The Latest 27 Social Media Facts, Figures and Statistics for 2012 – Infographic

Since I first joined Facebook over four years ago the social media landscape has continued to evolve at a rapid pace. It also has become more fun with the addition of Instagram and Pinterest. What I like to see is that the big boys are not having it all their own way. Google thought Facebook [...]

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Sensational Social Media Facts, Figures and Statistics – 6 Infographics

Social media is no longer just about Facebook. Social media is splintering and fragmenting as more users find increased activity about their interests and passions residing on other social networks. Facebook knows that it cannot evolve internally fast enough to keep up with this dispersion and so is resorting to identifying and buying fast emerging [...]

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Is Facebook Advertising Like Burning Money?

Advertising has  evolved rapidly over the last century. Before the advent of radio and television all you had was the printed advertisement. Ads appeared in newspapers and magazines. Direct mail emerged and many companies leveraged their brand with brochures and leaflets dropped straight into the letterboxes of houses across cities and suburbs. The madmen of [...]

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Staggering Social Media Statistics from the Olympics – Infographic

When I signed up to social media over four years ago you could almost count the number of tweets with a pen and a piece of paper. Facebook had not even cracked 50 million users. Now it is approaching one billion users globally which is one in every seven people on the planet using the [...]

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7 Top Trends in Social Media

Looking into the future is always fun and science fiction writers have had their creative ideas on robots, mobile communications and other seemingly magical devices often turn into reality. In fact, even cartoonists have predicted the future with Dick Tracy’s phone watch becoming a real device. Watching technology weave its magic is summed up in [...]

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