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The State of Wikipedia

It’s Wikipedia’s tenth birthday this month and JESS3 have put together this nice little vinfographic™, narrated by none other than Jimmy Wales: If you want more, then have a read of Jimmy Wales reflecting on a decade of Wikipedia.

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. My role at Aegis includes keeping colleagues and clients up to date with what’s happening in global media, including key stats, new companies and innovative campaigns. I know that many of […]

We Are Social's Monday Mashup #57

Spending on Facebook ads projected to grow hugely in 2011 A survey from eMarketer found that American marketers will spend over $3 billion advertising on social networking sites this year, a 55% increase year-on-year from 2011. The vast majority of that money will be spent with Facebook – the company is projected to bring in […]

Twitter usage in Europe

Thanks to our friend Marshall Manson, and his interrogation of comScore data, we for the first time have a clear picture of Twitter usage usage in Europe, broken down by country: As he points out though: It’s worth remembering that while these figures are a useful yard stick for Twitter usage and growth, they likely […]

Social media marketing by the numbers

A nice infographic from HubSpot looking at the numbers around social media marketing:

'Real-time' radically changes social media

Tom Smith, founder of Trendstream, the company behind the GlobalWebIndex, talks us through their latest annual report, Welcome to Social Entertainment. Since we launched the GlobalWebIndex research project in September 2009, we’ve witnessed massive shifts in the way that consumers utilise social platforms, towards “Real-time” involvement. This is orientating people to interacting with live events […]

Who's using Twitter and how they use it

Flowtown have produced a great infographic based on the latest Pew research looking at how American internet users use Twitter:

We Are Social's Monday Mashup #56

Social Media Users ‘more demanding’ Research from IAB UK has found that social media users, in the UK at least, expect a lot more from brands – a quarter of people who complain through Facebook or Twitter expect a response within an hour and 6% want one within ten minutes. This contrasts with complaints through […]

Blood, sweat and tears

Jim Coleman joined us as We Are Social’s Client Services Director back at the end of August. He comes to us with 9 years of working in digital across every sector and at both national and international levels – from MasterCard and Microsoft through to Innocent and Sky – and brings a wealth of knowledge […]

2010's most popular We Are Social posts

As an addendum for an as yet unpublished post looking at last year’s stats for the We Are Social blog, and as a comparison to my own personal highlights of last year’s posts, I thought it worth looking at the stark reality of what actually were the most popular posts of last year, ranked by […]