Google launches enhanced listings for brands
With the release of Google+ in September 2011, businesses have been looking to see how the platform can assist in their digital marketing efforts.
In particular, companies have been keen to see how Google+ can impact on search engine marketing.
What do consumers think of social media marketing on mobile?
Stats show the massive growth in the use of smartphones to access social media, but how will consumers react to social media marketing on their mobiles?
Some of the stats in this DMA infographic suggest there is some resitance to this. For example, 44% regard marketing on mobile social media as invasive, while 52% believe that ads should only be seen by fans or followers of brands.
Is Facebook really weak in mobile with 488m active users?
Different news outlets have been discussing if Facebook is weak in mobile, and that it needs to do more to address this issue.
The question here is, if Facebook is actually really weak in mobile.
US and UK newspaper sites: who’s leading the way on Google +?
Despite its relative youth, Google+ now has over 100 million signed up user accounts and many big brands have at least created a presence on the site.
But you might expect major media sites to be leading the way, given the potential to share content and drive traffic. So how well are national newspapers in the UK and US doing when it comes to Google+, and who’s leading the way?
Facebook Timeline case study: The Hunger Games
Over the past few weeks I’ve been spending even more time than usual on Facebook, putting together a new update to our report: Facebook Pages for Business: A Best Practice Guide.
It’s been a mammoth task, with Facebook in an almost constant state of flux over the past 12 months.
The Facebook Pages for Business guide contains over 80 new examples, and includes details on optimising the Timeline, guides to daily admin and tracking success, advice on creating and communicating with audiences, optimising your page to help with search and brand positioning, usage and demographic stats, and case studies of a variety of businesses, from niche B2Bs to global FMCGs.
The report has been designed to take you through every aspect of Facebook, from clicking 'create a page' to advanced f-commerce and beyond.
It reflects the sheer scale of Facebook, and should help to counter all of the outdated information that's available, something I know from first hand experience to be incredibly frustrating.
The social media meltdown and how to overcome it
Social media has opened up a huge opportunity: to engage directly with customers, to understand what motivates and interests them, and to increase the size of the audience for your content.
But it’s the very size of the opportunity that’s often the biggest problem. When marketing budget and resources are tight, where do you focus?
And how can you be sure the right message gets out to the right audience via the right channel and that the overall approach is joined-up and consistent?
Stats: Social Media in Australia and New Zealand
It has been nearly a year since we began producing our Australia and New Zealand Internet Statistics Compendium and to date, it's had some 2,000 downloads.
This indicates an enormous hunger for data and insight among marketers in the region.
The past few months have seen a number of interesting reports looking at the ANZ digital landscape (including our own State of Digital Marketing in Australia in association with Marketing Magazine), but it is social media data that really seems to be the hot topic.
So, here’s a rundown of the latest social-related insight in Australia and New Zealand.
MENA case studies: Beat FM wins ArabNet's best digital campaign
At ArabNet's Digital Summit in Beirut last week, Jordanian agency, Prodigi Corp, took home the prize for Best Digital Campaign for its work for radio channel, Beat FM.
The Facebook campaign asked people to share their pictures if they are a celebrity look-alike.
More examples of innovative social media case studies are beginning to come to light in the Middle East, which is exciting for the digital industry in this region.
Sharing case studies and examples of best practice is hugely beneficial for digital as a whole, enabling companies to learn from their peers and better understand best practices and rules of engagement.
With that in mind, here we look at Beat FM's case study in more detail, as well as some of the other campaigns shortlisted in this category at ArabNet's summit.
20 key points about social media measurement and metrics
It’s been a week of social metrics and measurement for me.
On day one of this week’s Social Media World Forum, held at Olympia in London, I sat in no less than four different sessions on measuring the value of social.
Another discussion this morning, hosted by Waggener Edstrom on social advertising, took a similar line.
I thought it might be helpful to collate some of the quotes, learnings and case studies that were mentioned, to act as further reading or perhaps inspire new models for measurement.
Measuring PR: impact, evaluation and clipping books
If we look at the banking industry today, it’s clear that there are huge challenges for banks in adapting to a changing PR landscape.
As the social internet revolutionises the way we market ourselves, and financial marketers are provided with a whole new paradigm of tools to prove their worth - PR can sometimes seem to be struggling to re-invent itself.
