A few weeks ago, I wrote about YouTube’s terrific mobile promotion of their new html5 experience.
Here is an even better, more eye-catching promotion by Facebook for the new Facebook Places product. As background, to …

Last year I covered the Madden 10 advertising blitz that took over ESPN and YouTube’s homepage with slick, expanding units that interacted with the pages’ content. I have always been impressed by ad units that …

Last week YouTube Mobile adopted HTML5… it wasn’t long ago that Apple touted YouTube as the iPhone’s original launch partner (via a native application). Their adoption of HTML5 is yet another indication that it is …

January marked the month where Facebook passed Google in visits and Yahoo in Uniques. Today, Compete released their February 2010 numbers and the trends continued:
1. Google remains the largest by reach (with 141m uniques) and …

As seen in the below screenshots, Facebook Widgets now feature and play video in-line (although I am not entirely sure that this is a new release – it is my first exposure to it). These …

I cannot tell if these are:
- new YouTube ad-units, or
- bizarre / sneaky advertiser units
… but they are appearing more and more across the Google AdSense network. The below screenshots are taken directly from advertisements …

Royal Pingdom has a recap of 2009 web usage by the numbers. There are several nuggets – but here are a few that really stand out:
350 million – People on Facebook.
50% – Percentage of Facebook …

Erik Qualman of Socialnomics has put together a great video called “Social Media Revolution”. Worth watching and then checking his datapoints and footnotes (a couple of which I included below):

For video game and sports enthuiasts, Madden Football’s release day is the equivalent of a major Hollywood blockbuster. In Madden 2009’s first month, it did $133.5 million in retail sales. Today, Madden 10 arrives and …

InsideFacebook’s PageData tool is useful in understanding trends in Facebook usage, marketing and pop-culture. It is also a powerful way to track a brand’s success on Facebook – and if they are engaging in marketing …

In less than a week, Youtube’s hit video “JK Wedding Entrance Dance” has been viewed over seven million times (and nearly 1.5m times in the last 24 hours).
So what does that look like on …

Much has been made of YouTube’s ability to monetize… but the most viewed video of the week (the JK Wedding Entrance Dance) clearly drove sales – boosting Chris Brown’s ‘Forever’ into the seventh most purchased …