Wednesday 19 August 2009

some very interesting statistics about the social media - article reviews

This video on youtube has been put up for a few days already, and many people have talked about it! Here is the original blog post, and below are some of the interesting statistics about the social media and the impact it has on people/the world/what is going on!

Statistics Show Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think

Is Social Media a Fad or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Welcome to the Social Media Revolution: watch the 4:23min movie with some cool statistics about the social media revolution, like:
  • # Wikipedia has over 13 million articles…some studies show it’s more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica…78% of these articles are non-English
  • # There are over 200,000,000 Blogs
  • # 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands
  • # 24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation because we no longer search for the news, the news finds us.
  • # Successful companies in social media act more like party planners, aggregators, and content providers than traditional advertiser
  • # In the near future we will no longer search for products and services they will find us via social media
Continue to read these statistics(I have just selected some of the most interesting ones) - Statistics Show Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think - via the socialnomics weblog online

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