¿Qué causó el mayor revuelo en las redes sociales este año? Huracanes, ataques terroristas, noticias falsas, bots rusos? No. Fue #MeToo. Las redes sociales han jugado un papel importante en la transmisión de información. El poder de las redes sociales radica en su capacidad de compartir información. Los refugiados pueden mantenerse en contacto con sus …
What made the biggest splash on social media this year? Hurricanes, terrorist attacks, fake news, Russian bots? Nope – #MeToo. Social media has played important role in conveying information. The power of social media is in its capability of sharing information. Refugees are able to stay in touch with their loved ones, social media was …
What started on Tuesday as a social media campaign to raise awareness about sexual violence against women, turned into news headlines across the world. We took a closer look at what stories resonated the most with readers online. As of today, these are the most popular articles about #MeToo. Lindy West’s powerful column in The New …
Originally posted at the SoMe Index Blog LinkedIn engagement is growing Have you noticed that your LinkedIn traffic has increased? After LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft in June 2016 we have watched the platform evolve and gain importance in the publishing world. Here are the results from Q2 in 2017. Top 20 Publishers by LinkedIn …
British Publishers’ Facebook Coverage of UK Party Leaders This blog post is based on a large dataset of British news publishers’ (such as BBC News, Daily Mail and The Independent) mentions of UK party leaders in Facebook posts. We look at how much engagement (reactions, shares, and comments) the posts that mentioned the party leaders got. …
In February 2017, USA Today overtook Fox News to become the biggest US news publisher on Facebook. By May 5th, USA Today announced that they had asked the FBI to look into an enormous rise in fake followers. Facebook had deleted 6 million page likes from USA Today’s page, and claimed as many as 200m across the platform had been identified …
Updated Daily: French Presidential Election 2017 on Facebook – the Final Round The result after the Election on Sunday 7.5.2017 A longer post with more data on the first election round with all 11 presidential candidates is available here, beware the long loading time as there are a lot of graphs! https://ezyinsights.com/blog/2017/04/02/election-presidentielle-francaise-de-2017/
French Presidential Election 2017 on Facebook – the First Round This page archives our realtime analysis of Facebook engagement for the candidates of French Presidential Election first election round. The first election round took place on 23 April 2017. There were 11 candidates altogether. Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, François Fillon and Benôit …
vs. Before Crowdtangle was acquired by Facebook in 2016, its presence was largely focused on the US market. Since then, having made the tool available to all media publishers, more European media houses have begun to investigate and use the tool. EzyInsights appears on paper quite similar to Crowdtangle, both monitor Facebook engagement on media content. It …
Similar patterns Snowflakes are a classic example of symmetry. Correlation a fascinating pattern of similarity, and this post will show you some most important and intriguing correlations in social media publishing: how social media engagement reflects on media publishers’ traffic that eventually turns into revenue? Everybody knows correlation does not imply causation, and many of …
Will Saara Aalto win the UK’s X Factor? Or will it be Matt Terry? Or maybe 5 After Midnight will take the trophy home? Follow the finalists’ results from the EzyInsights’ data, updated regularly. We measure each finalists’ Facebook pages’s engagment twice a day. We started on Monday, 5th December, after the X-Factor semifinal, where the three finalists …
The U-Shaped Curve In Mark Zuckerberg’s famous words, Facebook is a tech company, not a media company. Yet we know that the reality is more complicated than that. Regular users, politicians, and publishers are all affected by changes in the Facebook algorithm. The U-Shaped curve is a good example. In 2016 we saw a global …
In an earlier post made pre-election, we looked at how successful Donald Trump had been at using Facebook compared to Hillary Clinton. While the outcome of the election was and remains a shock to many, those looking at the clear signals from social media engagement were perhaps less surprised. With the help of EzyInsights Data Analyst …
In July we reported on how Facebook algorithm changes affected Nordic media publishers. SocialFlow had previously analysed the impact of the changes in the USA. They reported a worrisome 42% drop off in news publishers’ Facebook reach in the US. Our main takeaway was that Nordic news publishers got off quite lightly – except Norway who was affected to the same degree …
Yesterday Facebook announced an upcoming change to News Feed ranking that essentially further prioritises stories posted by friends over ones posted by anyone else – including publishers and brands. Engineering Director Lars Backstrom reiterates Facebook’s priority of keeping users connected to the people, places and things they care about, people on their friends list being the most important. …
Recently, Facebook expressed worries about becoming a link-sharing platform instead of a place to share our personal lives. Soon after, the US publishing platform SocialFlow reported a 42 % drop in Facebook reach per post for US media companies’ Facebook pages. In the first post from EzyInsights’ data analyst Varpu Rantala, we take a dive …