On April 28th, Edelman APAC, in partnership with social media intelligence firm, Brandtology, today unveiled the latest edition (DBI 10.2) of their quarterly Digital Brand Index cross eight Asia-Pacific markets (Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan). With data from January to March 2010, the DBI tracked netizen behaviors and technology brand activities during the lunar holiday season……

Following in the emerging trend, large international companies are now becoming active participants in social media like their consumers. A recent Burson-Marsteller study found that 79 percent of the largest 100 companies in the Fortune Global 500 index are using at least one of the most popular social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or corporate blogs……

On 4th February 2o1o, CIC and Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide launched a monthly report on Chinese-language social media buzz related to Shanghai World Expo 2010.

The report, ExpoSay, tracked 128,854 Expo-related comments taken from 13,994 blogs, bulletin boards, news and social networking sites sites in the Chinese Internet space during December 2009……

Today, CIC released its latest white paper Making Sense of IWOM – “Topic Three: How Brands Can Participate in Online Communities.” This white paper is the final installment in a series of three white papers, including two earlier studies, “The Role of Internet Word of Mouth in Purchase Decision” and “How IWOM is generated and disseminated.”

Topic 3 looks to evaluate consumer online behavior and provide suggestions for how brands can participate in online communities based on these consumer preferences. Below are some top-line findings and highlights from the study……

On 22 October 2009, Edelman APAC launched the first ever quarterly Digital Brand Index (DBI) derived from Brandtology data. The DBI is the first research project to compare online conversation and digital engagement across eight markets (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia) in Asia Pacific. The study is based on 800,000 online mentions of 233 major technology brands, contained within 4,348 influential channels monitored between July and September 2009……

In the first topic (The Role of IWOM in Purchase Decisions) of CIC’s “Making sense of IWOM” white paper series, CIC suggested that the majority of consumers use IWOM to help them make purchase decisions about products and brands they plan on purchasing. What CIC did not do look at was if they found answers if they left, stuck around or if they posted comments about those products and answer other consumer questions about those brands and products.

To answer these questions, CIC today releases the second topic titled “How IWOM is generated and disseminated”……

CIC, the Shanghai-based Internet Word-of-Mouth (IWOM) research and consulting agency, releases a Chinese Internet trend watch report for the first half year of 2009.

First, CIC has been watching the expansion of Video Sharing. Secondly, let’s see how serious offline social issues and events have been discussed online. Lastly, CIC has also been seeing the emergence of better digital campaigns as brands start to realize the importance of having a strong Internet presence which they can use to effectively connect with their customers……

As we all known, Jia Junpeng (贾君鹏) is an popular Internet phenomenon in China in terms of a catchphrase “Jia Junpeng, your mother is calling you home for dinner”.

Today, mass Internet portals report that Huang Lianghua (黄亮华), 27-years-old CEO of the Beijing-based KPMEDIA, has revealed that it is the agency behind this matter and he calls himself as “Jia Junpeng’s father”……