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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Just a quick note to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year – we’ll be offline now until the beginning of January. Have a good one!

We Are Social's Christmas Cracker

Here’s our regular mashup of the week’s social media news, complete with a bonus Christmas grumpy cat! Online is where it’s at for advertising Interactive Advertising Bureau announced that there has been a 6% increase in online ad spend in the US in the last quarter, and an 18% growth year-over-year. This shows that even […]

Data of Desire: Interest in Pinterest

A nice infographic from Ogilvy and Curalate looking at the most pinned and repinned brands and products over the 2012 holiday season:

Top 10 Trends Presentations for 2013

I love trends and the feeling of being ‘plugged in’ to the matrix. Trends are an awesome form of insight for planning. They illuminate the road ahead so we can focus our innovation ‘on trend’. While it doesn’t guarantee success it does increase our chances of finding it. As we move into 2013 planning, I […]

A high fashion journey with Donna Karan

If you are like me, gawking over my favorite celebrities donning glittering red carpet gowns at star-studded events is one of my favorite past times. So, when the opportunity arose to work with Donna Karan Atelier to showcase how their red carpet gowns are created, we jumped at the chance to design and develop a […]

A Year on Facebook, Twitter & YouTube

Facebook Global Trends Facebook have released a review of 2012 on the platform, including the most important trends in the US. These are divided into events, songs, movies, check-ins, public figures, books, technology, politics, television, sports and memes. Unsurprisingly, the presidential election was the highest trending event and Barack Obama the most popular figure. The […]

Consider the human

Marketing magazine recently published an article from me about putting people first. They’ve been kind enough to let us reproduce it in full below: A few years ago I attended a screenwriting class taught by a friend at UCLA. The topic that night was television. After some discussion about the major television networks, a student […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #146

The Global Popularity of Social Media A report by the Pew Research Center has shown the increasing usage of social networking sites all over the world. Key findings show that in countries like Britain, US, Russia, Czech Republic and Spain, around half the population are using social media. Also, in almost every country polled, social media […]

Most Contagious 2012

Contagious rounds up the landmark events, movements and socio-economic shifts that have shaped the last year and flag up key trends for 2013 in their Most Contagious 2012 report. Here are the key trends in short: Movements / Evolution and Empowerment Purpose / Playing a Role in Society Marketing as Service Design / Utility Not […]

Facebook's UK audience: Insights

Facebook have just released this nice video looking at how British people are spending their time on Facebook: