Category: Australia
Local Newcastle Girl Visits Gold Coast Club, Risky Picture Goes Viral, Ends In Disaster
Warning: This story certainly shows the darker side of social media and the contents are of sensitive nature. So last night as I was relaxing at home, flicking through my Facebook newsfeed – I noticed one particular post getting a lot of attention and commentary. Looking a little closer I saw this was indeed a […]
Read More | ShareOverly Sexual Roxy Ad Causes Social Media Stir
Australian women’s surfwear brand Roxy has been slammed on social media for using an overly sexual advertising promotion for their latest pro surfing contest – the Pro Biarritz 2013 in Biarritz, France. The video shows an attractive female surfer (presumed to be five-time world champion - Stephanie Gilmore) waking up in the morning, putting on a white shirt, […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – June 2013
Today we post our montly report, showing the most popular social networks in Australia over the month of June 2013. You can see our report from May which has a number of interesting insights and commentary from last month. June 2013 stats: (Please note the numbers below are the number of Unique Australian Visitors to […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – May 2013
It is time to report our latest social media stats update for May 2013. Social Media growth in Australia has pretty much halted for the main social networks, but we are still interested in checking every month if there has been a gain or loss in user numbers. You can check out our report from […]
Read More | ShareHamilton 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 More | ShareSocial 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 More | ShareSocial 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 More | ShareWhat 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 More | ShareHamilton 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 More | SharePilgramers 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 […]
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