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The state of Social Commerce: July 2011

A great deck from JWT Intelligence, based on their in-depth report looking at the current state of social commerce in the US and UK, which: examines three trends: the rise of Facebook commerce (retailers selling directly on Facebook), overlaying the social graph on e-commerce sites and introducing that social graph to the brick-and-mortar world. We […]

The path to building online trust

A nice infographic from Mark Smiciklas looking at how brands need to behave online in order to gain people’s trust:

We Are Social's Monday Mashup #80

Google+: massive growth A month after it launched and a nice milestone reached for Google+, especially when compared to Facebook and Twitter’s early growth as illustrated by the graph below: It’s worth remembering though that Facebook and Twitter were startups when they launched – conversely, Google is one of the biggest corporations in the world, […]

We Are Social. We Are Lovebox

This time last week all 50 of us here at We Are Social London were heading to Lovebox to celebrate our 3rd birthday on an open top bus. It was epic. Here are a few pictures from the day…

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. Robin is secretly happy to be one of the Google+ users shown on slide 36. My role involves keeping a track on what’s happening in digital media. However living in the […]

We Are Social: New Kids on the Block

Last week our friend Daniele Fiandaca at Creative Social wrote a fascinating piece on the emergence of social media agencies within the advertising and marketing landscape. As part of his research for the article, he interviewed me about We Are Social, and he’s kindly given me permission to publish it in full here:

Most Respected

A quick note to acknowledge how incredibly proud we are to be voted the “Most Respected” agency alongside Wieden+Kennedy in The Reputation Online Top 100 Agencies guide, which lists the UK’s top 100 agencies with social media and digital PR competency. We also came in 10th place on the overall ranking of agencies by UK […]

We Are Social's Monday Mashup #79

Facebook Ad cost-per-click increases by 22% quarter-on-quarter An interesting tidbit of research: the cost-per-click of a Facebook social ad rose by 22% in Q2 of 2011, compared to Q1. If prices continue to rise at this rate, brands will presumably be forced into more effective community management and newsfeed optimisation, over simply snapping up social […]

We Are Three. We Are Lovebox

As is fast becoming an annual tradition, all 50 of us here at We Are Social London are heading to Lovebox today to celebrate our 3rd birthday. Don’t expect us to be answering the phone or responding to emails until Monday…

The Interactive Brand Ecosystem

A nice deck from Forrester’s Nate Elliott looking at some of the findings of his recent report, the Interactive Brand Ecosystem: It’s time for marketers to start taking the brand-building power of interactive channels more seriously […] Your online content and experiences should be the first piece of the brand campaign you develop, and not […]