Noteworthy Branding from 2012

Fast Co. revisits some clever branding campaigns from 2012.

Pin-able Banner Ads

Gucci recently went live with a series of banner ads with “Pin It” calls to action. You can save the branded glamour shots to one of your boards on Pinterest (and from there link to Gucci’s e-commerce site).

With the engagement challenge that banners pose, who knows, this could be a clever approach.

via Mashable

Data Viz Libraries Galore

Here’s a great collection of Data Viz libraries – mostly javascript – for techies or as a source of inspiration for anyone on what’s out there!

http://selection.datavisualization.ch/

The Expressive Web

Adobe’s The Expressive Web demos the emerging capabilities that html5 and css3 deliver.

Bounce Rate Infographic

Infographic from Kiss Metrics explaining what a bounce rate is:

Biggest Websites Showdown

More stats, now to satisfy your curiosity about the visitors heading to some of the biggest websites out there.

http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/website-showdown-twitter-infographic_b11727#more-11727

Contributed by Scott Shue

Mobile Payments

We’ve been talking about the future of this a lot lately, and here’s a nice little infographic that sums up mobile payment growth and the overall landscape.

Mostly correct but American Express’ Serve supports Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and debit cards.

https://www.gplus.com/Mobile-Payments/Article/INFOGRAPHIC-Goodbye-Wallets-How-Mobile-Payments

Contributed by Collin Whitehead

Socialnomics Stats Video

Kinetic type video of social media stats from Erik Qualman’s Socialnomics v3 book.

More Mobile, Please

Here’s some more data on mobile trends from Google.  A little “salesy” but some good stats.

Contributed by Collin Whitehead

Loads.in

Loads.in is a web tool that allows you to run a few tests on your web site and server to see how quickly it loads on different browsers and in different locations.

Go to http://loads.in to check it out.