What’s happened this week:
- Google+ results will no longer be prioritised over other social networks in search results
- Google have also extended their new expandable Knowledge Graph on search results to all English speaking countries
- Facebook’s Instagram purchase may be sent through to the Office of Fair Trading
What we have learned:
- We are a nation of gossips who would rather sit in a 4 hour traffic jam listening to Polka music than give up social networking
- Big Data is becoming the marketing term of the decade
- In June we reached 5.3millions scans per month of QR codes
- Usain Bolt’s 200 metres was the big draw on Twitter as they collate all Olympic tweets
Cool stuff:
- Volvo launch a augmented reality X-ray iPad app
- Facebook have moved into legal gambling with a bingo app
- Who knew that the London 2012 Olympic swimming pool is 357 Cadbury Crunchie bars long? Try the Cadbury Choculator
Where to find more:
- A collection of infographics for your viewing pleasure including:
- 50% of young people shop online every week
- 52% of young people use social media to plan their summer holidays and 76% of people post photos while on holiday
- Tablets in the US are used equally by men and women
- Angry Birds exceeds 1 billion downloads globally
