Daily Archives: 27 September, 2012

Social media is FT’s fastest growing source of traffic [infographic]

Interesting stats here from the Financial Times looking at how its readers use social media.
The FT says it has a global combined social media audience of 3.9m and that social media is growing faster than every other traffic source to its FT.com website.  Read More »

Why the 4G Revolution is big news for marketers

Why the 4G Revolution is big news for marketers If the government makes good on its promises, within two years 98% of the UK will be covered by 4G.

This is big news for marketers, as finally brands and agencies will not be hampered by the constraints of slow internet speeds – broadband will have caught up to mobile capabilities.

What does this mean in practical application? Well, it’s pretty obvious that consumers presented with quicker speeds are going to use their mobile more. Those who previously wouldn’t have bothered taking one minute to check a price in-store against that of a competitor will be more willing to do so if it only takes a couple of seconds. Read More »

Burberry’s digital success not a flash in the pan

Burberry: pushing the digital and social media envelopeBurberry has largely drawn plaudits this London Fashion Week for arguably being the only fashion house this side of the pond to try anything remotely ambitious in terms of digital.

Whilst Google Glasses, Hangouts and live streaming were all being debuted/implemented to various degrees of excitement and success Stateside, although London was markedly more reserved as it looked to consolidate its resurgent reputation. Read More »

Promoted Tweets on mobile are achieving more than 40% in terms of engagement

LG Ticket Hunter campaign on TwitterTwitter has released some data that provides interesting statistics that give an idea of the kind of performance Promoted Tweets are achieving for advertisers.

Most notably though is how mobile is performing. In one campaign for Volkswagen the best performing Promoted Tweet on mobile received 43.8% engagement.

While a campaign for LG saw a Promoted trend achieve an average engagement rate of 38%. Read More »