by NewsWhip | Sep 15, 2015 | Digital Journalism
We look at three vital ways of increasing reach on Facebook – without spending a cent on promotion. Here’s a question that doesn’t stray far from the lips of all audience development professionals and social media editors; how do we increase our...
by NewsWhip | Sep 9, 2015 | Digital Journalism
Publishers are seeing more competition in timelines from ads and other promoted tweets – but are managing to hold their own in our latest Twitter rankings. In July, we saw some renewal in engagement with content on Twitter, and a wide variety in the most...
by NewsWhip | Jul 28, 2015 | Interviews
NewsWhip’s CEO talks to Chief Content Strategist at Edelman about how people are accessing content through social media, and how NewsWhip are helping publishers and brands to harness social signals. Last week, NewsWhip CEO and co-founder Paul Quigley was a...
by NewsWhip | Jul 8, 2015 | Other
For the first time, we look at engagement rates with images and videos on Instagram, and find out that it frequently is far higher than on Facebook. The Instagram heart is one of the most used buttons on the social web. How do we know? After having recently added...
by NewsWhip | Jun 25, 2015 | Other
We take a look at the difference between the most searched news stories in Google, and the most shared stories in Spike, over 24 hours. Last week, Google launched a revamped version of Google Trends, which features a more ‘story-centric’ homepage. The new...
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 | 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...
by NewsWhip | Oct 15, 2013 | Other
Another month, another list of the most popular stories on the social web. We’ve ransacked our logs for the sharing data of countless stories published around the world during September, and our analysis show the real winners in the battle for share-grabbing content....
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