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

Is Diversity The Key To Influence On Twitter?

April 16th, 2010 · View Comments

The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn’t Prove Influence on Twitter by Sarah Perez reviews a study by Meeyoung Cha, Hamed Haddadi, Fabricio Benevenuto, and Krishna P. Gummadi* that gives the research data to back up what most social media pros already know – follower counts on Twitter are  “somewhat of a meaningless metric when [...]

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Tags: Research · Social Media · Strategy

Online Video – A Growing Opportunity for Video Game Purchase Influence

February 12th, 2009 · View Comments

A couple of notable online marketing studies found their way to my inbox recently and I thought I’d point out a conspicuous congruency supporting the use of online video as a key component of an overall marketing plan, especially for video game publishers.  Considering video game publishers make up a significant share of our client [...]

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Tags: Marketing · Research · Social Media

3 Steps to Influence Purchase Decisions Online

September 29th, 2008 · View Comments

A new report from MarketTools reveals that nearly 70% of Americans visit blogs, communities or social networks.  Of all respondents in the study, nearly half have been influenced in their purchase decisions by social media. Your product is being talked about everywhere by everyone.  A single product review can be seen by millions.  This realization [...]

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Tags: Marketing · Research · Social Media