Archive for October, 2008

Measuring social media (3) – podcast interview with David Armano

October 30th, 2008 — Mark

David Armano of Critical Mass, author of an excellent blog on social media – what he calls micro interactions – gives us his perspective in a podcast interview (10 mins) on ways to measure in social media, and how to judge ROI.
(P.S. Because I couldn’t figure out how to work the CallBurner software the conversation [...]

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Measuring social media (2)

October 27th, 2008 — Mark

To get a better understanding of what constitutes best practice in social media measurement and evaluation, we thought the simplest thing to do was to “eat our own dog food” and use our own social media measurement tools to determine who had influence on the topic of “social media measurement” and then look in detail [...]

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ROI on social media – Wispa

October 15th, 2008 — Mark

Well, here is a concrete example of the return on investment from monitoring and responding to social media. Last year our client Cadbury relaunched the Wispa bar in response to a campaign for its reintroduction, advised by us. Their UK sales are up 11% over the quarter, global sales up 6%.

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Media (and buzz) moves online

October 7th, 2008 — Mark

The huge success of Tina Fey’s Saturday Night Live parodies of Sarah Palin (see above) has pointed up something the TV networks increasingly see as a great new opportunity. Great TV is finding a big part of its audience online. Fey’s hilarious (and kind of affectionate) Palin impersonation in the VP debate parody [...]

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Measuring social media

October 3rd, 2008 — Mark

How do you build brands post-Google?
As the recession begins to bite, brands are finding that getting through to customers is tougher than ever.
Offline advertising is showing diminishing returns. McKinsey predicts that by 2010, traditional television advertising will be one-third as effective as it was in 1990.
This is partly because online media is growing [...]

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