
Facebook Drops The Thumb, Intros New “Like” & “Share” Buttons
Facebook has given the thumbs down to its three-year-old “Like” button, introducing a new version that replaces the “thumbs up” symbol...

YouTube Narrowing Traffic Gap With Facebook [Study]
The data come from How Much Media? 2013, a new report from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. The study...

For The First Time Ever, Facebook Sees Decrease In “Young Teen” Usage
This caused a buzz that other networks like Snapchat, and (the Facebook owned) Instagram are gaining steam on the social giant....

Facebook: 20 Million Small Businesses Have Pages, Small Fraction Are Advertisers
That’s the word from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who shared the data during today’s Q3 earnings call. The company’s report focused, as...

Forrester Research Disses Facebook To Generate Coverage, Controversy
open letter to Mark Zuckerberg.” A raw PR stunt, the letter is partly intended to generate controversy and exposure for the firm. And in...

Facebook Begins Testing New “Stories To Share” Feature For Media Sites & Publishers
“Stories to Share” feature today, a tool that allows media sites to post suggested content on their Facebook page directly from the...

Study: 51% of Facebook Engagement Occurs On Mobile & Status On Paid Post Performance By Type
Last month ShopIgniter released their “Social Benchmark Report” that covered overall Facebook revenue & forecasting to in-depth post...

Google+ Drives A Fraction Of The Referral Traffic That Facebook, Pinterest & Twitter Do [Report
That’s the main takeaway from an annual report released today by Shareaholic, makers of social sharing buttons and widgets that the...

Facebook Govt Data Requests Dominated By US
released its Government Data Requests report, covering the first half of 2013. The country with the most requests by far is the US. India...

Facebook Driving More Than 2x Twitter Traffic To Parse.ly’s News Clients
That’s according to the Authority Report from Parse.ly, a company that counts the likes of Reuters, The Atlantic, Mashable, The Next Web,...

Your Facebook Post’s Lifespan May Be Shorter Than You Think, 50% Of Post Reach Is Achieved In
Of course, we as marketers know that timeliness of a Facebook post is crucial. It could be even more important than we think. The folks...

Popularity Pays: People Are 32% More Likely To ‘Like’ If There Is A Preexisting Positive
It turns out that social media users may act more herd-like than you may think. The American Association for the Advancement of Science...

Facebook Denies Claims Of User Dissatisfaction, Teen Disengagement
report asserting that while teens were on Facebook in large numbers they were losing enthusiasm. The report said that “94 percent of teen...

Facebook For Business: New Hub For Ad Education, Case Studies
beat expectations when it announced second quarter revenues. COO Sheryl Sandberg said on the earnings call that the company was only...

Facebook Has Almost 18 Million Business Pages, Adding 1M Per Month
The 18 million figure counts as of the end of Q2 — June 30th. It represents a growth rate of about a million new pages each month over...

Facebook Beats Q2 Expectations, Mobile Climbs To 41 Percent
announced Q2 2013 revenues this afternoon. It beat analysts’ consensus expectations with $1.81 billion in total revenue. Ad revenue was...

Facebook Feature Phone App Crosses 100 Million Threshold
Facebook for Every Phone. It launched in July 2011 and was the product of the company’s acquisition of Snaptu. This morning, the company...

Facebook Well Ahead Of Google, Yahoo In Social Logins [Gigya]
In addition to its social sharing data, Gigya has also shared social login statistics that are aggregated from its client base of more...

Gigya: Only 2 Percent Of Social Sharing Happens On Google+
Despite a reportedly growing user base, Google+ isn’t popular when it comes to sharing content on social networks. A new report from...
























