Last month we published an analysis showing social media mentions of adidas and Nike after looking at a report into people’s awareness of Olympic Games sponsors. Since then Nike launched its ‘find your greatness’ London campaign ...

Hackney Weekend was this year’s Big Weekend festival held by BBC Radio 1 at Hackney Marshes in east London. As the London 2012 Olympics are also being held in East London, Radio 1 made this ...

Last night saw 20 awards and 28 commendations presented at the Online Media Awards. The evening was in the plush Emirates stadium and the improvement on last year’s ‘basement’ location was highlighted as an example ...

Earlier this week New Media Knowledge published new research into people’s awareness of Olympic Games sponsors. 40 people had been asked to list any Olympics sponsors they could think of. Adidas was in the lead ...

NeverSeconds is a blog that until last night was ran by nine-year-old VEG, real name Martha Payne, and her dad Dave. The tagline ‘One primary school pupil’s daily dose of school dinners’, sums up almost ...

The Top 5 UK Pharma websites ranking is based on the UMV worldwide figures provided by Google Ad Planner. 1. BioPortfolio (130,000) 2. PharmiWeb.com (22,000) 3. Pharmaceutical Business Review (18,000) 4. The Pharma Letter (18,000) ...

The other day Miss Bowles brought you her pick of Top 10 Uk Media Stories of 2011. Today I present to you the top 10 digital ones. Enjoy! 10. The Social List After publishing the ...

In the first of an end-of-year series, Media Updates editor Jo Bowles chooses her top 10 UK media stories of 2011. 10. Liverpool Daily Post becomes a Weekly Post After 156 years, the Liverpool Daily ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a well-known phenomenon that packing the frow of a catwalk show with A-list celebrities is a surefire way to gain mainstream media coverage in a celebrity-obsessed world. Digging down into the social media coverage ...

Yesterday, PaidContent pointed up new research from social bookmarking service ReadItLater (NB one of a number of services worth checking out ahead of the great Delicious exodus) that suggests that web-reading might be taking over ...

As the year-end approaches, it’s become as traditional a chestnuts-roasting-on-an-open-fire for list fever to sweep the social media world. Regular readers will know Cision UK publishes weekly Top 10s – so what could be more natural, ...