by NewsWhip | Oct 7, 2014 | Other
In our latest Facebook rankings, we look at the performance of the biggest sites and stories on Facebook for September 2014, and analyse the most impressive new performers. We’ve consulted Spike’s extensive social database, and have come up with new...
by NewsWhip | Sep 17, 2014 | Other
We look at social engagement growth patterns from sites outside the top 25 publishers. Every month, we see some new names on our Facebook publishers charts. August saw the arrival of IFLScience, amongst a number of political sites. However, just becase we only...
by NewsWhip | Sep 11, 2014 | Other
A big month on Facebook doesn’t always translate to more sharing activity on Twitter, as our latest Twitter rankings show. In July, we saw huge excitement on Twitter over the World Cup, and a new record for most tweets of an individual story, on a piece about a...
by NewsWhip | Jul 28, 2014 | Digital Journalism
What do you do with the new subscribers you earn from getting your stories shared, and how to get them to become broadcasters for your content? In Part One of this guide last week, we looked at getting people to click your links in Facebook and Twitter, and...
by NewsWhip | Jul 24, 2014 | Digital Journalism
Sharing of published content is exploding. How do you turn all those bursts of social traffic into readers and subscribers? First – how to look good on Facebook and Twitter, and encouraging shares from your site. Publishers everywhere are experiencing growth in...
by NewsWhip | Feb 10, 2014 | Other
Following on from our January Facebook publishers rankings, here are the biggest Twitter publishers of last month, according to our Spike database. Since we started compiling these charts back in September, the BBC has consistently topped the charts. There was no...
by Glossary Author | Jan 21, 2014 | Other
All the stories on NewsWhip and Spike are ranked using their current ‘social velocity’ – how many new shares they’re getting every minute. Here’s an explanation of what exactly this metric is, and why it’s important. Simply put, social velocity is...
by NewsWhip | Dec 4, 2013 | Other
Changes in media consumption and distribution have big consequences for those who tell stories – whether it’s news reporting or brand promoting. The relevant professions should learn from each other’s activities. Journalists learning from marketers:...
by NewsWhip | Oct 31, 2013 | Other
What’s the secret to writing stories people will share and talk about? To help you improve your social writing, we’ve made an analysis of the categories of content that go viral each day on social networks. We see 7 major divisions, based on data we...
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