LinkedIn is full of good news these days. Their stock is up nearly 200% over its IPO price, their CEO is impressing the street with a smart evaluation of the future of social and their growth has been incredible, at around 150 million users. To add to this, they are doing well internationally as evidenced by their recent announcement of hitting 1m users in Indonesia.
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. There’s no big surprise to social media fans that Pinterest is blowing up. It’s recently become a site that has traffic in the top 100 sites on the web, and rumors have it valued around $200m. That’s a lot for a company that doesn’t have much revenue. But just how engaged are the users that use the service? The folks over at RJMetrics put together a rigorous report to find out.
Have you ever wondered who makes the most money on YouTube? Is the highest-grossing YouTuber Justin Bieber, Shane Dawson, Ray William Johnson, or Rihanna? With MyU2B Stats Beta you don’t have to wonder anymore.
Social networking has rocketed to the number one online activity in the UK, with 9 out of 10 Britons visiting at least one social networking site in the month of May, 2010. New data from comScore shows that social networks and social media has overtaken every other online activity in the UK. Is this indicative that social media might now be considered “mainstream”, at least in its reach? Read on for more stats from comScore.
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Are you a metricholic? If numbers and traffic are your thing, and a good graph gets you off, you’ll probably be interested in Tweet Stats.
Developed and coded by Damon Cortesi, the tool lets you research and analyze how you – and your favorite Twitterazzi – are utilizing the microblog. Read more
