Social Media Stats

Social Network traffic has seen some interesting trends as of late. There is no doubt that social networks are here to stay, and will only continue to become more mainstream. However, not all sites are seeing booming traffic, in fact some seem to be dieing....

14 October, 2008

I thought it would be interesting to see the Geographic data from Google Insight with regards to some of the top social networks around the world. Below you will find the data returned for each site, and the resulting country that has the highest...

04 September, 2008

We're social media geeks. All of us who work at Ignite Social Media. Most of you who read this blog are, too. That means we're not normal. I tell my clients all the time that nobody in the room is normal. They think about their...

17 April, 2008

One of the theories around social media marketing is that you need to drop your hook where the fish are. Tech-savvy consumers, particularly younger tech-savvy consumers, eschew traditional marketing vehicles (like TV) and are generally so annoyed by advertising that they have tuned it out....

26 February, 2008

comScore Ad Metrix is reporting today on the relative frequency of ads appearing on MySpace pages versus the relative frequency of ads appearing on Facebook. While MySpace had twice as many unique visitors (68.4 million) than Facebook in September, they served six times as...

05 December, 2007

Nick O'Neill has an interesting post on his very good "Social Times" site. (How, by the way, does he find time to post so much??)...

19 November, 2007

E-marketer is reporting today on the most popular websites in the world, ranked by page views. This is from September 2007. Half of the most popular websites are social media. The other half are search-centric (if you count MSN.com as search… Microsoft probably does. I...

31 October, 2007

According to an article in Marketing Daily, a survey of 50 businesses and organizationsmeasuring2.jpg was conducted in September by Prospero Technologies. Survey questions ranged from what current social media applications were being used, plans and budgets for 2008, ROI, how ROI is measured/assessed, and...

15 October, 2007

"MySpace is dead." "MySpace is dying." "Facebook is crushing MySpace." Well, maybe creaking, but certainly not dead. Consider some hot statistics from Comscore Media Metrix as reported by Fortune. MySpace Still the Leader...

25 September, 2007