9 January 2012
Can The X Factor muster another number one?
By Tim Gibbon
UK X Factor 2011 winners Little Mix (who were the first group to ever win the X Factor) were beaten to the Christmas number one by the Military Wives Choir, but how did it play out?
4 January 2012
'The evolution of Facebook features' and hello Facebook Timeline
By Tim Gibbon
In case you hadn’t noticed, Facebook is undergoing some of its most significant changes, notably its Timeline functionality. Like it or not, its going to be implemented this Wednesday, 04 January 2012. Keeping this in mind, it’s worth revisiting GroSocial’s ‘The evolution of Facebook features’ infographic cataloguing some of the social networks most notable features.
20 December 2011
The X Factor: Social media and the live shows infographic – Week 10
By Rachel Hawkes
Social media and The X Factor: what we learnt [infographic] from series 8 including Social media predicted the winner;; There’s no ‘hindsight bias’ here and Tulisa gains most Twitter followers for the first time in the series
19 December 2011
The X Factor social media live show finale analysis
By Rachel Hawkes
The infographic demonstrates how social media predicted the winner, girl band Little Mix, making X Factor history becoming the first group to win. In a X Factor first, Wembley was the venue for the final three contestants Marcus Collins, Amelia Lily and Little Mix performing in front of 10,000 super fans for the all important record deal and shot at the Christmas number one.
9 December 2011
The X Factor: Social media and the live shows infographic – Week 9
By Rachel Hawkes
With The X Factor final just a stones throw away, and last weeks analysis and infographic pointing to a Little Mix win, have things changed and where does it leave the other contestants in the social media stakes?
9 December 2011
Visual.ly releases blog and calls out to social media managers
By Tim Gibbon
Infographic and data visualization directory Visual.ly has unveiled its new blog, aptly named the Data Design Blog with its first post, “A line walks into a bar.” The data visualization service also used Twitter to shout out to social media managers to help with feedback on its upcoming infographic and visualization tool.
8 December 2011
The X Factor hit by Bieber fever
By Rachel Hawkes
As we’re entering the final week, we are keeping an even keener eye on all things X Factor and social media.
The semi final results show was hit by Bieber fever yesterday as Canadian superstar performed. Whether he sang live or mimed is still the subject of tweetbate, but regardless of that he caused a bit of a social media stir. As was to be expected.
18 November 2011
The X Factor: Social media and the live shows infographic – Week 6
By Rachel Hawkes
Creating quite the media storm certainly helped The X Factor’s social profiles, with the programmes YouTube channel seeing an extra one million upload views and a 350 increase in subscribers this week compared to Week 5. The interesting figures for The X Factor come when you look at its Facebook engagement and Twitter followers.
12 November 2011
The X Factor: Social media and the live shows infographic – Week 5
By Rachel Hawkes
It was 'Dance Classics' week on The X Factor, and if you were lead to believe that is was going to be a two-step extravaganza as portrayed by The Xtra Factor, you were wrong. With even more twists and turns with series 8 of The X Factor that made Twitter weep, the social buzz has never been so entertaining.
29 October 2011
The X Factor: Social media and the live shows infographic – Week 3
By Rachel Hawkes
Just before the fourth live show, taking a look at how the social media stats measure up for last week’s live show, can we use that to predict who will be in the bottom two?
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