Looking to work in social media marketing and have your clients be some of the world's best brands? Know someone who would be perfect for it? Have you/do you work in a traditional agency (PR, advertising, etc.) and find your clients love you but you're...
Ignite Social Media turns four years old tomorrow, so we made this fun infomercial parody to celebrate. ...
June was not a month of change in our rankings of the Top 50 Branded Facebook Fan Pages. In fact, no page in the Top 10 changed position at all, and only 14 of the Top 50 moved at all. The biggest mover in the Top...
The top branded Facebook fan page, Facebook's own page, now has 40 million fans. Elsewhere in the Top 10, however, the caffeine buzz on the Starbucks page wore off a little this month, as the social media darling fell two spots from #4 to #6...
"Stability" was largely the word of the month for the very largest branded Facebook fan pages, at least compared to last month's rankings. The only change in the Top 10 was Converse growing 11% to leapfrog Skittles, which grew at a more typical (for this...
If you can't make fun of social media language and social media marketers, you're just not trying very hard. We use words and phrases like "tweet-a-thon" and "link bait," often with a straight face. In recognition of that, we put together our first "Stickerbook" for distribution at...
We’ve all got our vices, some more than others, for better or worse. Mine comes in the form of an irresistible citrus-lemon flavored soft drink known as Mountain Dew (just check out Ignite’s recycling bin and you’ll quickly see the depths of my vice). While...
For three years now, the folks at Cision have ranked the Top 100 blogs in our category by looking at specific data points. These data points are designed to reward actual site performance versus popularity or "Internet fame." Last year, Ignite Social Media was ranked second,...
Large brands like the ones we work with typically include social media marketing as part of a much larger marketing mix, as they should. They frequently run TV ads, banner ads, PR programs, pay-per-click, print ads, out of home, event marketing and more. As budgets for...
Paul Greenberg, an expert on CRM, took time out to keynote the Radian6 user conference, Social 2011 (where I get my turn to speak this afternoon). After writing 800 pages on Social CRM, Greenberg's not yet sure if it's for real, which is similar to...
The Radian6 user conference, Social 2011, is underway today in Boston, and the opening keynote includes 2 speakers from Dell, Karen Quintos and Adam Brown. Dell has long been a real leader in using social media for marketing. Two years ago, they had a centralized...
The International Business Times came out with their list of 5 agencies they describe as "The World's Top Social Media Marketing Firms for 2011" and Ignite Social Media is one of the five selected. We're honestly not sure of the criteria, but we're flattered to be...
