For the second year in a row, SocialEyez, a global leader in social media analytics and marketing services, has won one of the highly acclaimed Grand Prix Awards at the annual International Communications Effectiveness Awards organized by the Association for Measurement and Effective Communication (AMEC). SocialEyez also won four other awards at the AMEC ceremony in Madrid, attended by over 200 attendees from 35 countries. The company has received AMEC accolades for three consecutive years.
The AMEC Grand Prix Platinum Award is widely considered the highest recognition in social media communication internationally. “The Grand Prix Platinum Award is for the best of the best of all entries submitted,” explained AMEC’s Executive Director, Barry Leggetter. “The awards won by SocialEyez represented examples where their work had made an outstanding impact on business decision making and added customer value.”
"It is both an honor and a privilege to be considered as a global leader in social media communications," said Fadl Al Tarzi, CEO of SocialEyez. "The combination of our team's passion and the spirit of partnership we enjoy with our clients is how we were able to succeed. Winning the Grand Prix Platinum Award renews our determination to continue being at the forefront of global innovation. We will continue to use social media to provide our customers around the world with tangible results that have real impact on their organizational performance," he added.
Read more here. See the AMEC site for a complete list of award winners. SocialEyez is part of the News Group International family of measurement companies. --Bill Paarlberg, editor
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The SocialEyez Weekly Top 5 for February 9 - 14, 2013
POLITICS: Egyptian Presidential advisor Bassam Zarqa resigns (13,086)
RELIGION: Amr Khaled offers fans optimism: (8,648)
MEDIA: Second season of Saudi stand-up comedy ‘Broadcast Show’ opens on YouTube (6,768)
ART: Disclosure of Lebanese vocalist Haifa Wahbe’s age starts family feud (3,587)
SOCIETY: Senior Saudi health officials fired over HIV-contaminated blood transfusion in hospital (3,529)
This weekly report highlights the five topics that generated the largest volume of discussion across Arabic language social media during the Sunday-Thursday Arab world work week. The report is derived from crawling the web and indexing hundreds of thousands of Arabic-language, user-generated results. Visit the SocialEyez blog for the entire report.
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The SocialEyez Weekly Top 5 for February 2 - 7, 2013
1. EGYPT: Cameras capture riot police stripping, beating protester (83, 551) (Politics)
2. SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi's longest serving prisoner executed (29,925) (Society)
3. ARAB WORLD: Shakira posts picture of baby Milan (24,719) (Art)
4. TUNISIA: Opposition activist slain (10,820) (Politics)
5. EGYPT: Thousands rally on Friday of Salvation (10,079) (Politics)
This weekly report highlights the five topics that generated the largest volume of discussion across Arabic language social media during the Sunday-Thursday Arab world work week. The report is derived from crawling the web and indexing hundreds of thousands of Arabic-language, user-generated results. Visit the SocialEyez blog for the entire report.
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The SocialEyez Weekly Top 5 for January 27 - 31, 2013
1. (SPORTS) El Classico game between Real Madrid, Barcelona attracts Arab attention. Volume: 50,034.
2. (POLITICS) Egyptian court sentences 21 to death in Port Said football violence. Volume: 32,870
3. (RELIGION) Muslims mark the Birthday of Prophet Mohammad. Volume: 7,516
4. (SOCIETY) Saudi preacher al-Kalbani disparages civil defense corps. Volume: 4,975
5. (MEDIA) New episode of Saudi show ‘From-To’ attracts viewers. Volume: 1,014
This weekly report highlights the five topics that generated the largest volume of discussion across Arabic language social media during the Sunday-Thursday Arab world work week. The report is derived from crawling the web and indexing hundreds of thousands of Arabic-language, user-generated results. Visit the SocialEyez blog for the entire report.
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1. UAE beats Iraq to emerge as Gulf Cup Champions
2. Algeria military ends gas complex operations
3. Series finale of Saudi comedy ‘Broadcast Show’ attracts media attention
4. Egypt’s mobile phone services increase by 15%
5. Egyptian comedian Waheed Seif dies
This weekly report highlights the five topics that generated the largest volume of discussion across Arabic language social media during the Sunday-Thursday Arab world work week. The report is derived from crawling the web and indexing hundreds of thousands of Arabic-language, user-generated results. Visit the SocialEyez blog for the entire report. ###
1. Saudi preacher praises Egypt in Friday sermon in Cairo Mosque
2. Algeria, South Africa tie in football
3. Kuwait opposition hold ‘Karamet Watan 6’ rally to dissolve parliament
4. New episode of Saudi series ‘On the Run’ stirs up debate
5. Egypt train crash kills 19, wounds 107
This weekly report highlights the five topics that generated the largest volume of discussion across Arabic language social media during the Sunday-Thursday Arab world work week. The report is derived from crawling the web and indexing hundreds of thousands of Arabic-language, user-generated results. Visit the SocialEyez blog for the entire report.
