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Traffic Rises 350% Year-Over-Year For Social Publisher BuzzFeed

The Realtime Report

Calling itself “the social news and entertainment company,” BuzzFeed demonstrated last month that whatever the publisher’s formula may be, it’s working. Social Media Statistics BuzzFeed BuzzFeed Video journalism social media social media statistics viral media viral news Youtube'

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This Week in Social Media – 8/7/2013

Social Media Marketing

Industry Social network usage rates for seniors ages 65 and older have tripled since 2009, one in every five Internet users is now on Twitter and 72% of online adults are social networking users, according to the Pew Research Center''s Internet & American Life Project''s latest report. this week in social news'

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Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage.

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic by Adam Sherk on October 23, 2009 Yesterday posts from eMarketer and Marketing Pilgrim called my attention to some interesting social media statistics put out by advertising network Chitika.

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Citizen Journalism: Who is a Journalist Today?

Proactive Report

The company cleverly correlated the data, and presented the information in a news release that emphasized the statistics and the trend tied into a major news event. Some newsrooms, like Gannet newspapers, have recently placed news staff on furlough to cut expenses. Newsrooms are under financial pressure.

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This is no less true for the world of social networks. Networks like Digg, FriendFeed, and Facebook are seeing huge growths in value, but the little guys, the ones actually providing the meat and potatoes for those operations, rarely see a nickel. Let’s be honest for a second here. The major “Web 2.0″

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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. The key here is making the mechanics of the social networks transparent. Social networks like Digg are open source???

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Andrew Sutherland, 17 Year Old Creator of Quizlet » Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It’s important to me to be an actual member of the Quizlet community, not just some executive looking down at a bunch of growth statistics. Recently, I’ve made a point to personally respond (and with no message templates) to each private message and feedback item that comes in.

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