Digital Media and Social Media Acronyms

A couple weeks ago, in an office meeting, someone commented how there are all these industry acronyms associated with digital media and they couldn’t keep up with all of them.

So I decided o put together a list of all the digital media and marketing acronyms I could think of.

My blog is NOT a dictionary, and I have intentions of making it that which is why, this list will not include acronyms like OMG, LOL, ROFL or WTF as those are for the Oxford English Dictionary to figure out how to include. For now, consider this a working list of the important ones I could think of. It includes: General Digital Media Industry acronyms, Metric Acronyms, and some Twitter short hand as well.

And yes, there is always a chance I left some out. I will be making updates and if you notice any, send me an email with the additions and I will add them, and credit you (hows about that for a deal!). Enjoy!

General Industry Acronyms

FB

Facebook. Often, this abreviation will happen on twitter when referencing Facebook to save space.

Meme

Mimeme. Viral content you see on the web.

PPC

Pay Per Click Advertising. A method of advertising on a search engine where you pay an agreed amount everytime someone clicks on your ad.

R6

Radian6. Often short hand to save space. (at least I do that 🙂 )

SEM

Search Engine Marketing. Often associated only with Pay per Click advertising, is in reality the general term for SEO and PPC practices

SEO

Search Engine Optimization. This is an action taken on a web site to improve your contents visibility within the results.

SERP

Search Engine Result page. When you do a searh in an engine, the results that show up on the page are called the SERP

SM

Social Media

SMM

Social Media Marketing. A way of using social media platforms to market your concept/ Brand/ Product etc.

SMO

Social Media Optimization. Similar to SEO in the sense that it is an act of ensuring visibility of all social media assets within each social platforms. This is becoming more integrated with SEO and Search Engines.

SoLoMo

Social, Local, Mobile. This is a new industry term refering to the growth and connectino between social media, local media and mobile media. This term was made popular by JOhn Doerr in a New York Times Article.

UGC

User Generated Content. Same thing as CGM (Consumer Generated Media) or UCC (User Created Content), just a different way of saying it.

URL

Uniform Resource Locator (although, I dont know ANYONE who actually knows this or why it would even matter in the first place)

Industry Metrics Acronyms

CPC

Cost Per Click

CTR

Click Through Rate is The percentage of clicks out of the total number views of a particular link

CVR (or CR)

Conversion Rate. This is the percentage of site visitors that take a specific, predetermined, action on your site.

ROAS

Return on Ad Spend (PPC term)

ROI

Return on Investment. This is the percentage profit earned from a specific activity.

Twitter Acronyms and Lingo

DM

Direct Message. This often appears when you indicate to someone that you want this conversation to go private.

RT

Re- tweet. A method of acknowledging someone else’s post and giving them credit for what they have said, or sharing information and giving credit.