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iPhone: #1 Social Brand of 2008

By , Monday, Feb 2, 2009
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iPhone Award

The headline says it all, Virtue’s #1 Social Brand of 2008. Steve Jobs scored huge in general, not only with the iPhone at #1 (can’t get tired of typing that!) but Apple at #3 and iPod at #7 and Mac at #16. (Our best frenemies, the BlackBerry, show up at #20, along with Microsoft at #11, and Google, Nokia, and Palm… um… er… Is the list really complete?)

The Vitrue SMI calculates scores about the brand’s social conversations. We apply a series of algorithms to reflect the frequency of usage, the size of the social media environment, and the magnitude of the conversation. The result is a single numeric score for each brand: the Vitrue Social Media Index (SMI).

(via Macworld)

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  1. wut? says:

    How is it that the iphone is more popular than the Wii, which sold over 13 MILLION of their console in the united states alone…smells like BS to me (sorry guys…but i hear more people talk about the wii, from young kids to old farts than i do Iphones)

  2. Steve says:

    Have never seen a Wii in my life… but have seen a lot of iPhones. :roll:

  3. Steve22 says:

    But hasn’t the wii been our for longer than the iPhone? And the iPhone has probably passesd 13M sales by now.

    I’m not sure about that though.

  4. Sean peters says:

    Whatever the hell a “social brand” is. This really strikes me as a totally pulled out the rear end of the marketing department sort of concept.

  5. Ernest says:

    @WUT..No surprise Iphone is most popular than WII. Im stunned too to find out and I almost WII WII in my pants.

  6. Rene Ritchie says:

    Maybe it’s based on all the posts about the iPhone missing cut and paste? How many people complain about the Wii missing DVD playback? :)

    Heck, Google didn’t even make that list!

  7. Wut? says:

    Idk..I don’t own a Wii but the logic of saying that a phone with 13 million in sales is A higher social product than the Wiis 30 million console sales worldwide is absurd lol. I’m just questioning the validity Of this award to be honest

  8. Brett says:

    I agree with @sean peters. What the hell is a “social brand”? Less bullshit please.

  9. ciphone says:

    Have never seen a WII in my country

  10. Smartest guy here says:

    I’m pretty sure the iPhone has more of a worldwide Internet presence than wii. Also by nature of the iPhone being a mobile product, it has a larger sphere of influence I think.

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