November, 2012

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TweetLevel’s New Influence Measurement Tool Delivers Far More Than A Score

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“Influence without context is irrelevant,” says the new TweetLevel how to page , and anyone who has followed my rants and reports on influence measurement knows that is music to my ears. This week TweetLevel launched a new version of its influence measurement tool that adds context to the influencer scoring in two important ways: topic and influencer types.

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How To Go Viral Gangnam Style: Great Content, Great Marketing, Or Both?

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South Korean rapper Psy’s music video Gangnam Style became a viral phenomenon across the globe, racking up video views and spurring remakes, parodies and dance performances worldwide. The video debuted on July 15, 2012. By September 20th it had received the most likes of any YouTube video, according to Guinness World Records. What fueled this meteoric rise in popularity – the content, the marketing, celebrity tweeting, or some combination of these elements?

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How To Organize A Brand Hackathon (And Why) – Interview With Betabrand’s Chris Lindland

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We recently ran a post covering the Facebook-powered sock insurance program from Betabrand, maker of geek chic such as the Executive Pinstripe Hoodie and the Nauseating Holiday Pants. This led to a series of email exchanges with Betabrand founder and CEO Chris Lindland, who pointed me to a number of other campaigns the brand has done–some of which were created at a series of hackathons that Betabrand hosted this year.

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“Digitally Mature” Companies Make More Money

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Still looking for ways to convince your boss, clients or board of investors to invest money in realtime tools and strategies? How about this one: according to a new study by Capgemini Consulting and the MIT Center for Digital Business, companies that are “digitally mature” generate more revenue, are more profitable and achieve higher market valuations.

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Traffic From StumbleUpon Has Dropped 53% Since July

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The share of traffic coming to publisher sites from StumbleUpon has dropped 53% since last July, according to new data from social plug-in provider Shareaholic. With this drop, Twitter now tops StumbleUpon’s share of traffic by a small margin of.22%. Despite a “Pinterest-like” redesign unveiled back in September, StumbleUpon hasn’t been able to stop the continued decline in traffic.

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PeopleBrowsr v. Twitter: The Arguments On Each Side — And What’s At Stake

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Yesterday, a San Francisco court gave PeopleBrowsr, an provider of Twitter analytics services, a temporary restraining order against Twitter. The court ruling forces Twitter to maintains PeopleBrowsr’s full access to Twitter’s firehose of data. This is a first, small victory for the plaintiff in a case that could become a defining moment in the evolution of the data-driven web.

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Social Advertising: Growth of Native Ads To Outpace Display

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Spending on paid social media advertising will reach $4.6 billion in 2012 and is expected to double over the next 4 years, reaching $9.2 billion by 2016, according to a new report from BIA/Kelsey. For the first time, the report broke out spending on native social advertising vs. display social advertising ( Adweek ). Native ads running on social media sites (ex.