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Infographic: The Year in Content, Media and Marketing 2012
As 2012 draws to a close we look back on the year’s biggest news events, trends and recurring themes. Mark Zuckerberg, Carly Rae Jepsen and PSY all make an appearance in our year-end infographic.
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Where’s Linsanity? And Gen. Petraeus? Still, great infographic. Interesting how the ones with the highest spikes are also the ones that, in the grand scheme of things, weren’t all that huge. Goes to show that most trends are ephemeral. By definition, I guess.
Great to see infographics on your list. Absolutely vital to communicate performance and trends and so perfect for the web. Ignore it at your peril – as the Republicans ignored Nate Silver’s infographis in favor of their home made data and were baffled when they lost the election. And the earth was created when? ….Objective data and fossils rule!
Once again great infographic,its interesting to see cross country search results. As in case of Oppa (gangnam style)a korean term sparked a search spike worldwide.
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