{"id":3777,"date":"2012-02-27T19:51:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T02:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disruptionblog.com\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2012-02-27T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T02:51:10","slug":"users-and-marketers-warm-to-niche-social-networks-emarketer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/02\/27\/users-and-marketers-warm-to-niche-social-networks-emarketer\/","title":{"rendered":"Users and Marketers Warm to Niche Social Networks &#8211; eMarketer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have been at the top of the social media heap in the US for several years now, new services and relaunched versions of older ones are rapidly gaining popularity among consumers and marketers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany internet users are turning\u2026to social networks that offer a more focused experience than Facebook, even as that site positions itself as the social destination for sharing, curation and consumption of content,\u201d said eMarketer\u2019s Kimberly Maul, author of the new report, \u201cBeyond Facebook and Twitter: Visually Focused Social Sites See Growing Interest.\u201d \u201cIn the case of several popular or up-and-coming sites, this means giving users the ability to express themselves\u2014and often to become tastemakers\u2014using photos and other visually oriented material.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/Article.aspx?R=1008864&amp;ecid=a6506033675d47f881651943c21c5ed4\">Users and Marketers Warm to Niche Social Networks &#8211; eMarketer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have been at the top of the social media heap in the US for several years now, new services and relaunched versions of older ones are rapidly gaining popularity among consumers and marketers. \u201cMany internet users are turning\u2026to social networks that offer a more focused experience than Facebook, even as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/02\/27\/users-and-marketers-warm-to-niche-social-networks-emarketer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Users and Marketers Warm to Niche Social Networks &#8211; eMarketer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}