A recent post by the International Journalists’ Network highlighted Spanish publisher Diario Público and the success that their strategic changes have brought. “How Spain’s Público redefined its strategy and grew its audience by 40 percent” We are always excited to read about the success of our customers, and this article is littered with fantastic insights …
Welcome to the EzyInsights round up of the most viral posts by a selection of the world’s biggest news publishers. What wondrous insights will be gleaned from this examination of social engagement gluttony? Let’s find out! For BBC News, nothing beat Michelle Obama’s tearful farewell speech way back in January. 848,429 likes, 38,427 comments and …
EzyInsights is proud to announce the launch of Intelligence – putting powerful historical data at your fingertips. Over the last 3 years, we’ve worked with the top publishers around the world. We’ve tracked hundreds of millions of stories. We’ve seen newsrooms and editorial teams transformed by our real-time data. Now, the perfect complementary tool has …
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 …
What we already know: Donald Trump regularly criticises the mainstream news media in the USA, especially the New York Times, claiming it is unfair and one sided. He notably uses Twitter to directly address the public, but how influential is he on Facebook? We know that Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm is optimised for engagement, by design …
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 …
Was 2016 really that bad? Or have we misremembered it all? As is customary, it’s the time of year to take a look back at the events that flooded our Facebook feeds over the last twelve months. 2016 was notable perhaps for being the year when extremely popular content, widely shared and engaged with, was completely absent from …
Live video is Facebook’s current star feature. Ever since its launch this spring, Facebook has been heavily promoting it in the News Feed, giving live videos immense reach and therefore engagement. The idea is not new – Meerkat, Periscope, and other dedicated live-streaming apps have popularised live video over the last few years. Though the …
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 …
On Tuesday last week, we looked at the US presidential candidates’ presence on Facebook. In short, it was clear that Donald Trump’s ability to engage with his following on social media far outweighed that of his rival, Hillary Clinton. While the Clinton campaign opted for a rather conservative strategy of a steady, predictable stream of content …
We’ve been carefully studying the effect different post types have for publishers, and the following trend is clear: video wins. When Facebook launched native video, the top engaging Facebook posts in the world were all FB native video. When Live Video launched, we saw this format punching way above its weight in terms of engagement per …