Tag: "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 MoreLinkedIn Reaches 4 Million Australian Members – But How Many Are Active?
LinkedIn has now reached the milestone of 4 million Australian members. It was only in March 2012 that we reported LinkedIn reached 3 million members - so over the last 12 months LinkedIn has added 1 million Australian’s, or about 83,000 news sign-ups per month – about 2700 a day. This is a rather impressive milestone [...]
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 [...]
Read MoreFoursquare Shows Us What 500 Million Check-ins Look Like, Australian Usage Still Significant
Over the last 3 months, Foursquare users have checked in 500 million times all around the world. The team at Foursquare have put together this neat infographic showing a world map with the check-ins, giving us an interesting visual on where the service is most used. Lets look at Australia: We can see users are [...]
Read MoreSocial Media in Australia – 2012 Year in Review
Over 2012 we have seen Australians further embrace Social Media across all spectrums of society. Not just individual users, but companies, government departments, organisations, not for profits, industry associations, politicians, celebrities – all sorts of people and entities are now using social media. In fact over half of the total Australian population is now signed [...]
Read MoreSocial Media Statistics Australia – November 2012
Below is our report looking at the most popular social networks in Australia over November 2012. We are starting to reach saturation point in Australia – where most social networks are no longer in hypergrowth stage and user growth is either slow, static or declining. Google has retired the Google Adplanner tool for most sites [...]
Read MoreFacebook poaches William Easton from Google to lead Australia – New Zealand Operation
According to NBR, Facebook has poached Google’s William Easton who headed up Mobile and Social at Google Asia Pacific. Mr William will now lead the Australian and New Zealand Facebook operation, based out of the Sydney Facebook office. We reported earlier in the year when the then Facebook Australia MD, Paul Burrud resigned and in the [...]
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