Social Marketing

Amid the flourishing social media environment, marketers are increasingly viewing paid social media advertising as an integrated part of their marketing tool kits. According to a recent report by Vizu, a Nielsen company, the majority of advertisers say they use paid social media advertising in conjunction with other online and offline advertising (66% and 51%, respectively). Only 5% of advertisers report running primarily social-only campaigns. Social media advertising uses unique tactics—such as sponsored content, brand graphs and influencing the influencers—that have grown to become standard aspects of any integrated campaign.

As social media tears down the walls between brands and consumers—and puts a premium on visibility and engagement—companies are finding that getting their CEOs out in front of online channels is becoming a more essential part of a brand’s business strategy.

And so this week, the momblogosphere is abuzz about the titled 2012 Mommy Blogger Contact Guide. Is it ethical for Bulldog to sell the personal information of mom bloggers?

Two-thirds of online American adults (67%) are Facebook users, making Facebook the dominant social networking site in this country. And new findings from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project indicate there is considerable fluidity in the Facebook user population.

NGL Media, a distributor and producer of in-culture video content for digitally-connected Latinos has launched a series of YouTube channels featuring ten different Latino shows including originals and those of producers NGL currently works with.

While 89 percent of the advertisers surveyed said they use free tools—such as pages, posts, likes and pins—75 percent say they currently invest in paid social media advertising, which includes tactics such as sponsored content, brand graphs and driving likes. In fact, 64 percent plan to spend more on social in the future.

In the U.S., Hispanic consumers’ desire to use social media customer service (or “social care”) surpasses that of the general social media population. This creates a significant opportunity for companies seeking meaningful interactions with this large consumer segment that continues to grow in purchasing power year-over-year.

A new study from the Advertising Research Foundation suggests that much of the consumer spend was surely influenced by social media.

Content PR. You’ve probably seen this phrase bouncing around the blogosphere recently, and no wonder, it’s an emerging PR trend for this year. But what is content PR? To discover the answer, we need to look to marketing first.

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Burson-Marsteller launched the Latin America Social Media Check-up 2013, which examines the use of social media platforms by the top 225 companies in Latin America. The study looks at how these companies use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, blogs and, for the first time, Google Plus.

A lot has changed since I first reported on how Hispanic online publishers were using Facebook in June 2010. Back then, only a few Hispanic publishers were taking Facebook seriously, but over the past year and a half, Hispanic publishers have significantly increased their presence on Facebook and now view it as a critical channel for them to remain competitive. By Lee Vann / Captura group

Enter to Win the Latin “STEEVEE”, The Social TV Trophy Which Awards Excellence In the Fast Moving Hispanic, Latin and South American Social TV Space.

There is no question that social media has gone mobile, as more and more consumers access their accounts via smartphones and tablets. Now, marketers are racing to catch up with consumers where they connect, employing a variety of strategies for outreach, according to a new eMarketer report, “Social Media Marketing on Mobile Devices: Turning Challenges into Opportunities.”

Predictably, social-media pundits have surfaced to proclaim this development as a natural evolution of social marketing.

The closing of several Facebook stores earlier this year by major brands including JCPenney, Nordstrom and GameStop was enough to get some brands to push the pause button on excitement surrounding fcommerce. But brands can still get substantial benefits from firmly planting their flag in the Facebook social media space, as long as they understand the desires—and probable actions—of their followers.

BlogFrog outlined major trends it believes will shape the influencer marketing industry in 2013. Influencer marketing has emerged as one of the fastest-growing social marketing practices as brand marketers look to connect with consumers and customers in meaningful and authentic ways – often through the collective voice of active bloggers that are passionate and vocal about the brands they love.

Nielsen and Twitter announced an exclusive multi-year agreement to create the “Nielsen Twitter TV Rating” for the US market. Under this agreement, Nielsen and Twitter will deliver a syndicated-standard metric around the reach of the TV conversation on Twitter, slated for commercial availability at the start of the fall 2013 TV season.

A new social network dubbed “Parranda” — the name of a popular Puerto Rican Christmas tradition — is hoping to gather Puerto Ricans on the island and throughout the world to “remap, remake, and remobilize the Greater Puerto Rico.”