The numbers are from Nielsen’s Top 10 web brands list for September 2012. Nielsen estimates that Facebook users spent about six hours, 40...

You simply couldn’t escape it. The social media turnout in #Election2012 was as impressive as the actual voter turnout across the...

We know that Instagram is one of the most popular social destinations for users, but brands are following suit. Back in August, Simply...

The September Top 50 is just out, and Pinterest squeaked in at No. 50 with an estimated 25.3 million visitors. That puts it still...

Merchant Circle (owned by Reply.com) finds that a majority are using social media to promote themselves. Yet only small minorities are...

A recent BizRate Insights study compared why online shoppers in the US and Canada use Pinterest and Facebook. Both sites scored highly as...

In addition to the spikes in search activity, Thursday’s U.S. Vice-Presidential Debate also heated up across popular social networks. You...

The folks at Compete made a splash today with a blog post that shows how Pinterest recently surpassed Tumblr in terms of unique visitors....

Instagram surpassed Twitter in average daily mobile visitors last month. It’s an important milestone in Instagram’s growth, but the...

Forrester suggests that the low numbers could be due to measurement periods required (a 30-day attribution model was used in this report)...

Those are some of the findings from a new study by Recommend.ly, a social media tools/analytics company. Walmart launched the “My Local...

released a report predicting the importance of online reviews and social media “Likes” will result in Fortune 500 brands and large...

Yesterday, Google announced that it had 400 million people who had “upgraded” to Google+, a statistic we’ve had updated over time. But...

I have a Pinterest account. I’m very comfortable with that.) But are the stereotypes true? In a report issued this week that’s ostensibly...

Those are some of the findings in Politics on Social Networking Sites, a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project....

A new survey shows that when it comes to generating leads and sales, Facebook gets top marks among business-to-consumer marketers while...

If you’re planning a campaign to stimulate word of mouth discussion of a product or a brand, one question likely keeps arising — how...

Among the most interesting: Facebook users create 3.2 billion likes and comments every day. Facebook users spend an average of 6 hours,...

new report, market research firm eMarketer estimates that 88 percent of U.S. companies will be marketing on Facebook by 2014. That’s more...

ComScore’s July 2012 Top 50 shows a 38 percent traffic gain for Instagram between June and July, with unique visitors rising from 16.5...