by NewsWhip | Mar 13, 2014 | Other
It’s time for our monthly social rankings – who’s ahead, who’s dropped off, and who’s new? Here are the top 10 Facebook publishers of last month, ranked by total shares of articles published during February: As you can see, BuzzFeed...
by NewsWhip | Feb 28, 2014 | Other
Judd Legum is the Editor-in-Chief of Think Progress, a popular American liberal news site. He and his his team have been using Spike for the past year. Here, he tells us about how it helps with his site’s journalism. Finding interesting stories to write about...
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 12, 2013 | Other
We investigated the length of articles that get the most shares for major publishers – and it seems long form content has a long tail. UPDATE: This post was originally posted in 2013. In January 2017, we conducted new analysis on average word count of viral...
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....
by NewsWhip | Aug 29, 2013 | Other
Riding on the coattails of a big news story isn’t a new tactic, but in an increasingly measurable media world, spotting an opportunity is becoming more science than art. ‘Newsjacking’ is a creative marketing approach which has attracted a surge in interest in recent...
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