Google, the digital advertising behemoth, is contributing back to the industry by buying ad spots on Facebook and Twitter. Yes, you heard that right. Search Engine Land posted a Twitter screenshot showing @GoogleMobile as a Promoted Account, suggesting users to follow. Promoted Account ads run by an algorithm, so not everyone would be able to see the same promoted account. Penn Olson reader, @askaaronlee also informed us that Google is advertising its Chrome browser on Facebook. Apparently, Aaron is one of their targets and they got it right. He isn’t a Chrome user. We know ...
Adf.ly lets you Make Money while Sharing News

byWillis WeeinWeb
Share stories and get paid? Thanks to Adf.ly, Twitter users now have more options to monetize their tweets. The model is pretty simple, all you need to do is to shrink your URL via Adf.ly and share them. Whenever someone clicks on your link, an ad page shows up. Visitors have the option to skip the ads and move on to the content straight. The model is vastly different from Ad.ly’s, whereby it automatically inserts the advertiser’s message in the influencer's stream. Publishers are able to track the number of clicks on ...
Twitter Trending in Japan

byWillis WeeinWeb
We’re witnessing key Asian markets dominated by Facebook or Twitter. In India, Facebook overthrew Orkut to claim the number one spot. comScore data now suggests that Twitter is on its way to overthrow Mixi as Japan’s most visited social site. In Japan, Twitter enjoyed a 428 percent robust year-to-year growth to reach 13.2 million visitors. The micro-blogging site currently sits at the number two spot, behind Mixi, which saw 13.5 million visitors last month. Facebook’s growth is modest as it experienced a 78 percent year-to-year growth to reach 5.3 million unique ...
MYTH: Social Media Makes People Less Social

byAmelia CheninUncategorized
Finally, I'm glad that to announce that new research from ExactTarget has burst the bubble of the notion that technology alienates people with their freshly-baked statistics. It is proven there is a co-relation between increased social media usage and increased offline interaction – as users increase their Facebook and Twitter usage, they also tend to increase their social, in-person interactions. More People Bringing Their Interaction Offline Among U.S. consumers who report using Facebook more often, 27% report that they meet with friends in person more often, as opposed to 13% who report meeting ...
The Standard Chartered Breeze Twitter Campaign

Cameron Ng is a citizen of the World Wide Web. He once gave up actual food just so that he could do Stratholme one more time. The first thing he does every morning when he wakes up is to check his Twitter account and his Facebook profile. The Internet is his life. In today's wired world, everyone has a Twitter account. Everyone. Even your mum. Companies everywhere are finally realising that having a Twitter account actually counts as a part of an overarching PR campaign. KFC Singapore has realized this and has leveraged ...
Top Social Networks With the Widest Advertising Reach [Chart]
Which is the top social network with the widest advertising reach in the U.S? Definitely Facebook. According to ComScore, the world largest social network site has a reach of 62.4%, approximately three times more than second place MySpace, and 10 times more than third place LinkedIn. Twitter has enjoyed early success with its ad platform. Advertisers are happy with the performance but the data only reflects that the micro-blogging site has only a 3.2% reach in the U.S. The reach and result don’t really match isn’t it? We’re not sure how ComScore computed ...
Each Facebook Share Equals $2.52
byWillis WeeinWeb
A study conducted by EventBrite, an online social commerce company, revealed that Facebook shares are more valuable than LinkedIn or Twitter’s. Analyzing data over the past 12 weeks, one share on Facebook equals $2.52, a share on Twitter equals $0.43, a share on LinkedIn equals $0.90, and an email share equals $2.34. The aggregate value of a social share equates to $1.78 in ticket sales. Stickiness is the main reason why each Facebook share could command a higher value in sales. For Eventbrite.com, Facebook is the number one referring site. Each Facebook ...
Twitter is HUGE in Brazil

