Posts by Debra Aho Williamson

Omniture/Facebook: The Metrics Marketers Need

Posted By: Debra Aho Williamson

This week, Omniture announced details of its plan to integrate Facebook into its Web analytics system. The full integration won’t happen until later this year, but (assuming the software works [...]

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Posted: March 4, 2010. Filed under: Advertising, Facebook, ROI, Social Media Marketing, eMarketer  

Social Media ROI and the Pepsi Refresh Project

Posted By: Debra Aho Williamson

In the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, and the days following it, the ads that appeared in the game got plenty of online buzz, especially if they had [...]

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Posted: February 11, 2010. Filed under: Advertising, ROI, Social Media, Social Media Marketing  

The Super Bowl and the Socialization of Television

Posted By: Debra Aho Williamson

Sunday’s big game between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts was nearly as splashy in social media as it was on TV.
Marketers that paid millions to advertise during [...]

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Posted: February 9, 2010. Filed under: Advertising, Facebook, Social Media, Social Media Marketing  

Will Social Replace E-mail for Businesses?

Posted By: Debra Aho Williamson

Gartner recently issued several predictions detailing how companies will use social software in the future. Here’s one that caught my eye: “By 2014, social networking services will replace e-mail as [...]

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Posted: February 4, 2010. Filed under: Social Media  

Social Network Advertising: Trends for 2010

Posted By: Debra Aho Williamson

Can Facebook continue its momentum into 2010? Last week I wrote about TBI Research’s forecast that Facebook would generate $1 billion in revenue in 2010, a substantial increase from the [...]

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Posted: December 22, 2009. Filed under: Advertising, Facebook, Social Media Marketing, eMarketer  

Facebook’s Revenue Trajectory

Posted By: Debra Aho Williamson

Yesterday, TBI Research released a research note projecting that Facebook will top $1 billion in revenue in 2010. This follows an earlier estimate of $710 million from NYPPEX, a private [...]

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Posted: December 17, 2009. Filed under: Advertising, Facebook, Social Media Marketing  

Students Still Find Facebook Cool

Posted By: Debra Aho Williamson

Some people have suggested that students are becoming less interested in social networking, now that so many others (i.e., parents and other “old” people) are also using it. But according [...]

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Posted: December 8, 2009. Filed under: Demographics, Facebook, eMarketer  

Inside the Virtual Goods Economy at IMVU

Posted By: Debra Aho Williamson

I recently had a chat with Cary Rosenzweig, CEO of the IMVU virtual world. IMVU got a lot of attention in October because it announced that it was on track [...]

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Posted: November 18, 2009. Filed under: Case Studies, Social Media  

The Social Media Opportunity for CPG Companies

Posted By: Debra Aho Williamson

One of the biggest dilemmas for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies when it comes to social media is figuring out how it fits with traditional methods of marketing. But I [...]

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Posted: November 17, 2009. Filed under: Advertising, Brands, CPG, Social Media, Social Media Marketing  

Is Twitter Usage Really Falling?

Posted By: Debra Aho Williamson

TechCrunch reported today that the number of US unique visitors to Twitter’s Website was off 8% in October compared to September. Twitter.com had 19.2 million uniques in October, down from [...]

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Posted: November 12, 2009. Filed under: Social Media, Twitter  
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