Social Media Marketing
Were all familiar with Social Media giants Facebook and Twitter but what does it mean to your business?
Whether you like either medium or use it, you have to face the facts.
Entrepreneurs and developers from more than 190 countries build with Facebook Platform
People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day
Every month, more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external websites
Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day
More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook, including over 80 of comScore's U.S. Top 100 websites and over half of comScore's Global Top 100 websites
Twitter has in excess of 175 million users as of 2010 - FACT
There are now 175 million users on Twitter, ranging from senior foreign diplomats and politicians to bored 13-year-old teenagers. It's because the service is able to reach across that swath of the global population that the site should exceed 200 million in just the next two months in 2011.
Whatever you think about Social Media it’s certain that the trend is towards integrating social media within your business web marketing strategy.
There is a trend of convergence between sites such as Facebook with traditional search methods as users seek out companies and service providers via the Facebook search facility. If your company is not there then your maybe missing an opportunity.
YouTube
YouTube now boasts 2 Billion videos viewed EVERY DAY
Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the world's most popular online video community, allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share originally created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small.
People are watching 2 billion videos a day on YouTube and uploading hundreds of thousands of videos daily. In fact, every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.
You Tube users has a broad age range, 18-55, evenly divided between males and females and spans all parts of the world. Fifty-one percent of our users go to YouTube weekly or more often and 52 percent of 18-34 year-olds share videos often with friends and colleagues. With such a large and diverse user base, YouTube offers something for everyone.
