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The Top 10 Most-Shared Tech Ads Of The Year
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-top-10-most-shared-tech-ads-of-the-year-2012-12
2012 has been quite the year for technology and its advertising.
Over the past 12 months, we’ve witnessed both Samsung and Apple release major products, and dueling commercials to go along with them.
As usual, Unruly Media created a list of the most-shared tech ads in social media of the year.
You may be surprised to find that Samsung made the list, while Apple wasn’t included at all.
Google wins for having the most spots on the list, with some of their April Fool’s ads being featured.
10. Google: Gmail Tap — 170,043 shares
Facebook shares: 137,232
Twitter shares: 32,532
Percent of shares in English: 83
Ad Agency: In-house
Google released this April Fool’s Day ad introducing a fake new keyboard that uses Morse code. It even features LL Cool J, referred to by his real name, as the product lead.
9. Google: Valentine’s Day Doodle — 197,073 shares
Facebook shares: 97,534
Twitter shares: 99,183
Percent of shares in English: 62
Ad agency: Saatchi & Saatchi
Google outdid itself this year with its doodle for Valentine’s day. The minute-long cartoon is a cute depiction of a boy trying his hardest to impress a girl he likes.
8. Microsoft: Surface — 316,777 shares
Facebook shares:
Twitter shares: 21,063
Pecent of shares in English: 66
Ad agency: In-house
Microsoft was praised for being more innovative with its ads this year, but unfortunately increased creativity has not (yet) led to a significant increase in sales.
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This Is The Only Reason Album Sales Were Up Last Year
For the first time since 2004, album sales are up, and nearly all the credit goes to Adele. Her sophomore album 21 sold nearly 6 million copies, completely dominating the industry and cheering music execs (for once). But given how dependent the industry was on one artist in 2011, is this news really that promising? Here, a guide:
Album sales were up?
Yes, though only slightly. Sales of complete albums in 2011 reached 330.6 million in the U.S., an increase of 1.3 percent over 2010, according to Nielsen. It’s the first uptick in sales since 2004 and Adele deserves much of the credit: Her 21 moved 5.82 million copies — the best one-year sales count since Usher’s Confessions sold 7.98 million in 2004. Her 2009 debut, 19, enjoyed a corresponding bump, selling nearly a million units in 2011 as well.
How significant is this for the music industry?
A one percent increase isn’t exactly something to write home about, says Ben Sisario at at The New York Times. “Some businesses might call that level of growth flat.” But considering the past decade’s steady downward slide — revenue from recorded music fell 52 percent over the last 10 years — this is a relief. “For the beleaguered music industry, any positive news about sales is cause for celebration.”
How much did Adele dominate?
She sold 3.3 million more albums the year’s second-hi! ghest se ller, Michael Buble’s Christmas, and 3.7 million more than Lady Gaga’s Born This Way. Adele spent 14 weeks atop the Billboard album charts in 2011, says Devon Maloney at Billboard, and 21 is the first album since 2005 to log 30 weeks of 100,000-plus sales. Her song “Rolling in the Deep” was the year’s best-selling single and the most-played song on the radio. Furthermore, 21 is the best-selling digital album of all time. Taken together, her two albums amounted to 2 percent of total record sales, a nearly unprecedented total for one artist. Without her efforts, says Daniel Kreps at SPIN, record sales would actually be down. So while Adele is being hailed as “the savior of music,” says Tyler Coates at Black Book, “the industry is still tanking.”
What about the digital sales?
Digital music sales rose 8.5 percent, says Coates, while sales of complete digital albums rose 20 percent. Though such boosts seem like a good sign for the industry, digital sales offer the lowest profit margin of all music sales. CD sales, which deliver the greatest profit margin, were, unsurprisingly, down six percent.
This post originally appeared at The Week.
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Digital Footprint Score ™
UPDATED: March 5, 2013
Digital Footprint Score 13.3 (2013, March)
Site: 1) visits per person, 2) pages per visit, 3) Hubspot Marketing Grade
Search: 1) domains linking in, 2) keywords driving traffic, 3) # pages cached
Social: 1) Klout Score, 2) Kred Score, 3) bitly clicks
UPDATED: April 5, 2012
UPDATED: March 16, 2012
The version of the score below is 12.3 (which means year 2012, month 3).
Digital Footprint Score 12.3
Site
- Hubspot overall marketing grade, indexed against others in the industry/sector
- pages per visit
- visits per unique user
Search
- keywords driving traffic
- sites referring traffic (inbound links)
- # of pages cached by Google
Social
- Kred Influence score, indexed against others in the industry/sector
- Kred Outreach score, indexed against others in the industry/sector
- Facebok Fans
Mobile
- unique mobile content or mobile version
UPDATED: April 5, 2011.
The Digital Footprint Score(tm) is a metric that will be published quarterly by the Digital Strategy Institute.
The parameters that go into it are the following – under 4 vectors, 1) site, 2) search, 3) social, and 4) mobile.
The version of the score below is 11.4 (which means year 2011, month 4).
Digital Footprint Score 11.5
Site
- pages per visit
- visits per unique user
Search
- keywords driving traffic
- sites referring traffic (inbound links)
- # of pages cached by Google
Social
- twitter followers
- unique retweeters
- unique mentions of handle
Mobile
- unique mobile content
- mobile app? (1/0)
Meaningful comparisons are made among brands in the same industry/category, using the raw DFS score. the indexed DFS score can also give directional indication across industries (e.g. which industries as a whole are better in digital than others).
The parameters that go into the score were chosen mainly on the following criteria — that they are easy to obtain, easy to understand, AND straightforward to impact. For example if you have a low pages per visit parameter, then you impact that by adding more content pages to your site.
UPDATE: March 25, 2011.
Digital Footprint Score 11.4
Site
- pages per visit
- visits per unique user
Search
- sites referring traffic (inbound links)
- keywords driving traffic
Social
- twitter followers
- unique retweeters
Mobile
- excluded in this version
Digital Footprint Score 11.4 - Fashion (Highest)
DFS Score for Fashion Brands (lowest scores)
Original Post
The Digital Footprint Score(tm) is a new multi-metric index that helps brand marketers assess their digital marketing activities and compare it in apples-to-apples fashion to other brands in similar categories.
It takes parameters from the following 4 key areas: 1) site, 2) search, 3) social, and 4) mobile. It can be used to inform digital strategy and digital marketing tactics — those tactics will impact these parameters and improve the brand’s digital footprint score.
It is deliberately focused on measurable actions created by users NOT the size of the audience to which the ad was delivered, as in the case of the following 2 old metrics.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_Rating_Point
Gross Rating Point (GRP) is a term used in advertising to measure the size of an audience reached by a specific media vehicle or schedule. It is the product of the percentage of the target audience reached by an advertisement, times the frequency they see it in a given campaign. For example, a TV advertisement that is aired 5 times reaching 50% of the target audience, it would have 250 (GRP = 5 x 50% –) i.e., GRPs = frequency x % reach. To arrive at your total Gross Rating Points, add the individual ratings for each media vehicle you are using. You can also calculate GRP by dividing your gross Impressions by the population base and multiplying the answer by 100. GRPs are also used by broadcasters to sell their advertising space to potential customers.
A related metric is TRP, or Target Rating Point, a measure of the purchased targeted rating points representing an estimate of the component of the targeted audience being reached by an advertisement.
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