Simply Measured announced their latest integration earlier this week: We're thrilled to announce our integration with the ! http://t.co/M1FJy27FaW pic.twitter.com/iaJOlXgDEc — Simply Measured () December 8, 2014 Why Is This a Big Deal? Sure, this isn’t the first time that solutions are merging or integrating with each other. To understand why this is such a […]
Read MoreIf you’ve ever used a social listening or social monitoring tool to analyse sentiment, then you’re familiar with the inaccuracies that afflict all of these tools – from incorrect tagging to skewed sentiment percentages. Why does that happen?
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I was at Social Media London Live a few days ago and I saw Ben Hackett, a great guy from a company called Brandwatch. Now, you may have heard of Brandwatch before, especially if you work in social media, digital marketing, or if you’ve been following this blog for some time. I’m a sucker for […]
Read MoreHere’s what I believe – most campaign tracking on social media sucks. Heavily! Whether you’re a Google Analytics power-user, or perhaps you only use it occasionally, you know that campaign tracking can be a lifesaver to manage your owned traffic. You wouldn’t send a monthly newsletter without properly tagging your links, right? You wouldn’t advertise your […]
Read MoreStop me if you’ve heard this before: “Content is king”. This expression was great the first time I heard it. Maybe the second time too. It stopped amazing me the third time onwards. This usually comes with the variation of: Content is king, and context is queen Content is fuel Content is fire (For more […]
Read MoreAfter a long hiatus from meetups, conferences and “digital events”, I finally returned to the London Web Analytics meetup, a great London-based meetup for people interested in all things analytics. The subject for this month’s meetup was social media analytics, pretty topical considering that I work in social media analytics day in and day out. I […]
Read MoreI briefly touched on Brandwatch’s latest feature, Hindsight, in my previous post. Just to recap – Brandwatch now offers full historical Twitter data since Twitter’s inception in 2006, thanks to a new feature called Hindsight. Combined with the already thorough archive of other online sources stretching back to 2010, Brandwatch have further solidified their social […]
Read MoreIf you’re looking to listen to the chatter on social media, specifically Twitter, you need to have a tool that can adequately do so based on your needs. Thankfully there are lots of tools out there that can help you with social listening on Twitter. However, while a lot of these tools (free and premium) […]
Read MoreIt was just a little over a year ago that Twitter released the Twitter Analytics Dashboard to advertisers and publishers. Now, Twitter have revamped their analytics dashboard, introducing “an enhanced Tweet activity dashboard to provide measurable insights into how your organic Tweets perform”. Welcome to Twitter Analytics 2.0.
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The infamous PTAT (People Talking About This) metric will soon be removed from Facebook Insights, and that is a very, very good thing.
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