Earlier this week, the blog for link-shortening service bit.ly announced results from a study of the ‘half-life’ of links coming from Facebook, Twitter, email and YouTube. The data reveals that different types of links rise and fall at different speeds, and how long a link stays ‘alive’ also depends on the platform it was posted on. Read →
AOL and Nielsen Online released the “Content is the Fuel of the Social Web” report in April 2011, analyzing over 10,000 social media messages to explore how consumers share content online. The data offers marketers insight regarding the best ways to advertise and reach consumers online, including on social sites. Overall, 93% of internet users turn to email to share content, while 89% use social networks and 82% use blogs. Read →
Consumer research company TNS has released “Digital Life,” the “world’s largest study into consumers’ digital behaviours and attitudes ever conducted.” It’s based on a September 2010 study of online behaviour and perspectives in 46 countries.* Developing/rapid-growth markets are the most avid users of social networks. The study found that social networking has become a mainstream activity [...] Read →
CNN has released the results of of a June to August global study into the “power of news and recommendation” (POWNAR). The company surveyed 2300 global respondents, and used “semiotic analysis, neuro-marketing techniques, news tracking and an ad effectiveness survey to demonstrate that shared news drives global uplifts in brand metrics.” According to the survey, [...] Read →
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have intensively studied the New York Times list of most-e-mailed articles, checking it every 15 minutes for more than six months, analyzing the content of thousands of articles and controlling for factors like the placement in the paper or on the Web home page. The results show that: People preferred [...] Read →
TechCrunch and others report this week that a San Francisco-based start up, iWidgets, has raised $4.1 million in Series A funding from Opus Capital and University Venture Fund. Eyebrows are raised: in this climate, what does it take t get funded? Not surprisingly, there’s a social media component. The company lets anyone Read →
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