byWillis WeeinAsia, Web
Facebook is breathing down Orkut’s neck in Brazil. But that's not all, Twitter is also becoming a strong contender too. According to data compiled by comScore, the ratio of Brazilian Twitter / Internet users suggested that the micro-blogging site is very popular among the population. In my opinion, this Brazil mini case reflected how the world, in general, has chosen Twitter and Facebook as its finalized choices of online social networking sites. The largest market left untouched would be China, where RenRen currently dominates. Zuckerberg's vision to make the world more open can be ...
Followers on Twitter are More Valuable than Facebook Fans
byAmelia CheninUncategorized
The way majority of consumers utilise Facebook and Twitter are very different. Facebook is associated to connection, self-expression, and entertainment – whereas Twitter for interaction, influence, and brevity. Not to say that one platform is inferior to the other; each have their strengths and weaknesses and are equally important in planning a digital marketing campaign. Judging from the title of this post – imagine if one million Facebook fans are worth $3.6m in media value, how much would one million Twitter followers be worth? ExactTarget provides some statistics to back up the statement in ...
Twitter’s Highly Admirable Ad Platform
byWillis WeeinWeb
We’re glad. Twitter said no to big and ugly display ads. Instead, it has smartly incorporated ads with its search and tweets. Its resonance metric, which the micro-blogging site didn’t explicitly state on how it works, also acts as a gatekeeper to ensure ads are relevant to users. We admire Twitter’s approach toward monetization but questioned its effectiveness when it was first announced. It wasn’t too long before our questions were convincingly answered. Early adopters are chirping the new advertising platform’s praises. Virgin America, enjoyed huge success. After it’s Promoted Tweets campaign went ...
Twitter绝好的广告平台
byWillis WeeinUncategorized
我们很高兴。Twitter向巨大丑陋的显示广告说不。相反,它聪明地将广告纳入到它的搜索引擎与Tweets之中。 它的“共鸣度”(resonance metric),虽然没有被这个微型博客网站明确说明如何运作,却充当了确保广告对于用户相关性的看门人角色。 我们赞赏Twitter的币值化方式,虽然当这种方式一开始被宣布出来时,我们曾质疑其有效性。 不久之后我们的质疑很快得到了具有说服力的答案。早期做广告者现正不断赞扬这个广告平台。维珍美国航空享受了巨大的成功。当它在Twitter广告平台Promoted Tweets上的广告活动开始之后,这个航空公司创下了有史以来第五高的单天销售记录。这真是太神奇了。 在与美国广告交易周刊Adweek的一次采访中,Twitter首席运营官Dick Costolo说:“它们(显示广告)只能有这么大,且只能占据这么点空间。” Costolo谈论了最近给予品牌更多网页空间的努力。他说,初创企业往往匆忙采取现有广告模式,这一点也在同一天早些时候被风险资本家及Twitter赞助人Fred Wilson提及。 “他们将短期收入最大化,却牺牲了这个平台的长期健康“,Costolo说。 根据Twitter所掌握的信息,广告平台Promoted Trends使围绕某一个话题的对话数增长了300%至500%。对于在另一个广告平台Promoted Tweets上做广告的产品来说,Twitter报告了平均5%的参与率(定义为对于某一链接的一次点击、一个回复,或重新发出的一条Tweet)。 “即使你将这个数字的50%归因于这个网路平台的新颖奇特,这样的参与率也已经很高了”,Costolo说。根据Costolo所说,到目前为止,已经有大约40个品牌在Twitter上进行广告活动,广告合约更新率为80%。 在推出了两个广告平台Promoted Tweets与Promoted Trends之后(《灵动:鬼影实录2》是最新的广告客户),Twitter计划推出Promoted Account新功能来与现行的账号建议功能形成互补。
Paranormal Activity is Back. Now on Twitter Promoted Trend

byWillis WeeinBusiness, Web
Remember how hot and trending Paranormal Activity was last October? Now, it's back again and this time round, the movie doesn't require users' help to get it on Twitter's trending list. Instead, it has conveniently purchased a promoted trending spot. If you haven't heard about it, Paranormal Activity is a $15k low budget horror film screened last October. After releasing it at 33 theaters in the U.S last year (and enjoyed initial success), Paramount Picture demanded movie lovers to rally and raise 1 million votes at eventful.com before casting the movie worldwide. ...
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