The Realtime Report

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Have you shared your favorite song of 2012? Social marketing solutions company Hyperactivate.com has created “the world’s first social media music mosaic” — powered by Spotify, the project aims to share everyone’s favorite tunes in 2012 via an interactive, social media collaboration.

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Social Media Project Collaboration Hashtag 142

Mindjumpers

JANUARY 18, 2012

Tweet 2011 was a great year for social media where we saw true integration of “social” to our lives. To demonstrate the growth of social channels in the last one year, here is an interesting infographic designed by Internet marketing firm Dream Systems Media based on the data provided by AdAge.

Social Media 280

Social Media Statistics Mobile B2B 280

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 2, 2013

With 92% of companies now incorporating social media into their marketing efforts, it’s no longer sufficient to just “be there” on social networks. What do buyers really want from social media marketers? 25 Social Media Facts and Statistics. e-Strategy Trends ). e-Strategy Trends ).

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Social Media B2B Marketing SEO 245

Mindjumpers

AUGUST 16, 2012

When the App Center launched in May this year a vast number of people were already playing games on Facebook. However, Facebook gaming has gotten a real boost from the recent launch of the App Center. The new App Center is boosting Facebook gaming. The number has also risen 8.4% The number has also risen 8.4%

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Campaign Facebook Marketing Mobile 235

The Realtime Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

New marketing efforts reflect this shift, and are aimed directly at the female demographic — with social media as the primary tool for reaching out. Under Armour Women (@UAWomen) September 4, 2012. Under Armour Women (@UAWomen) September 4, 2012. The campaign will also include more traditional commercial spots on E!,

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Campaign Apparel Social Media Posterous 180

The Realtime Report

JULY 11, 2012

Burberry, a “digital darling” among luxury brands, recently launched its Autumn/Winter 2012 collection across 10 different social platforms, according to L2. Instagram has a selection of campaign images. YouTube has a series of short films about the collection. Are these fans engaging with the new content?

Campaign 189

Campaign Platform Social Media Microblogging 189

SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

billion people were recorded to use Facebook at least once a day. Since then, Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant has only continued to grow. Although the company has faced some turmoil, such as an advertiser boycott in 2020, Facebook remained dominant with a steady increase in revenue. As of June 2020, close to 1.8

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Facebook Strategy Marketing Travel 130

yMarketingMatters

JANUARY 19, 2012

What a year was 2011 for social media and marketing! I watched and experienced first-hand the marketing and social media landscape change, consolidate, focus, develop and evolve all at the same time. As I’ve said before, social media needs to be INTEGRATED into your overarching marketing plan.

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Trends Marketing Mobile Wireless 279

Mindjumpers

MARCH 19, 2012

Here are three key reasons why brands should put more effort into producing and distributing visual content as a part of their social media marketing tactics. Things move fast in social media. People’s Facebook News Feeds are crowded with friends’ status updates, events, comments and Page posts.

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Communities Authentication Feed Feedly 273

The Realtime Report

AUGUST 23, 2012

President Obama’s campaign has posted nearly four times as much content as challenger Mitt Romney’s campaign, and is active on nearly twice as many platforms, according to new research by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. both campaigns averaged two posts per day on Facebook.

Campaign 181

Campaign Engagement Social Media Study 181

The Realtime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Mobile advertising spending will total more than $4 billion by the end of 2012, according to eMarketer estimates. And new research by Millennial Media reveals that certain industries have seen tremendous growth (more than 400% year-over-year) in mobile advertising. Do you agree?

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Mobile Automotive Sports Travel 170

The Realtime Report

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Cape Town Tourism launched a new Facebook travel app this week, designed to allow “virtual visits” to the city through a user’s Facebook profile. Users can send their Facebook profile on a holiday to Cape Town – and earn the chance to win a trip to the city in real life. How exactly does it work?

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Tourism Social Media Travel Crowdsourcing 181

Mindjumpers

JUNE 25, 2012

Tweet Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2012 was held last week and was the 59th annual festival. Branded Content & Entertainment Lions: Cultivate Campaign by Creative Artists Agency for Fast Food. Here you can see the concept of the FuelBand: Similar Posts: Best Use of Social Media: The Winners of Bees Awards.

