social marketing
Spredfast raises $18M, Sprinklr secures $15M for social marketing software
www.insidefacebook.com
Two social marketing platform companies announced new funding today. Spredfast has raised $18 million in a venture capital round led by OpenView Venture Partners, and Sprinklr has raised $15 million in series B funding from Intel Capital and Battery Ventures. Spredfast offers social media management software for the enterprise, including tools for publishing, monitoring, engagement...
What's A Like Worth? Let's Do Some Math...
www.fastcompany.com
Marketing software firm HubSpot has tried some amusing math to work out how much a "like" is worth for social marketing purposes. Facebook "likes," Twitter re-tweets and @mentions, Reddit upvotes, Ycombinator news "ups," Diggs... these are the magical social media goodies that anyone engaged in social media promotional campaigns...
Retail: Walmart Wants Facebook Sales for Christmas
www.wired.com
Photo: code poet/FlickrFacebook hardly needs more pressure – Wall Street is providing quite enough, thank you – but the world’s largest retailer is expecting absolutely tremendous results from the social network this holiday season. Gulp. News reports out of Arkansas over the past two weeks show just how close Facebook...
Social Media Updates for 2010-03-14
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Social Media Updates for 2010-03-14 is a post from Chris PirilloAll this energy at #SXSW makes me wonder why the Pacific Northwest doesn't have something truly similar? #Icons for the multi-touch world: http://gesturecons.com/ [via @amalucky] #"Oh good, the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders are here. Because lord knows how much geeks love football." [@violetblue #sxsw] #Hanging with...
Salesforce.com Laying Off Radian6 Employees As Buddy Media Shows $20 Million Net Loss
techcrunch.com
Two of Salesforce.com’s most high profile “social media” acquisitions are showing signs of trouble. At Radian6, Salesforce.com is reported to be laying off “less than 100 people.” And at Buddy Media, the company amended its 8-K, which shows $20 million in net losses for the first six months of the year....
Quicktake Analysis: What Twitter’s “Promoted Tweets” Means To The Ecosystem
www.web-strategist.com
The Altimeter group was pre-briefed by COO Dick Costolo of Twitter direct last week about this upcoming launch, we’ve had some time to think over what it means to the industry as well as to brand marketers. Summary: Twitter has launched promoted tweets Brands can now advertise promoted tweets on...
Altimeter Report: Social Marketing Analytics (With Web Analytics Demystified)
www.altimetergroup.com
RT @rhopper: Intro to Social Marketing Hub Webinar for @awarenessinc customers 3/18, 2:30 eastern. Register here: http://bit.ly/9vYwiF
Taking a Cue from Social, Jivox and Music Interactive Partner to Bring Music Downloads to Online Ads
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The reward for sitting through an ad used to be the content itself. Now advertisers are searching for incentives that make online ads more sticky. Interactive video ad platform Jivox and branding tool Music Interactive think they’ve found the best bait to reel them in: Free music by cool artists....
Taking a Cue from Social, Jivox and Music Interactive Partner to Bring Music Downloads to Online Ads
The Social Marketing Shakeup Continues: Syncapse Buys Clickable
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Have you bought or sold a company that helps companies market themselves on Facebook? Join the club — a consolidation wave has hit the industry in the last few months. Here’s the newest example: Syncapse, a 5-year-old company that helps companies manage their presence on Facebook, has acquired Clickable, a 6-year-old...
Buddy Media Acquires Social Ad-Buying Tool Brighter Option To Sync Paid and Owned Marketing
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Brands are buying more social advertising, and increasingly those ads build off of published content like Sponsored Stories and Promoted Tweets. To absorb this spend, social marketing platform Buddy Media has acquired and integrated the tech and team of Facebook ad-buying tool Brighter Option. Buddy Media started as social publishing...
Twitter-based Olympic cheer meter reveals who's winning ... on the sofas of the world
venturebeat.com
London 2012 starts today, and many of us will be glued to screens both large and small for the next 16 days. But while we’re watching, we’re probably also tweeting: cheering on our teams and our stars. And while NBC might be tracking who’s winning in the arena, Socialbakers will be...
Wildfire Is Huge: First Stats In Years Reveal 300 Employees, 13,000 Customers
techcrunch.com
Through the hard-fought battle to represent the world’s top brands, social marketing platform Wildfire has stayed quiet. But today, it revealed to TechCrunch that it has 13,000 paying customers, more than any company in the space, and has grown from 7 to 300 employees since the start of 2010, making it...
Shoutlet brings Facebook ad creation to marketing platform, partners with Kenshoo
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Social marketing platform Shoutlet today announced new capabilities including Facebook ad creation and social listening, as well as a partnership with Kenshoo Social to provide advanced ad functionality. These additions, along with updates to its contest-building tools and analytics, make Shoutlet a more full-featured solution for businesses looking for all-in-one...
Social gifting startup Treater launches mobile apps to let you treat friends to coffee, beer and more
thenextweb.com
It was just last month that we reported Treater had secured $2.5 million in seed funding, as it rolled its ‘instant’ social and mobile gifting service out into public beta. And today, the Washington, DC-based company is announcing another ‘treat’ for fans…native mobile apps. Just to recap, Treater enables users...
