{"id":1833,"date":"2011-08-01T11:49:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T09:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2011-08-01T11:49:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T09:49:31","slug":"1833","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1833","title":{"rendered":"36% increase in our Facebook fans in 9 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine days ago I launched a major Facebook ad campaign to promote LabourStart which I am today suspending.  Here are the numbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>563<\/strong> more people liked our Facebook page<\/li>\n<li><strong>1,260<\/strong> clicked on the link<\/li>\n<li><strong>198,359<\/strong> individuals saw the ad<\/li>\n<li><strong>138,838<\/strong> people saw the ad with the names of their friends who like LabourStart<\/li>\n<li>Total cost: US$ 832.83 (<strong>\u00a3506.60<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The actual number of people who &#8216;like&#8217; our FB page has grown from <strong>1,710<\/strong> to <strong>2,330<\/strong>, a gain of 620 (36%) during this period.<\/p>\n<p>Of these 620 individuals,\u00a0563 appear to have come from the ad campaign and another 57 through other means.<\/p>\n<p>When I launched the campaign ten days ago, I showed a list of 50 unions and campaigning organizations and how many FB fans they had; we were <strong>24th<\/strong> on that list.  Today &#8212; without checking how others are doing &#8212; we&#8217;re probably <strong>18th<\/strong>.  Here&#8217;s the revised list (numbers for other groups are not updated):<\/p>\n<p>Global \u2013 Avaaz 231,994<br \/>\nUSA \u2013 Moveon.org 152,151<br \/>\nGlobal \u2013 Human Rights Watch 139,571<br \/>\nGlobal \u2013 Amnesty International 49,171<br \/>\nUK \u2013 38 Degrees 31,002<br \/>\nUSA \u2013 AFL-CIO 28,918<br \/>\nAustralia \u2013 GetUp! 18,299<br \/>\nUK \u2013 False Economy 10,400<br \/>\nUSA\/Canada \u2013 SEIU 8,989<br \/>\nUSA\/Canada \u2013 USW 5,955<br \/>\nUSA \u2013 Labor Notes 5,419<br \/>\nGermany \u2013 IG Metall 5,258<br \/>\nGermany \u2013 ver.di 3,457<br \/>\nUSA \u2013 Young Trade Unionists 2,769<br \/>\nUSA \u2013 IWW Starbucks Workers Union  2,624<br \/>\nGlobal \u2013 UNI Global Union 2,511<br \/>\nIsrael \u2013 Histadrut 2,448<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Global \u2013 LabourStart 2,330<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nUK \u2013 TUC 2,048<br \/>\nUK \u2013 Unite 1,897<br \/>\nUK \u2013 UNISON 1,892<br \/>\nGlobal \u2013 ITUC 1,860<br \/>\nGlobal \u2013 Clean Clothes Campaign 1,828<br \/>\nAustralia \u2013 AWU 1,777<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> Global \u2013 LabourStart 1,710<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine days ago I launched a major Facebook ad campaign to promote LabourStart which I am today suspending. Here are the numbers: 563 more people liked our Facebook page 1,260 clicked on the link 198,359 individuals saw the ad 138,838 people saw the ad with the names of their friends who like LabourStart Total cost: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}