PowerPoint decks of the world, rejoice! I submit to you the following cornucopia of statistics transcribed from the video above:
- Over 50% of the world's population is under 30-years-old.
- Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S.
- 1 in 5 couples meet online. 3 in 5 gay couples meet online.
- 1 in 5 divorces is blamed on Facebook.
- What happens in Vegas stays on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube et al.
- Kindergartners are learning on iPads, not chalkboards.
- If Facebook were a country, it'd be the world's third largest, yet Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google are not welcome in China.
- A new member joins LinkedIn every second.
- Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, and Britney Spears have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Sweden, Israel, Greece, Chile, North Korea, and Australia.
- 50% of the mobile Internet traffic in the UK is for Facebook. Imagine what this means for bad customer experiences.
- Over 37 million people watched the VW Darth Vader Super Bowl ad on YouTube.
- The Ford Explorer launch on Facebook generated more traffic than a Super Bowl ad.
- Generations Y and Z consider email passé. Some universities have stopped distributing email accounts.
- eReaders have surpassed traditional book sales.
- Social gamers will buy $6 billion in virtual goods by 2013. Movie goers buy only $2.5 billion in real goods.
- YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world.
- If Wikipedia were made into a book, it would be 2.25 million pages long and would take you [more than] 123 years to read.
- 90% of consumers trust peer recommendations; only 14% trust advertisements.
- 93% of marketers use social media for business.
- The ROI of social media is your business will still exist in 5 years.
