The 6 Ws of social content 3 Sep 2013 Marketing Magazine recently published an article by me on social content strategy. They’ve been kind enough to let us reproduce it in full below: In 2013, brands are posting an average of 36 times per month on Facebook. Over a year that adds up to 432 posts. That’s a lot of content. With the average […]
Mashup We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #178 2 Sep 2013 Social overtaking search for content discovery According to UK research presented in eMarketer, social is becoming an ever more important tool for locating content online. This was particularly true of 18-24 year olds – 43% of the internet users polled from said age group answered that they considered social more important than search for the […]
Siemens: The Manager's Call 29 Aug 2013 As you may have read in Mashable, Digiday or Click Z, we’re working with The Siemens Graduate Program to help find the brightest minds across the world to enter its two-year development program, to train the Siemens managers of tomorrow. The SGP asked us to find a way to use social media to bring people from all regions of […]
Facebook opens up newsfeed competitions 28 Aug 2013 As you may have seen in Marketing Week, last night Facebook announced a significant change in how promotions can be run through the platform. Instead of being restricted to running competitions on third party tabs, Facebook has confirmed that competition and promotion entry mechanics can now officially include liking a post, commenting on a post, […]
We Are Social’s Tuesday Tweakup #16 27 Aug 2013 Young people prefer smartphones for social According to research presented in eMarketer last week, the smartphone is the device of choice for 18-34 year olds in social. When a sample of regular UK social media users were asked about which device they used for the bulk of their social activity, 54% of 18-34 year olds […]
Social Brands: Civic Marketing 22 Aug 2013 Society increasingly expects brands to give back at least as much as they take, and as a result, CSR is moving higher up the executive agenda. However, many companies still think of CSR in terms of corporate philanthropy. Although this thinking is more constructive than the mere guilt avoidance that characterised too much CSR in […]
The Drop Off 21 Aug 2013 Five clues. Five locations. And a race to the finish for six British bloggers. It might sound more like the Krypton Factor than a social media campaign, but last week this is exactly what the We Are Social Jaguar team were up to in the UK’s capital city. We were asked by Jaguar UK to […]
Mashup We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #177 19 Aug 2013 Facebook launches active user metrics amongst impressive June figures Facebook has released various active user figures from June in the last week, starting with an announcement that the network now receives 101 million daily mobile users in the US, or 142 million throughout the entire month, compared with respective figures of 128 million total DAUs […]
Jaguar celebrates modern Britain 13 Aug 2013 As you may have read in Marketing or The Drum, we’ve been running #YourTurnBritain, working with Jaguar UK to celebrate the launch of the new F-TYPE model. It’s all about inspiring a nation to share and celebrate the things that they think make modern Britain great, under the hashtag #YourTurnBritain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COxjvTJ7j_M #YourTurnBritain doesn’t just focus on […]
Mashup We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #176 12 Aug 2013 72% of Online US adults use social networks The Pew Research Center has found that, of all US adult internet users, 72% are now using social networks. The study, which has been ongoing since 2005, has also found that triple the number of over-65s (43%) are using social networks than were in spring 2009 (13%). […]
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