If reading that title didn’t fill you with a healthy dose of skepticism, you’re either an eternal optimist or a newcomer to the field of social media marketing. Since the rise of YouTube, brands have tried to create viral videos for marketing success. There are some...

15 March, 2012

Are you a brand that values and protects the copyright you hold on your photos? Pin them to Pinterest, the hot social network of the moment, and you've just given them your copyright. Is this a problem for brands and if so, how different is it...

24 February, 2012

Are you on Google+? If so, add Ignite Social Media's Google+ page to your circles. An interesting nugget or two about Google+, how many people are using it and how long they stick around was hidden in a recent eMarketer newsletter on niche social networks growing...

12 January, 2012

For two years now, I've been tracking the Top 50 Branded Facebook Fan Pages by size. We typically do this every month, and we've also ranked them by the impressions they generate, by how many friends their fans have, by percentage of active fans, and...

03 January, 2012

Welcome back to work. Perhaps one of your 2012 resolutions is to keep up with social media marketing as an industry and a discipline more than you did in 2011. Or perhaps you just like free stuff. Either way, we've got you covered. UPDATE: We have...

02 January, 2012