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Film Small Business Curation Mobile 168

The Realtime Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Cape Town Tourism’s most recent marketing initiative used a clever combination of travel blogging, crowdsourcing and social media to draw attention to the city, ranked 23rd among the top 25 travel destinations worldwide in TripAdvisor’s 2012 list of Traveler’s Choice Destinations. million soccer fans back in 2010.

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Crowdsourcing Travel Blogger Tourism 170

Hootsuite

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Facebook demographics reach farther and wider than any other social media network. But it’s important to look closely at the numbers to get a full picture of who uses Facebook—and how usage has changed over the years. In some places, Facebook’s audience has shrunk. Facebook has more than 2.45

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Social Media Facebook Marketing HootSuite 111

Laurel Papworth

JANUARY 30, 2012

If you are in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane I am teaching some one day hands on courses on social media campaigns, Facebook and Twitter, also 1/2 day courses on LinkedIn or Google Plus. Please forward this (Share on Facebook, Tweet it, email, whatevs ) to anyone you think might be interested? Will let you know.

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Training Social Media Class Course 76

Laurel Papworth

APRIL 21, 2012

I’ll be teaching a couple of 1/2 day step by step social media course in Perth on 27th April, 2012 while I’m there for the #Media140 conference. They are small classes with room for question and answer, so bring your Facebook and Twitter questions! Step by Step Social Media. What is Social Media?

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Training Course Social Media Press Release 76

SocMed Sean

JANUARY 21, 2012

There is no doubt that 2012 is going to be THE year of social media. Start a Facebook page just so “we can have a Facebook page. Hand social media activities over to a junior staff member or intern with no communications experience. Fail to put any measurement plan in place.

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Social Media Tumblr StumbleUpon Digg 280

Firebelly

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) health insurance exchanges have opened and social media is being used to both promote and debate the new law. Part of that marketing campaign is a social media push, designed to be cool and sexy. Read all about it below.

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Health Care Social Media Insurance Hashtag 155

Mindjumpers

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

As of 2012, social is already too big to ignore. In the beginning of this year, Sara predicted that 2012 would be the year of visual communication – and she was quite right. The rise of Pinterest and Instagram as well as the creative uses of the Facebook Timeline proves this. Read the entire report here.

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Social Media Nielsen Aggregator Mobile 269

The Realtime Report

JANUARY 9, 2013

A recent campaign by Securian Financial Group illustrates how social media can be a great tool for the financial services industry. The brand chose a relevant topic, engaged with the public, and used social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube – to reach out to potential customers.

Social Media 186

Social Media Strategy Case Study Airlines 186

Unmetric

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In this article, you are going to learn the first part of doing social media analysis. Audience sizes and fan growth have been derided by many social media managers as being worthless vanity metrics. Social media marketers know that it’s not how big your audience is, but the way they engage with your content.

Social Media 84

Social Media Analysis How To Analytics 84

SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Today’s guest post comes from Hazel Fogg, creative social media manager and editor at Academic Brits. Just recently she started to create her first social media course. Thanks to Hazel for sharing her thoughts on the use of humor in social media. They don’t want to be sold to.

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Social Media Meme Advertising Strategy 220

Laurel Papworth

MAY 31, 2012

Workshop training on social media strategy and campaigns – I’m teaching (doing a practical session, showing how to set up Facebook, Twitter, blog etc) an afternoon course with Inforum Group. Facebook, Twitter, blogs will be covered (we set up a blog live) as well as how to build audiences. Learn here!

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Course Social Media Press Release Film 66

Mindjumpers

APRIL 19, 2012

This post will focus on how you as a brand can engage your audience by using the setup of Facebook Timeline. This means that Facebook pages for brands are much more about community management and engaging your audience on an on-going basis. The more people share your content on Facebook, the better Edgerank will you achieve. .

