By Aarun Rumbaugh Today was the first day of the NBA playoffs. I thought it would be interesting to see which teams fans are most excited and engaged in today’s match-ups. We found the difference between the team’s PTAT% (People talking about This, also known as 7 day storytellers) on Facebook from Friday (4/18) to today (4/19). Monitoring PTAT changes …
Lawyer beats Coca-Cola hands down not in a courtroom, but on a waterslide
By Enrique J. Gonzales One San Diego lawyer had more buzz on Facebook last week than all of Coca-a-Cola – one of the largest consumer product brands on the planet. Immigration lawyer Jacob J. Sapochnick trumped the fizzy sugary soda in people talking about him – PTAT or “people talking about this” in the past seven days. Mr. Sapochnick had …
Ever try Yahoo! Stream ads? Here’s what happened in our test
Our Yahoo! rep reached out to tell us about Yahoo’s new native advertising product, Stream ads. They look almost organic, but are created just like regular PPC ads with a headline, body, destination url, and bid. You can upload an image. So we took advantage of the free $25 credit to get started, choosing to promote our “done for you” …
7 Critical Facebook Insights shared by Ken Rudin
Sometimes the most obvious tips are the most powerful and most overlooked. Ken Rudin, the uber data geek at Facebook, keynotes at TDWI Chicago. 84% of new Facebook fans are your existing customers Knowing this, how does that affect you strategy to acquire more fans or nurture folks who have become fans of your page? Instead of selling the brand proposition, …
Facebook now allows page admins to comment on reviews
This was sent to us by Kevin Evanetski of SocialYeah.com – Thanks, Kevin! Facebook recently rolled out the ability for page admins to comment on public reviews. However, as a page admin, you currently will not be notified when user replies back to you- a feature not yet implemented. For example: Facebook Page ‘Overstock Outlet’ replied to a user …
Exactly what happens when Mari Smith mentions you…
Industry folks call this the “Mari bump”. When you’re fortunate enough to get an endorsement, you can expect to get a nice bump in traffic. Even a Mari sneeze can do wonders. She mentioned one of my articles in her weekly Social Scoop newsletter. And it drove 434 visits the next 48 hours. It’s high quality– the average visitor stayed …
What is a Social Media Professor?
With social media becoming the main channel of interaction, establishments such as the University of Louisville now offer courses in it. Also jumping on this trend, University of Florida offers a Masters in Social Media. Hofstra University has worked with us to create a social media curriculum, using our ContentFactory University partnership program where we assist teaching social media and analytics …
Two ads, one pageview
The benefit of having multiple campaigns is that you can take more than one of the 7 RHS (Right-Hand Side) ads. In Google, you can serve your ad in only one of the 10 spots. One ad per domain. But apparently Facebook doesn’t enforce this rule. In outdoor advertising (such as on subway trains), a company will buy all the …
Why you shouldn’t buy our software
First off, it’s just awful. But the other reason is that you might not have enough data to have anything meaningful to look at. We’re known for doing beautiful real-time visualizations (that’s a live link to 1% of everything happening on twitter. But for most companies, if we monitor your mentions real-time, you’ll be waiting a long time between tweets. …
Facebook in Brazil– how did our predictions from a few years ago turn out?
The social sphere evolves quickly, especially in the past few years. Fabio Ricotta of mestreSEO interviewed us back in 2010, and some predictions surfaced about where Facebook was heading: Fabio: Dennis, can you tell our community who you are and some background information about you? Dennis: Fabio, pleasure to join you. I am formerly of Yahoo and now the co-founder …
Facebook can predict if you’re gay and like ice cream
Networked Insights saw declining mentions of iPhones by teens as a signal for Apple’s depressed earnings forecast What women most want is ice cream, while men want cars says social analytics firm NetBase. Facebook can predict if you’re gay or exactly where you’ll be in one year from now within 50 meters with high accuracy (Hey, do you like Spongebob and work out on Wednesday mornings …
Adobe Social predicts the future with Social Predictive Publishing
Marty McFly has a silver DeLorean that can go 88 miles per hour. And Adobe announced predictive publishing on Facebook. Integrated into the Adobe Social publishing tool, it will increase your newsfeed exposure by: Suggesting when to post. Identifying low-ranking words to replace, including synonyms to use. Predicting how many likes, comments, and shares you’ll get. Show you historical posts with similar …