Category: Australia
Hamilton Island Reveals New Celebrity Ambassadors For Their 2nd Instameet: Return2Paradise
Hamilton Island enjoyed a great first ‘Instameet’ campaign with the popular Instagram users – the Pilgramers, coming out from the USA to enjoy our tropical paradise. Now Hamilton Island has secured a new lineup of talent to be ambassadors for its second Ultimate Instameet: Return2Paradise from 17-19 May. The who’s who list of Australian fashion, business, [...]
Read MoreSocial Media Statistics Australia – April 2013
Another month has flown by and it is now time to report our Australian Social Media statistics for April 2013. As I have mentioned in the past, social media growth in Australia has slowed right up. The larger networks are now reaching saturation point and not growing like we saw in 2010 and 2011. In [...]
Read MoreSocial Media Statistics Australia – March 2013
Today is Easter Monday and whilst a public holiday time to post our monthly stats for March. We are starting to get to a point in Australia where social media growth is slowing and for some sites, static. We see larger sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and blogging platforms driving much of the engagement. [...]
Read MoreWhat Is Wrong With The Official @TwitterAU Account?
Every month I report the latest Australian Social Media Statistics based on figures freely available and estimations I use on global data. When Twitter created an official Australian Twitter account – @TwitterAU – this was good news for many of us in the industry looking to find out more about how Twitter is actually going [...]
Read MoreHamilton Island To Launch Second Instameet Campaign
After the success of their first campaign, Hamilton Island has announced their plans for a second Instameet to be held from 17-19 May 2013. Earlier in the week, we saw Hamilton Island ambassadors – The Pilgramers release a new video with some behind the scenes footage from their first adventure. The May Instameet will see Instagrammers from the [...]
Read MorePilgramers Release Another Video About Their Hamilton Island Instagram Adventures
The Pilgramers have released another video showing off their Hamilton Island adventures and also some words from the Hamilton Island marketing team themselves. The ever funny, Jody Johnston shows off our tropical paradise to his friends, fans and followers with his usual humourous and entertaining style. This whole campaign has been rather unique – focusing on visual imagery and [...]
Read MoreSocial Media Statistics Australia – February 2013
Today we report our Social Media Stats for February and as most of us are back at work, we see a couple noticeable increases across the board. As always - The stats below represent the number of Australian users or unique Australian visitors to the site over February. Feb 2013 Stats: 1. Facebook – 11,677,680 Australian users/accounts (down approx 106,780). [...]
Read MoreIpswich Doctor Spurs Facebook Action Against Woolworth’s “Fresh Food People” Donut Billboard
The advert, pitched along the Warrego Highway, displays a large image of a donut next to the words “Proudly supplying Ipswich with fresh food for over 43 years”. “Appalled” with billboard choice, Ipswich Doctor, Jason Maloo snapped a pic and publically shared his disapproval on the Facebook page of UK celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver. “Obesity [...]
Read MoreLooking Back: Hamilton Island Enjoy Social Media Success With InstaMeet Campaign
In late November last year, Hamilton Island created an interesting social media campaign by launching a photo competition - with the help from a number of celebrity users, ambassadors and competition winners who all focused around the Instagram app, accompanied by postings across Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Tumblr and Pinterest. Also the ever entertaining, Pilgramers were along for [...]
Read MoreSocial Media Statistics Australia – January 2013
It is now time to report our Australian social media statistics for January 2013. Summer holidays in Australia has a significant impact on the social networking sites we use. Generally over the December holiday period we see some business networks drop in user numbers, then regain as everyone comes back to work in January. The [...]
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