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You monitor social media. Now what?

Luke Brynley-Jones is a co-founder of Influence People, which runs social media conferences in the UK, Europe and USA. His next event, Monitoring Social Media 2010 is on Monday 22nd November in London. At Monitoring Social Media 09, my first social media monitoring conference, Robin talked about how We Are Social helped Skype set-up and […]

10 'mind blowing' social gaming stats

It’s infographic time again, this time with a look at 10 ‘mind blowing’ social gaming stats courtesy of All Facebook (and yes, although they got the population of England right, they incorrectly used an image of the UK to illustrate it).

We Are Social's Monday Mashup #47

MySpace relaunches with different focus Over the past few years, MySpace has faced its fair share of challenges. A quick straw poll in our offices found that while most people still had a MySpace account, few had actively used it since registering on Facebook. Which is why it’s is worth noting MySpace’s relaunch as a […]

We Are Social in NYC for Ad:Tech

All this week I’ll be in New York City as part of the Digital Mission to NY. If you’re interested in We Are Social, or just want to chat about social media, then it would be great to meet up, so get in touch with me via Twitter, or look for me at one of the following: […]

The state of social: 10 key stats

A nice infographic compiled with data from Econsultancy’s recent Social Media and Online PR Report:

The socialisation of brands

Last week Universal McCann released Wave 5 of their yearly social media tracker survey, this time taking a closer look at brand involvement in social media and based on data from 53 markets and 37,600 respondents (as opposed to 38 markets and 23,200 respondents in Wave 4). It’s well worth downloading and reading in detail: […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #46

Social media research task force formed Big news last week from the Council of American Survey Research Organizations, who established a task force to “address the many ethical and methodological issues developing in the wake of social media research’s emergence”. CASRO cites the “unique and complex issues” associated with social media research regarding privacy, disclosure, […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #45

The impact of digital on organisations A new study from Econsultancy sheds some light on the difficulties faced by companies when it comes to integrating digital strategies across their organisations. The biggest barriers to success seem to be the pressure to hit short-term revenue and profit targets (36%) as well a lack of budget (28%). […]

We Are Social "leading the field"

It’s been six months since we updated you on our success in the IAB Creative Showcase Grand Prix and the Revolution Awards, so here’s a quick (and slightly self-indulgent) update on recent awards wins. At the FAB Awards in May we won the Social Media category and picked up the FABulous Award (Best in Show, […]

The things people talk about most online

Some great research from Synthesio, looking at the 10 things people talk about most online, based on manual classification into 40 categories of over 200 million conversations they tracked across 17 countries in a three month period.