Social Media, Did you know?

Posted by Dwaine Rhea on August 24, 2010 at 3:31 pm

The impact of Social Media, click ot watch the video 

Jas Dhaliwal, author of Social Media Revolution took the time to pull out the actual 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 topsGoogle for weekly traffic in the U.S.
4. Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web
5. 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social
   media
6. Years to Reach 50 millions Users:  Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years),
   Internet (4 Years), iPod (3 Years)?
7. Facebook added over 200 million users in less than a year
8. iPhone applications hit 1 billion in 9 months.
9. We don’t have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question
   is how well we DO it.?
10. If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 3rd largest ahead
    of the United States and only behind China and India
11. Yet, QQ and Renren dominate China
12. 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average,
    online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction
13. 80% of companies use social media for recruitment; % of these usingLinkedIn 95%
14. The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females
15. Ashton Kutcher and Ellen Degeneres (combined) have more Twitter
    followers than the  populations of Ireland, Norway, or Panama.  Note I
    have adjusted the language here after someone pointed out the way it is
    phrased in the video was difficult to determine if it was combined.
16. 50% of the mobile Internet traffic in the UK is for Facebook?people
    update anywhere, anytime?imagine what that means for bad customer
    experiences?
17. Generation Y and Z consider e-mail pass? ? some universities have
    stopped distributing e-mail accounts
18. Instead they are distributing: eReaders + iPads + Tablets
19. What happens in Vegas stays onYouTube,Flickr, Twitter, Facebook?
20. The #2 largest search engine in the world is YouTube
21. While you watch this 100+ hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube
22. Wikipedia has over 15 million articles?studies show it?s more
    accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica?78% of these articles are
    non-English
23. There are over 200,000,000 Blogs
24. Because of the speed in which social media enables communication,
    word of mouth now becomes world of mouth
25. If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on
    Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour
26. 25% of search results for the World?s Top 20 largest brands are
    links to user-generated content
27. 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands
28. Do you like what they are saying about your brand? You better.
29. People care more about how their social graph ranks products and
    services  than how Google ranks them
30. 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations
31. Only 14% trust advertisements
32. Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive ROI
33. 90% of people that can TiVo ads do
34. Kindle eBooks Outsold Paper Books on Christmas
35. 24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in
    circulation
36. 60 millions status updates happen on Facebook daily
37. We no longer search for the news, the news finds us.
38. We will non longer search for products and services, they will find
    us via social media
39. Social Media isn?t a fad, it?s a fundamental shift in the way we
    communicate
40. Successful companies in social media act more like Dale Carnegie and
    less like Mad Men Listening first, selling second
41. The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5
    years
42. Bonus: comScore indicates that Russia has the most engage social
    media audience with visitors spending 6.6 hours and viewing 1,307 pages
    per visitor per month ? Vkontakte.ru is the #1 social network