Google+ Analytics for Brands

Exactly one month ago, Google+ brand pages launched. This was an exciting prospect for marketers, and many of us jumped to create a Google+ brand page. But after the excitement settled, everyone started to ask questions about what this platform means for brands. Underlying these questions was the age old need for data. We heard [...]

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3 Pretty Social Media Graphs on CES This Morning

I’m en route to CES and reviewing some of the data and reports on #CES and related events, announcements, products, and brands. Here are three pretty charts that caught me eye from recent buzz at the event. We’ll have more coming next week. 1.) Analysis of Ballmer’s CES Keynote by the Tweets: The social media [...]

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Guide to CES 2011 on Twitter (and some data)

I’m heading to Vegas for my first CES this week and I couldn’t be more excited. As the event nears, there is a lot to keep track of on Twitter. I’ve attempted to put together a quick guide to CES on Twitter based on what I’m seeing in the stream. Hopefully this will be useful [...]

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Santa’s Bag of iPads by the Numbers [Infographic]

Santa is getting set to deliver gifts around the world tonight. As you know, we keep our eye on social media trends for many hot consumer products including the mobile market, gaming, and Apple products. We’ve been combing through some of this data for a fun Christmas analysis of one hot item this Holiday season. [...]

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The Night Before Launch-mas

Hi RowFeeder fans. As Christmas approaches, we’re hard at work adding new features and building awesome things for the year to come. One of my personal favorite holiday traditions is sitting down in front of the Christmas tree with a cup of hot cocoa and the timeless “Night Before Christmas” poem. As I was up [...]

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Retailer Social Media Data: Black Friday & Cyber Monday Recap

The internet can take a breath now, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us and we’re back to a “regular” holiday shopping pace. Hoping to find a window into retailer success this holiday season, we’ve been tracking a handful of top retail brands on Twitter and Facebook to see how things shake out during [...]

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Kinect Launch: 1 Million Units Sold, 276,000 Tweets

Microsoft’s Kinect for XBox 360 has been making news this week with impressive early sales numbers. The company anounced over 1 million units solid in the first 10 days on the market, a strong start heading into the holiday season with the hot gaming device. Kinect has been in the spotlight on the social media front [...]

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Smartphone Market and The Social Media View

After reading Gartner’s smartphone market share numbers today, we looked at how it maps to conversations in social media. It is clear that mobile devices in general are consistently a hot topic on Twitter and Facebook, but not clear how this relates to sales. We have several months of data showing the mentions of major [...]

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Social Media Sings for Glee

If you’re like me, you’ve starting seeing a bunch of Tweets and Facebook posts about Glee on Tuesdays. If the trend continues, there will be ~350,000 Tweets and Facebook posts about the show today. We were curious, just how big is Glee in social media? We started tracking the show leading up to the premiere and [...]

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Today’s Google Logo: Seemingly Small News Surges in Social Sphere

The social sphere has definitely been buzzing about Google’s interactive, kinetic logo today.  Some sources say it’s to make a statement about HTML5 and CSS capabilities vs. Adobe Flash. Others think it’s because of Google’s Birthday – the first day Google opened their doors (a garage door, to be exact). And still others think it’s [...]

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