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The SocialEyez Weekly Top 5 for January 6 -10, 2013
1. Sherif Ismail wins first season of Voice of Hayat
2. Assad offers peace plan in an address to the nation
3. Gulf Football Cup kicks off in Bahrain
4. Amr Khaled: ‘Generous people care for others’
5. Rainfall floods Alexandria’s streets
This weekly report highlights the five topics that generated the largest volume of discussion across Arabic language social media during the Sunday-Thursday Arab world work week. The report is derived from crawling the web and indexing hundreds of thousands of Arabic-language, user-generated results. Visit the SocialEyez blog for more information, or download the Top 5 Jan 6-10 report.
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The SocialEyez Weekly Top 5 -- December 30, 2012 - January 3, 2013
We are pleased to begin a new feature this week, The SocialEyez Weekly Top 5, brought to you by SocialEyez. (Both SocialEyez and KDPaine & Partners are part of News Group International.) The Weekly Top 5 report highlights the five subjects which have generated the largest volume of discussion across Arabic language social media platforms. Here they are for last week:
1. Egypt’s Morsi optimistic about economy despite Central Bank warning.
2. Saudi preacher criticizes Sheikh Mohamed Al-Arifi over anti-MBC3 campaign.
3. Talent show Voice of Hayat turns semifinals episode into a ‘Best of’ episode.
4. Egyptian Preacher Amr Khaled advises his audience: ‘Be yourself, don’t imitate others’.
5. Egypt beats Qatar 2-0 in football.
See the entire report on the SocialEyez blog.
From the report:
Methodology The results above are extracted from thousands of social media sources such as blogs, microblogs, forums, message boards, readers' comment sections on news websites, etc, which are continually updated. A team of Arabic social media researchers and Arabic social media analysts use Arabic Natural Language Processing and data mining tools to analyze the data and to extract the list of top five subjects, based primarily on keyword repetition.
The Weekly Top 5 displays results of the common Sunday-Thursday work week in the Arab world, and is solely focused on Arabic language user-generated results, classified by volume of comments/discussion.
Data is captured primarily from 17 Arab countries in North Africa, the Levant, and the Arab Gulf region, and when relevant, the five other Arabic speaking countries belonging to the Arab League (Sudan, Somalia, Comoros, Djibouti and Mauritania).
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النتائج الأولية بدأت تظهر.. يارب كريم انصر أوباما..
"Announcement of the initial results has begun. Oh God, please let Obama
win!" --a tweet from Battal Algoos
by Katie Delahaye Paine
Regardless of how you might feel about the presence or absence of “fair and balanced” reporting in the traditional media, its role is one of reporting election results in a factual manner. Not so social media; as the unvarnished voice of the people, it reveals the personal opinions that distinguish one voter from the next.
So we thought it would be interesting to take a look at how the top social media influencers in a variety of countries viewed the U.S. presidential election results.
We asked SocialEyez analysts in Latin America and the Middle East to report on the postings of the top bloggers and tweeters after the election. We've included below a sample of the original posts from the Middle East.Latin America is more pro Obama than the Middle East
We found some interesting contrasts. First of all, Latin American social media influencers were far more enthusiastic about Obama than were their counterparts in the Middle East.
Interestingly, in Latin America the top social media influencers tended to be entertainers, and Shakira, JLo, and Ricky Martin were among the among the most positive. Mexico’s president Felipe Calderon was among the political figures that were positive towards Obama’s re-election, while Marina Silva, a former candidate for president of Brazil, voiced her disapproval of the results
In the Middle East the most influential tended to be media, political, or religious figures. Interestingly, 21 out of the top 50 most influential Mid-East social media bloggers chose not to write about the election at all. Of those who did, the most negative were human rights activists and media figures.
When we broke out results by country, we found that influencers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) were the most active, while their counterparts in Syria were the most negative.
A sample of verbatim comments from the Middle East:
Tareq AlSuwaidan
عندما يفوز أي رئيس أمريكي بولاية ثانية يصبح أكثر جرأة في قراراته ﻷنه لا يحق له خوض الانتخابات الفادمة فنتمنى دعمه للحق في فلسطين وسوريا
When any American president is elected for a second term, he makes bolder decisions because he can’t run for the next elections. So we hope he will be supportive to justice in Palestine and Syria.
https://twitter.com/TareqAlSuwaidan/status/266079145472184320
Battal Algoos
النتائج الأولية بدأت تظهر.. يارب كريم انصر أوباما..