Social gifting startup Treater launches mobile apps to let you treat friends to coffee, beer and more
Social marketplace Copious courts men, adds art categories
gigaom.com
Copious, a social marketplace based out of San Francisco, is making a play for men. Starting Tuesday, the startup is announcing that in addition to its current categories of women’s fashion and accessories, it will also offer men’s clothing and art. Launched last summer, Copious is an eBay-like marketplace of...
Which cities have the highest salaries for social media jobs? (infographic)
venturebeat.com
It’s official: social media is here to stay, and companies late to jump on the social train are scrambling to snatch up the social butterflies of the online world to humanize their brands. With the ad-skipping mentality and technologies available to customers today, soft-sell social marketing seems to be...
It's Official: Two Of Mark Zuckerberg's Relatives Now Really Do Work At Google (GOOG, FB)
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Google has completed the acquisition of Wildfire Interactive, a social-marketing startup, that it announced in July, a Google spokesperson told Business Insider. That means that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has two close relatives working at his company's archrival--younger sister Arielle and brother-in-law Harry Schmidt. Arielle, who was on vacation at...
Salesforce.com confirms it has completed the acquisition of Buddy Media
thenextweb.com
Salesforce.com has confirmed that it has completed the acquisition of Buddy Media more than two months after the enterprise software giant first confirmed that the deal to buy the social media-focused site had been reached. No price is given in the announcement, which was made early but only added to...
Facebook management applications Shoutlet, Vitrue release updates
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As more brands turn to third-party social media management tools, companies like Shoutlet and Vitrue continue to add new features and integrate more services into their applications. Both companies released significant product updates in the past week making them worth another look for marketers who might be interested in tools...
Votigo moves beyond promotions to provide conversation management and other social marketing software
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Social marketing and promotions software company Votigo recently expanded its platform to provide a full cross-network publisher, conversation manager and analytics tools. Votigo co-founder and CEO Mike La Rotonda tells us it has long been part of the company’s vision to offer these additional services, but it had been previously...
Votigo moves beyond promotions to provide conversation management and other social marketing software
Moviepilot Seals $7M Series B Funding Led By DFJ Esprit
techcrunch.com
It’s easy to miss the launch of the latest movies. You get a week of marketing and by the time you’ve figured out if you want to see it or not, it’s moved off the theatre and you’re waiting for the DVD release. Most movie marketing dollars are spent in...
How to Turn Your Twitter Profile Page into an SEO Masterpiece
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If you have spent any time around social marketing you probably know that SEO and social media go hand and hand. (Well you have at least heard about it, right?) So, how do you turn your Twitter account into a search-able masterpiece? Why is this important? Ladies and gentlemen, hold...
Percolate is Solving the One Problem its Social SaaS Competitors Won't Touch
pandodaily.com
We know social SaaS companies–the ones that help brands navigate Facebook and Twitter–are a hot commodity. Between Buddy Media, Vitrue, Involver and Efficient Frontier, enterprise companies just keep snapping them up. From what I hear, Oracle and Salesforce aren’t the only hungry (and possibly desperate) acquirers in this category–everyone from...
Facebook ads can generate increased sales, comScore says
www.theverge.com
There are still some questions as to whether or not Facebook can live up to its astronomic valuation, but advertisers should find some comfort in a new report from comScore. In the second installation of its ongoing "Power of Like" series, the research firm found that advertising on Facebook...
Blogger Commerce Network OpenSky Fetches $6 Million Series B
techcrunch.com
With a recent public launch under its belt, OpenSky is adding $6 million in new capital. Existing investors Highland Capital and Canaan Partners invested in the series B financing. A year ago, the company raised $5 million. OpenSky is a social marketing/e-commerce startup which connects manufacturers and distributors directly...
Salesforce.com buying social marketing vendor Buddy Media in $689 million deal
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Salesforce.com is acquiring social media marketing firm Buddy Media in a US$689 million cash and stock deal, the companies announced Monday. The transaction is expected to close in Salesforce.com's third fiscal quarter, which ends Oct. 31....
What To Expect From Facebook's Q4 Earnings Report
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Analysts, investors and naysayers alike are waiting with bated breath today in anticipation of Facebook's fourth quarter earnings report. The company is expected to report $1.53 billion in revenue from the final quarter in 2012, up from $1.26 billion in the third quarter. After hitting record lows around $17 per...
Victoria Ransom's wild ride
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From adventure travel to social marketing, the CEO of Google's latest big-ticket acquisition has a knack for having the right idea at the right time. By Helen Coster, contributor On a summer morning earlier this year, Victoria Ransom and Alain Chuard pulled their Honda Civic into Google's Mountain View headquarters....
Dylan's Desk: The tech industry is losing touch with the reality of working life
venturebeat.com
PayPal president David Marcus announced layoffs in his division this week with a tone-deaf line about delighting customers and providing great experiences. Never mind the 325 employees and 120 contractors who are going home without jobs this evening, and who could be facing months of unemployment, family stress, financial...
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