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 [...]
5 Reasons Why Facebook Rules the Social Media World
Why does Facebook rule the world of social media? To quote Mark Schaefer from an Ignite Social Media blog post, that I also participated in: “It’s not a social media platform. It’s a lifestyle. For millions of people, Facebook is the Internet. Making a choice to move away from Facebook is a lot different than changing [...]
The Facts and Figures about the Power of Visual Content – Infographic
We all know that images are compelling. The growth of visual content has been on a rapid upward trajectory over the last 12 months. Social media platforms such as Pinterest and Instagram have taken the social media world by storm. Instagram announced in July that it had acquired 80 million users. To put some further [...]
Staggering Social Media Statistics from the Olympics – Infographic
When I signed up to social media over four years ago you could almost count the number of tweets with a pen and a piece of paper. Facebook had not even cracked 50 million users. Now it is approaching one billion users globally which is one in every seven people on the planet using the [...]
5 Insights into Global Social Media in 2012 [Infographic]
Social media is emerging from its adolescent phase and is rapidly maturing. Initially social networks had an image problem with some CEO’s and executives thinking Facebook was for teenagers to post the weekend’s party photos and Twitter was for narcisstic attention seekers with a limited vocabulary. There was also an initial perception that because the platforms [...]








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