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Top Facebook Pages in the UK, July ’12

Socialbakers have just released their top Facebook Pages in the UK July 2012 report. The report delivers the rankings of the most popular, engaging and responsive UK brand and media pages on Facebook:

The Social Olympics: Battle of the brands

A great infographic from Gorkana Group looking at which of the sponsors are winning and loosing the Olympic battle in social media. We’re proud to see that our client adidas is winning the battle against Nike, and that our client Westfield is doing pretty well too..

How to create great social content

Marketing magazine recently published an article from me on how to create great social content. They’ve been kind enough to let us reproduce it in full below: There’s an old screenwriting phrase worth remembering when creating social content: Show don’t tell. The concept is fairly simple: whenever possible, communicate your point with a visual direction, […]

Are you #winning yet?

Are you a Social Media enthusiast? Do you wish you could spend more time doing what you love? Would you like to get even better at what you love by working with some of the world’s best Social Media practitioners? Most importantly, do you want to move to Singapore and experience both business and life […]

We Are Social's Monday Mashup #128

The ‘Like’ as loyalty Why Facebook users decide to ‘Like’ a company could be shifting away from being enticed by discounts and deals and instead moving towards using the thumbs up as a loyalty card or a stamp of approval. According to new research, nearly 60% of Facebook users in the US who were surveyed […]

A Geography of Twitter

An insightful visualization from the Oxford Internet Institute, based on a sample of 20% of all the geocoded tweets published on Twitter between March 5 and March 13 2012. The box size denotes the number of geocoded tweets per country with the shade/intensity denoting Twitter’s penetration of the internet population of that country. Japan is […]

Facebook: A New Creative Canvas

A great talk from Facebook’s Paul Adams, which spans everything from Plato’s thoughts on the invention of the alphabet, the theory of many lightweight interactions over time through to the (limited) role of Facebook apps…

Next Generation Media

Our friend Dan Calladine, Head of Media Futures at Aegis Media, has kindly agreed to share his latest Next Generation Media Quarterly with us.

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #127

Facebook inches towards 1 billion active users Facebook has just posted its Q2 earnings release with some pretty amazing growth figures. The number of monthly and daily active users has nearly doubled since this time just two years ago, but what has really skyrocketed is the number of monthly users on mobile, which has increased 3.5 times […]

Global Social Media Check-Up 2012

Burson-Marsteller have released their Global Social Media Check-Up 2012, examining the Fortune Global 100’s use of social networking platforms including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google Plus & Pinterest and looked out how people were discussing these companies online. This infographic gives an overview of the results: And you can see the whole study in-depth here:

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