Claire Brinkley
After graduating college and travelling the world, Claire started working as a journalist and researcher for Mediaconnect. In this role Claire wrote stories for and about the tech PR community, which were posted daily to their corporate website. She then went on to promote cycling education within Australia, working for AustCycle as a journalist, marketing and PR person.
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It seems Australians are in love with giant bananas, television, food and shopping when it comes to Facebook, with the Bananas in Pyjamas Facebook page reigning in an impressive 2,032,296 fans during February 2013.
This number is almost double that of the second favourite Australian Facebook Page, Bubble O’Bill Ice Creams, which showed off a fan base of 1,272,089. Pringles Australia was just slightly behind with 1,259,733 fans, according to the latest Australian Facebook Performance report.
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by Claire Brinkley
03 April 2013 22:00pm
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Woolworths has been named the top retail brand in Australia for the second year running, beating out supermarket competitor Coles by almost a billion dollars.
Interbrand’s 2013 Best Retail Brands report, which ranks the top retail brands around the world by value, placed Woolworths brand value at $4.57 billion, an increase of 9% on the year prior.
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by Claire Brinkley
26 March 2013 22:00pm
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Over 80% of Australian online users have connected with at least one brand on social media, with 29% even connecting with 10 or more brands.
But 44% have also dumped a brand on social media because they were spammed or bored with content, according to a new white paper.
The Always On report from Latitude Insights looks at how Australians are using social media in an attempt to better understand how brands connect and influence consumers online.
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by Claire Brinkley
27 March 2013 22:00pm
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It seems that online catalogues have a long way to go when it comes to engaging customers, as only 11% of Australians currently read catalogues online.
According to research conducted by the Australian Catalogue Association (ACA) in the lead up to Christmas 2012, more than 70% of Australians over the age of 14 prefer to read printed catalogues than online versions.
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by Claire Brinkley
25 March 2013 22:00pm
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Australian B2B companies are struggling with their online presence, choosing not to properly utilise social media, according to a new government-funded study.
The report, Australia’s Social Media Presence in 2012; The Roadmap for 2013, aims to better understand how social media can help B2B businesses, looking at how the top 207 B2B companies are using social media and how this influence can convert into real world sales.
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by Claire Brinkley
19 March 2013 22:00pm
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Australians spent $504m on group buying sites in 2012, a rise of 1.4% on the year prior, leading some industry experts to predict that group buying is here to stay.
According to a new Telsyte study, in Q4 2012 Australians spent more than $130m on group buying sites and the combined revenues of the top five deal sites saw a growth of more than 9% year-on-year.
Groupon and Scoopon showed the strongest performances, seeing a combined 40% year-on-year rise.
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by Claire Brinkley
10 March 2013 22:00pm
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Digital ad spend in Australia reached $3.3b last year, an 18% increase on 2011, according to a new Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) report.
Figures showed that not only did digital ad spend as a whole exceed market predictions last year but mobile advertising saw a growth of 220%, pulling in $86.2m. Year-on-year, video advertising also grew 30% to reach $90.3m.
The significant rise in figures was due to growth across all categories, including a 27% increase in Search and Directories advertising, a 10% increase in General Display advertising and a 9% increase in Classifieds advertising.
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by Claire Brinkley
07 March 2013 22:00pm
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20% of emails sent by Australian brands do not reach the intended inbox, with 2% being sent to spam and the other 18% going missing or being blocked.
This problem gets even worse if the intended reader is a Dodo or Optus subscriber, as only 57% of legitimate email were delivered to these inboxes in 2012.
In contrast, 92% of marketing emails reach their target inbox in New Zealand, with only 8% going missing.
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by Claire Brinkley
05 March 2013 22:00pm
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It seems Australia’s Baby Boomers are being shunned by brands and marketers who are instead focusing on younger, more tech savvy consumers - something that's already been identified as an opportunity in other countries.
According to a new Mi9 report, only 10% of Australian advertising spend is directed towards Baby Boomers, despite the fact that this age group is currently entering into a ‘Lifestyle’ stage where they have more disposable income than any other group.
And of the small number of brands who do target the over-55s, it looks like they may be entirely missing the mark, as overwhelmingly, 94% of Baby Boomers say they dislike the way advertisers currently communicate with them.
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by Claire Brinkley
03 March 2013 22:00pm
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A new Yahoo!7 survey has revealed that social media is playing an increasingly larger role in influencing the television viewing habits of Australians.
The second annual Social TV Survey polled more than 7,000 online Australians late last year and found that almost half of the respondents (43%) used social media while watching television.
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by Claire Brinkley
20 February 2013 22:15pm
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