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…

The 4 C’s of Social Media Marketing and Search Engine Optimization

Experimenting with search engine optimization and social media can either result in positive or negative results. But it is only through experimentation that we know which strategy works for us and our business. Luckily, with the advent of expert SEO services from Cybertegic, Inc. and other internet marketing service companies, there are easier ways to…

Make Social Media Work For Your Business, Not Against It

More and more these days, there are reports on the internet of companies being harassed by disgruntled customers through social media. And why shouldn’t this be the case? These customers have always had these complaints; it’s only now with the advent of social media like Facebook, Twitter, and blogging especially, that customers now have a…

McDonald’s Non-Conventional Social Media Campaign

The recent spur in location-based services (LBS), such as the popular Foursquare and Gowalla, have led to innovative location-based marketing campaigns. McDonald’s, a major brand, jumped on the LBS bandwagon and launched a Foursquare campaign earlier this year. The company randomly awarded $5 and $10 gift cards to users checking into McDonald’s. McDonald’s spent $1000…