Welcome back to work. Perhaps one of your 2012 resolutions is to keep up with social media marketing as an industry and a discipline more than you did in 2011. Or perhaps you just like free stuff. Either way, we've got you covered. UPDATE: We have...

02 January, 2012

At Internet Summit 2011, I presented Secrets of the Top 50 Facebook Fan Pages, which provided a data driven analysis of the 50 largest Facebook fan pages, which I've been tracking now for more than 20 months. I was able to do this analysis using social...

13 December, 2011

A new brand broke into the top 20 largest Branded Facebook Fan Pages in our November ranking of the Top 50 pages, displacing a brand that hasn't worked hard enough to keep their page active in recent months. And a couple of pages had huge...

01 December, 2011

It's getting harder and harder to displace the largest brands on Facebook in terms of number of fans, as the rich (in fans) got richer (in fans) and the top 20 separated themselves from the rest of the world. Together, these top 20 pages now...

01 November, 2011

Recently released research in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society found that people with more Facebook friends have different brain structure than those with fewer friends. Specifically, researchers found differences in the superior temporal sulcus, left middle temporal gyrus and entorhinal cortex. I personally have...

24 October, 2011

The rate of fan page growth has clearly slowed over the last several months. While two of the past 12 months have seen average growth over 30%, this month sees average growth of only 2%, and only three pages in the Top 50 were able...

03 October, 2011

It's getting harder and harder to break into the Top 10 among all the branded Facebook fan pages. As you'll see when you compare August data to last month's chart of the Top 50 Branded Facebook Fan Pages, none of the Top 16 pages changed...

01 September, 2011

As we proudly add Chrysler Group LLC to our roster of accounts, we’re rapidly filling some 40+ positions across account service, metrics/monitoring, community management/engagement, art direction, copywriting, web development/programming and more. Experience with automotive marketing is a plus. While most of these new positions will be...

16 August, 2011

Chrysler Group issued the following press release today, which we've reposted here: Chrysler Group Announces Ignite as its Lead Social Media Agency Chrysler Group LLC announced today that it has named Ignite Social Media as its lead social media agency. Ignite Social Media will work extensively with...

16 August, 2011

Just shy of hitting the 50 million fans mark, Facebook’s own fan page still dominates the top 50 branded Facebook fan pages. While the top 20 is nearly identical to May (the exception being Xbox taking over the #20 spot from adidas Originals), there has...

29 July, 2011