News Top Facebook Pages in the UK, Q1 2012 16 Apr 2012 Socialbakers have just released their top Facebook Pages in the UK Q1 2012 report. The report delivers the rankings of the most popular, engaging and responsive UK brand and media pages on Facebook:
News New Google+ Design, Share+ Everywhere 12 Apr 2012 Google have just revealed a new Google+ layout and interface: As part of the rollout, Google appears to have added new share functionality across a wide range of its different properties: Google Search: YouTube: Gmail: Do you think these new features are primarily intended as social networking functionality, or are they more directed at understanding […]
News We Are Social's Tuesday Tweakup #10 10 Apr 2012 Social networks grow userbase and engagement eMarketer posted an interesting study of which countries they expect to grow the fastest this year in terms of social networking users – the growth in the Asian market once again underscores how important it is. The science behind ‘Why tweets go viral?’ According to researchers at Indiana University, […]
News We Are Social New York is Hiring 10 Apr 2012 We Are Social recently opened up shop in New York City, and we’re pleased to report we’ve been busy ever since. And, with a growing list of US clients and exciting new projects underway, we need some help. We’re looking for bright, enthusiastic folks to join our US team. People to manage our growing list […]
News Why Facebook + Instagram is good news 10 Apr 2012 The Facebook + Instagram deal is a movie in which Facebook has been cast as the pantomime villain, the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang out to steal the innocence of the Instagram kids. But we disagree. If this is a movie, it’s closer to the plot of The Fighter; in which the washed-up […]
News Facebook acquires Instagram: Reaction 10 Apr 2012 The world is waking up to the news that Facebook has acquired mobile photo sharing platform Instagram for a cool billion dollars. Here is a round up of the reactions from around the webs; Mark Zuckerberg makes the announcement on his Facebook page; I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and […]
News Chris Brogan at #SMWF Europe 5 Apr 2012 I got a call a few weeks ago saying.. please could @RobinGrant be the chair for the main track at the Social Media World Forum Europe? I said.. he’s out of the country, how about if I do it? they said.. we’ve never heard of you I replied I’m much better at public speaking than […]
News The power of search and social 3 Apr 2012 Tom Smith, founder of GlobalWebIndex, exclusively talks us through the implications of Google’s Search plus Your World and the concept of the ‘Googopoly’. With the introduction of Google’s Search plus Your World, personalising your search results to include information from you and your friends, Google is driving the way we gather information, communicate socially and […]
News We Are Social's Monday Mashup #113 2 Apr 2012 Spending on digital marketing continues to rise According to a survey conducted by Duke University, US marketing budgets will rise by 8.1% over the coming twelve months. This rise will mainly be spent online, with digital marketing budgets forecast to rise 12.8% over the next year, whilst ad spend on traditional media will drop by […]
News When consumers' social protests go viral 29 Mar 2012 A powerful infographic from Frugal Dad, looking at what happens when consumers’ social protests go viral:
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