Facebook’s active advertisers rose to a staggering 2 million, which is a massive 33% increase on its 2014 July number at 1.5 million. But when you compare this to Google’s piece of the advertisers estimate market share they sat at 31.1%, but this is a drop from its 33.6% share in 2013. When you … [Read more...]
Oscars 2015 and College Football dominates Twitter TV ratings
The Nielsen Twitter TV ratings are in for 2015, and the two that topped in at number one for Twitter TV ‘Series and Specials’, and ‘Sports Events’ between (2/16 - 2/22) were the Oscars and College Football. The Oscars (ABC) on 22 Feb 2015 with a unique audience of 13,019,000, which also had … [Read more...]
Facebook data for 2015 India v Pakistan World Cup Cricket
The India versus Pakistan World Cup Cricket 2015 match, which took place yesterday Sunday in Adelaide, Australia, gained a lot of social media interactions. Rivals battled it out in Adelaide where the final score was India 300/7 (50) v Pakistan 224/10 (47), where India won by 76 runs. The match … [Read more...]
Facebook Privacy Basics on information shared
It was only about a year ago Facebook made a change to its privacy policies, but this obviously wasn’t enough because they have updated once again. But do not think for one minute they have changed anything on how user information is shared with advertisers. The changes are happening but will … [Read more...]
Veterans connection data on Facebook
Veterans Day 2014 was today in the US on November 11, and thanks to Facebook data team they have revealed details on the military community on Facebook and its connections. The reveal data on people in the United States who took to Facebook to listed one of the branches of the military being it a … [Read more...]
Submit your LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge proposal
LinkedIn is a very powerful professional social media network, and because of this they are calling out to all data-driven people. Asking them to utilize LinkedIn’s data and then submit their very own proposal as part of the ‘LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge.’ The challenge is where the thinkers … [Read more...]
Tweet smarter with new data-driven analysis
Being on Twitter can and will bring you more followers’ over time, but in many cases it could be questioned if you are making the most of social media efforts. A new webinar on how to tweet smarter and grow you business thanks to data-driven best practices is going live on at 10:00am PT/1:00pm ET … [Read more...]
Twitter trend data on 100 Happy Days hashtag
#100HappyDays trending rather well on Twitter, the hashtag has had more than 2 million mentions since January 1st, 2014. Spredfast decided they wanted to share some data after they looked at the trend happening on Twitter, they analyzed how long people are sticking with it and how happy these … [Read more...]
Mystery behind the profit of social sites
Social Networking sites have become the lifeline of people. Eminent sites like Facebook, twitter and LinkedIn have recorded a huge amount of revenue during the recent years, in which most of the profit margins are generated through the medium of advertising. These companies want to expand their … [Read more...]
Facebook autoplay UK video ads won’t suck data
If you live in the UK then be prepared to see Facebook autoplay ads as they are releasing in the coming weeks, do not worry because they will not eat into your data. The Facebook autoplay video ads according to Marketing Week will automatically play when you scroll down to them, even if you do … [Read more...]
Right to be forgotten EU law
The Internet never forgets and will always remember sensitive information, that was the case up until now because people have the rights to ask Google to delete such sensitive data from its search results as part of a new ‘Right to be forgotten’ EU law. One Spanish man named Mario Costeja … [Read more...]
LinkedIn new tools to disclose regional memberships
When it comes to looking at how many LinkedIn memberships there are per region no one knows the real answer, because no tool has been put in place to disclose this. It now looks like LinkedIn will disclose details on mobile foreign businesses, a new report says the Securities and Exchange … [Read more...]
LulzSec Hackers Help NHS With Flagged Up Security Flaws
Security issues and data being compromised have been a huge topic of discussion following on from Sony's PSN outage towards the end of April. Hackers managed to access the gaming servers which consequently resulted in users' personal information being at risk. The network is now at last finally … [Read more...]
Sony Is The Victim Of Hacking… Again Just Before E3 2011
Sony isn’t having much luck in terms of their security at the moment, we are just leaving the PSN outage where normal service was finally being resumed and then we hear that Sony has been the victim of hacking again and this time it’s just before E3 2011, one of the biggest gaming events of the … [Read more...]