Tuesday, February 26, 2008

New Social Media Revolution Facts

Some stats on the New Media Revolution

  • 7.1 Million Canadians have Facebook pages

  • Toronto Facebook has 1.1 Million members, second in the world, average user is on facebook for 320 minutes per month

  • MYSPACE book in numbers is the 8th largest country

  • 48% of business leaders spend 2-5 hours a week using social media tools to generate leads and find new clients

  • 42% of sales managers view blogs and podcasts as very important sales generating tools (Source: MarketingSherpa)

  • Of the Top 8 most visited sites worldwide, 5 are social networking websites – MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, Live.com, YouTube (Source: eMarketer)

  • The fastest growing demographic of social media users is those 25 years old and older (source: too many surveys to list here)

  • Just under 49,000 people who use Second Life are earning a positive cash flow in the virtual world (source: Second Life)

  • Podcasts

  • Videocasting

  • Twitter is going by 3,000% per month, 750,000 users



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