UEFA Champions League Final Wins Big on Social Media [Infographic]
Emerging Social Networks
How to Use Social Media Like a Rockstar [Podcast]
On today’s Morning Media Menu (MP3 link), GalleyCat editor Jason Boog and I talked about the Flaming Lips’ lead singer on Twitter, Syfy’s upcoming series and massively multiplayer online game, and how to share books and eBooks with our troops for Memorial Day.
Mediabistro Events
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews.
Use Social Media to Market Your Business
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. Flickr Expands its Justified View to Include Groups
Flickr has been rolling out what they call the “Justified” view of photos for the last few months, including it in various parts of the site as a nicer way to look at photos. Well, they announced in a blog post that they’re now bringing it to Groups, and it makes the whole experience a lot more fun and a little more social. I take a look below.
What Do Photographers Want Next from Google+? [Video]
The Google+ Photographer’s Conference took place a few days ago, and there was a panel who answered the question: “What do you want next from G+?” In classic Google style, they set the conference up to include a few people connected remotely via a Hangout. The panel first discussed how Google+ is helping photographers before moving on to more general desires for Google+.
VEVO’s Video Audience Grew 142% In One Month Through Deeper Facebook Integration
VEVO is really liking Facebook this quarter. The video-sharing platform saw tremendous growth between February 2012 and March 2012, and the company has the larger social network to thank for at least some of the increase in membership, traffic, and impressions. VEVO’s Matt Marquess shared the details in the company’s quarterly metrics report.
UEFA Champions League Final Wins Big on Social Media [Infographic]
Soccer fans worldwide tuned in over the week of May 14th to 19th to watch the UEFA Champions league finals play out, and they didn’t just win with an estimated TV audience of 150 million viewers — they won on Facebook, YouTube, Google+, Twitter and Foursquare as well. The games were a fantastic success, and viewers were able to connect with one another over social media the entire time. The world of social TV is just around the corner, and stats like the ones in the infographic below prove we are in the beginning stages of the phenomenon.
Case Study: Pinterest Drives More Sales Than Any Other Network [Infographic]
Pinterest has the potential to topple not only Facebook and Twitter for sales referrals, but also Amazon and Google. On the e-commerce platform Shopify, pin-driven sales have quadrupled in the last six months. This infographic shows how Shopify‘s retailers have benefited from the visual bookmarking site.
Little Monsters is Pinterest for Lady Gaga Fans
I just received my special invite to Lady Gaga’s new social network, called Little Monsters, and to say it took inspiration from Pinterest would be like saying Kesha was mildly influenced by Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. The site has based itself on Pinterest in its entirety, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a fun, niche place for Lady Gaga fans to share interesting images and ideas. Check out my impressions below.
How YouTube, Google+ and Social Media Affected the Arab Spring [Video]
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a host and producer for the Huffington Post, talks about his experience with various social media feeds as he tried to cover the Arab Spring for the Huffington Post. What’s notable about the video is that he identifies the new journalistic experience and it is remarkably fast and requires a great awareness of the various available technologies. He scans Twitter, YouTube and even monitors a few Google+ Hangouts in there to get as much information he can.
Stephen Colbert Joins Reddit’s Gift Exchange for Troops [Video]
Stephen Colbert, the swiss army knife of late night political satire, has joined Reddit’s Gift Exchange for the troops. The program is part of ‘redditgifts’, a popular subreddit where users sign up to give one another gifts. It’s especially popular during Christmas time each year.
Spotify Launches in Australia and New Zealand
Do records spin the other way in Australia? Spotify may have the answer now that the streaming music service has launched in Australia and New Zealand. “We’re unbelievably excited to be here,” said co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek in a fake Australian accent. “Australians are massive music fans and we’ve created a service that we know they’ll love.”
