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We're on a Digital Mission to SXSWi

We’re off to Texas! Along with 34 other innovative UK companies, we’re really proud to be selected from over 100 entries as part of the Digital Mission to the SXSWi Conference in Austin, Texas. As Mike Butcher (also one of the judges) puts it in Techcrunch, the Digital Mission is “a kind of trade mission, but […]

The Great British Sandwich

Hello everyone – Chris here with my debut post for We Are Social. And as I’m writing it at lunchtime it seems appropriate to talk about The Great British Sandwich – a collaborative project open to anyone to submit what they think should represents the UK in sandwich form. The site only went live yesterday […]

US social media spend to rise in 2009

Hot on the heels of of similar UK predictions from Econsultancy, comes this from Brian Morrissey in Adweek: According to researcher eMarketer, [US] online ad spending will climb 8.9 percent next year, from $23.6 billion to $25.7 billion. Old school methods like display ads and microsites will come under pressure. Social media looks set to […]

Welcoming Chris Applegate to the team

It’s always good to start the year off as you mean to go on, and that is exactly what we’re doing today. This morning We Are Social is bigger and better than when we downed tools for the Christmas break – we’re very happy to announce that Chris Applegate has joined the team. We’re always […]

Social media more popular than ever

An almost unbelievable couple of graphs from Robin Goad at Hitwise, the first showing that 10.09% of all UK internet visits last week were to ‘Social Networking and Forums’. And the second showing Facebook’s inexorable growth. There’s some more in depth data available in Hitwise’s UK Social Networking Update from July this year, and it’s […]

How to choose a social media agency

Philip Buxton, the former editor of Revolution, has written a great checklist for brands choosing a social media agency: A new approach – since everyone claims to ‘do’ social, look for those seeking to develop new models for approaching it, not those seeking to map on their existing models Technology – everyone claims to have […]

A microcosm of Christmas

Have a great Christmas…

Happy Christmas from We Are Social

I can’t believe it’s already Christmas, but here it is so as we’re wrapping up for a few days, we thought we’d take the opportunity to wish you all an amazing Xmas… And so here is Robin and I in a little ‘Christmassy’ video: The app we used for the message is actually something we’ve […]

The secrets of marketing in a 2.0 world

The Wall Street Journal have a great article on The Secrets of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World, based on interviews with more than 30 executives and managers. Consumers tend to trust one another’s opinions more than a company’s marketing pitch. And there is no shortage of opinions online. The managers we interviewed accept that […]

The outlook for 2009

Econsultancy have published a good overview of the economic outlook in 2009 for the digital marketing industry, with one of the data sources quoted being Wednesday’s eMarketer report predicting 7.2% growth in UK online ad spend. Just like the Group M report earlier this month, although there’s bad news for those in the industry who […]