Top 30 web properties in Europe
Google Sites ranked as the top European web property in March, attracting 330.3 million unique visitors and reaching 90.8 percent of the total European Internet audience, according to new research from comScore.
Top tips: Using Wikipedia as a marketing tool
Wikipedia often overlooked and misunderstood as a marketing tool, but a new guide offers some tips to get the most out of the popular user-generated website.
Digital royal wedding stats round-up
If William and Catherine didn’t invite you, then maybe you’re one of the 400m who tuned in on YouTube? Twitter traffic spiked at 300 Tweets-per-second (with Kate’s sister earning a hashtag or two); Facebook tracked around 75 status updates per second; mobile network O2 estimated 65m digital photos snapped on mobiles on the big day; … [Read more…]
‘First-ever’ church service launched on Facebook
Internet church ‘St Pixels’ will be at the International Christian Resources Exhibition to host the first-ever interactive service on Facebook next week (Tue 10 May, 1 and 3pm).
Fast and Furious 5 gets viral ‘3D’ YouTube campaign
MediaCom, Feref, Universal Pictures and MediaMind have teamed up to deliver a brand experience on YouTube to promote the opening of Fast and Furious 5 in movie cinemas across Europe, Australia and Mexico.
Only 20% of royal wedding traffic ‘comes from UK’
William and Kate may be a trending topic on Twitter, but only 20% of traffic is coming from the UK, with the bulk – a massive 64% – coming from North America, according to social media research carried out by marketing and technology agency LBi.
Dutch revealed as biggest LinkedIn and Twitter users worldwide
The Dutch social networking market continues to grow strongly as sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin extend their respective footprints in the market, but local site Hyves continues to be the most popular online ‘hand out’, according to new research.
Royal Wedding ‘generating one mention every ten seconds online’
During last week, online media – including news sites, blogs, forums, Twitter and Facebook, saw an accelerated flurry of ‘noise’ around the Royal Wedding, with the majority of mentions being positive, according to new data.
Small-screen devices drive mobile broadband market to revenues of $223bn
The global mobile broadband market will hit revenues of $223 billion in 2015, driven by continued strong demand for Internet access on small-screen devices such as smartphones, predicts Ovum.
European Commission: Half of UK 9 to 12-year-olds have a social networking profile
Younger children are increasingly setting up their own pages on social networking sites such as Facebook, finds a new study published today.