Erik Qualman of Socialnomics has created a new version of his famous original video “Social Media Revolution” which has received over 1.9 million views since July last year. Eric’s new version released earlier this month is a fresh and exciting look into the updated Social Media statistics and the phenomenal global growth of Social Media. Some of the interesting keypoints and facts include:
- Facebook is now topping Google for weekly traffic in US.
- Social Media has overtaken pornography as #1 activity on the web.
- Facebook added over 200.000.000 users in less than a year.
- 80% of companies use Social Media for reqruitment – 95% of these do it on LinkedIn.
- The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 old females.
- 90% of people watching TV skip the ads using TiVo or PVR’s.
- 60 million status updates happen on Facebook every day.
- YouTube has become the world’s second biggest search engine. It is owned by Google.
- 78% of consumers rather trust peer recommendations. Only 14% trust traditional advertising.
Social Media Revolution
The message of this presentation is that businesses don’t have a choice any more. It is not a question whether they want to engage in Social Media or not. The question is how well they do it?
Enjoy the updated version of the Social Media Revolution Part 2:
PS. While you were watching this video over 100 hours of new videos was uploaded to YouTube. Check out the original Social Media Revolution video featured here: Social Media is More Interesting Than Porn
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Kris Olin, MSc (Econ.) * Editor in Chief at Social Media Revolver * Web Designer * SEO Specialist * Author of the Facebook Advertising Guide. Follow Kris on Twitter and LinkedIn. See his photos at Flickr.