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Is Facebook ‘dead and buried’ to European teens? Research into the behaviour of European teens aged 16-18 has found that Facebook is becoming less and less important, as the demographic moves towards the likes of Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat. The key reason given for the shift is the desire to stay away from their […]

Contagious have released their annual review of the year, Most Contagious 2013: Contagious exists to find and filter the most innovative exercises in branding, technology and popular culture. Once a year, we round up the highlights, tell you what’s important and why. Welcome to Most Contagious 2013.

Facebook have produced a review of 2013 on the platform, including this video: They’ve also taken a look at the most mentioned people and events of 2013, which point to some of the most popular topics around the world: While some of the people or topics featured on this year’s global list need no introduction, […]

YouTube have produced this video review of the year in collaboration with more than 60 top YouTube ‘creators’: A Norwegian Army Dance Troupe. An Epic Split. The Fox. And a Rap Battle with an 18th century Austrian composer. As 2013 comes to a close, these are some of the videos, channels and moments that shaped […]

US women spending more time on social According to research by SheKnows and Harris Interactive, US women are spending more time on social networks now than they were in August. Of those surveyed, 67% said they were spending more time on Instagram, 48% more on Pinterest, WordPress and blogs, while 30% had increased time on […]

When Nathan and I started We Are Social in June 2008, we set out to create the best social media agency in the world, equipped only with a couple of laptops and some big ideas. Together, with our team of over 400 people in eight countries around the world, we now feel as though we […]

Facebook introduces autoplay for videos After testing the system for a while, Facebook has begun to introduce autoplay videos for mobile and desktop. Earlier in the week, most users on iPhone and Android received the system, which works as follows: as you scroll past a video, a preview begins to play without sound. If you […]

RichRelevance analysed nearly seven hundred million online shopping sessions and came to a stunning conclusion – Polyvore is the second most important social source of traffic to ecommerce websites after Facebook: