Category «Facebook»

Analysing Diario Público’s winning strategies

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 …

Intelligence – Powerful historical data for you

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 …

How Trump is still winning on Facebook

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 …

Analysing Facebook Election Coverage 2017

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. …

French Presidential Election 2017 on Facebook – the Final Round

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/

Analysis: French Presidential Election 2017 on Facebook

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 …

Live Video Polls – Never Underestimate a Publisher’s Ingenuity

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 …

X Factor UK – Will Saara Win?

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 …

Hidden In Plain Sight

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 …