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What’s New This Week?
MeetUp Launches Perks Feature for Small Businesses: MeetUp makes it easy for people to get together, and now with MeetUp Perks, businesses can “easily offer membership Perks to MeetUp groups in a simple, self-serve way” and become their sponsors. “MeetUp Perks is not a daily deal or a coupon service.” They hope to help businesses “find local community they can support for a long time.” Find out more here. This looks interesting. What do you think?
Twitter Announces Services in Korean: Twitter is now available in 7 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Korean) and continues to develop its services to its large international audience.
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Eyeka Launches in the U.S., so Big Brands Can Crowd-source Creative Feedback: Eyeka is a consumer engagement community for brands and agencies. What do you think about Eyeka?
Here are two recent studies to note:
eMarketer Predicts U.S. Marketers Will Spend $3.08 billion on Social Media Advertising This Year: This follows the trend as Facebook ad revenues more than doubled last year. This is something marketers should be aware of this year.
MarketsandMarkets Says World Mobile Applications Market Worth $25 Billion (U.S.) by 2015: The mobile app market continues to grow. Does your business have a mobile marketing plan?
Here’s one more new social media tool worth a look:
Urtak: This is a simple tool to ask your audience Yes/No questions. It’s easy to add to your website to learn more about your audience and you can also use it on Facebook. Try it out here: Social Media News
What social media news caught your interest? What do you think of the other news items this week? Please share your comments below.
