Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

Welcome to Social Media Playground, a place to discuss all things related to word of mouth (WOM) and social media marketing. Brought to you by Affinitive, a word of mouth and social media marketing, technology and strategic solutions firm located in New York City and San Francisco.

Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

Hey! Hey what? Hey! Nielsen - Making Opinions Count

September 24th, 2007 ·

For the past 9 months we have been working with The Nielsen Company to develop an innovative social media platform that allows consumers to become a collective voice of change and, in turn, influence the decision makers in the entertainment industry, while also helping Nielsen reinvent the ways it conducts audience measurement in our DVR […]

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Tags: Research · Social Media · Technology

We’ve Reached 100!

August 22nd, 2007 ·

It’s been a busy summer here in Affinitive-land (seriously, where did the summer go?), but I wanted to take a moment to proudly announce that we have just been engaged to develop our 100th consumer-centric marketing program! It’s a huge milestone and truly validates that word of mouth and social media marketing should be an […]

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Tags: Marketing · Self-Promotion

Online WOM + Offline WOM = Most Effective Tactic for Marketers

July 11th, 2007 ·

The online social media explosion continues with daily news coverage highlighting companies and advertisers wishing to harness the power of WOM by tapping into online communities. Solely engaging and activating the invaluable and trusted “influencers” at their online spaces, however, has left one critical WOM strategy neglected and underutilized… OFFLINE Word of Mouth Marketing tactics.
Marketers […]

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Tags: Industry News · Research

Brand Buzz Leaders

February 8th, 2007 ·

“Great word-of-mouth marketing campaigns are elegant. They are fun.”
So says Andy Sernovitz (the founding CEO of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association) in this iMediaConnection article, where he gives some nice props to our work for Square Enix. Andy also talks about the The Five Ts of Word-of-Mouth Marketing - components that any successful word […]

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Tags: Case Studies · Industry News · Marketing