With the rise of Klout and other personal influence measurement tools, much of the talk around influence marketing has focused on how to best target and engage high-ranking influencers. But new research is showing that a focus on mid-level influencers is actually far more effective when it comes to engagement and driving earned media, at a much more effective cost than “professional” A-list influencers. Read →
On Sunday, I attended a SXSW 2013 session that marks a turning point in the influence marketing conversation: the first really useful and serious discussion of what influence marketing is (and is not), how it works, and the types of tools needed to scale. Read →
On Sunday, Expion, a social media management company, hosted a pop-up panel titled The Power of Microcontent and Marketing in the Moment. The panel offered a behind-the-scenes look at Oreo’s “dunk heard around the world,” and an entertaining and a fiery debate among panelists Bonin Bough and Gary Vaynerchuk. Read →
Traackr, a contextual influence measurement tool that identifies and scores influencers around specific keyword searches, has announced that its platform now includes realtime monitoring of influencer content. The tool now searches for influencers instantly, allowing users to build lists of influencers more quickly, and includes the ability to engage with those influencers on Twitter from within the platform, in realtime. The update also has a new interface designed to support a breadth of influencer marketing activities, and additional data filtering capabilities. Read →
MTV’s series “Teen Wolf” has announced the debut its third season on Monday, June 3 by igniting a “social media fan-frenzy” that allowed fans to uncover a Hashtagart Mosaic, produced by Hyperactivate.com, on the show’s Facebook page. Read →
When’s the last time you changed your password and updated your communications crisis plan?
This what the official Burger King Twitter account looked like at 11:30 ET the morning of February 18th. The hackers changed the name of the account to McDonalds, and replaced the Burger King logo with a McDonalds logo. The first tweet sent by the hackers read “We just got sold to McDonalds! Look for McDonalds in hood near you.” Read →
We all know that we’re drowning in data. We need better, smarter tools to sift through the data in realtime, analyze it, and deliver useful insights. And we need to integrate all of that intelligence with the other tools we use to manage our business, our customer relationships, and our marketing campaigns.
That’s why DataSift has introduced a new Query Builder tool designed to get us one step closer to better access to the data that matters. The tool’s slick visual interface makes it easy to quickly filter the various data sources available through DataSift–everything from Amazon reviews to the full Twitter firehose to YouTube comments. Read →
The game itself drew a record 24.1 million tweets. But the moment that generated the highest velocity of tweets? The power outage, which Twitter says earned a game-winning 231,500 tweets per minute. And many advertisers took advantage of this huge realtime conversation, finding ways to participate in the conversation with clever, entertaining and engaging content. Here are 8 of our favorite brand tweets from last night’s game — which is your favorite? Read →
The Fortune Global 100 companies are mentioned 5.6 million times a month, and that’s just on Twitter. And this doesn’t include all of the conversations in which customers are talking about your product category or your competitors. But how do you figure out which of those millions of tweets and online conversations are important enough to engage with–and manage that engagement in a way that’s scalable and measurable? This is the problem that Salorix is trying to solve with a new social media management platform called Amplfy 2.0 Read →
Last week, PeopleBrowsr, a social analytics company, won a temporary restraining order preventing Twitter from terminating its long-standing access to the full firehose. At the time, Twitter said that it would vigorously defend itself based on “Contract 101″ arguments, claiming that its agreement with PeopleBrowsr gave the platform every right to terminate access. This week Twitter has changed its position. On December 3, Twitter filed a ‘Notice of Removal’ to Federal Court, claiming instead that PeopleBrowsr’s action against Twitter “arises under federal antitrust law,” and as such should be decided in Federal Court. Read →
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