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What Subjects engage on Facebook? Find out with Zuum’s new Subject Analysis reports

July 16, 2012 By Doug Schumacher

We just launched a couple of great new reports on Zuum. These should give unparalleled views on what subjects perform best on Facebook. Our Subject Explorer and Subject Analyzer are two reports that work together to give you the most accurate view ever of what content makes the biggest impact on Facebook.

Zuum users will find these reports on the left side navigation when they’re logged into the Zuum tool.

Subject Explorer or: What topics should I be posting about?

Subject Explorer goes well beyond just showing you which keywords drive the best engagement. It gives you multiple parameters for filtering those subjects, based on critical engagement criteria. So the subjects it presents are subjects that work the way you want them to work.

Zuum's new Facebook engagement tool subject explorer

Minimum Average Engagement Rate: Slider let’s you view only words  above a certain engagement level. For example, you may want to only view subjects generating 20% above the average engagement.

Minimum Number of Posts Containing the Term: A subject that works in one post is very different from one that works again and again. The more times a high engaging subject is used, the more consistently it’s performing, and the more likely it will be to drive engagement for future posts. You may want to view at least 2-3 months of data to ensure there’s a broad range of subjects to analyze.

Minimum Number of Pages the Term is Used On: Brand and product terms usually are among the most engaging terms. By selecting more than one page, you’ll quickly eliminate most terms specific to a certain page, and get a better sense of what subjects are working across the entire industry.
You can rollover any term to get a quick view of its engagement rate, posting volume, and pages used by.

Subject Analyzer or: How are the most engaging subjects being used by marketers?

A detailed breakout of how a given subject is being used across all the pages you’ve selected. When you click on any term in the Subject Explorer, you’ll go straight to this view.

Zuum's new facebook engagement analysis too subject analyzer

Across the top is data on the posting volume, average engagement rate for posts with that term, what types of engagements is pulled, and the media type that term was used with.

Top Related Terms: Shows the most common terms used in all posts on this subject.
Posting Calendar: Which brands posted about that subject on which days.
Top Brand Post: The most engaging page post on that subject.
Top Fan Post: The most engaging fan post on that subject.
More Brand Posts: Click to view a listing of all brand posts on that subject, ranked by engagement.
More Fan Posts: Click to view a listing of all fan posts on that subject, ranked by engagement.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: announcements, content, Facebook strategy, product, subject, tool

The Facebook Metrics You Need To Know

June 6, 2012 By Doug Schumacher

This posted on iMedia today. Facebook’s been on a tear rolling out new features and new metrics. This article tries to define a fast-evolving subject.

To the article >>

Zuum Facebook chart high engagement posts

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: content, content marketing, content strategy, facebook, facebook content, facebook marketing, facebook page, facebook page strategy, Facebook strategy

Creativing :: Free ebooks correlate to printed sales, Social media crisis lessons, and the first ChatRoulette campaign

March 5, 2010 By Doug Schumacher

What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com:

Tweet of the Week

There are pretty much just two writer moods: “I am a GOD!” and “I suck!” Today, Minions, I am a GOD!

Free ebooks correlated with increased print-book sales – Boing Boing

A similar correlation has been shown in the music industry between file-sharing and volume of music purchased. I’m sure there’s a similar correlation between YouTube and TV watching (a la “Lazy Sunday”). The takeaway? If you have something to say, lay it out there. If it’s valuable, people will want more.

3 Crisis Survival Lessons for the Social Media Age

Case Studies are often the best way to learn. While these aren’t full of deep stats, reading about these 3 situations will decrease your odds of repeating them.

We’re Not In Kansas Anymore. Well, We Are — Google, Kansas.

While their tactic may not be all that tight, I think strategically Topeka is dead on to be in hot pursuit of Google’s broadband ISP service. It will have a positive impact on education, attracting businesses, and overall economic efficiencies. But next time, hopefully they’ll call in a good creative shop to help with the execution.

Google Kansas II: Duluth Strikes Back [VIDEO]

A shot back across the bow of Topeka. It’s nice to see people across the US so excited about broadband. This also demonstrates how people everywhere are taking marketing into their own hands. Google-style, you could say.

Is Content King? Then Distribution Is Crown Prince – Advertising Age

A lot of good points about content and the distribution of that content. It seems to me that right now, there’s more emphasis on distribution. Everyone and their mother setting up social media distribution points and trying to game the search game. While not really offering distinct content of any sort that’s being pushed through those channels

Those Hooves? That’s the Sound of the Internet Search Apocalypse – Advertising Age

SEO is quickly becoming a system too easily gamed. I have to think this will end someday soon. The question is, will Google end it on their own, or will one of their competitors end it by offering a better product, or will government step in? Stay tuned.

How Lionsgate Plans to Take on ‘Twitter Effect’ for ‘Kick-Ass’ – Advertising Age

The technology behind this is about integrating the conversation streams across Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. This makes a lot of sense from a brand management and social conversation standpoint. In the comments, you’ll find some good counterpoints about loss of cohesion in the conversation, but I’m not sure it’s any worse than most YouTube threads for movie trailers. If anything, my issue is that the brand’s presence in these threads seems to heavy-handed.

Adverblog: French Connection brings Chatroulette into its Manifesto

If there’s any question about the need for speed in today’s marketing climate, consider this UGC campaign based around ChatRoulette for French Connection. A simple, quickly-deployed UGC campaign that leverages a rocketing trend.

Amazing iPhone » Time warp your iPhone 3GS video with Slowmo app

This actually looks pretty cool.

Filed Under: Fascinating Tagged With: apple, content, ebooks, google, iphone, mobile, search, social, socialmedia, tools, twitter, video, viral

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