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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 […]

Are you a #BBaddict?

Audiences and critics alike are heralding AMC’s Breaking Bad as one of the all-time great TV series. The sixth season of the Emmy® Award-winning drama returned to US screens for its final eight episodes this month. And the show’s millions of fans are showing no sign of addiction remission for Walter White (Bryan Cranston), Jesse […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #179

Google+ is 2nd most used social network worldwide GlobalWebIndex released figures last week about active users on various social networks, with a couple of surprising results. Perhaps most unexpected was the fact that Google+ came out as the second-most used network after Facebook, with 318.4 million active users. Comparing penetration of active users against all […]

Introducing team #wearesprinting

A mere three weeks ago we were asked if we would like to put a team forward to compete in the LGN annual Inter Advertising 5k run. We’ve never been ones to shy away from a challenge, so of course we said yes. 24hrs later and we had a strong team of 10 men and 10 […]

How people use Twitter on holiday

A useful infographic from Twitter and GlobalWebIndex looking at the habits of UK Twitter users on holiday:

The 6 Ws of social content

Marketing Magazine recently published an article by me on social content strategy. They’ve been kind enough to let us reproduce it in full below: In 2013, brands are posting an average of 36 times per month on Facebook. Over a year that adds up to 432 posts. That’s a lot of content. With the average […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #178

Social overtaking search for content discovery According to UK research presented in eMarketer, social is becoming an ever more important tool for locating content online. This was particularly true of 18-24 year olds – 43% of the internet users polled from said age group answered that they considered social more important than search for the […]