Even in 2013 you find sceptics who don’t appreciate how the internet and the social web is disrupting traditional media consumption. Experian Hitwise has just published research that shows in 2012 the UK spent 37 billion hours online, but as that is far too big a number to comprehend it has helpfully distilled it into [...]
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Philips infographic for first quarter financial results
Infographics can be fantastic, awful or simply work. This example from Philips is the latter. It simply presents the quarter one earnings for Philips in an alternative format. It’s good to see a genuine corporate communications, rather than marketing communications example. At a time when infographics are being exploited by PR, marketing and digital people [...]

Map of social network use around the world
The world map of social networks is updated every six months by Vincenzo Cosenza. The latest shows that Facebook is continuing its relentless growth and dominates much of the globe. The most obvious exceptions are Russia, China and Iran. The other big two remain Twitter and LinkedIn. In Russia the top networks are Odnoklassniki and [...]

Twitter active users in Arab countries
Interesting new infographic showing the number of active Twitter users in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The most useful stats are the ones that show the percentage of population penetration as the 215,000 figure for Egypt reflects its larger population as despite the hype since the Arab Spring penetration is only 0.26%. The [...]

Middle East expansion for Facebook
A new infographic illustrates how Facebook is being used in the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf. To take advantage of rapid growth of Facebook in the Middle East Facebook is opening a new office in Dubai to focus on dealing with advertisers from the Gulf. The new Facebook office will initially just have [...]

UK coalition government mind map infographic
To mark the first two years of the UK’s Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government the bright folks at Insight Public Affairs have put together a great mind map infographic of the policy issues. Insight has mapped out the: ‘headline policy drivers spanning: the economy; public service reform; localism; welfare reform; and, the international agenda.’ The mind [...]

Queen’s Speech as seen by MPs infographic
Online political monitoring company Yatterbox has created an infographic of reaction by MPs to the Queen’s Speech on Wednesday. Browse more data visualizations. Related articles Edelman Capital Staffers Index 2011 (stuartbruce.biz)

Usage of Social Apps – iPhone vs. Android infographic
Onavo is a great app that I’ve been using on my phone (HTC Desire HD) for a while now. It monitors the data usage of different apps and warns you of ‘rogue’ apps. It has used the data it has collected (anonymously) to create an infographic to show how iPhone and Android users differ in [...]

Social media world in statistics
Another day, another social media infographic. Not convinced that there is anything useful to learn from this one from Social Bakers, apart from the fact that some people still need ‘big numbers’ to help convince sceptical CEOs, c-suite and board directors that they need to do something about this ‘social media’ thing.

Who is winning the UK political social media battle?
Meltwater and The Holmes Report have created an infographic of the UK’s political social media scene. The report focuses on the volume and sentiment of online buzz for David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband, from May to September of this year, searching through more than 200 million sources to provide insight into the popularity [...]
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Stuart Bruce
Award-winning international communications trainer and consultant specialising in online PR, digital corporate communications,digital public affairs and social media. Frequent international media commentator and conference speaker.
