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ANA 2012 Digital & Social Media Conference

07/15/2012 - 07/17/2012 Dana Point, CA

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Most Smartphone Owners Feel Naked Without Their Devices

Marketing Charts 

The vast majority of smartphone appear tethered to their devices, finds a pair of separate studies released in April 2012. According to Arbitron and Edison Research survey results Please or in order to access this content., a whopping 91% of smartphone owners say their device is within arm’s length either always (60%) or most of the time (31%). And findings from a Time magazine study indicate that 65% of digital natives take their devices from room to room with them, with these consumers saying that smartphones are the first thing they reach for when they wake up and when they leave home. Smartphones are also the first device digital natives will think of having close at hand when home, and the first they will turn to if they wake up in the middle of the night.

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Google ups the ante with new social analytics features

BtoB 

When Avinash Kaushik, Google Inc.’s digital marketing evangelist, announced his company’s new social metrics functionality at a recent SES Conference & Expo, the event series that focuses on search and social marketing, the idea was to create an immediate ripple throughout the social marketing world.

And it worked. Google’s new social analytics tool is an out-of-the-box solution that recently went live on Google Analytics pages.

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Global Consumers Place Highest Trust in Earned Media

Marketing Charts

Global online consumers place the most amount of trust in earned media, and the least in ads served on mobile phones, finds Nielsen Please or in order to access this content. in an April 2012 report. An impressive 92% of consumers surveyed around the world said they trust earned media, such as word-of-mouth or recommendations from friends and family, an 18% increase from 2007. Consumer opinions posted online (70%) was next-most trusted, outpacing other formas such as editorial content within newspaper articles, and branded websites (both at 58%). Text ads on mobile phones are trusted by just 29% of consumers.

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LinkedIn Debuts Tools To Target Followers

MediaPost

LinkedIn in February made it easier for users to follow companies on the professional networking site through a button that businesses can embed on their Web sites. Now it’s helping companies target and track their followers with a new set of software tools.

LinkedIn just introduced a service that allows businesses to tailor content sent to followers according to various criteria, including industry, seniority, job function, company size, non-company employees and geography. Those are among the same targeting categories available to third-party advertisers on LinkedIn through its self-serve ad solution.

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Facebook to Buy Instagram For $1 Billion

Wall Street Journal 

Facebook Inc. said it is acquiring the popular photo-sharing app maker Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock in what is the social network’s biggest acquisition to date.

Facebook, which is in the process of going public in an offering that will raise as much as $10 billion, has stayed away from big acquisitions. The Menlo Park, Calif., company has traditionally purchased small start-ups for tens of millions of dollars, often discarding the technology and focusing on the human talent that comes with the deal.

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Study: CIOs May Like To Talk The Social Media Talk, But Only 10% Walk The Walk

TechCrunch 

The use of social media in the enterprise has been a path well-trod by companies using mass market tools like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to communicate with peers, customers, investors and anyone else who might be interested in what they’re up to. But when it comes to the most senior information executives, they’re actually a little antisocial.

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Selling You on Facebook

Wall Street Journal 


Many popular Facebook apps are obtaining sensitive information about users—and users’ friends—so don’t be surprised if details about your religious, political and even sexual preferences start popping up in unexpected places. Not so long ago, there was a familiar product called software. It was sold in stores, in shrink-wrapped boxes. When you bought it, all that you gave away was your credit card number or a stack of bills.

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Pinterest now third most popular social network in the US, beats Google+

Digital Trends 

Pinterest has come from almost nowhere to being one of the most talked about new social networks, and in a very short space of time. However, just because something is being discussed, doesn’t mean its pulling in a huge amount of traffic. Is Pinterest more than just the social network of the moment?

Video and Social Marketing Drive Content Marketing

MediaPost 

According to the Outbrain State of Content Marketing 2012 report, content marketing continues to be one of the rising stars of the online marketing world as brands from American Express and Proctor & Gamble to GE and General Mills use it alongside more traditional strategies to reach their target audiences.

Key findings from surveyed senior-level brand marketers and agency executives in conjunction with a program that recognizes the most effective and impactful marketing and advertising communications, includes these marketing responses:

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Social Media Outsourcing Increases 128% in Two Years [New Report]

Hubspot 

Social Media Examiner’s Michael Stelzner is releasing his 2012 State of the Social Media Marketing Industry report today after his 1:00 PM EST webinar with HubSpot’s Content Strategist Kipp Bodnar, where the two will review all the juicy data. Part of Michael’s research included asking social media marketers whether they’re outsourcing any of their social media marketing tasks, and if so, what specifically they’re outsourcing. Turns out, in 2010, only 14% of marketers outsourced social media marketing. Last year, that number doubled to 28%. And this year, the percentage rose yet again, with32% of marketers outsourcing social media.

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