Walmart.com Sets Excellent Example for a Mobile Commerce Site

According to the Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index, Walmart.com’s mobile commerce site earned a perfect score for mobile web performance. The mega retailer’s m-commerce site homepage downloaded on average in 3.22 seconds and did so 98.99% of the time. That’s very impressive. Keynote Systems Inc., a mobile and web performance firm, weighs and then combines…

Cosmopolitan Magazine Uses Social Media in Global Campaign

Cosmopolitan magazine, a popular publication for women is yet another big brand name to use social media for a major digital advertising campaign. Cosmo’s ad campaign uses three major social media streams to engage the public: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The heart of the campaign is about connecting with the fun and fearless female that…

How Excellent Product Photos Can Improve E-Commerce Designs

E-commerce basically means doing business online. For consumers, the absence of the ability to feel, touch, hold, smell, and probably even taste the products equates to simply not buying the product. This can be offset with brilliant product photos, however. Product photography might as well be the single most important design aspect of any e-commerce…

Dunkin’ Donuts Uses Facebook to Find Their Biggest Fan

Dunkin’ Donuts is at it again. Less than a year ago, the popular donut company made big headlines with their “Create Dunkin’s Next Donut” contest. Now, they’re using social media in a somewhat different fashion. Dunkin’ Donuts is looking to find their number one ultimate fan. Using Facebook as their medium, Dunkin’ Donuts is looking…

Bid Your Way Into A Bigger Twitter Following

Twitter will help corporations and brands increase their Twitter following, but at a price. The social information network already rolled out its advertising product, Promoted Tweets. The tweet is an ad, but still a tweet. And now, advertisers can buy themselves into the “Who to Follow” feature. This news is receiving mixed reviews throughout the…

Twitter Pulls in Huge Ad Revenue with Promoted Tweets

Social media has a huge impact on marketing, but sometimes its still amazing to see how much. It was less than six months ago that Twitter released Promoted Tweets, their unique ad platform. Essentially, Promoted Tweets are advertisements that are placed at the top of a Twitter search with a tag underneath revealing the tweet…

Facebook has yet to overtake every country

    According to a new report released by comScore, Facebook is the leading social media network in all but eight countries. The leading source of internet marketing intelligence, comScore, measured the Internet activity of 41 countries over all. Facebook reaches about 43.9 percent of Internet users around the world, says comScore. The social media…

Social Media News: Twitter to Launch Real-Time Analytics Tool

The social media star, Twitter, will be launching real-time analytics in the last quarter of 2010. What’s more, the social information network will be releasing the beta version of the dashboard for free. Will it be free for everyone? That is yet to be determined. So far, it’s only known that the product will be…