Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

I know I shouldn’t be, but I’m still a little amazed when I see the elderly chatting away on cell phones. It’s somewhat of a stark contrast for me because I remember seeing my grandmother’s rotary phone as a child and now I see her answering calls on her cell phone instead. And no, I’m [...]

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Yesterday I signed onto to my Facebook account to find that I had received a friend request from my best friend from high school’s mom. How did this happen? Since when did it become acceptable for our parents to join Facebook? Adults joining Facebook has become an increasingly popular and mildly disturbing trend. According to [...]

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Abrams Research released a Social Media Survey this month, where they surveyed over 200 social media leaders from the US/Canada during Social Media Week (during January 2009). Their key findings are not surprising to me as a Social Media marketer, but happily reinforce much of what we believe to be true: brands should be on [...]

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(note: This post isn’t meant to be a critique of the recent WOMMA Summit but rather my general observations about the evolution of the WOM industry as a whole.) I recently returned from WOMMA’s Word of Mouth Marketing Summit in Las Vegas. It was a fun (yet sleepless!) few days and it’s always great running [...]

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Here at Affinitive we strive to find and improve upon metrics for measuring offline conversations about our clients’ brands and products.  Online is easier to quantify with the tracking technologies available, but offline has always been a complex process and often difficult to measure accurately. One of our current methodologies involves a survey distributed to [...]

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Recently, video game publisher (and Affinitive client) NAMCO BANDAI Games sought help in choosing the official box art for the upcoming PlayStation 3 release of NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja Storm. Tapping into their 20,000+ member Hokage’s Room enthusiast community, members were invited to complete a survey and provide feedback on 6 designs as well as how [...]

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