, the network announced impressive Q3 figures and share price hit an $81.16 high. MAUs […]

Internet Users Pass 3 Billion Mark

The digital world passed another huge milestone today, with InternetLiveStats reporting that the number of global internet users has just passed the 3 billion mark. InternetLiveStats extrapolates its numbers from data provided by the ITU, the World Bank, and the United Nations, so the timing won’t be exact; however, the number remains a very useful guide to the continuing growth of the internet […]

Pinterest: popularity, power and potential

The Wall recently published this article by me on the growing popularity and potential of Pinterest. They’ve been kind enough to let us reproduce it in full below: Pinterest, the visually-led social network, is a self-expression engine, sophisticated visual search tool and virtual pin-board all rolled into one. It launched early 2010, has 57.9 million […]

Analysis of Facebook Ad Spend

SHIFT recently published an infographic outlining the key figures in its Q3 global Facebook advertising insights report for the automotive, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, financial services and telecommunications sectors. The report found that automotive was the best performing sector in Q3 for click through rates on Facebook with 2.98%. Across all the sectors, click through […]

Little Frill: delivering great customer service

There’s nothing more frustrating than being on the receiving end of bad customer service. I’m sure we can all think of multiple times we’ve been driven crazy by an uninterested or unhelpful response to a cry for help. For leading UK bank, first direct, great customer service is a priority. It prides itself on going […]

Internet users have five social accounts

GlobalWebIndex undertook a study into adult internet users on social worldwide, and discovered on average, internet users aged 16-64 have accounts on five different social networks. The report shows men have slightly more social accounts than women, and internet users aged between 16-35 have the most accounts, with almost six each on average.