News Social, Digital and Mobile in Laos 9 Nov 2012 Today’s #SDMW report investigates the social, digital and mobile ecosystem in Laos. Laos is one of Asia’s poorer countries, with average income hovering just above US$3 per day. Two thirds of the population lives in one of the Laos’s 9,119 rural villages, and more than one third of the population is below the age of […]
News Sandy x Social 8 Nov 2012 It’s been exactly a week since Superstorm Sandy made her journey up the east coast and all the way to our very own New York City. While power outages and downed trees were expected, there were some additional side effects that that took us by surprise. For some it was anxiety from the nomad life […]
News Social Media Revolution 2013 7 Nov 2012 Erik Qualman has updated his seminal Social Media Revolution video: For those that preferred the original Fat Boy Slim soundtrack, then here’s the version for you. Erik previously brought us Social Media Revolution, Social Media Revolution (take 2) and Social Media Revolution 2011.
News Social, Digital and Mobile in Cambodia 7 Nov 2012 For the next report in our series on Social, Digital and Mobile around the world, we’re exploring the fascinating ecosystem of Cambodia. The Southeast Asian state’s population is just short of 15 million, but 80% of Cambodians still live in rural areas with limited technological infrastructure. However, with almost two thirds of the country’s population […]
News Are Facebook’s Global Pages the answer? 6 Nov 2012 Ad Age recently carried the following article from me, commenting on the implications of Facebook’s new page post targeting feature. They’ve been kind enough to let us reproduce it in full below: Facebook’s Global Pages Fix Some Issues for Global Brands, but Leave Others You’ll Need Tools to Put Global Content on Pages Now Localized […]
News We Are Social's Monday Mashup #140 5 Nov 2012 Customers up to 30% more likely to buy when engaged on social Customers who interacted with a brand on social media increased their purchases by up to 30%, according to a new study. It also found that there’s a direct correlation between how much a customer participated in the social conversation and how much more likely […]
News We Are Social 8 (or 9) – 12 Mint Street 2 Nov 2012 Crestfallen heroes: 6/7 of the team 15 minutes after the final whistle. “This has all the hallmarks of a classic We Are Social defeat”, mused Joe Faul, as Mint Street looked unlikely to field a team minutes before kick-off. Unfortunately, his words were to prove prophetic. Despite much being made of the opposition’s quality, with […]
News Digital & Social Media Agency of the Year 2 Nov 2012 Last night we ditched our faithful jeans and jumpers for black tie attire to attend the Grocer Marketing, Advertising & PR Awards 2012 hosted at the rather lovely Savoy hotel. We were surrounded by the crème de la crème of FMCG Marketing, Advertising & PR and we are incredibly honoured to have taken home awards […]
News Hooked on Likes: An intervention 1 Nov 2012 Marketing magazine recently published an article from me on how to think outside the Like box. They’ve been kind enough to let us reproduce it in full below: In the movie Jerry Maguire, Tom Cruise has an epiphany. He writes it down. The gist is this: less is more. He stays up all night working […]
News Next Generation Media 31 Oct 2012 Our friend Dan Calladine, Head of Media Futures at Aegis Media, has kindly agreed to share his latest Next Generation Media Quarterly with us.
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