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We Are Social 8 (or 9) – 12 Mint Street

Crestfallen heroes: 6/7 of the team 15 minutes after the final whistle. “This has all the hallmarks of a classic We Are Social defeat”, mused Joe Faul, as Mint Street looked unlikely to field a team minutes before kick-off. Unfortunately, his words were to prove prophetic. Despite much being made of the opposition’s quality, with […]

Digital & Social Media Agency of the Year

Last night we ditched our faithful jeans and jumpers for black tie attire to attend the Grocer Marketing, Advertising & PR Awards 2012 hosted at the rather lovely Savoy hotel. We were surrounded by the crème de la crème of FMCG Marketing, Advertising & PR and we are incredibly honoured to have taken home awards […]

Hooked on Likes: An intervention

Marketing magazine recently published an article from me on how to think outside the Like box. They’ve been kind enough to let us reproduce it in full below: In the movie Jerry Maguire, Tom Cruise has an epiphany. He writes it down. The gist is this: less is more. He stays up all night working […]

Next Generation Media

Our friend Dan Calladine, Head of Media Futures at Aegis Media, has kindly agreed to share his latest Next Generation Media Quarterly with us.

Social, Digital and Mobile in Vietnam

Following the launch of our regional Social, Digital and Mobile in Asia report last week, today we’re delighted to launch our series of reports into individual countries. The first of these reports covers one of Asia’s most exciting markets: Vietnam. With a population in excess of 90 million and an economy that grew by 5.4% […]

We Are Social's Monday Mashup #139

More UK businesses adapting to social A new survey from the Internet Advertising Bureau has found that 55% of UK business execs are changing their company’s strategy to be more social. While this figure is now firmly in the territory of the majority, the more worrying find from this report is that 45% haven’t made […]

Which content works on Facebook?

A great infographic from vi knallgrau looking at the performance of Facebook posts from 50 Consumer Brands and 50 Retail Brands in Germany, Austria and Switzerland over a four week period:

Asia leads in social media engagement

Tom Smith, founder of GlobalWebIndex, exclusively talks us through their new Social Engagement Benchmark report. We’ve just finished working on a very interesting study – a global ranking of Social Media Engagement. It allows us to say not only which types of consumers are most likely to be engaged with social media platforms but also […]

Social, Digital and Mobile in Asia

Asia’s digital landscape continues to evolve at an astonishing rate, and staying up to date with the latest data and trends can be a challenge. We have good news, though: today, we’re delighted to launch a new edition of our hugely popular #SDMW reports. In the SlideShare presentation above you’ll find our Asian Overview report, […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #138

UK lagging behind other markets on FB ads engagement levels? A new study suggests that there is low engagement on Facebook UK ads compared to the other main markets and that the average cost-per-click on paid ads has dropped to 2010 levels. Interestingly the US surged to a 99% click-through rate while the UK dipped: […]