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Facebook Hiring in Brazil

  Feb 4, 2010

Social Networks are very popular in Brazil and Facebook decided to take advantage of that.
Looking to expand its user base and searching for brand awareness opportunities, Facebook is hiring a Growth Manager.
The opening is posted on FB´s website and it is a 6-12 months engagement, so we cannot say if they will have a full […]

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Naspers acquired Buscapé, leading comparison shopping search engine in Brazil and LatAm

  Sep 29, 2009

South African media company Naspers announced today the acquisition of 91% of the share capital of Brazilian e-commerce group BuscaPé.com Inc. for an amount of US$342m.
Buscapé, which started as comparison shopping ten years ago, currently is Latin America’s top such network for new and used goods and one of the region’s best-known internet brands. It […]

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Google Dominates not only search, but the Internet Landscape in Brazil

  Sep 14, 2009

According to the latest comScore report “in Brazil, Google Sites accounts for 89.5 percent of all searches conducted, while Google Orkut has a dominant position in social networking (96.0 percent of time spent), as does Google Maps in the maps category (70.9 percent of time spent) and Google-owned YouTube in the multimedia category (91.6 percent)”.
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MySpace will close operations in Brazil

  Jun 23, 2009

As part of its efforts to revamp the international operations, internal sources from MySpace Brazil already confirmed that the office will remain open only until June 30th. MySpace opened its local office 2 years ago.
Still remains a mistery what will happen with the current campaigns and partnerships ( last week mySpace announced a big deal […]

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SMX Sao Paulo 2009: Keynotes announced

  Jun 1, 2009

SMX will arrive in Brazil for its second show on August 4th.
Key notes were announced last week: Danny Sullivan, Erica Schmidt (Isobar) and SEMPO’s President Sara Houlobek are some of the international speakers.
Unlike 2008, this year’s SMX SP (possible hashtag on Twitter?) will take place in a single day, not two.
The full agenda should go […]

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Ask.com messing up in Brazil

  Mar 11, 2009

This is for those of you fans of international PPC: Ask.com is running a PPC campaign in Brazil trying to drive more users to its search engine.
But when you do a search on Google for restaurante São Paulo (restaurant São Paulo) you get an ad poorly written using the dynamic keyword insertion tool.

Ad copy […]

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Nielsen report: Brazil leads the world in social network websites

  Mar 10, 2009

According to a new Nielsen report Brazil is the country with more people using social networks websites. Brazilian users are also leading on time spent.
Nielsen reports that 80% of online users in Brazil are registered on social networks, followed by Spain with 75%, Italy 73% and Japan 70%.
Facebook is the leading network in the world […]

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Brazil overcome UK on Social Network audience

  Nov 24, 2008

Social Networking is a very popular activity in Latin America and Brazil is making a serious point about it.
A comScore study involving all countries with more than 10 million internet users revealed that social networks reached 87% of Canadians and 85% of Brazilians during September 2008 (9.3 points increase when compare to last year), taking […]

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SMX Brasil 2008: a good start

  Aug 12, 2008

There are always room for improvements, but my overall impression of SMX São Paulo 2008 was positive.
In order to avoid duplicated content I’m linking to Sara Holoubek’s post at DM News.
brazil event sem conference SMX

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SMX arrives in Brazil next month

  Jul 14, 2008

SMX franchise will have its first edition in Brazil on August 7th and 8th.
Among the key speakers are Bill Hunt, Director of Global Search Strategy at Neo@Ogilvy; Erica Schimdt, Global Search Director at ISOBAR, and Sara Houlobek, Consultant, DMNews Columnist & SEMPO Board of Directors.

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No MicroHoo: what’s the impact in Brazil? None.

  May 7, 2008

As everyone knows Microsoft had given up Yahoo (for now, I think).
In Brazil that means nothing, because here Yahoo and Microsoft are still operating together, as during the early days of Overture.
Therefore, the “Search duopoly” mentioned by Danny Sullivan in his AdAge article a couple of days before the deal went off, is already […]

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Brazil most admired publishers: Google leads internet category

  Jan 29, 2008

For the 8th consecutive year Meio&Mensagem , the local “Ad Age”, published its Most Admired Publishers list. There are 6 categories: TV, paid TV, radio, newspaper, magazine, and internet.
Internet category was introduced only in 2004 and has being lead by UOL (Universo Online) since then. The hegemony ended this year, when Google ranked in first, […]

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Yahoo! Go available in Brazil

  Dec 5, 2007

Yahoo launched a few weeks ago the Yahoo Go application for mobile in Brazil.
I have being using the 1.0 version in English for quite some time, but the new version keeps the same features, but now it’s avaiable in Brazilian portuguese (prior to that only portuguese from Portugal).
But it also still showing usability […]

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IAB Brazil launches SEM glossary

  Aug 29, 2007

IAB Brazil’s Search Engine Marketing Committee launched last week a SEM Glossary. Main objective is educate the market about main terms and definitions.
The document is in portuguese and is available for download at IAB website
Members of IAB Brazil SEM Committee are major search engines and portals, among them Google, Yahoo, MSN, Buscapé, UOL, IG, and […]

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Google Maps: directions is now avaiable in Brazil

  Jul 31, 2007

Last week Google finally launched the “get directions” feature to Brazilian maps. That is a great feature for those using Google Maps mobile application.
And, of course, this is the first major step towards local search in Brazil.

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Panama up and running in Brazil

  Jul 19, 2007

Yahoo started this week the roll-out of Panama in Brazil. All accounts are being updated (or upgraded as the notification email says) to the “new sponsored links system“.
As far as I know Brazil is the first latin american country being upgraded to Panama. And that’s a smart move, since it’s the biggest market by far.
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Google adds two big players to its network in Brazil

  Jul 2, 2007

UOL (#1 ISP and top 5 web destination) and Buscapé (#1 comparison shopping website in Brazil and latin America) are leaving Yahoo’s content network.
Google now has partnerships with all major brazilian horizontal portals, but Yahoo and MSN: iG, UOL and Terra are part of search and content network; Globo.com ( webdestination owned by Globo TV […]

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Miami: the top destination for brazilian executives in June

  May 26, 2007

Miami will held the second edition of SES Latino next month. This is the only SEM conference targeting US Hispanics and latin america audiences and companies.
The event is increasing its popularity among brazilian professionals, and all top SEM agencies will be presenting: HotList, MediaContacs, MídiaClick and MídiaDigital will have its tops executives in several […]

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Orkut is visiting Brazil

  Mar 29, 2007

Orkut Buyukkokten, the engineer behind Google’s social network website, is visiting Brazil for the first time.
He is in Rio de Janeiro this week, and will visit São Paulo (including a breakfast at GooglePlex with a select group of clients) next week and after that Belo Horizonte, where Google has a research&development facility.
Orkut is the […]

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Gmail free for all in Brazil

  Feb 13, 2007

Since last week anyone can sign-in to Google’s free webmail. Until now you needed an invitation from an user.
Brasil accounts for second largest number of Gmail users, boosted by Orkut.

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