This week, Zoomsphere, which tracks brand traction on social networks, released charts that rank brands by follower, activity and engagement counts on Google+. Below, we've highlighted the most-followed brand pages. To dive further into the rankings, see here.
10 Most Circled Brands
1. Android: 235,742 followers
2. Mashable: 131,208 followers
3. Google Chrome: 127,611 followers
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5. Coldplay: 106,791 followers
6. H&M: 99,116 followers
7. New York Times: 93,397 followers
8. Marvel: 93,384 followers
9. Google: 91,636 followers*
10.Gmail: 89,564 followers
**Zoomsphere ranked Gmail as the eighth most-followed brand. It's ninth.
Further down the list, we were surprised to find that many of the brands with the largest Facebook followings, such as Coca-Cola (36 million), Disney (29 million) and Red Bull (24 million), didn't hit the top of the Google+ charts. In fact, Coca-Cola hasn't yet launched its page, and Disney hasn't yet posted to Disney World, the only official Disney Google+ page we could find.
TV shows -- several of which, such as Family Guy, South Park and The Simpsons, have Facebook fanbases in the tens of millions -- are also notably absent from the Google+ rankings.