21 Awesome Social Media Facts, Figures and Statistics for 2013

Social media networks were a novelty 5 years ago and today they are no longer debated around the dinner party table. The conversation has moved on. Facebook is now part of most people’s web lives, Twitter is where a lot of people are reading the breaking news and if you want to be entertained then [...]

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The Facts and Figures on YouTube in 2013 – Infographic

Online video has gone from zero to a staggering 800 million monthly visitors and 4 billion hours of video viewed per month. And that is just YouTube! Every second there are 46,296 YouTube videos being viewed all around the world. In just 8 years it has transformed the web from mono media to multimedia. Videos [...]

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3 Reasons Why YouTube Videos go Viral

YouTube is seen by many aspiring musicians, potential movie stars and wannabes as the online portal to fame and riches. This is not without precedent, as the biggest music brand in the world, Justin Bieber was discovered on YouTube. Last year he set a YouTube record as the first person to reach 2 billion video views (after [...]

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10 Things You May Not Know About YouTube

In my last post I mentioned that the social media ‘verse is full of some best kept secrets. YouTube is one of them. This Time cover from a couple of years ago (with the shiny mirrored screen) was prescient, but not quite enough… I’d cross that ‘You’ out and say ‘Us’. Hasn’t it felt that [...]

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35 Mind Numbing YouTube Facts, Figures and Statistics – Infographic

It is not until you leap into a plane and fly half way around the world to distant places that you start to realize the size and scope of the planet we inhabit. Recently the earth’s population passed the 7 billion mark and over 2 billion of those are connected to the internet and more [...]

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