Future of Social Media

Montage Communications

@montagecomms @prbristolblog

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matt2006montage

www.linkedin.com/montagecommunications

Trends 2009

• Facebook 100m in the last nine months

• Linked In – 1m people every 12 days

• You Tube hits – 1 billion views a day

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The most popular word…

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Change in online marketing

• Masses• Broadcast • Advertising • Search for news • Multiple hits from one

output

• Personal • Conversation • Endorsement• News finds us• One-to-one

Are you listening?

Really… listening?

• Addictomatic

• Tweetdeck

• Technorati

• RSS

• Media Genius

Privacy

More than Marketing

• Public relations• Thought leadership • Customer service• Loyalty building• Collaboration• Sales!

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Future of social media

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Future of social media - 2010

Geo-location

• Twitter• Foursquare • Facebook

Future of social media 2010

Future of social media technology

• Linked communication

• Smart phones

• i-tablet and Kindles (electronic books)

• Wearable technology

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One to watch

• Community focused on your favourite places

• 3.2m locations • Buy zubs $5+• Promote community / travel / business

@zubworld www.facebook.com/zubworld

The future

• Personal

• Local

• Targeted

• Influential few

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