Blog Blog
23rd May 2012

3 arguments AGAINST following the herd and including social media buttons and widgets on your site

Whenever a new social network starts gaining in popularity (recently it’s been Google+ and Pinterest), there always seems to be a mad rush to add the new network’s ‘share’ button to every web page on the planet in fear of missing out on a traffic deluge.
But are you really going to miss out on traffic if you don’t include these buttons or widgets on your site?

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Facebook , Google , and more...
Blog Blog
15th May 2012

Social Olympics: Are Non-Brand Sponsors Enjoying All the Glory?

Social Olympics: Are Non-Brand Sponsors Enjoying All the Glory?
We're using our own social media framework to study conversations about Olympic sponsorship, paying special attention to brands Adidas and Cadbury, to assess whether the Olympics are beneficial to the brands, and to what degree social media is driving those benefits. We're two weeks in. So who's ahead in the race for brand gold?

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brands , Retail , social media
Blog Blog
03rd May 2012

Product Listing Ads – Best practices and tips for new users

In Q4 2011, Google’s Product Listing Ads (PLAs) – a new type of search ad offering, which enjoyed great success in the US, became available in the UK amid huge excitement. PLAs are effective in delivering both a strong click through rate (CTR) and conversion rate (CR). Here are our best practice tips for new PLA users.

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Google , paid search , CTR
Blog Blog
01st May 2012

Social Olympics - A Greenlight Research Project

Social Olympics - A Greenlight Research Project
Leading up to the Olympics, Greenlight is undertaking research into how well the Olympics is working for the brands that sponsor it. We will use our own social media framework to assess whether the Olympics are beneficial to the brands, and to what degree social media is driving those benefits. We will look closely at Adidas and Cadbury as case studies, plus investigate the wider story of Olympic sponsorship on the whole.Today, the story begins.

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brands , and more...
Blog Blog
30th Apr 2012

Should we bother with Facebook Advertising if 44% of us would never click on a sponsored ad?

Following on from Andreas Pouros’ blog, I take one of his closing points: “The good news for Facebook is that it could capture around 22% of that search market by barely breaking a sweat”. Although tiny when compared to Google’s 87% share [Source: Greenlight - Search and Social Survey 2011/2012], the opportunity still presents a greater share when compared to the other big players in the market (Yahoo, Bing etc).

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Adwords , Bing , and more...
Blog Blog
27th Apr 2012

Google’s own social endeavours with Google+ might be more successful than most have initially speculated

Google and Facebook will both be front and centre in ‘social search’. So it won’t be enough for sites to simply be relevant. They will also need to demonstrate qualities that attract social validation and promotion.

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Adwords , Bing , Facebook , and more...
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11th Apr 2012

Amazon’s ‘Kindle’ and RIM’s ‘Blackberry’ attracting more searches than Apple’s ‘iPhone 4s’

Over 13 million UK searches were conducted online for consumer electronics in February with Amazon’s ‘Kindle’ and Research In Motion’s ‘Blackberry’ attracting more queries than those for Apple ‘iPhone 4s’, according to Greenlight's latest independent research. Although not on the market yet, there were 450,000 searches for the term ‘iPhone 5’ compared to 368,000 for ‘iPhone 4s’.

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Brown Goods , Google , and more...
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