Socialnomics

Over 50% of the world’s population in Social Media is under 30 years old.
Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S.
1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. met viasocial media
Facebook added over 200 million users in less than a year.
If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 3rt largest.
80% of companies use social media forcreuitment, 95% of these are using LinkedIn.
* 50% of the mobile Internet traffic in the UK is for Facebook, imagine what this means for bad customer experiences.
*Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé.
* What happens in Vegas stays on Facebook, Twitter, flickr, youtube, etc.
* YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in theworld
* Wikipedia has over 15 million articles. If you were paid $1 for every article posted on Wikipedia you would earn $1,712.32 per hour
* 25% of search results for theWorld’s Top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content.
* 34% of bloggers post opinions about products & brands.
* People care more about how theirsocial graph ranks products and services than how googl ranks them.
* 78% of consumers trust peer recommendation, only 14% trust advertisements.
* Only 18% of traditional TVcampaigns generate a positive ROI, 90% of people skip ads via TiVo/DVR.
* The ROI of Social media is your business will still exist in 5 years.
* 24 of 25 LargestNewspapers are Experiencing Record Declines in Circulation.
* 60 million status updates happen on Facebook daily.
* We no longer search for the news, the news finds us…* We will no longer search for products and services they will find us via social media.
* Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.