Latest Social Media Statistics
Our friend Jason Baer from Convince & Convert was in San Diego to visit our advertising & PR agency this week, and he shared some interesting social media statistics and measurements that astounded even us online marketing experts.
- Four out of five computer users are now active in Social Media
- 13 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
- There are 3.6 billions photos on Flickr (most of them are cats)
- 70 million photos are uploaded to Facebook every day
- Twitter counts some 19 million tweets a day
- Social Media spending will grow 34% per year through 2014
Since you are reading this as part of our agency blog, I assume you are already part of the statistics above. I just wonder, if a marketer sees these staggering numbers and still questions the validity of engaging in social media and online advertising, how long before they find themselves obsolete?
Just sayin’….
With 70 million photos uploaded to Facebook everyday, makes you wonder if Kodak, Shutterfly or any of the other large, online photo e-tailers are trying to strike up a partnership.
Imagine being able to print and download large files of all your Facebook friends’ photos. Pretty cool.
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