Simon Mainwaring

We First provides consulting and training to help companies tell the story of their good work in ways that build their business

Advertising

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If there is one sure fire way to leverage social media data in the service of your company, it’s to engage that data to better serve your customers. This fact is not lost on CMO’s who, according to the survey by the CMO Club fund the number one use of social data by CMO’s is […]

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Diffbot‘s new Page Classifier API was used to provide this revealing snapshot of a day in the life of Twitter. The tool identifies the type of content behind any web link, and in this case, the Page Classifier analyzed 750,000 links posted on Twitter to create this infographic that inspires several questions for your brand. 1. If […]

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A subtle but powerful shift is underway as brands and platforms that have thrived, in part, through social media are now trading up into traditional media territory on the strengths of the eyeballs and engagement they have captured.  To illustrate I want to share three examples. 1. GOOGLE HANG-OUTS ON AIR: Google wants this new […]

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As the days when social media was pegged as a fad drift from memory, mobile advertising has risen to take its place. Will mobile ads be effective, what ad format works best, who will win the mobile payments battle and why? Yet a quick glance at the infographic by Luma (above) should be enough to assure anyone […]

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McDonald’s Canada recently used social media to provide answers to very tough questions from their customers. They did this in two ways, both of which are instructive of how a brand becomes more open, transparent and accountable. Firstly, they set up a website through which they will answer all customer questions. Not by an auto-response […]

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A powerful intersection of messaging and meaning is transforming the marketing landscape. As consumers demand greater social responsibility, transparency and accountability from brands, brands are making increasingly earnest efforts to be more meaningful to their customers lives on the basis of the good they do. But this is not without its perils. Commanding consumer attention […]

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