In two years, Moshi Monsters, a social network developed by Hoxton-based Mind Candy, has reached 50 million registered users worldwide, with an estimated 20 per cent of those active users. Compared to some less popular ...

Next week I’ll be hosting a B2B Marketing webinar with Circle Research‘s Andrew Dalgish, when we’ll be talking about social media marketing strategies with particular regard to Circle Research’s excellent new Social Media Benchmarking Report. ...

A couple of weeks ago we published the UK findings of our European Social Journalism Survey, which attempts to identify the whats, whys and hows of social media use among journalists of all kinds. You ...

More evidence for the resilience of traditional communications channels last week, with a report from television marketing body Thinkbox identifying continued audience growth. UK viewers couched down for an average of four hours and three ...

Our latest social journalism survey, conducted in June and July of this year in conjunction with Canterbury Christ Church University, represents our latest attempt to understand the uses and perceptions of social media among journalists ...

Paid/owned/earned has become something of a marketing mantra over the last 12 months. Here’s a defintion from Vivaki‘s Nick Burcher, via the We Are Social blog: Paid is the traditional method of paying to place ...

According to figures published earlier this year by ThinkBox, the average Briton watched four hours and 2 minutes of live TV every day in 2010, an increase of 18 minutes year on year. The numbers ...

Quite a week. Not sure we’re done yet either. UPDATE 8/7/11: Our analytical brethren have updated the SM volumes and plotted alongside the trad media response. Check it out at the Cision Global Analysts site.

The latest Harvard Business Review describes a new study from researchers at Babson College and Bentley University that attempts to put social media strategies into four distinct buckets, from ultra-measurable, small-scale experimentation to org-wide transformation. ...

Earlier this week, Drew Benvie, managing director at award winning social media PR agency 33 Digital (and PR Week Power Book constituent – Ben Folds, if you’re wondering) blogged some thoughts on the latest Mintel report on ...

Earlier this week, MIT hosted a workshop dedicated to the study of information flows and decision-making in social networks. Among those presenting were researchers from Norway’s Telenor, whose work suggested a predictive link between network ...

Last week PR Week released its latest UK Power Book, its list of the most influential players in the UK industry as voted for by peers in comms and media. As usual, there aren’t too ...

In a couple of weeks time, I’ll be chairing a panel discussion at the Communicate Magazine Social Media in a Corporate Context conference focused on the relationships between corporates, PRs and independent bloggers. Last night ...

Other than Slim-Fast, America, if Twitter is to be believed. Unsurprising? Maybe.  I find it more surprising that there is such a strong UK contingent – despite the UK being home to the second largest ...

Reputation Online yesterday looked at the “difficulties of algorithmic authority” in an article featuring quotes from Azeem Azhar, founder of Peer Index. As he did when I interviewed him for our “Identifying and targeting social media influencers” webinar, ...

Or failing that, the Times Square Newsline. Read more about CisionPoint‘s latest CODiE nomination for best marketing/PR solution.

This week sees the publication of The Pale King,  a posthumous, unfinished novel by the late US author David Foster Wallace. Wallace, who died in 2008, might not be a household name, but, critically lauded ...

A few minutes ago, in Mohali, India, one of the most eagerly anticipated sporting clashes of recent years got underway. As I write, India and Pakistan are battling it out to see who will meet ...

Even marketers less than au fait with search-engine small print should tune into the below, in which Google’s head of webspam and chief SEO liaison Matt Cutts recommends three strategic priorities for SEOs in 2011: ...

Over at the Online Journalism Blog, Paul Bradshaw notes that Channel 4’s Faisal Islam has tweeted his concern about the BBC’s official Budget day hashtag, #BBCBudget. Faisal should have checked with his own newsroom, as #C4Budget ...