Artprice and Artmarket expand beyond expectations, post +590% growth on social media over H2 2017 and H1 2018, and 2.3 million followers.

At its 30 June 2017 general meeting, Artprice had made a commitment to take the leading place for Art Market information on social media, where it had garnered 345K followers. To achieve this highly ambitious goal, Artprice, and its division Artmarket, had to acquire over 1 million followers for their publications over the H2 2017 and H1 2018 period.

And they hit the mark - in exactly 12 months, as of 25 June 2018, they have grown to 2.3 million followers, rising beyond expectations and posting a 590% year on year growth (June 2017 / June 2018). Although the Chinese Intranet blocks Western social media, Artprice has a strong presence in China through its partner, the Chinese State group ARTRON / AMMA.

Indeed some important international listed companies believed they could do without the complex social media but they now suffer from their fatal delay which generated huge economic damages and cast doubt on their positions. Even with a remarkable financial budget, the accumulated delay cannot be compensated due to social media's elaborate architecture. Some S&P500 companies are perfect illustrations of that case.

According to Thierry Ehrmann, the founder and Ceo of Artprice, "From now on, the mark made on social media is one of the essential and vital factors for companies wishing to preserve their capital and future, going hand in hand with their reputation and worldwide visibility, as is the case of Artprice, the World Leader in Art Market information and its Standardised Marketplace Artmarket.com."

This is why Artprice has made this line of communication its first choice, foreseeing for a long time the social media's influence in its marketing, data banks, IT teams and sales forces, shaping more each day its experience in many social media platform to generate millions of qualified new followers for the various paid subscriptions to its databanks.

What's more, Artprice was on a budget which made it possible to release more than €1 million in results for the 2017 financial year. This budgetary discipline is still topical in 2018. Its unrivaled high quality information, its reputation and its human and computer science savviness make Artprice the winner of this global challenge, on a very low budget.

After succeeding in getting the leading position on Google rankings, it was necessary for Artprice and Artmarket.com to replicate the world leading position for Art Market information on social media.

It's a done deal! The proof is in an incredible 590% increase in global Internet market share, notably on the world's N°. 1 social media platform Facebook. Artprice's Facebook page has attracted more than 2.3 million followers, placing it among the most followed pages in the world. It should be noted that organizations that can count their followers in the millions form a very tight, elite group on the global scale.