Best Social Media Studies of 2008 VisInsights.url. 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats.url. As our digital and physical lives blur further, the internet has become the information hub where people spend a majority of their time learning, playing and communicating with others globally. Digital marketing professionals understand this, but most outside the industry don’t realize just how staggering the numbers are of people collaborating, researching, and interacting on the web. I thought it might be fun to take a step back and look at some interesting/amazing social media, Web 2.0, crowdsourcing and internet statistics. I tried to find stats that are the most up-to-date as possible at the time of publishing this post. The numbers presented below should be a close representation of today’s numbers (please correct me in the comments if you find more recent numbers somewhere and I’ll update).
Let’s break them down by section: Google search stats: 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) – approximate number of unique URLs in Google’s index (source) Wikipedia stats (source) YouTube stats source. What a Social Media Expert Should Be. How to Translate What You Do Into What’s In It For Others. Ever feel like you’re speaking a completely different language when you’re relaying your branding message or elevator pitch to others?
Even when you deliver it coherently without stumbling over your words, something seems to be lost in the translation because people just aren’t “getting it?” What’s often lost in the translation, what others aren’t understanding is, “What’s in this for me?” What’s in it for me? Defining your brand and differentiating yourself are important, but at the end of the day, people won’t buy from you or hire you unless they understand how they will benefit. And while you can make the translation easily and automatically in your own head because you’re so familiar with your work, it’s a shift that’s not so easy to make for someone hearing it for the first time (or even the second or the third).
So no matter how enthusiastically and cleverly you are broadcasting, “Here’s who I am and what I do, shouldn’t everyone want this?” Speed up the understanding Author: Newspapers Must Die to Live. Top Social Media Sites of 2008 (Facebook Still Rising).url. What were the top social media sites of 2008? ComScore came out with its worldwide traffic stats for November a few days ago (so these don’t include December). They are a mix of social networks and blogging platforms. Blogger, the orange line in the chart above, still rules the roost with an estimated 222 million unique worldwide visitors in November (up 44 percent from November, 2007). Facebook, the blue line, is on pace to pass it soon with 200 million unique visitors (up 116 percent).
(Note, though, that this is more than the 140 million active users Facebook itself reports—go figure). ComScore keeps a list of what it calls “social networking” sites, but these include blogging platforms and other social media sites as well. Below are the top 20 sites on comScore’s social networking list. Top Social Media Sites (ranked by unique worldwide visitors November, 2008; comScore) Here’s a screenshot of the actual data (as you can see, I rounded above):
Http--www.web-strategist.com-blog-2009-01-11-a-collection-of-soical-network-stats-for-2009-.url. How to Find Statistics on Social Media.url. Selling management on the value of investing time and resources into building an online community using social media is a challenge, and you need all of the support you can get. One way to convey the value of corporate social media participation is to leverage published statistics about who’s using social media platforms and how they are using it. There have been a host of new studies published recently that you can use to help make the case for your own company’s involvement: The Society for New Communications Research recently published their report titled, “New Media, New Influencers & Implications for Public Relations” that provides several case studies illustrating how social media has benefited organizations like the American Red Cross, the Mayo Clinic and Quicken Loans. Among their findings, “Social media is rapidly becoming a core channel for disseminating information.
Rapleaf released the results of their study examining the gender and age of social network users. Welcome to your Knowledge Center.url.