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The Greatest Social Media Pub Quiz Ever

It’s Social Media Week. And, as we ARE social, we’ve been busy getting involved. On Tuesday evening, we held “The Greatest Social Media Pub Quiz in the World”, following up on last year’s successful event. Of course, while it’s all a bit of fun, Social Media Week is actually a very serious learning experience. So […]

Infuriating & pleasing: Apple iOS 7

As you may have read in CNET or The Telegraph, last week we examined conversation around the launch of Apple’s latest software release, iOS7. With over five million people talking about iOS 7 on its release last week and subsequently it trending on Twitter for several days thereafter, Apple underlined its unique position as a […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #181

What do advertisers really think about Facebook? Ad Age recently took a look at how Facebook has changed from an experimental ad channel to a mature part of the media mix for marketeers, and in news that should surprise no-one, the number who say they advertise on Facebook has sharply increased. A survey of 1,200 […]

Showdown: #KittenCamp vs We Are Social

Ahead of Robin Grant’s epic showdown at #KittenCamp tomorrow evening as part of Social Media Week London, we asked VAN’s chief word sharer and love spreader, Will Cooke, to give us the lowdown on what it’s all about. Picture the scene… two men stand on a small stage in the cellar of a London bar; […]

Content, Context or Distribution?

It’s coming to the end of conference season in London, before the dark winter descends, budgets run thin and we all hunker down at our desks wincing when someone mentions how many weeks it is until Christmas (14). The balmy summer of 2013 and its endless supply of salty canapés and agencies presenta-pitching from podiums […]

The tragedy of disaster marketing

Marketing Magazine recently published an article by me on using tragedy as content. They’ve been kind enough to let us reproduce it in full below: 12 years ago, two planes were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Centre in New York, collapsing both towers. A plane was also crashed into the Pentagon, and a […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #180

Facebook tests autoplay videos Facbeook has begun testing videos that play automatically in the newsfeed when a user scrolls past them. The system, which will be available to a small number of US Android users, does not include automatic audio; sound is enabled by clicking on the clip. It’s believed that the update is in […]

We Are at Social Media Week London

Social Media Week London is fast approaching, and this year the We Are Social team will be running, or taking part in, three awesome events. Here’s the lowdown of when and where to find us and how you can get involved. The Greatest Social Media Pub Quiz in the World Tuesday 24th September, 6.30pm Last […]

Google+ creeps up on Facebook

Tom Smith, founder of GlobalWebIndex, exclusively talks us through their latest research into social media usage trends around the world, showing that Google+ is in 2nd place to Facebook and gaining fast. There was a time when Google had a social network problem but no more! Google+ is currently the second most commonly used social […]

A week of launches: Samsung and Apple

It’s been a busy few days in the world of tech product launches. Last week, Samsung unveiled its highly anticipated Galaxy Gear smartwatch, then last night, Apple revealed its upgrade on last year’s best selling iPhone 5 – the iPhone 5s, as well as the ‘budget’ iPhone 5c. We examined the social conversation around each […]