
Mobile service provider T-Mobile USA was the most responsive U.S. brand on Facebook in the first quarter of 2013, according to the latest Socially Devoted report from analytics provider Socialbakers.

Mobile service provider T-Mobile USA was the most responsive U.S. brand on Facebook in the first quarter of 2013, according to the latest Socially Devoted report from analytics provider Socialbakers.

Social analytics firm Quintly released the March 2013 edition of its monthly infographic aimed at helping Facebook page administrators determine how their pages measure up when compared with their contemporaries.

Three years ago, you could drastically reduce your cost per click by just running a ton of ads. The mainstream pay-per-click vendors, experienced with Google, applied their same techniques to Facebook — multiplying tons of ad combos by headlines, images, and body copy. While that technique was positioned as smart optimization, it was really spamming the system with thousands and thousands of terrible ads. If a general message against a particular audience wasn’t effective, making 10,000 variants of the same thing wouldn’t matter.

Following last week’s announcement of an expanded partnership with customer-relationship-management system SugarCRM, social analytics and engagement solutions provider NextPrinciples Tuesday named SugarCRM as one of three new customers for its Insight-to-Action platform, joined by Marathon Sports and IT World Canada.

Companies that use Business Wire to release information to the media can now track how their content performed on Facebook and other social media platforms with the media-distribution company’s addition of Social Media Monitoring Reports from social analytics platform Nuvi.

When social analytics and engagement solutions provider NextPrinciples debuted its Insight-to-Action integrated platform in January, one of the features it highlighted was the platform’s ability to integrate with existing customer-relationship-management systems such as that of SugarCRM. The two companies further extended their ties by announcing an expanded partnership Wednesday.

Facebook announced an update to its Ads Manager that will allow advertisers to better analyze their campaigns by drilling down into specific metrics, rather than just seeing an overview of all actions for those campaigns.

Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer Brand Networks announced Thursday the launch of bn.insights, the company’s comprehensive insights dashboard. Additionally, Brand Networks celebrated becoming the second company (Adobe being the first) to earn all four Facebook PMD badges — pages, ads, applications, insights.

Advertisers that use Facebook Exchange can now import data on their ads, campaigns, and conversions into their own customized reporting dashboards and applications with the introduction of the Performance Reporting API by Perfect Audience.

Two winners in Facebook’s recent Preferred Marketing Developer program PMD Innovation Competition are teaming up, as social ad platform Moontoast and social marketing solutions provider SocialCode announced that they would collaborate with the aim of boosting engagement for advertisers on Facebook, particularly on its News Feed and on mobile devices.