Category: Australia
Looking 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 More | ShareSocial 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 More | ShareSocial 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 More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – December 2012
January 1, 2013 – a new year, a fresh start. Happy New Year to all. To keep our stats moving along we will briefly report our latest social media statistics for Australia showing the most popular social networks over December 2012. As the December/ January period in Australia is summer holidays we are seeing a […]
Read More | ShareSocial 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 More | ShareFacebook 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 […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Expected to Open Office in Australia as Executives Fly Out
Twitter Executives are flying out to Australia this week in an attempt to promote the social network down under and gain further support from leading media organisations, sporting bodies, high profile users and technology/ marketing enthusiasts. Mike Brown is the head of international development at Twitter and will be holding a ‘secret Twitter event’ to high light […]
Read More | ShareMeet the Pilgramers – Sydney City – November 26
The Pilgramers will be in Sydney tomorrow, November 26 and are inviting everyone to meet them at the Opera House at 6pm. Here is the photo on Instagram organising the event: http://instagram.com/p/ScclhckISM/ Quote: “The @pilgramers are coming to Sydney and we want to meet you! Come and meet fellow Sydney Inatagrammers for an afternoon of […]
Read More | ShareWatch the #Schoolies Fun Unfold on Instagram & Twitter
It’s that time when year 12 students all around Australia celebrate the end of school by having a ‘schoolies’ holiday trip with friends – generally at some tropical Australian location. Usually this means a trip up to the Gold Coast or Byron Bay. Thanks to social media, and particularly Instagram and Twitter – many of […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – October 2012
Happy Halloween. Now we have that out the way let’s look at the most popular social networking websites in Australia over October 2012. For the past couple of month’s figures have been fairly static across the board, but we are still seeing some networks experiencing strong growth – mainly Instagram and to some degree Pinterest. […]
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