How to Monitor Photos for Word of Mouth
Steve Rubel of WebProNews suggests tracking photos on Flickr, a free photo sharing site, as a way to measure a brand's word of mouth reach. Marketers can see how their brands stack up against those of their competitors by looking up photos consumers have posted.
For fun, Rubel ran a head-to-head check of certain brands. For example, publicly posted photos of iPods beat out iRivers 824 to 4. Yahoo! (410 photos) beat out Google (342) and MSN (96).
