Facebook is Top 5 Consumer Source

A recent post on the blog for Kinoshita Communications LLC shared the revealing results of a March 2011 study from CityGrid Media and Harris Interactive showing that, along with Google, Facebook is now a top five resource consumers go to for finding out more information on a local business.  And, findings show that 70% of people will visit an online source before visiting a local business.  To see the data and more:  click here.

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Kraft Sells Brains Online for Halloween

Spooky food is always around on Halloween, but these brains look real.  They’re from Kraft Foods’ Jell-O brain mold, one of several other molds available around the holidays.  So far, over 33,000 of them have sold through channels that include mommy bloggers, Facebook and Twitter.  Scary.  Read more:  click here.

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Study Says Facebook users are More Trusting, More Social

 

Social Media StudyA study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that social network users are not more isolated, but rather more social.  In addition, someone using Facebook multiple times per day is 43% more likely than other Internet users and more than three times as likely as non-Internet users to feel that most people can be trusted.  For more:  click here.

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Kia Hamsters Hit 4 Million YouTube Views

The popular Kia hamsters ad campaign is back, this time with the trio dancing-out to “Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO.  The ads deliver, with over 4 million views of the TV spot on one YouTube channel.  Watch it:  click hereTo read more in an article from MediaPost, click here.

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Three-Year-Olds Love Email

We’re shopping the other day and our three-year-old daughter, who already has her own deactivated Blackberry hand-me-down so she can be “just like mom and dad” she says, takes her Blackberry out in the shopping cart and tells us that she’s “checking her email.”

Really?  It’s for real and reminded me of a funny article from a few years back about how a child stumped a Blackberry executive during a shareholders’ meeting by asking:  “Are you going to make a phone more for kids so that my Mom will let me get one?”  Read it here.

When I was her age I was lucky to be watching UHF television.  She wants to check her email already, which means that she’ll want her own Facebook page, Twitter and Google Plus page by the time she’s five?

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