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……

The Economist recently issued a special report on social networking. The report, A World of Connections, provides a clear and high-level overview of the development/status of social networking sites and how they impact brand advertising, corporate internal communication, small business, talent search & recruitment, and privacy……

EYES ON ME is a post series on IN2marcom. It is a monthly highlight of popular Chinese viral brand videos in the period.

In November, some brands utilized viral video as a channel to promote their campaigns. Chevrolet again delivered a new video for the “CRUZE, Chasing in Marcao” campaign. RedBull produced five rough clips for the “It’s Time for RedBull” campaign and P&G made a clip for a campaign of LivingArtist. Castrol kicked off its 2010 World Cup sponsorsip program through three well-done videos. This month, some IT brands also stood out, including IBM Cognos, Lenovo ThinkPad, and Lenovo IdeaPad……

Recently, Forsman & Bodenfors made a creative social media campaign for IKEA to promote the opening of the new IKEA store in Malmö.

The campaign started with creating a profile page of the store’s manager, Gordon Gustavsson. Then Gordon uploaded 12 pictures of store’s showrooms to his photo album. Within a two-weeks period, the person who tagged their names on a product first can won the item. Through the campaign, people gladly added their name to an “interactive IKEA catalogue” and spread to all of their friends via FB profile page, newsfeed, links, etc……

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……

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……

A viral video is a video clip that gains widespread popularity through the process of Internet sharing, typically through email or instant messaging, blogs and other media sharing websites. Nowadays, viral video has become an essential part of online marketing communication in China.

EYES ON ME is a newly-created post series on IN2marcom. It is a monthly highlight of popular Chinese viral brand videos in the period. Through it, I will keep you update and bring fun/innovation/inspiration/insight to you……

Flash mob is not a very new social phenomenon in China, especially in big cities like Shanghai. The city’s largest flash mob group was established on September 18th 2006 on Douban. The recent increasing awareness of flash mob is due to a frozen flash mob in Raffles City on July 31st. A video of record was uploaded to Tudou on August 2nd, then it was widely spread out on the Internet. Till now, the video has been watched over 260,000 times.

This amazing action is wholly digitally organized……