This August, Facebook is projected to have 1 Billion users. But just how much is 1 Billion? Well, consider that 1 Billion seconds ago, Ronald Reagan was just beginning his presidency. Or 1 Billion hours ago, our ancestors were still fighting woolly mammoths with flint spears. At 1 Billion users, Facebook will have managed to … Continued
The prediction that mobile searches and sales would escalate during the 2011 holidays came true. According to IBM, in December 2011 these numbers were double what they were for the same period last year. 14.6 percent of all online sessions on a retailer’s site launched from a mobile device, compared to 5.6 percent during the … Continued
Google has revolutionized its search results, with the new “Search Plus Your World” format. Starting today a “Personal Results” view appears showing results based on the user’s behavior and social connections. Private, Public & Social After searching, a message may appear such as “50 personal results and 419,000 other results”. Some of those 50 results … Continued
Android beat out Apple’s iOS in market share last month, according to the number of ad impressions seen by ad network Chitika. In December, Android grabbed the lead with a 51.6 percent share, leaving iOS in second place with 46.5 percent. Google’s Android chief Andy Rubin recently touted that 3.7 million Android devices were activated … Continued
Borrell Associates has released a new report about small businesses (SMB) and their adoption of social media. According to the report, as many as 64% of small businesses have social media presences, and the majority of them use Facebook. These numbers vary slightly from other recent studies, but as a whole, popular studies have found … Continued
Although Facebook still has a dominant grasp on the social media market, Google+ has shown some impressive progress in its relatively brief existence. Experian Hitwise reported 49 million US visits to Google+ in December, which is a dramatic 55% increase over the previous month of November. Hitwise also reported that Google+ has experienced growth in … Continued
2011 was a defining year for Fahrenheit Marketing. We launched national marketing campaigns, web and mobile apps and even moved into a new office. We look forward to 2012 and we’ve already got some exciting projects that will launch in the first few months of the year. This year one of our goals was to … Continued
Experian Hitwise recently released the top search terms of 2011 across the major search engines. Facebook once again tops the list and holds a total of 4 of the top 10 spots, just as it did in 2010. Although Facebook also held 4 top spots in 2010, the total volume of these terms increased 33% … Continued
A recent YouTube/Ipsos Study divided 2400 participants into three groups, and compared interaction between television and YouTube advertisements that played before the selected video. One group was shown TV ads, one group was shown ads on YouTube and the third group was shown a combination of the two. The group viewing both types of advertisements … Continued
Over the past year, we’ve written more than 100 blog posts. It takes a lot of hard work to constantly create new content, and we want to thank everyone that read our posts over the last year. We compiled a list of our top 10 blog posts based on the number of views and they … Continued