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Social media usage up 159% in the UK

A nice stat to end the week on: usage of social networks and blogs now accounts for almost 23% of time spent on the internet in the UK, which is a 159% increase over the last three years, according to Nielsen. The graphic below shows how the typical UK online hour breaks down.

We Are Social's Monday Mashup #25

Facebook backlash reaches the tipping point? We’ve reported before in Monday mashups about the growing Facebook privacy backlash, but it looks more and more like a tipping point may have been reached; May 31st has been declared Quit Facebook Day and “how do I delete my Facebook” has become one of the most-Googled search queries […]

Shortlisted

We had some great news last week: our Marmarati campaign for Unilever has been nominated for an International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Award, and shortlisted twice in the New Media Age Effectiveness Awards! For the NMA awards we’re in the ‘Best Consumer Products and Services Campaign’ and ‘Best Use of Social Media’ categories, and […]

Next generation media

Another great video, this time from our friend Dan Calladine at Isobar, which balances out yesterday’s Social Media Revolution video nicely…

Crisis comms in the age of social media

Last week I was asked to talk at Communicate Magazine‘s first ever webinar. My subject was ‘crisis communications in the age of social media’, something we have real experience of from our work with Skype, Eurostar and others. I was lucky enough to follow on from Hill and Knowlton’s Grant Smith, who gave a great […]

Social Media Revolution (take 2)

Is Social Media a fad or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? An update on last year’s video from Socialnomics, where there are references for all of the stats used in the video.

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #24

Hello all. Nice to be back. Here’s my stab at rounding up social media happenings over the last week: BREAKING NEWS: Major Twitter bug I’ve just been told no one is going to read this because Twitter has fallen over and the internets are generally freaking out. It’s all down to a bug that lets […]

The General Election & the real-time web

Yesterday we had a general election in the United Kingdom, and in much of the tradition of British election-watching, the results are counted from the moment polls closed at 10pm until sunrise the next day. A small but enthusiastic clutch of Britons gathered around their television sets and stayed up through the night to watch […]

Social ideas

Our friend Graeme Wood nicely summarises the new world that marketers live in:

Five steps to earn social currency

A great infographic from Fast Company, based on data from a report on social currency from Vivaldi Partners: