Havas Worldwide has taken a majority equity stake in Socialistic, a new social media driven agency led by industry veteran Colleen DeCourcy. The Socialistic studio in New York will house a team of application technologists working alongside a network of journalists, writers and videographers who understand the new direction of media, with creative and strategic […]
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Brands Are Not Yet Social, But The People Who Love Them Are
Harvard Business Review Analytics Services on behalf of SAS surveyed 2100 companies and found that just 12% of the companies surveyed believed they were currently effective users of social media, according to Media Post’s Social Graf blog. …almost nine out of ten respondents relegated themselves to the “ineffective” pile. But this is hardly surprising in […]
Anti-Social Is A Non-Persuasive Position
MGH in Baltimore has an active social media presence and the agency is now using this fact against its local competition. This full page ad ran in the Baltimore Sun on Monday: Normally, I’d say number of followers is not the right metric, but for this self-promo ad it is. The numbers indicate a passion […]
Yet Another Facebook Story: Be Positively Likable
The Facebook Data Team released a study recently that looks carefully at the words people use in their status updates and how these words influence behavior. Unsurprisingly, status updates with more positive emotional words receive more likes, and those with more negative emotional words receive less likes. Slightly less intuitive is the fact that positive […]
Fast Cars And A Big Football Game
“The Super Bowl used to be a football game, but advertisers are turning the upcoming gridiron event into a high-stakes social-media game,” writes Bruce Horovitz of USA TODAY. The reporter then points out that Audi and Mercedes Benz are both introducing Promotional Social Media Marketing campaigns to support their TV efforts around the advertising event […]
For The Digitally Self-Absorbed
Augie Ray, a senior analyst at Forrester has identified eight things he’s “sick of” in social media. One of the eight–Narcissism–grabbed my attention. There are many different kinds of narcissists in social media: There are Snow White Narcissists who every day sing about the greatness of their lives, the brightness of their futures and their […]
