Facebook Turns 9 (AllFacebook)
Facebook celebrated its ninth birthday Monday. The site that started in a Harvard University dorm room has now connected more than 1 billion users from all around the world.
Vine has added sound and motion to the popular microblogging website, Twitter. Learn how to bring your information to life in our Vine webcast on Wednesday, June 19 from 4-5 pm ET. In this one-hour webcast, Gemma Craven (left), EVP, New York group director at Social@Ogilvy will discuss best practices for using the visual social platform and share some of her team's successful vine videos. Register here. 
Well folks, the most anticipated night of the year for TV advertising (oh, and football) is behind us. Which were your favorite Super Bowl spots? Which brands do you think scored big and which do you think could’ve done better? We’ve compiled a list of the top 2013 Super Bowl ads, according to voting on Hulu Adzone.
Quick-Thinking Brands Take to Social Media to Capitalize on Super Bowl Power Outage (LostRemote)
When half of the Superdome plunged into darkness during the third quarter of the Super Bowl, a handful of brands took to their Twitter accounts, capitalizing on one of the most bizarre moments in Super Bowl history. The first that I saw — and arguably the overall winner of the night — was Oreo.
TGIF! The end of the workweek is here at last and the weekend is just around the corner. In honor of this Sunday’s big game, we’ve compiled a list of some of the funniest pre-released Super Bowl commercials and videos for this week’s Friday Morning Laughs. We’ve got ads from Taco Bell, VW, Kia, Doritos, Dunder Mifflin (srsly!) and a hilarious ‘Lie Witness News’ report from Jimmy Kimmel. So grab a cup o’ joe, take a seat and enjoy!
With the Super Bowl just days away, YouTube has announced that this year’s Ad Blitz will be bigger and better than ever, thanks to a partnership with Adweek and the introduction of new social gaming components, including a touchdown dance GIF generator and more.
A year ago, the sound-recognition app Shazam launched its efforts to recognize television content during Super Bowl XLVI. For this year’s Super Bowl, the company hopes to push farther into so-called “second screen” marketing with a new spate of interactive ads.
Super Bowl XLVII is less than a week away and, as usual, big brands are giving viewers a sneak peak of what’s to come during Sunday night’s commercial breaks. If you’re looking to get your pre-game fix of 2013 Super Bowl ads, there some great resources online to help ensure that you don’t miss that commercial that everyone will be talking about.
HootSuite today announced the launch of its social media command center for the Super Bowl game on February 3. Previously, HootSuite followed the NFL in the semi-final AFC and NFC championship games. Through an analysis of Facebook activity and Tweets, HootSuite was able to accurately predict the winners who would go on to play in the Super Bowl, according to the company. Who will win Sunday’s game?
When the San Francisco 49ers take on the Baltimore Ravens at the Super Bowl, whose fans will tweet the loudest? This infographic compares the fan counts for each team on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. It should come as a surprise to no one that San Francisco, the birthplace of social media, has the advantage here.
With the Super Bowl just around the corner, game day commercial previews are starting to pop up on the web and, thanks to two wildly successful Super Bowl seasons, viewers everywhere have been looking forward to seeing what Volkswagen has in store this year. In 2011, VW topped the charts with their mini-Darth Vader spot, The Force, and last year they delighted fans with Star Wars singing dogs. This year the company is doing things a bit differently, turning to disgruntled YouTubers to strike happiness into the hearts of men.
