How are Mobile Phones Changing Social Media?

Have you ever wondered about the relationship between mobile phones and social media? The mobile web is growing at an exponential rate, and this trend shows no signs of slowing down. This graphic illustrates the rates at which people access the mobile, social web, as well as what they do once they are connected.

Social media has made us more connected than ever before, and now enables a greater two-way flow of information between brands and customers And with the introduction of the mobile web and self-publishing, the conversation has become both instantaneous, and noisy.  The result has been myriad, new possibilities for brands to promote their goods and services, and for customers to…

Have you ever wondered how much we really use social media? These interesting statistics will help to illustrate our perceptions of social media, the average level of engagement, and how pervasive we have allowed it to become.

Chat Roulette is a service that allows users with webcams to randomly chat with each other under the protection of anonymity. If a user doesn’t like the person they’re chatting with, he or she can click the “next” button and immediately sync with someone else. Those who use the service know that with each press of this button brings a…

We pulled 1000 of the most recent updates from Twitter that featured the term ‘Facebook’ in order to find out what people were saying about that ‘other’ social behemoth. It is noteworthy that these 1,000 tweets occurred in only 13 minutes, which gives you the bigger picture that Facebook is referenced on Twitter approximately 100,000 times per day! We then…

If you have been anywhere near the Internet in the past decade, you might have heard of Google. In fact, you might even be reading this article on your Android phone, using the Google Chrome web browser, perhaps after receiving the link in your Gmail account. Where many Internet start-ups stick to one or two products, Google is constantly blazing…

Ever wonder how big businesses are leveraging social media? Burson-Martseller recently released a report highlighting the Fortune Global 100 companies and how they were using social platforms including: Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. We have complied a graphic illustrating the most interesting of their findings:

There’s been lots of buzz and several fabulous mentions about Flowtown all around the web recently. Bloggers are writing about how they use Flowtown (you may be surprised by some uses!), what they’re learning about their subscribers, and how that’s helping their business. Here’s a roundup of some of our favorite pieces: Integrating Email and Social Media with Flowtown Jay…

Email marketing is a tricky art to master. Week in and week out our SPAM folders flood with emails that quickly get deleted without ever being opened, much less read. Other emails that make it to our inbox frequently get disregarded, moved to the trash bin, and soon forgotten about. Clearly, this demonstrates that many email marketers simply suck at…

Have you ever wondered how modern marketing practices came to be? Well, so did we. After doing some research, we thought it best to tell the story through the use of this visual aid.