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We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #32

Visits to MySpace UK have halved in 6 months say sources UK visits to MySpace have dropped from a from a peak of just under 10 million at the start of the year to around 5m as of the end of June 2010, according to a TechCrunch Europe source. MySpace maintains the figures “aren’t accurate,” […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #31

Unilever to increase investment in social media In an interview with AdAge in Cannes last week, Keith Weed, Unilever’s CMO talked about why Unilever is doubling its digital spend this year and how much of it will go to social media: I want to be where consumers are. The truth of the matter is we’re […]

Twitter traffic peaks over We Are Social

[iframe http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/urbantick/maps/london_ncl_100628.html 500 420] Since meeting Lindsey from the Londonist at the recent launch of Eurostar Culture Connect I’ve been keeping up to date with everything happening on the Londonist site and this particular post caught my eye. This ‘New City Landscape’ has been created for the Urban Tick blog by Fabian Neuhaus from the […]

Orange wins festival fans with GlastoTag

On Monday I got back from a week volunteering (and partying) hard at Glastonbury festival for Oxfam. When I arrived on the first day and received my shift times I was truly gutted to hear that I’d be working through the England Vs Slovenia game. However, my disappointment didn’t last because, in a stroke of […]

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #30

Social media helps drive purchases by 10x Recent research reveals that customers visiting an online store via social media are 10x more like to by something than other users: “whereas 7% of all visitors to an online store make a purchase, a significantly higher 71% of visitors initiated via social media will click their way […]

7 harsh realities in social media

Bart De Waele with some excellent home truths for social media:

Blogs vs. the press: Differing agendas

A great infographic from Flowtown, based on data from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism report ‘New Media, Old Media: How Blogs and Social Media Agendas Relate and Differ from the Traditional Press’.

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #29

Inside Gatorade’s Social Media Command Center Mashable was given a behind the scenes look at the Gatorade Mission Control Center inside of its Chicago headquarters: “a room that sits in the middle of the marketing department and could best be thought of as a war room for monitoring the brand in real-time across social media.” […]

The state of the internet

For those of you slightly overwhelmed by the densely packed slides of Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends deck, I thought it worth sharing this video from Jesse Thomas on the current state of the internet (it’s a few months old now, but still worth watching):

A World Cup social media aggregator

The World Cup fours years ago in Germany still seems like yesterday. It’s been an amazing time for us in Italy the last four years, holding the trophy in our arms. And now the World Cup is back! We were so excited at the thought of the Azzurri back on the pitch, that we decided […]