It has been just over a year this week since Facebook’s IPO and this infographic takes a timely look back at some of the milestones that the social network has racked up along the way.

Since its IPO, Facebook has launched a raft of innovations designed to make the site more attractive to advertisers.

It seems some of these are paying off and in the UK we’re seeing click through rates (CTRs) increasing, suggesting consumers are actively engaging with more Facebook ads. Read More »

Say what you like about infographics, and many like to say they’re dead, but they continue to be some of the most shared content on the web.

The reason is obvious. While it might be possible to summarise many of the points some infographics make in a few lines of text it is the combination of words and images in a neat form that makes them easy and quick to digest and share in social channels.  Read More »

Facebook is booming and business has never been better for the social media giant. However, it’s proliferation in the last few years has resulted in some unintended and unwanted consequences.

The alarming numbers on Facebook are on the rise and further climbing. Be it a teen or an employee – effort is needed to ensure that the damaging impact of Facebook is contained and curbed – this is where tools such as the Facebook spy come in. Read More »

Twitter-boards and live streaming may be ubiquitous at most business events today, but the latest infographic from Eventility highlights a hat-full of untapped opportunities for event organisers.

From pre-event ‘social voting’ to gamifying Twitter engagement, smart event organisers are starting to use social media to amplify their events across the social Web and extend their lifetime value way beyond their actual duration. Read More »

Forbes recently released its Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers and now they have been brought together in this stat-tastic infographic.

Anyone else who you think should be on the list? They are most American, but a few from this side of theAtlantic.

Forbes used Peek Analytics, which gives people a pull score, as the tool to measure influence and evaluated bloggers and social media users who create their own content. That is quite an important distinction from the aggregators.  Read More »

Over the past ten years iTunes has drastically changed the way we share, purchase and consume music. It has given us unrestricted and portable access to music’s extensive back catalogue and taught the masses the art of a perfect playlist. iTunes has pioneered a listening revolution.

It has liberated music and allowed the top spot to be anyone’s game. The charts are now powered by hashtags and social media movements as much as they are press and PR.   Read More »

Content, data, digital, marketing, mobile, PR and social media… The industry changes so fast and to stay on your game you need to be tuning into great resources like The Wall (yay for you, you’re already ticking that box), the ever decreasing number of trade magazines and of course events.

There are a handful of big, agenda-setting conferences in the UK that everyone knows about and many will attempt to go along to one or more during the year.  But, there are a number of other events that may fly under the radar, and many niche (social media for the military, pharmaceutical or utility industries for example)  or focused conferences (if you’re looking for an event solely about content or data – 2013 is your year) that are worth considering. Read More »

Businesses often strive for customer loyalty, but little frustrations such as poor service, lack of integration between online and offline stores, and purchases requiring too much effort on the consumers part have caused them to take their business elsewhere.

Consumers are not just stuck to shopping at one store or using one service provider, meaning they can be choosy about where they buy their goods, and 58% of customers have terminated contracts or changed suppliers because of continued service failings, showed a survey by Redwood.  Read More »

Great infographic here looking at the explosion of mobile growth from eDigitalResearch and IMRG.

It charts some of the staggering growth we have seen as smartphone ownership soars to around 60% of the overall UK population, having continued to grow at a solid pace over the past 12 months. Read More »

It has been a few months now since Twitter launched Vine and we saw that first rush of brands experiment with it so it was probably about time it got its own infographic.

We’ve written a little bit about how brands are starting to use it and asked whether brands should be getting on board with it?

We’ve written also about football clubs in particular how they have taken to it and most recently we reported how the charity Kids Company was using Vine to promote donations. Read More »