We all use Twitter for a myriad of different reasons and asking questions forms a big part of that for a lot of us. This infographic looks at some of the questions we ask.

It gives an insight into what people are using Twitter for and what they are trying to get out of it. Read More »

As one of the biggest behaviour changes we’re seeing since the box was invented, Social TV genuinely interests me. Gone are the days when families would huddle around their TV to share their favourite programs. Okay that’s a bit of an exaggeration, those days aren’t gone altogether, however there’s a much bigger huddle in the room when you add in the various people we share that experience with through our smartphones, tablets and laptops. The family is no longer focussed entirely on each other, in fact there could be a number of conversations going on at the same time. When it comes to the television itself, there is a trend of people choosing to watch shows on demand through their computers and tablets instead of having a television in the room at all. Read More »

This past 24 hours have seen the latest Twitter storm come hurtling through the social media atmosphere, sweeping up thousands before it in a big stinky cloud of outrage and bile. Not for the first time, the catalyst for the disgust was the Daily Mail, this time an article by Samantha Brick about “the downsides to looking pretty”. Whether or not they are cynically doing this stuff on purpose (1.5 million hits on one article is pretty impressive) is open for debate, but yet again they prove the sheer monumental snowball that can be created on social media if you do enough to sufficiently create the avalanche.  Read More »

Twitter has launched a new version of Twitter for BlackBerry. This is long overdue considering how unreliable the Twitter app can be for the Blackberry.

The new version of Twitter for BlackBerry makes it easier to share links to web pages directly from the browser. Read More »

In the past month EPL football clubs have amassed 3.3 million new Facebook Likes, 342,109 new Twitter followers and nearly 10,000 tweets. This works out as a 12% growth for Twitter followers and 9% for Facebook fans and it doesn’t like it will decline any time soon. With this in mind, who performed best in the last month?

The below infographic comes from Digital Agency Freestyle Interactive, who have been producing monthly EPL Social Media reports since November.

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I don’t know how many more times I can answer the same question from people. It usually goes something like this;

Social media wannabe: “Hey, are you on Pinterest yet?”

Me: “No! go away!”

I know this sounds harsh, but it’s simply a fair representation of the conversations I’ve been having too much recently. I think it was less than a week after Pinterest became “mainstream” when the questions were being asked about why I (or my company) weren’t on the platform yet. As if we’re missing out big time. We’re losing the opportunity of a lifetime. It’s now or never!!!!!

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TwiIt seems so natural to many people now, that it’s a hazy memory of a time when it wasn’t possible to catch up on the latest news stories or updates from celebrities on your mobile, in the same amount of time it takes to step off the tube, jump on the escalator and order a latte in the coffee shop next door. In the modern world people want information quickly and in an easily digestible format, and this helps to explain the growth in popularity of Twitter since its inception six years ago. Read More »

Whilst online surveys often overstate the uptake of technology, Ipsos MediaCT’s offline Tech Tracker data tells us that just over four in ten GB adults now own a smartphone, representing an increase of roughly 30% in the last two years. The rise of the smartphone has coincided with the increased popularity, and normality, of social media usage. Arguably the two are connected, the modern mobile device being the ideal format for keeping up-to-date, and updating, as it means people are always online, even when on the move. Read More »

For me, trying to choose a favourite talk from Austin’s SXSW interactive festival this week would be like lining up a row of twelve pots of deliciously fruity yoghurt and stating that I was only allowed to have one.

Agony.

Anyway, whatever the talk, and no matter what its theme, there’s great potential for use within digital advertising. It was good stuff. If someone tells you they weren’t inspired by SXSW then maybe they’re looking for fully-formed answers on a plate, whereas half the fun of this industry is taking a raw possibility, be it a technology or channel, and trying to do something different with it. Read More »

As the Leveson inquiry rattles on, every day seems to uncover a new angle to what can truly be called a scandal (today whether Rupert Murdoch is a fit and proper owner for BSkyB)- proving once again that sometimes truth really is more bizarre than fiction. Headline-writers had a field day when it emerged that the Met Police had ‘loaned’ ex-News International chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, a horse. In the midst of allegations of bribery, corruption and inappropriate relations between the media empire and the police force, this slightly surreal turn of events did nothing to stem the rising tide of evidence against News International.

Events took another dramatic turn when James Murdoch resigned as News International’s Executive Chairman. The official line was that it was to focus on ‘international television’ but it’s clear that the only way the Murdoch empire might truly recover from this mess is with a clean slate – a new paper (the Sun on Sunday) and a new public face. Which may potentially be another Murdoch. Read More »