Announcement of the initial results has begun. Oh God, please let Obama win!
https://twitter.com/battalalgoos/status/265953418974212096
Hamza Namira
أكيد أوباما أحسن من رومني..بس استمرار نغمة انتصار الديموقراطية الأمريكية اللي أي رئيس أمريكي بيقولها دي أكبر اشتغالة
Obama is definitely way better than Romney, but to continue playing the tune of American democracy’s victory, which has been played by all American presidents, is the biggest lie ever.
https://twitter.com/HamzaNamira/status/266074718317187073
Wishing you all a very smooth* night while I'm in bed watching the American election. May this democracy spread all over our countries <3
https://twitter.com/elissakh/status/265962386605887489
Once you're on track, you can't go back.#Obama2012 #USElections [This tweet has been edited]
https://twitter.com/Fahad/status/266071129117036544
Faisal Al Qasim
عجيب هذا الاهتمام العالمي بالانتخابات الامريكية مع العلم ان الرئيس الامريكي يخدم الامريكيين فقط ويستخدم بقية العالم لمصلحة امريكا
How odd the international attention given to the US elections is since the US president is serving the Americans only while using the rest of the world for America’s benefit.
https://twitter.com/kasimf/status/266094240700973056
المفاضلة بين رئيس أو حزب أمريكي وآخر كالمفاضلة بين الببسي والكوكا كولا
Choosing between US candidates or parties is like choosing between Pepsi and Coca-Cola. https://twitter.com/kasimf/status/266105379568627713
منقول:الامريكيون يغيرون رئيسهم كل 4 سنوات والسوريون كل 40 سنة يعني الفارق صفر.. ولاشي
Copied: The Americans change their president every four years, while the Syrians change theirs every 40 years… So the difference is 0, which means there is no difference.
https://twitter.com/kasimf/status/266652559828197376
Ola Alfares
باسمي واسم الفلورز العظيمين نتقدم بالتبريكات ل أوباما ولو أنها تأخرت بس مشغولين طال عمرك ..عسى ان تكون رديفا للعرب في ماتبقى لك من سنين!😒
On behalf of my great followers, I extend congratulations to Obama. It’s kind of late, but we were busy, your honor. I hope you will be supportive to Arabs in your remaining years (as president).
https://twitter.com/OlaAlfares/status/266186901722116096
Feras Bugnah
الملياردير الأمريكي دونالد ترامب يصرخ: “أمريكا لم تعد ديموقراطية!” مشككاً في نزاهة الانتخابات. السبب ببساطة: أوباما سيرفع ضرائب الأغنياء.
US billionaire Donald Trump shouts: “America is not a democracy no more” and questions the integrity of the elections. Simply, he says so because Obama will put more taxes on the rich.
https://twitter.com/FMB4/status/266080671599034368
Malik Nejer
أوباما يفوز بفترة رئاسية ثانيه ، خبر جيد ، هو افضل السيئين، رومني كان بيزيد الطين بله
Obama wins a second term. This is good news, because he is the lesser of two evils. Romney would have made bad things worse.
https://twitter.com/Nejer/status/266074939621273600
Mohamad Sadoun
لا تضيع وقتك مع انتخابات أمريكا .. أيهما سيفوز سيكون من أولوياته دعم إسرائيل ومحاربة الإسلام و المسلمين ولن يرضون عنا أبدا إلا باتباع ملتهم
Do not waste your time with the American elections. The winning president’s priorities will be supporting Israel and fighting Islam and Muslims. They will never be satisfied until we follow their religion.
https://twitter.com/Ms3don/status/266031686830137344
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Katie Delahaye Paine is the Chief Marketing Officer of News Group, a leader in international media monitoring and evaluation, as well as Chairman & Founder of Salience/KDPaine & Partners, the leader in integrated social and traditional communications measurement. Katie Paine is a dynamic and experienced speaker on public relations and social media measurement. Click here for the schedule of Katie’s upcoming speaking engagements. She writes KDPaine’s Measurement Blog and publishes The Measurement Standard. Katie and Beth Kanter are authors of the book “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit,” to published this year by Wiley.
The Measurement Standard is a publication of Salience/KDPaine & Partners, a company that delivers custom research to measure brand image, public relationships, and engagement. Katie Paine will be glad to talk with you about measurement for your organization.
Here's Hurricane Sandy as it was discussed by social media in the Middle East, thanks to SocialEyez. The analysis is based on 21,152 mentions captured in both English and Arabic during the period October 30 to November 2, 2012.