As we kick off 2013 it’s good to recap some of the impressive stats from 2012. Here’s a great infographic that visualises a piece by the Huffington Post – 100 Social Media Statistics to kick off 2013. A few of the highlights are: 1 Million websites have integrated with Facebook 23% of users check Facebook 5 times [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Just 4 years ago, in 2008, Facebook had just 100 million users, last week we saw the release of their first ever ad campaign,Things That Connect Us celebrating the billion fan milestone. Here’s a nice infographic that summarises some of the facts behind this extraordinary platform: There have been 140.3 billion friend connections 219 billion [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 30, 2012
This just my be our longest post ever, a full 40,000+ pixel wrap of all that happened in Cannes, from the agencies that attended, delegate demographics, what won, what didn’t, the most creative countries, presentation topics, speakers, sessions, full social buzz wrap and every other piece of detail you can imagine. All pulled together by [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 9, 2012
We all know that the growth of the mobile market is huge throughout the globe and constantly reshaping how we interact in our everyday lives. Here is a great infographic that shows us the stats behind this growth and the impact that this has on commerce. A few stand out stats: There are currently 6 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 16, 2012
What social media sites are popular with the Fortune 500 companies? Here’s a nice infographic from Go-Gulf.com that shows some key social media statistics for the big corporate players. A few key points: Only 23% have a corporate blog 58% have an active corporate Facebook account 62% have an active corporate Twitter account and have tweeted from [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 29, 2012
Here’s a great infographic that gives some handy tips on how we can all increase the traction on our Tweets. Last year Dan Zarrella analysed 200,000 link containing tweets to identify where in a tweet was the best place to put the link, he’s added to this research by identifying elements within a Tweet that [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 22, 2012
As Cadbury reach the 1 million fan mark they’ve celebrated their community with an enormous chocolate like button. They built it entirely out of large blocks of their classic dairy milk chocolate. Check out the making of the button in this video, you’ll see how much effort went in to create this master piece. It [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 2, 2012
2011 was a pretty crazy year for Twitter, and probably more for those who tweet. So here is a nice infographic round up of what the world tweeted in 2011, if twitter were the news, which, it pretty much has become the unofficial and quite often the official, source of! Created by Frugal Dad, the infographic shows [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Here’s an interesting Christmas shopping themed infographic that shows the power of social recommendations around the holiday season. Mr. Youth, a word-of-mouth marketing firm, surveyed around 4,500 adults and found that social media has been a key driver of Christmas gift purchases this year. A few interesting take outs are: 66% of Black Friday purchases were a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Here is a great infographic that really highlights the power and potential of social commerce with some great take away stats and insights. We all understand that in order to effectively market products to consumers you need to have a good understanding of the attitude and behaviour patterns of your target audience. Psychologists have defined six [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 5, 2011
Ever wondered what makes content go viral? I’m sure we’ve all got our own theories, some good some bad, but there would be a bunch of readers here that would have some seriously successful viral campaigns to their name, so I wonder how this infographic shapes up on the viral front… The Infographic from ProBlogger details out [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 18, 2011
Here’s a Facebook app that analyses your actual social life rather than your online social life. Polish vodka brand Ultimat (No, that’s not a typo!) worked with developer StinkDigital to create The Social Life Audit. Once you allow access the app aggregates a vast amount of your details to create an infographic style audit of [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 13, 2011
Here’s a nice infographic from Useful Social Media that shows the Social Commerce journey from back in February 2007 when the first virtual gift was sold on Facebook. Some of the infographic highlights include: Dec 2008 – Dell claimed $1 Million revenue in sales via Twitter Jul 2009 – Facebook’s first retail transaction via 1800-Flowers [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 8, 2011
I’ve got a feeling it’s the week of QR codes… Is it just me or is everyone talking about them this week? Well, one of the biggest questions that always comes up is how bad they look… So JESS3 set out to create some concept art for QR codes, above and beyond the standard blue [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 16, 2011
Here’s a nice little Infogrpahic from AddThis (1.2bn monthly users) on their 5th birthday to visualise user behaviour around social media sharing trends of content across the social web. Here are a few great facts; Peak hour for shareable content is 9:30am, Wednesday is said to be the most sharable day, most users will click shared content [...]
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
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