Fahad HNov 8, 20122 min readNielsen: Facebook Users Spending 30 Minutes Less There Now Than 6 Months AgoThe numbers are from Nielsen’s Top 10 web brands list for September 2012. Nielsen estimates that Facebook users spent about six hours, 40...
Fahad HNov 7, 20122 min readElection 2012 Breaks Records With 31.7 Million Political TweetsYou simply couldn’t escape it. The social media turnout in #Election2012 was as impressive as the actual voter turnout across the...
Fahad HNov 2, 20121 min readMore Than Half Of Top Brands Are Now On InstagramWe know that Instagram is one of the most popular social destinations for users, but brands are following suit. Back in August, Simply...
Fahad HOct 24, 20121 min readPinterest Debuts In comScore’s Top 50 Web PropertiesThe September Top 50 is just out, and Pinterest squeaked in at No. 50 with an estimated 25.3 million visitors. That puts it still...
Fahad HOct 17, 20123 min readSurvey: 70 Percent Of SMBs Embrace Social Media, Seemingly Indifferent To Other Marketing ChannelsMerchant Circle (owned by Reply.com) finds that a majority are using social media to promote themselves. Yet only small minorities are...
Fahad HOct 17, 20121 min readStudy: 70 Percent Of Pinterest Users Are There For Shopping InspirationA recent BizRate Insights study compared why online shoppers in the US and Canada use Pinterest and Facebook. Both sites scored highly as...
Fahad HOct 12, 20122 min readRed State, Blue State: The Social Network VP Debate Divide Shown In Map FormIn addition to the spikes in search activity, Thursday’s U.S. Vice-Presidential Debate also heated up across popular social networks. You...
Fahad HOct 10, 20121 min readPinterest May Have More Visitors Than Tumblr; If Not, It Will SoonThe folks at Compete made a splash today with a blog post that shows how Pinterest recently surpassed Tumblr in terms of unique visitors....
Fahad HSep 28, 20122 min readChart: Instagram’s Dramatic, 6-Month Rise To Having More Daily Mobile Traffic Than TwitterInstagram surpassed Twitter in average daily mobile visitors last month. It’s an important milestone in Instagram’s growth, but the...
Fahad HSep 26, 20121 min readReport: Fewer Than 1% Of Sales Can Be Tracked Back To Social MediaForrester suggests that the low numbers could be due to measurement periods required (a 30-day attribution model was used in this report)...
Fahad HSep 21, 20122 min readWalmart’s Local Facebook Strategy Isn’t Working, Study SaysThose are some of the findings from a new study by Recommend.ly, a social media tools/analytics company. Walmart launched the “My Local...
Fahad HSep 18, 20122 min readResearch Firm Predicts Up To 15 Percent Of Likes/Reviews By 2014 Will Be Fakereleased a report predicting the importance of online reviews and social media “Likes” will result in Fortune 500 brands and large...
Fahad HSep 18, 20123 min readGoogle+ Reaches 100 Million “Social Network” Users (& How This Is Different From PaYesterday, Google announced that it had 400 million people who had “upgraded” to Google+, a statistic we’ve had updated over time. But...
Fahad HSep 14, 20121 min readSocial Network Demographics: Pew Study Shows Who Uses Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest & OthersI have a Pinterest account. I’m very comfortable with that.) But are the stereotypes true? In a report issued this week that’s ostensibly...
Fahad HSep 4, 20122 min readDemocrats Like To Mix Politics & Social Media More Than Republicans, Independents [Study]Those are some of the findings in Politics on Social Networking Sites, a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project....
Fahad HAug 30, 20122 min readSurvey: Facebook Best For B2C Sales and Leads; LinkedIn For B2BA new survey shows that when it comes to generating leads and sales, Facebook gets top marks among business-to-consumer marketers while...
Fahad HAug 30, 20129 min readCan Social Influence Be Distilled Into A Score? Part I, The PotentialIf you’re planning a campaign to stimulate word of mouth discussion of a product or a brand, one question likely keeps arising — how...
Fahad HAug 27, 20121 min readFacebook: 3.2 Billion Likes & Comments Every DayAmong the most interesting: Facebook users create 3.2 billion likes and comments every day. Facebook users spend an average of 6 hours,...
Fahad HAug 24, 20121 min readEMarketer: 88 Percent Of U.S. Companies Will Market On Facebook By 2014new report, market research firm eMarketer estimates that 88 percent of U.S. companies will be marketing on Facebook by 2014. That’s more...
Fahad HAug 23, 20121 min readInstagram Traffic Up 38 Percent In July, Tumblr Surpasses MySpace [ComScore]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...
