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StumbleUpon Traffic to Magazine and Content Sites Down 27%

Adam Sherk

To get a better sense of the situation I pulled StumbleUpon referral figures from 2010-2012 for a group of 47 news and content sites that we work with at Define Media Group , primarily magazine brands. For confidentially reasons I am not able to reveal the specific titles, but they are all well-known brands from major publishers.

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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Such was the case for this Digg story , which compared multiple web hosting companies and watched as these hosts handled the traffic spikes that resulted from the Digg effect. Digg is the social media network of tech geeks, and the Digg statistics should not be too surprising: 39% of Diggers publish their own blog.

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Local TV News Teams Having Fun with Pinterest

Adam Sherk

Among the types of boards that are popular are lifestyle content (recipes and food, fashion, home, etc.); Related posts: NBC Targets Local Markets on the New Digg. Pinterest: Great Opportunity for Lifestyle Publishers and Brands. I particularly liked what KARK’s morning show team is doing with behind the scenes photos.

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Old Spice: Successful Social Media Campaign

Mindjumpers

. • Witty, cheeky and shirtless guy in front – the character of the Old Spice guy is well played out by Isaiah Mustafa • Creating a buzz – Old Spice knows how to create a buzz by choosing wisely what people to respond. By connecting with celebrities who reply and retweet, they quickly reach a wide audience by word-of-mouth.

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Free Summer School For Marketers

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In a very non-traditional fashion, my mother said, "If the magazines don''t work out you always go back to school, but if you stay in school and stop publishing those magazines, you will never know what could have been. Check out the Advertising & Branding e-newsletter along with the Technology Today one. branded content.

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The Question Of Quora

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Answers can be voted up and down (ala Digg ) and you have the ability to follow the individuals and topics that are of interest to you. Imagine what it's like when each answer can be voted up by everyone in an equal and public fashion. Over the past little while, a new online platform has been gaining ground, momentum and attention.

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4 Ways the Twitter You Know is Changing Forever

Convince & Convert

The rise of Twitter was accompanied by the slow demise of RSS and Digg, as the surging popularity of the 140-character kid made many previous pointing and info-gathering technologies unnecessary. Twitter became (and still is) the headline news of the modern age. It’s a collection of observations and links to other observations.

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