YouTube Launches Online Film Festival Last week, YouTube continued its efforts to become a more serious media platform announcing the Your Film Festival, a competition for aspiring film makers. The festival is a collaboration between Youtube, famed director and producer Ridley Scott, Scott Free London, the Venice Film...

23 January, 2012

So, if you are in anyway familiar with the Internet, you're likely aware of the SOPA and PIPA protests that consumed the net on Wednesday. Don't worry. I'm not about to go on a diatribe about the issue. However, I do intend to share a...

20 January, 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

Continuing with the Facebook Fan Page series, I will be reviewing PlayStation's efforts on Facebook. Overall, PlayStation's strategy on this channel is focused more on driving awareness of new PlayStation game releases than trying to raise awareness of the console itself. Is...

12 January, 2012

Facebook recently announced they are beginning to slowly roll out a new ad type, allowing advertiser's to reach users in the actual newsfeed. These new units are now named "Featured Stories", a move Facebook is trying to make to distinguish these units from "Sponsored...

11 January, 2012

Yesterday Google announced some significant changes to its search engine in an attempt to move it from a search engine that "understands not only content, but personal relationships". In a blog post entitled, "Search, Plus Your World", Google outlined 3 changes they are making...

11 January, 2012

At one point or another we’ve all joked about stalking someone we know on Facebook or Twitter. After all, if someone puts that information out there, they must want you to read it, right? Well, a couple of brands have taken that idea to heart...

05 January, 2012

Social media metrics are something always at the forefront of our minds here at Ignite Social Media. That's why when we noticed a recent article by e-Marketer entitled, "Social Campaigns Give Long Term Boost to Brand Metrics" our ears perked up a bit, emails...

04 January, 2012

Continuing the Facebook Fan Page Examples series, our latest installment is about Dr Pepper. With about 10.9 million fans on Facebook, Dr Pepper has a stronger Facebook presence than competing beverages like Mountain Dew (about 6.3 million), but falls behind powerhouses like Coca-Cola (more than...

04 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