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Sysomos Acquired By Marketwire

Dave Fleet

Audience – a sales- and marketing-focused tool to help measure ROI and optimize marketing and community engagement. As Ray Wang suggests , expect to see more of this kind of activity in the coming months with other companies such as Alterian , BuzzGain , Cymfony , Radian6 , Viralheat and Visible Technologies.

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Four Ways to Measure Social Media Marketing Results

Webbiquity SMM

While there are unquestionably many ways that social media marketing results can be measured , the debate rages on as to whether it’s truly possible to quantify the ROI from these activities. The C-suite expects justification for every dollar spent, including investments in social media marketing. Share this on Mixx. Tweet This!

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Gleanster Market Research Report on Social Media Marketing

Bill Hartzer

Gleanster is a new breed of IT market research. Gleanster takes a different approach by providing market research that they have gathered: and you can get the data for free. I took a look at the Social Media Marketing research data. Well, almost. You can actually download the reports for free after you register for the service.

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Best Social Media Monitoring Tools

Bill Hartzer

From gathered data targeted to a specific demographic group, clients can then maximize their marketing performance from various social media sources. TNS Cymfony – a Kantar Media company, TNS Cymfony provides customers with market influence analytics – some of the best analytics in the industry.

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Brand Monitoring: Where Are They Now?

Net-Savvy Executive

Cymfony Acquired in 2007 by TNS, which was acquired by WPP in 2008. Cymfony is now part of WPP's Kantar Media. The first report in the space was Peter Kim's Forrester Wave: Brand Monitoring (September 2006), which introduced us to seven companies: Biz360 Acquired by Attensity in 2010. It's now known as Dow Jones Insight.

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What Does Salesforce-Radian6 Deal Mean for Everyone Else?

Net-Savvy Executive

Other acquisitions have tied SMA firms to PR/media (Sysomos/Marketwire, Brandtology/Media Monitors), market research (Cymfony/TNS, Umbria/JD Power, Evolve24/Maritz), and marketing management (Techrigy/Alterian). Converseon blurs the lines that divide research, creative marketing, and management consulting services.

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Social Media Research: Interview with Joel Rubinson of ARF - Part I

Diva Marketing Blog

With the rapid increase of digital conversations the importance of not only listening to consumer generated content (CGC) but the analysis of this new data set is finally taking its place at the marketing research table. Toby/Diva Marketing : Let’s take it from the top. Joel's Blog CRO-ing About Research @joelrubinson on Twitter.