comScore puts Filipino Internet Users at 14.8M?

comScore recently released a study showing Filipinos as one of the most engaged and active when it comes to Social Media. In the same report, they said that 84% of all online Filipinos used Facebook. I checked out Facebook’s advertising platform to get the total number of registered Filipinos.... 

Source:  Internet Marketing in the Philippines

Filipinos have highest social media engagement in Asia Pacific

It was shown that Filipinos have one of the highest rates of social media penetration and engagement in Asia Pacific. In a study done by comScore, it showed that 90% of the entire internet population of the country use social networking sites. Filipinos also averaged 5.5 hours of use for the month of... 

Source:  Internet Marketing in the Philippines

FarmVille has more users than Twitter

I found this very interesting article on Mashable showing that FarmVille, a popular casual game on Facebook, has more users than micro-blogging tool Twitter. Apparently FarmVille now has 69M active users. This means that 69M people all over the world log-in FarmVille at least once in 30 days. That’s... 

Source:  Internet Marketing in the Philippines

Why you should invest in Internet Marketing in the Philippines

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Source:  Internet Marketing in the Philippines

House Bill 6794 – Cybercrime Prevention Act 2009 is soooooo vague

As if a response to the prevalent hacking of government and popular websites in the past few days, House Bill 6794, also known as the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2009 was passed in congress yesterday. I read through the entire bill and it looks like this will have an impact on internet marketing practices... 

Source:  Internet Marketing in the Philippines

Working on an e-book: How Blogging Changed my Life

Hi everyone! As most of you have noticed by now, I haven’t been posting regularly here at New Media. The reason is I’ve been very busy working on a series of e-books that I want to publish for free sometime January. The first e-book will be very personal and will share with you guys my [...]... 

Source:  New Media Philippines

The Philippines Website War winners in 2009 according to Alexa

I was curious this afternoon on which official news portal was doing better – GMA7 or ABS CBN. I checked out Alexa since this is pretty much one of the free tools (but not really reliable) available for statistics like this. I went through the entire list and I compiled a “Who is better”... 

Source:  New Media Philippines

Yahoo – Nielsen Net Index 2009 Study Highlights (PDF)

This study was released to the public sometime in March 2009 by Yahoo Philippines and Nielsen. For posterity’s sake as well as giving everyone here more food for thought, I’m embedding the study highlights in this entry. I’ll try to get other interesting materials as well that’s... 

Source:  New Media Philippines

Top Google Search Terms in 2009

Google recently released their 2009 Year-End Zeitgeist report which pretty much sums up all the top Google search terms for Filipinos in 2009. This report was released shortly after Yahoo! also shared their top search terms in their Year in Review report. Other than keywords that you can focus your SEO... 

Source:  New Media Philippines

Top 10 Yahoo Search Terms for 2009

Yahoo recently released a report which shares the various top searches done on their engine for 2009. Some of the results are very predictable but some results completely took me by surprise. The searches also gives you insights on what the Filipino online user behavior is about. For example, some of... 

Source:  New Media Philippines

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