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Engagement Facebook How To Eventful 277

The Realtime Report

APRIL 7, 2014

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube: Vine adds direct messaging via video (photo: Vine blog). Facebook updates Pages Manager for IOS – Facebook released version 3.0 Let us know in the comments below.

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News Types Nielsen Social Media 176

The Realtime Report

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Global discount supermarket chain Lidl started a hashtag campaign to do some holiday social good – and may have been caught off guard when it quickly went viral. When the 24-hour campaign was over, 1500 people had tweeted – which meant 7,500 meals. luxevooriedereen — Bart Aerts (@b_aerts) December 11, 2012.

Hashtag 147

Hashtag Campaign Case Study Banking 147

Unmetric

APRIL 2, 2019

At Unmetric, we do something called the #UnmetricBrandStars on Twitter and Facebook. Each day, we trawl through brand posts and feature the most engaging post by a brand on our social handles. We believe it will provide other brands inspiration for their own creative briefs and campaigns. The rise of BTS.

Social Media 97

Social Media Brands Marketing Tourism 97

Mindjumpers

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Our ever-growing global network of Local Social Media Managers around the world helps us ensure contextually relevant content through social listening, content production and response management. India is a mobile first country where 41% of total mobile users are active on social media.

Social Media 100

Social Media Trends Mobile Social Networking 100

The Realtime Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Social image-sharing site Pinterest is the focus of a new campaign by Volvo Cars of North America. Volvo also looked to design and lifestyle blogger Victoria Smith to help promote the campaign, by making her own Volvo Joyride board and YouTube video to share with her over 473,000 followers on Pinterest.

Campaign 156

Campaign Hotels Social Media Management Influencer 156

Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 17, 2013

For the second year in a row, the company is hosting the Pin It To Give It campaign, which encourages Pinterest users to re-pin content from its #PinItToGiveIt board. Turning to social media and Pinterest especially seems strategic as a forum for taking their support to the next level while raising awareness for Look Good Feel Better.

Campaign 133

Campaign Forums Curation Social Media 133

The Realtime Report

AUGUST 10, 2012

Lexus is using social media to link the new “Unleash the LFA” campaign - promoting a high-end model through a Facebook contest – with the brand’s end-of-summer sale event. The teasers included a short video, social media posts and a hashtag campaign, #UnleashTheLFA.

Facebook 163

Facebook Marketing Campaign Eventful 163

Mindjumpers

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

A loss for the 49’ers, but a great win for social media – with an emphasis on Twitter. Last year, Facebook and Twitter shared a social media first place in terms of brand usage during the Super Bowl. This year, Twitter outran Facebook by miles in terms of brands mentioning the network in their campaigns.

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Statistics Analysis Groups Groups 227

Mindjumpers

JUNE 22, 2012

Browsing through the shortlist of amazing cases in the category “Best Consumer Engagement”, I found a Bronze Lion awarded campaign by TBWA London – Skittles Blue. Skittles, with a Facebook page of more than 2.5 million fans at the start of the campaign, saw a demand for a blue coloured Skittle.

Facebook 267

Facebook Transportation Campaign Study 267

The Realtime Report

DECEMBER 3, 2012

In support of World AIDS Day, Durex created the #1Share1Condom Twitter hashtag campaign to help fight the spread of HIV. From November 26 through December 1st, Durex offered to donate one unused condom for every tweet with #1Share1Condom and for every share of the World AIDS Day image or video on Durex USA’s Facebook page.

Campaign 142

Campaign Retail Hashtag Price 142

Bill Hartzer

JULY 3, 2013

taxpayer dollars on two separate social media campaigns: to increase the number of Facebook Likes on their Facebook page. What’s even worse, is that these two social media campaigns were complete flops, with less than 2 percent actually engaging with their posts.

Facebook 164

Facebook Buy Campaign Report 164

Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 22, 2012

General Electric went a step further with a contest that involved photos uploaded to Instagram, then shared to Facebook for voting. That was a novel way to connect two social media platforms for marketing purposes. They then featured those photos through a collage on their website for all to see.

Social Media 110

Social Media Fashion Instagram Trends 110