Argentina Internet Use By Location [CHART]

via emarketer.com eMarketer expects internet user penetration in Argentina to pass the 50% mark during 2012, for a total of 22.9 million users. Broadband household penetration is close behind, forecast to reach 49.6%, or 5.7 million homes, in 2013. This translates to more users in Argentina accessing the internet at home than ever before. As…

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Global Marketing Budgets, October 2011-June 2012 [CHART]

via marketingcharts.com warc-global-mktg-budgets-june-2012.pngSentiment regarding budgets took a steep fall among global marketers, finds Warc [pdf] in its June 2012 Global Marketing Index (GMI). The budget component score of the index fell to 47.3 in June, down from 50.3 in May and 53.7 in April, as marketers’ confidence waned in the face of risks to global…

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Top 6 Traffic Drivers For American & European Bloggers [CHART]

via marketingcharts.com American and European bloggers are relatively in agreement when it comes to the most effective ways to drive traffic to their blogs, both citing frequent updates and promotion on social networks as their top 2, per an Overblog study released in June 2012. Yet, when it comes to what defines the ultimate success…

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Belief That Ca$h Money = Success by Country [CHART]

via marketingcharts.com Consumers in key emerging markets are more likely to believe that money is the best measure of success than their counterparts in major Western markets, according to a Kantar Media survey of 449,000 middle class consumers in 10 major markets. Chinese adults are the most likely to say that money is the best…

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Global Promoted Tweet Clickers, By Frequency [CHART]

via emarketer.com On the mobile front, Pew found that 9% of all mobile phone owners used Twitter on their phones, including 22% of users ages 18 to 24. Meanwhile, marketers are focusing on Twitter’s advertising products, Promoted Tweets, Trends and Accounts, and determining how well they work for their brands. In January 2012, search engine…

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B2B & B2C Global Social Monitoring For Customer Service [CHART]

via emarketer.com In January 2012, customer experience management software company Satmetrix surveyed over 1,000 B2B and B2C companies worldwide and found that more than half of B2C companies (53%) both tracked mentions and followed up on them, while an additional 25% only tracked and 4% only followed up. This is compared to only 27% of…

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Global Social Monitoring For Customer Service [CHART]

via emarketer.com Looking at the differences worldwide, US-based companies were more likely to use social media to track mentions and follow up, with 46% of US companies and 45% of North American companies saying they did both. In Asia, the percentage of companies was lower, at 39%, and in both Latin America and Australia/New Zealand…

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