17 Mar 2009
| by Ben Bold
LONDON - Over half of global marketers will increase their social media marketing spend in spite...they would boost budgets, social media spend remains very small in proportion to other media -- 75 ...
. However, the majority of social media budgets are not predetermined -- 45% said they were generated ...
wherever they could find them. The research also highlighted that money being allocated to social media ...
11 Aug 2008
| by Staff
LONDON - Social media sites such as Facebook and MySpace face being crippled by censorship...Steve Richards, managing director of social media agency Yomego claims that the industry is on a "knife edge" despite 11m users in the UK visiting social media sites every day. Richards was speaking ...
about his private life to be posted. He argues that closer partnerships between social media's leading ...
27 Nov 2008
| by Staff
LONDON - Businesses are to invest more in social media in the coming year in an effort to boost...behaviour and psychology. It says that the predicted rise in investment in social media comes as around ...
strategy in place. Those that do are looking to invest in areas associated with Web 2.0 and social media ...
-generated content and a similar number (36%) examining blogging. Brand presence on social networks is also expected ...
25 Feb 2009
| by Ben Bold
LONDON - The number of women attracted to the world of social networking has grown by a massive 53...in social media activities, with 89% doing so regularly. A quarter of women often read online forums, up ...
The Women's Space 2 study revealed that two-thirds of women count social networking as one ...
Project, and Brand Republic sister title Media Week, which named it Best Research Initiative at the Media ...
20 Mar 2009
| by Ben Bold
LONDON - Media Contacts has opened an in-house social media division so that it can offer clients a...The Social Media Unit will be available to clients of Media Contacts, MPG and MPGi, enabling them ...
of social media campaigns. This information will be fed into Artemis, a proprietary online analytics platform. Paul Frampton, MPG and Media Contacts' managing director, said: "The Social Media Unit is one ...
15 Jul 2009
| by Ben Bold
LONDON - Alterian has acquired Techrigy, a social media monitoring and analytics firm...-based full version. David Eldridge, Alterian's CEO, said: "Social media monitoring and analytics are a complex challenge. "Social media and web 2.0 applications are developing and changing so rapidly that only those companies that can combine an understanding of social media with a solid history ...
24 Mar 2010
| by Maisie McCabe
NEW YORK - New York-based full-service digital agency R/GA has expanded its social media offering...Lisco will be responsible for developing social media strategies and all related efforts for R ...
his knowledge of the mobile and social media space and visual design experience to help develop ...
worked for interactive marketing agency Dare Digital. Six further positions, including social media ...
18 Jun 2010
| by Staff
A new report examines what companies are looking for when hiring social media talent. In short "a...They don't want much do they? The Social Media Influence report says that the most common job ...
s Twitter account turns VERY anti-social Top Fortune 100 companies least likely to see social media as worthwhile investment Gatorade takes social media seriously with mission control center Pakistan ...
09 Oct 2007
| by Staff
NEW YORK - News website MSNBC has acquired web 2.0 social media news network, Newsvine...the social media site to a wider audience. Davidson said: We founded the company with the notion that big and little media can interact in a way that respects established journalism and empowers the individual ...
25 Feb 2010
| by Staff
LONDON - Social media firm Ubervu has sought to help answer questions such as "why are companies...Ubervu offers a range of useful social media statistics for free with more detailed analysis ...
offers an alternative to more complex social media monitoring tools such as the widely used Radian6 ...
score. Ubervu said it had added the sentiment score partly to answer often asked social media questions ...