Social Media, My Love.

Social media = web = what I do/want to do. I decided to add social media in relation to advertising, creative, and design to my topics list on my personal blog (because i'm obsessed). Social media is now a big part of advertising agencies--it's now a service. It is now the main service of many digital agencies. Last night I had dinner with the Director of Client Engagement at Stuzo, Samantha Urban. She's amazing and It was a pleasure/honor to eat burgers at Marathon Grill with this amazing, young, leader. It is awesome to talk to people who are where you want to be. Stuzo is a creative technology company specializing in the development of innovative, user-centric social media marketing platforms, programs, and applications. With a proven technology platform and a track record of exceptional execution, Stuzo supports leading national and global brands and their agencies in achieving targeted results within social channels. Their client list blows me away: HBO, Covergirl, P&G, Budlight, Coca-Cola, Chevorlet, Chrysler, Calvin Klein, Chick-fil-a and that list goes on & on. Clearly, I was so excited to have the opportunity to meet with her. So now that I am hype on social media and it as a specialty, I thought I would share this AMAZING power point slide show that I found on my new FAVORITE, AMAZING site,www.noteandpoint.com Some key points:

• Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web

• 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media

• Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months...

• 1 in 6 higher education students are enrolled in online curriculum

• 80% of companies using LinkedIn as a primary tool to find employees...

• There are over 200,000,000 Blogs

• 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands

• More than 1.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook...daily.

Check it out:

http://noteandpoint.com/documents/pdf/smbc.pdf

& Check out Stuzo http://stuzo.com Their work is amazing. (dreams!)

-- smile.