I live in the middle of no where on the beaches on southern Italy. The closest networking group I can find meets at 7:30 am once a week and it’s a three hour drive. Not really something I can do. In person networking events are hard for me. Online networking on the other hand is a great way for me to spread my wings so to speak and get to know new people. However, I do still like to find a real live in person networking event at least once a year that I can attend.
- The internet has 3.17 billion users
- There are 2.3 billion active social media users
- 91% of retail brands use 2 or more social media channels
- Internet users have an average of 5.54 social media accounts
- Social media users have risen by 176 million in the last year
- 1 million new active mobile social users are added every day. That’s 12 each second
- Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp handle 60 billion messages a day
- Social networks earned an estimated $8.3 billion from advertising in 2015
- 38% of organizations plan to spend more than 20% of their total advertising budgets on social media channels in 2015, up from 13% a year ago
- Only 20 Fortune 500 companies actually engage with their customers on Facebook, while 83% have a presence on Twitter
- People aged 55-64 are more than twice as likely to engage with branded content than those 28 or younger
- 96% of the people that discuss brands online do not follow those brands’ owned profiles
- 78 percent of people who complain to a brand via Twitter expect a response within an hour
- On WordPress alone, 56 million blog posts are published every month
- A 2011 study by AOL/Nielsen showed that 27 million pieces of content were shared every day
- The top 3 content marketing tactics are blogging (65%); social media (64%); and case studies (64%)
- Facebook now sees 8 billion average daily video views from 500 million users
- Snapchat users watch 6 billion videos every day
- US adults spend an average of 1 hour, 16 minutes each day watching video on digital devices
- 78% of people watch online videos every week, 55% watch every day
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