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Most Contagious 2013

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's 2013 Year in Review

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 Rewind: What Does 2013 Say?

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 […]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Just a quick note to wish all of our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #194

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 […]

A new chapter for We Are Social

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 […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #193

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 […]

Social Media Shopping: Rise of Polyvore

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:

Mobile strategy: Native vs. Responsive?

Marketing Magazine recently published an article by me on the difference between Native Mobile and Responsive Web. They’ve been kind enough to let us reproduce it in full below: Since the introduction of the smartphone, the battle has raged as to which is the best solution: mobile app or mobile web? The simple answer is […]

Managing Complaints in Social Media

At some point, almost every marketer will have to deal with someone saying bad things about their brand in social media, regardless of whether the brand actively manages its own social presence. This can be as simple as someone tweeting that they hate the music in the brand’s new TV commercial, but it might be […]