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Microsoft Snares new CMO to steel itself against heightened competition
Sarah Shearman
11 October 2011, 2:49PM

Today Marketing reported that Microsoft UK has appointed Philippa Snare, long-term employee at the company, as its chief marketing officer, which seems to be the final piece in a jigsaw puzzle of a restructure and follows months of turmoil.

Cost of advertising on Facebook shoots up 54% as ad spend rises 25%
Polly Becker
11 October 2011, 2:11PM

Facebook adspend has increased 25% during the third quarter of 2011, according to research by performance marketing firm Efficient Frontier.

Its quarterly report into digital marketing also highlights a sharp rise in that the cost of advertising on Facebook. It says that cost-per-clicks increased by 54% in Q3 over Q2.

Authenticity on Facebook
Tamara Littleton
11 October 2011, 10:38AM

Facebook has created and launched a best practice guide for public figures and celebrities, with step-by-step advice on how to create, build and maintain a public presence on Facebook.

It shows how important Facebook has become for celebrities and public figures in managing their reputation with fans. There's advice on how to develop a compelling identity online (unsurprisingly, Lady Gaga features heavily here), how to develop a posting plan, being authentic and building awareness. There's even advice on using developers to create apps. (There's a great summary of the guide on AllFacebook, here.)

How to grow your Twitter following [infographic]
Dan Leahul
11 October 2011, 9:02AM

Enough words have been written on how to effectively engage and increase your Twitter follower count that the tomes could fill the Royal Albert Hall. These days you could throw a stick across Beak Street and hit someone claiming to be a social media guru, as beggars hold signs exclaiming "will optimise SEO for food".

Telegraph story row explodes with expletives on Twitter
@gordonmacmillan
11 October 2011, 8:36AM

Telegraph website with Crilly tweetsYesterday everyone was very excited about the Guardian’s decision to put its news lists online and ‘open up its news coverage‘, which was a nice turn and gave a little look under the bonnet of the news process at the Guardian. It was another example of how news organisations are becoming more social, collaborative even, allowing their readers to get involved in the news process much earlier.

Video: Jeff Rossi, VP Digital at Mediavest on Marketing Emotion at #aw8
Mel Carson
10 October 2011, 8:53PM

More interviews from Advertising Week. Last week I chatted to Jonathan Mildenhall from Coca Cola, Randall Rothenberg from The IAB and MaryLee Sachs author of “The changing MO of the CMO.”

Reply-all fail: PR calls prominent mommy-blogger a "f***ing bitch" with predictable results
Dan Leahul
10 October 2011, 12:10PM

PR agency Brandlink Communications found itself in a PR disaster over the weekend when one of its vice presidents called influential blogger Jenny Lawson (aka The Bloggess), a "f***ing bitch" in a reply-all kerfuffle.

Gary Barlow joins Twitter live on X Factor and gains almost 300,000 followers
Polly Becker
10 October 2011, 11:39AM

‘The X Factor’ audience might have fallen slightly last night, after it peaked at 13.5 million, as we said goodbye to Jonjo Kerr, Amelia Lily, 2 Shoes and James Michael (goodbye!), but we also said hello to Gary Barlow on Twitter.

Social media ad revenues to reach $10 billion by 2013
@gordonmacmillan
10 October 2011, 10:28AM

Worldwide social network advertising revenues will reach $5.54bn this year, according to eMarketer with just under half of that amount or $2.74bn coming from the US.

Social networking ad revenues will hit more than $8bn next year and almost $10bn in 2013 with around 52% of that coming from outside the US.

Bmibaby and Instagram reward users with a free flight
Dan Leahul
10 October 2011, 9:51AM

Low-cost airline bmibaby is to reward users of the photo-sharing social network Instagram with a free flight to a European city.

Bmibaby teamed up with Instagram back in July to launch its own Instagram feed, and asked its customers to share photos of their trips.

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