It’s amazing how fast the world of social media moves!

Top 30 stats from the video:

1. Over 50% of the world’s population is under 30-years-old
2. 96% of them have joined a social network
3. Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S.
4. Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web
5. Facebook added over 200 million users in less than a year
6. iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months.
7. If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 3rd largest ahead of the United States and only behind China and India
8. 80% of companies use social media for recruitment; % of these using LinkedIn 95%
9. 50% of the mobile Internet traffic in the UK is for Facebook…people update anywhere, anytime…imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?
10. Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé – some universities have stopped distributing e-mail accounts
11. The #2 largest search engine in the world is YouTube
12. While you watch this 100+ hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube
13. Wikipedia has over 15 million articles…studies show it’s more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica…78% of these articles are non-English
14. There are over 200,000,000 Blogs
15. Because of the speed in which social media enables communication, word of mouth now becomes world of mouth
16. If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour
17. 25% of search results for the World’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content
18. 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands
19. Do you like what they are saying about your brand? You better.
20. People care more about how their social graph ranks products and services than how Google ranks them
21. 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations
22. Only 14% trust advertisements
23. Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive ROI
24. 90% of people that can TiVo ads do
25. 24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation
26. 60 millions status updates happen on Facebook daily
27. We no longer search for the news, the news finds us.
28. We will non longer search for products and services, they will find us via social media
29. Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate
30. The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years

The numbers are running fast. You can filter by now, day, week, month, year. Leave this tab open and come back in 10min. You’ll be surprised (Gary Hayes at Personalize Media)

Short URL & Title:

Growth of social media — http://www.torbenrick.eu/t/r/zfc

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