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2012 Acquisitions in Social Media Analysis

Net-Savvy Executive

I've been tracking acquisitions in social media analysis for years. This year, I thought I'd do something new: I wrote a recap of the activity, which you can find at The Year in M&A, Social Media Analysis 2012. As with the big directory of over 400 companies, the list of transactions requires some judgment about which deals to include.

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The Social Media Analysis Business in 2014

Net-Savvy Executive

One of the nicest compliments I''ve received over the years came from a company founder who read one of my reports and said I''d summarized his company''s work better than they did. VC and PE money funded multiple acquisitons by companies staking out hoped-for prominent positions. Social media analysis' I summarize.

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Conversation Gained-How to Determine Influence in B2B Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

For me, those postulations and assumptions began back in 2006, so I’ve got 11 plus years of data and experience on what I think and what I think I think. What makes your company and its products or services better or different? What does your company not do well? Who is your greatest threat? How can we improve the #CX?

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The Social-Shake-Up: A New Breed of Marketer is Coming

Buzz Marketing for Technology

All the tools of the trade – text analytics, social media analysis, Website personalization, community analytics, computational advertising and online testing, among other things – were used for re-elect the President of the United States. Like it or not, what Andrew McAfee predicted in 2006 in his book, Enterprise 2.0,

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Giles Palmer on Old vs. New Work Ethic

Oktopost

He spun Brandwatch out as a product company in 2006 and launched the first version of ‘Brandwatch Analytics’ in August 2007. In February 2021 it was announced that Brandwatch had been acquired by Cision , the leader in news distribution and media monitoring and analysis for $450 million.

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Sharing My Database of Listening Vendors

Net-Savvy Executive

In late 2006, I decided it would be interesting to find every company in the world that offered social media listening tools or services. I thought I'd find a few dozen companies. Five years on, I've found hundreds of companies, and I'm still finding more. The location of the company's main office.

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Analysis: Top 100 Twitter Users

Viper Chill

You are here: ViperChill » Social Media » Analysis: Top 100 Twitter Users Analysis: Top 100 Twitter Users Written by Glen, this post has 24 Comments In terms of traffic, I feel like Twitter is becoming a sort of hybrid between Digg of a few years ago and StumbleUpon. I joined in July 2006, she joined in October.