Global Social Media Trends in 2013
China, where Facebook remains officially banned, represents one obvious stumbling block in Facebook's quest for complete worldwide domination, while VKontakte and Odnoklassniki remain popular in Russia.
China, where Facebook remains officially banned, represents one obvious stumbling block in Facebook's quest for complete worldwide domination, while VKontakte and Odnoklassniki remain popular in Russia.
Elsewhere, Russia is dominated by Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki, sites that are also quickly expanding into other Eastern European countries. EMarketer predicts there will be a massive 1.43 billion social network users in 2012, representing a 19.2...
VK (formerly Vkontakte) is popular in Russia and parts of Eastern Europe. You may think that the rest of the social media world might as well just turn around, go home, and switch off the light as it passes.
In China (where both Facebook and Twitter are officially banned), Qzone rules the roost while VK (formerly Vkontakte) has a huge following in Russia. Consumers are no longer passive recipients of direct marketing messages (if they ever were).
The Russian Vkontakte (VK), for example, is popular in its homeland as well as Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus and claims to be Europe's largest social network with more than 100 million active users. On-page optimization – the process of ensuring...
VKontakte yaplog! In addition, 21 sites have signed on as partners within Google’s Social Data Hub, allowing Google to share the sites’ activities stream within Analytics. Google Analytics Social Data Hub Partners
Yandex announced Monday that it will add public profiles from popular Russian social networks – including VKontakte, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Odnoklassniki – within its search results. Russia’s top search engine Yandex has made two big moves on...
Russia has Vkontakte.ru; China has RenRen.com; and both Brazil and India have enjoyed Google's social network Orkut. Will Vkontakte.ru and RenRen.com Fall Next? Vkontakte.ru is proactive and it works around the language and encourages social...
According to comScore, the biggest social networks in Russia are VKONTAKTE.RU with close to 73 percent reach, Odnoklassniki with some 39 percent reach, and Mail.Ru - My World with close to 33 percent.
Coming in at number four in total social media saturation, Russia's market is dominated by local networks, including VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. VKontakte hits the first place in market share amongst its Russian and Ukrainian social media users...
It also supports authorization schemes of a number of Russian services: Yandex, Mail.Ru, Vkontakte, Rambler, WebMoney, Diary.ru and Loginza," TechCrunch Europe reported. Russian search engine Yandex has introduced geo-targeted ads to its business...
One case study of a good use of social media to reach a Russian audience was Clearasil, who realized the best way to reach Russian teenagers was via an interactive group page on VKontakte.ru. Russians are very keen on social media, both for...
Russian search giant Yandex partners with local Facebook-clone VKontakte - TechCrunch Europe Here's a roundup of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Nov.to Dec.as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips...
ComScore indicates that Russia has the most engaged social media audience, with visitors spending 6.6 hours and viewing 1,307 pages per visitor per month -- Vkontakte.ru is the number one social network.
Traffic within Russia itself was dominated by local services such as Vkontakte.ru, with 14.3 million visitors, Odnoklassniki.ru with 7.8 million visitors, and Mail.ru with 6.3 million visitors. Recent data from comScore's World Metrix audience...
