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London Olympics Social Media Infographic

Olympics and Social

The London 2012 Olympics were tracked, tweeted, “liked” and shared via multiple social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube and many more. The guys over at SEO.com put together a pretty interesting infographic Related articles London 2012 Olympics: social media by the numbers (thesportsbank.net) Summer Games Social Stats – The ‘Olympic-Sized Consumption’ Infographic Predicts […]

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Cadbury’s Slick Olympics Advertising

Cadbury’s hired Dublin firm Publicis to produce their advertising for the Olympics (you can see some of the ads when you go on to the RTE Olympics site to watch the stream) The end result is incredible: Cadbury Olympic Idents from Publicis Dublin on Vimeo. TV Sponsorship stings for RTE’s coverage of the London 2012 […]

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Visualising 2012 Olympians vs Historic Olympians

The New York Times is doing a series of visualisations of current Olympians compared with their historic counterparts. So far there are three sets available, the 100m freestyle (swimming), 100m sprint and the long jump. The visualisations use historic data and make it come to life so even those of us who aren’t that interested […]

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Netflix Traffic Down 25% In US – Blames Olympics

While Netflix might be available in several countries, including Ireland, the biggest and most important market for the company remains the USA. So when reports came out that the service’s traffic was down 25% some analysts might get a bit worried. Netflix, however, are blaming the dip in traffic on the Olympics. Subscription based video […]

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