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#IamSocial: Experiencing editorial

Hey there, I’m Alex. I’m the other graduate here at We Are Social on the #IamSocial grad scheme. After battling through the ‘social application process’ and attending the assessment day, Rhoda and I finally made it onto the inaugural scheme. Tidy. It’s time to fill you in on rotation two of the graduate scheme. This […]

The Best Digital/Social Agency in the World

September came to an exciting end for the team here at We Are Social. After having picked up the Holmes Report’s EMEA Digital Agency of the Year and Best Multinational Agency to Work For accolades back in May, we were delighted to hear that we also picked up the publication’s award for the ‘Best Digital/Social […]

The profile of Pinterest users

A recent GlobalWebIndex study analysed the demographics and attitudes of Pinterest users. It found that almost two-thirds of users are in 16-34 age bracket and there are more women than men on the platform. A third of Pinterest’s total user base comes from America, followed by China at 14% and India at 13%. The report […]

Marking a moment with BBC Music

Last week, BBC Music unveiled a landmark musical moment across its television, radio and online networks, as 27 internationally acclaimed artists from a broad array of musical genres performed an extraordinary reworking of The Beach Boys’ classic song ‘God Only Knows’. The film marked the official launch of BBC Music, an ambitious wave of new […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #232

Facebook provides most social logins Facebook was the Q3 leader for social logins at 46%, followed by closest rival Google at 34%, according to reports by Janrain. Twitter comes a distant third place with 7% – this seems to be a two horse race for now. Facebook considers adding money transfer option to Messenger app […]

Marketers' attitudes to social media

AdWeek recently published this infographic exploring marketers’ social media strategies, delving into marketers’ use of social media, as well as their social challenges and goals.

30% of Snapchat users in US

Mobile messaging service Snapchat has hit the headlines after Yahoo’s plans to invest £20 million in the app were revealed. GlobalWebIndex has produced this infographic about Snapchat’s demographics and social behaviours of its global users. GlobalWebIndex found that 30% of Snapchat’s total user base comes from the US, and top markets for the app include the UK, […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #231

Facebook click-through rate has increased Facebook reach is down (boo!) but click-through rate is up (yay!). A study of 8,000 brand pages from August 2013 to August 2014 has found that, while fan reach dropped by 55% in the period, the click-through rate on links in posts increased by 48%. Still, a higher click-thru from […]

The Power of Parody

Marketing recently published this article by me about parody accounts on Twitter. They’ve been kind enough to let us reproduce it in full below: God is on Twitter and he has 1.5 million followers. Not that many, considering his pedigree, but with a book deal in the bag and an average of four thousand retweets […]

Life on the #IamSocial Graduate Scheme

When a company’s job application asks for an Instagram video, a tweet and your LinkedIn profile … it’s clear they aren’t messing about when they say they are social. That was how our life on the #IamSocial Graduate Scheme began. With the application process now a mere distant memory, Alex and I are coming into […]