Fascinating Social Media Facts of the Year 2010
Fascinating Social Media Facts of Year 2010 | Social Media Today
2. In terms of the impact of social networks on advertising, word of mouth is the popular option with 78% of customers trust peer recommendations on sites. While, only 14% trust advertisements.5. An average user becomes a fan of 2 pages every month.
7. 25% of search results for the world’s top 20 brands are linked to user-generated content.
11. * In a sample survey of 2884 people across 14 countries, on an average, users log in twice a day to social networking sites and 9 times a month on professional websites.
13. * In a sample survey of 2884 people across 14 countries, people have about 195 friends on an average.
16. An average Facebook user spends about 55 minutes a day on the site.
21. Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
22. Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
26. **Over 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month.
27. **Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites are integrated with Facebook.
29. The most popular YouTube video – Justin Bieber, Baby ft. Ludacris has had over 374,403,983 views
30. ** YouTube receives over 2 billion viewers each day.
31. ** 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube by users every minute.
32. ** 70% of YouTube users are from the United States.
33. ** More than half of YouTube’s users are under the age of 20.
37. There are over 181 million blogs.
38. 34% of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.
41. ** Two thirds of bloggers are male.
46. 54% of bloggers post content or tweet on a daily basis.
47. 80% of Twitter users use Twitter on mobile devices.
50. **There are over 110 million users of Twitter currently.
53. Of the 60 million users of LinkedIn half of them are from outside US.
55. 80% companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool.
56. **Every second a new member joins LinkedIn.
62. **69% of users edit Wikipedia to fix errors.
63. **73% of Wikipedia users edit Wikipedia because they want to share knowledge.
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Google Boost: a push to simplify ad-buying at a local level
Google Launches Boost, Easy Local Advertising With Artificial Intelligence - NYTimes.com
Boost appears aimed at turning Google advertising for local businesses from a complex art often hired-out to specialist consultants into a turn-key technology with far less friction than non-technical business owners experience today.
MovieReshape: Tracking and Reshaping of Humans in Videos
Robots already “protecting” borders and military facilities
How long before they carry a live gun? How long before the operation of that gun is also automated? Who is responsible in case of errors? The military? The programmers? The politicians? No one? How long before they are used by the police too for crowd “dispersal”? How long before they are used against “homeland terrorists”? Who defines who are the terrorists? In an era of widespread data hacking, photo and video manipulation, how difficult would it be to implicate somebody in something they did not do?
Eventually all companies will fail
A good strategy is once your current product becomes successful, start to think and build the next product which is the killer product of your current one.
Every living organism contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, so do companies. It happened to Microsoft and will happen to Google next, once the PR tide turns against it.
At one point companies become too big, too successful…”evil’. From a psychological standpoint, humans like a winner…but only for a limited time. Once the winner is in place for too long, it is human nature to join the ranks of the winner’s enemies. Human beings resent to feel like losers for too long.
A good way to avoid this at the corporate level is to split your business into smaller, independent units under a totally different brand. Even better if they seem to compete with the market leader, which can be owned by yourself, the market leader, behind the scenes.
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Electronics meets offline media on advertising shop displays
Japanese billboard recognises age and gender
a young woman stepping in front of the display was instantly shown an ad designated for young, female viewers: a picture of some pasta. The software will also be able to track your distance from the display and the amount of time you’ve spent gawping at the screen to tailor different adverts.
HRP4 Robot, downsized version. Remarkable balance and mobility
Running out of things to say on Twitter?
40 useful things you can share on Twitter besides blog posts | Social Media Today
Flag up a hashtag you are following for the day and why (or list a few that you think are worth a look)
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