Fahad HOct 31, 20131 min readStudy: Instagram Is The Fastest Growing Social Network, Top Brand Engagement Up 350% Since Last YearInstagram is the fastest growing social network with 150 million users and 40 million photos being uploaded each day according to social...
Fahad HOct 30, 20132 min readFacebook: 20 Million Small Businesses Have Pages, Small Fraction Are AdvertisersThat’s the word from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who shared the data during today’s Q3 earnings call. The company’s report focused, as...
Fahad HOct 30, 20131 min readStudy: 72% Of Consumers Expect Brands To Respond Within An Hour To Complaints Posted On Twitternew study from social software provider Lithium reveals 53 percent of consumers expect a brand to respond to a tweet within an hour. That...
Fahad HOct 29, 20131 min readGoogle+ Hits 300 Million Active Monthly “In-Stream” Users, 540 Million Across GoogleAs expected, Google touted the growth of its “social layer” Google+ during a special event today that also saw the introduction of 18 new...
Fahad HOct 24, 20131 min readThey Don’t Call It The News Feed For Nothing: 1-In-3 Americans Use Facebook As A News SourceThose adults that are only casual or “light” consumers of the news showed higher numbers of Facebook usage for news purposes. Light...
Fahad HOct 15, 20132 min readGoogle+ Drives A Fraction Of The Referral Traffic That Facebook, Pinterest & Twitter Do [ReportThat’s the main takeaway from an annual report released today by Shareaholic, makers of social sharing buttons and widgets that the...
Fahad HSep 27, 20132 min readSurvey: 71% Of Companies Concerned Over Social Media Risks, But Only 36% Provide Employee Trainingsurvey examining corporate social media risks and rewards from advisory firm Grant Thornton found that 71 percent of the executives...
Fahad HSep 12, 20132 min readSurvey: Facebook Dominates Check-ins, 30 Percent Geotag Postssurvey from the Pew Research Center focuses on the use of location on mobile devices. It found that roughly three-quarters (74 percent)...
Fahad HSep 5, 20131 min readApple’s iPhone 5 Ads Were A Social Sharing Failure, Report SaysBut after the news hits, will the company’s TV ads translate well on social networks? According to a new report from Unruly Media, Apple...
Fahad HAug 27, 20131 min readFacebook Driving More Than 2x Twitter Traffic To Parse.ly’s News ClientsThat’s according to the Authority Report from Parse.ly, a company that counts the likes of Reuters, The Atlantic, Mashable, The Next Web,...
Fahad HAug 20, 20131 min readVine Grows To 40 Million Registered Users, More Than Tripling Its User Base Since JuneTwitter acquired Vine, the six-second video sharing app has reached an impressive 40 million registered users, more than three times the...
Fahad HAug 12, 20132 min readPopularity Pays: People Are 32% More Likely To ‘Like’ If There Is A Preexisting PositiveIt turns out that social media users may act more herd-like than you may think. The American Association for the Advancement of Science...
Fahad HAug 7, 20132 min readStudy: The Top 100 Global Brands Winning On YouTube Publish 78 To 500 Videos A MonthPixability’s newly released study measuring YouTube activity for the Top 100 Global Brands reveals that the top performers are publishing...
Fahad HAug 6, 20132 min readStudy: Nielsen Research Proves Twitter Impact On TV Ratings Is A 2-Way Streetindependent Twitter Causation study today that proves Twitter activity influences Live TV Ratings, while Live TV Ratings simultaneously...
Fahad HAug 5, 20131 min readSocial Saturation: 72% Of Online American Adults Now Use Social Networking SitesAs of this May, nearly three out of every four online Americans used social networking sites according to new research from Pew Internet....
Fahad HJul 24, 20131 min readFacebook Has Almost 18 Million Business Pages, Adding 1M Per MonthThe 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...
Fahad HJul 24, 20132 min readStudy: Brands Using Hashtags In Facebook Posts Show No Signs Of Higher Engagement Levelsstudy of the Top 100 Interbrands on Facebook and discovered that even though the usage of Facebook hashtags by brands has increased...
Fahad HJul 23, 20132 min readSocial Media Use Growing Among Fortune 500 List With 77% Tweeting & 70% On Facebookreport from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth evaluating the social media activity of Fortune Magazine’s Fortune 500 list found that...
Fahad HJul 18, 20131 min readFacebook 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...
Fahad HJul 18, 20132 min readGigya: 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...
