Part of what we do at Ignite is engage with target audiences on behalf of brands, primarily through blog outreach. So when I heard that TwitterMoms has set out to create the first "social seal of approval" by engaging with moms - I got...

22 September, 2010

It has been over two years since we launched the Follow Me Social Media Plugin to help Wordpress users aggregate their social media presences. At the time we created a unique plugin that no one else had built. Since then many new plugins and widgets...

15 September, 2010

A few weeks ago I saw a great info graphic detailing the New Marketing Trifecta: Social, Email, and Mobile. After looking it over I wondered how this could apply to musicians and what tools they could be using to help them achieve the...

14 September, 2010

When Mashable posts, people listen. And not only do they listen, but they echo, in the form of Retweets. We recently experienced the awesome Mashable Retweet machine on an article covering RowFeeder's new social media monitoring in Excel. The article saw 1,365 Re-Tweets in total....

31 August, 2010

In case you hadn't heard, Facebook launched yet another category-redefining feature last week. This time they shook up the still-emerging world of geo-location services, where buzz-worthy startups like Foursquare, Gowalla and Booyah (MyTown) had been steadily and somewhat quietly testing models, adding features, and building...

26 August, 2010

Check back here each quarter as we update this data for your convenience. 50 Largest Branded Facebook Fan Pages, September - December 2013 Current Rank (12/27/2013) Rank by Fan Count (09/27/2013) Change in Rank Fans As of 09/27/2013 Fans As of 12/27/2013 % increase 1 Facebook 1 0 95,181,158 108,053,626 14% 2 Coca-Cola 3 1 73,238,556 77,985,272 6% 3 YouTube 2 -1 76,536,217 77,448,295 1% 4 MTV 4 0 47,417,092 48,419,795 2% 5 Disney 5 0 45,094,348 45,713,072 1% 6 Red Bull 6 0 40,188,546 41,937,390 4% 7 Converse 7 0 37,093,085 37,373,734 1% 8 Playstation 9 1 35,053,311 36,070,617 3% 9 Starbucks 8 -1 35,297,065 35,761,640 1% 10 Oreo 10 0 34,398,376 35,255,868 2% 11 Walmart 11 0 33,871,969 34,418,642 2% 12 Pepsi 37 25 17,660,486 31,132,381 76% 13 iTunes 12 -1 30,552,955 31,093,116 2% 14 Samsung Mobile 16 2 26,220,765 30,850,067 18% 15 McDonald's 13 -2 29,527,035 29,823,767 1% 16 Blackberry 14 -2 29,190,550 29,500,169 1% 17 Skype 15 -2 26,828,928 27,617,559 3% 18 Pringles 17 -1 25,853,795 26,671,482 3% 19 Samsung Mobile USA 19 0 25,255,696 26,324,065 4% 20 Subway 20 0 24,591,383 26,241,546 7% 21 Skittles 18 -3 25,578,261 25,725,872 1% 22 Monster Energy 21 -1 23,612,077 23,931,793 1% 23 Intel 23 0 22,461,683 23,841,135 6% 24 Victoria's Secret 22 -2 23,013,518 23,671,317 3% Current Rank (12/27/2013) Rank...

25 August, 2010

Back in 2007, I wrote a post that continues to be one of our most popular to date "How to Write a Social Media Proposal" .  Since then, I've learned a lot.  For one - I've learned that that post was written more for social...

19 August, 2010

I need your help. We've got a panel under consideration for the next SxSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. If you're not familiar with SxSW (South by Southwest, or "South by") it's basically spring break for geeks--a mega conference. Great event, but last year's breakout sessions...

16 August, 2010