Study Shows that Higher Social Media Engagement Correlates with Financial Performance
Original post: New study: Deep brand engagement correlates with financial performance by Charlene Li, co-author of “Groundswell”
The goals of the study were to measure how deeply engaged the top 100 global brands — as identified by the 2008 BusinessWeek/Interbrand Best Global Brands ranking — are in a variety of social media channels (including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, wikis, and discussion forums) and, more importantly, understand if higher engagement is correlated with financial performance.
Activity in each channel was ranked for depth of interaction on measures that corresponded to that specific channel. Scores for overall brand engagement ranged from a