Just two months ago, Samsung Mobile became one of the 50 largest branded Facebook fan pages by climbing 7 spots on the list. Last month the page climbed another 7 spots, reaching #41. And this month, that growth continued.

Samsung was joined by Dove, which also made a strong move in cracking the Top 50 for the first time, coming in at spot #49.

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Fastest Growing Branded Facebook Fan Pages

The fastest growth in large branded Facebook pages came from:

1. Samsung Mobile, up 6 spots and 10% to #35;
2. Dove, up 6 spots and 7% to #49;
3. Nike, up 3 spots and 7% to #43;
4. Walmart, up 2 spots with 9% growth, to #15; and
5. Subway (to #21) and Levi's (to #27) both leapt 2 spots.

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Biggest Losers

As Dove came on the list, Sprite fell off.  In addition, the pages that lost the most ground in August, relative to their competitors, are:

1. Starburst, down 2 spots to #38;
2. BMW, down 2 spots to #41;
3. Lacoste, down 2 spots to #45;
4. Starbucks Frappuccino, down 2 spots to #46; and
5. DC Shoes is just hanging on, dropping one spot to #50.

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50 Largest Branded Facebook Fan Pages - August 2012

Please note that each page name is a link to that page.

Current Rank (08/27/2012)		Rank by Fan Count (07/27/2012)	Change in Rank	Fans As of 07/27/2012	Fans As of 08/27/2012	% increase
1	Facebook	1	0	70,077,565	71,536,351	2%
2	YouTube	2	0	61,102,655	62,219,187	2%
3	Coca-Cola	3	0	45,834,073	49,267,448	7%
4	Disney	4	0	37,519,460	38,074,621	1%
5	MTV	5	0	35,942,605	36,559,185	2%
6	Converse	6	0	32,328,709	32,883,588	2%
7	Starbucks	7	0	31,123,228	31,547,456	1%
8	Red Bull	8	0	29,043,875	29,472,124	1%
9	Oreo	9	0	27,326,494	27,740,011	2%
10	Playstation	10	0	23,915,242	24,267,917	1%
11	iTunes	11	0	22,875,614	23,253,476	2%
12	Skittles	12	0	22,486,474	22,820,657	1%
13	McDonalds	13	0	21,360,319	21,925,453	3%
14	Pringles	14	0	19,970,634	20,261,098	1%
15	Walmart	17	2	18,168,073	19,885,973	9%
16	Victoria's Secret	15	-1	19,168,295	19,442,860	1%
17	Xbox	16	-1	18,461,259	18,768,710	2%
18	Target	19	1	16,242,848	18,572,429	14%
19	Monster Energy	18	-1	17,796,931	18,342,086	3%
20	Ferrero Rocher	20	0	16,162,493	16,334,655	1%
21	Subway	23	2	15,184,589	16,137,379	6%
22	Nutella	21	-1	15,884,062	16,091,899	1%
23	Windows Live Messenger	22	-1	15,758,227	15,824,868	0%
24	adidas Originals	24	0	15,173,486	15,596,470	3%
25	Disneyland	25	0	14,731,173	14,982,120	2%
Current Rank (08/27/2012)		Rank by Fan Count (07/27/2012)	Change in Rank	Fans As of 07/27/2012	Fans As of 08/27/2012	% increase
26	Zara	26	0	14,023,131	14,391,633	3%
27	Levi's	29	2	13,038,260	13,673,515	5%
28	Nike Football	27	-1	13,293,765	13,621,629	2%
29	Burberry	28	-1	13,134,163	13,404,105	2%
30	Google Chrome	30	0	12,730,341	12,944,110	2%
31	Dr. Pepper	31	0	12,211,812	12,408,448	2%
32	Victoria's Secret Pink	32	0	12,074,488	12,188,734	1%
33	H&M	33	0	11,634,333	11,968,945	3%
34	Blackberry	34	0	11,613,731	11,787,844	1%
35	Samsung Mobile	41	6	10,644,858	11,660,718	10%
36	Disney Pixar	35	-1	11,519,341	11,624,132	1%
37	National Geographic	37	0	11,145,648	11,442,648	3%
38	Starburst	36	-2	11,192,461	11,297,165	1%
39	Walt Disney World	38	-1	10,986,113	11,183,925	2%
40	Mozilla Firefox	40	0	10,694,745	11,172,055	4%
41	BMW	39	-2	10,718,932	11,062,791	3%
42	Google	42	0	10,254,192	10,503,191	2%
43	Nike	46	3	9,798,418	10,472,295	7%
44	Hello Kitty	45	1	9,798,456	10,198,220	4%
45	Lacoste	43	-2	10,044,761	10,178,111	1%
46	Starbucks Frappuccino	44	-2	9,854,915	10,068,591	2%
47	Reese's	48	1	9,767,802	9,934,774	2%
48	Yahoo	47	-1	9,779,331	9,894,377	1%
49	Dove	55	6	8,943,328	9,542,586	7%
50	DC Shoes	49	-1	9,294,501	9,490,331	2%

Methodology

As always, you can read the methodology on our main page for this series.