News The Return of the Marmarati 28 Jun 2012 We’ve been working with Unilever since 2009 when they first approached We Are Social to launch an extra strong variant of Marmite exclusively using social media. The result of that was The Marmarati – a Victorian-Style secret society of hardcore Marmite lovers who we rewarded with an exclusive most fans can only dream of: a […]
News Is Facebook's Timeline good for brands? 27 Jun 2012 Luke Brynley-Jones is the founder of Our Social Times, who run social media conferences in the UK, Europe, the US and Asia. They’re co-hosting Facebook Marketing 2012 with Chinwag in London on Wednesday 18th July. The new Timeline layout for brand Pages on Facebook has been hugely controversial. When it first launched JD Lassica argued […]
News The social media customer 26 Jun 2012 A nice infographic looking at the results and conclusions from of a survey of 2,000 adults in the UK into their behaviour and attitudes towards social media customer service:
News We Are Social's Monday Mashup #122 25 Jun 2012 Facebook’s quickly woven into the Web’s DNA Even if you’re not logged into Facebook, chances are you still see that little blue icon everywhere. Pingdom reports that almost half of the top 10,000 websites in the world have Facebook links, plugins or widgets on their homepages. Twitter isn’t too far behind at 42%, and Google+ […]
News We Are Social. We Are Lovebox 22 Jun 2012 This time last week all 80 of us here at We Are Social London were heading to Lovebox to celebrate our 4th birthday on an old Routemaster bus. It was epic. Here are a few pictures from the day…
News Jim makes an appearance in Glamour 22 Jun 2012 Reading through Glamour magazine (Britain’s No.1 women’s magazine, no less) on a long train journey recently, I was surprised to see our UK Managing Partner Jim appear in an article about careers of the future alongside Sarah Curran, Angela Hartnett and Bobbi Brown, giving out careers advice to anyone looking to start out in social […]
News 7 years of YouTube 21 Jun 2012 A great video from YouTube to celebrate their 7th birthday, looking back over the last 7 years of YouTube…
News We Are Growing (by the day) 21 Jun 2012 Our team having ‘just another day in the office’… at Lovebox last Friday Since my last post back in February we have grown massively and there are now 80 of us here at We Are Social London. This means that our plan for world domination is on schedule, but also that due to our growth, […]
News Facebook vs. Pinterest 20 Jun 2012 A great infographic from Bottica looking at what they learnt from analysing a sample of 50,000 visitors from Pinterest and 50,000 from Facebook respectively:
News The 6 dimensions of highly-engaged fans 19 Jun 2012 How can you get to know your fans better? Contagious recently published an article from Leila and myself outlining the major types of fan participation on brand-run social properties. For any conversation to be a success, you need some understanding of the people taking part. In social media, the majority of conversation will be driven […]
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