Here is our monthly report showing the latest users numbers and statistics for the most popular social media sites in Australia. As per previous reports, all the figures below are Unique Australian Visitors to the site (UAV’s), or an average between the UAV’s and user numbers reported by reputable sources. Social Media Statistics Australia – [...]

Hello Sydneysiders, We are holding a Surry Hills Social Media Club meetup on Thursday 9th of February. Details are – Date: Thursday 9 February Time: Start- 6:15pm Location: Clock Hotel Address: 470 Crown Street Surry Hills NSW 2010 Here is the location on Google Maps: View Larger Map Please RSVP if you would like to [...]

We had a busy 2011, reporting the news and compiling our social media statistics. As a result we have compiled an infograph showing the growth of each major social network over 2011. Table below shows Unique Australian Visitors to the site per month, users numbers reported by a reputable source, or an average of the [...]

At the end of 2011, only 4000 homes had been connected to National Broadband Network, which was well below the NBN Co goal of 35,000 homes by June last year. What seems to be stalling the process is the deal with Telstra, who are looking to let NBN Co use all their underground infrastructure which [...]

Here is our monthly report showing the most popular social media and networking websites in Australia. All the figures below are Unique Australian Visitors to the site (UAV’s), or an average between the UAV’s and user numbers reported by reputable sources. Social Media Statistics Australia – December 2011 1. Facebook – 10,721,020 users – 13 [...]

NBN Co have put together a nice video explaining exactly what is the National Broadband Network, and also some key statistics about Australian internet usage.

Facebook just released the 10 most popular topics discussed globally in 2011 on their site. They have also released the top 10 for Australia – the 10 most discussed topics Australian’s spoke about on Facebook in 2011. Here is the list: 1. Planking 2. Cyclone Yasi 3. Census 4. Death of Osama bin Laden 5. [...]

It’s the last day of the month and time for us to report our monthly social media statistics for Australia. As per previous stats, when compiling these figures we look at actual user numbers if officially reported (or by a reputable source ) – otherwise we look at the number of Unique Australian Visitors Per [...]

After Kyle Sandilands publicly and personally attacked a female journalist, it seems sponsors of the 2day FM Kyle and Jackie O are leaving. So far it seems to be: Holden – http://twitter.com/#!/holdennews/status/139216064453165056 The Good Guys – http://twitter.com/#!/TheGoodGuysAU/status/139234472431333376 Vodafone – https://twitter.com/#!/Vodafone_AU/status/139278137048571904 This morning Kyle Sandilands is trending on Twitter as public outcry is disappointed in his [...]

You often hear the term: Social Media Backlash Yesterday we reported on the bigtime #QantasLuxury fail. It seems Qantas is still trending on social media (particularly Twitter) with plenty of innovative and smart alec mocking from users, further rubbing salt into the wounds on how bad this social media disaster has become for Qantas. Have [...]

After the recent social media PR failures of the union pay discussions and resulting grounding of their fleet, Qantas today tried to recover some online brand reputation. And crashed and burned. Qantas launched the #QantasLuxury campaign, encouraging twitter users to tweet their luxury inflight ideas on the hashtag to win one of 50 $30 prize [...]

Want to Watch the 2011 Melbourne Cup Horse Race Online today? Goto the following link – http://www.racingnetwork.com.au/ Want follow the Melbourne Cup on Twitter? Check out the Twitter search for #MelbourneCup getting very active right now – http://twitter.com/#!/search/MelbourneCup Best of luck to all you punters.

Today is Halloween, October 31st! but its still that time of the month where we collate our monthly Social Media statistics for the most popular social media and networking sites in Australia. As per previous months, when compiling this report we look at actual users numbers if officially reported (Google released official stats on Google [...]

According to research by Deloitte Access Economics, the Internet industry in Australia makes up $50 billion of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is the same size as the Australian Retail sector. Many physical retailers are forced to come online now to protect their existing market share, creating E-commerce websites and advertising their products through [...]

Google has now activated Rel = Author for Australian website, ie .com.au websites. This means if you implement Rel = Author and point this to your Google Plus profile you may have your Google Plus profile picture showing in Google Search Results. I believe this is great for attracting users and showing your website as [...]

Yesterday we reported a story about Kyle Sandilands Love Child. This morning on-air Kyle and Jackio-O revealed what actually happened. Kyle admitted that this was a prank, totally seup – aimed to distracted the Australian media companies, get newspaper space and just generally prank/fake the media community. This kind of worked as A Current Affair, [...]