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47 Social Media Facts To Blow Your Mind

Teaching teens responsible social media use.

If teens are part of your target market, you’re in luck. Around 92% of teens go online every day. 71% use more than one social media site. They’re everywhere online, so reaching out to them shouldn’t be too hard.

More men are on YouTube and LinkedIn, while women dominate Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. If you’re launching a gender-targeted campaign, knowing where men and women hang out online can help you decide where to focus your efforts.

As of 2016, unique mobile users make up 51% of the population, and 30% make up mobile social media users. The trend from 2014 shows a steady growth, which means the number of mobile users on social media will increase in the coming years. It’s more important than ever to launch online marketing campaigns for mobile, and not just desktop and laptop users.

North America has the highest social media pe*******on rate at 59%, followed by South America at 50%. If you’re targeting the Americas, then using social media is a solid way to reach out to them.

Facebook is still the biggest social media network with 1.59 billion users worldwide, and with 70% daily login statistics. So if you want to reach out to more people with just one campaign, Facebook is a great choice. It also provides the best ROI at 95.8%, followed by Twitter at 63.5%, which is a far second.

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Reddit is the best social network for large-scale communities

Reddit has over 234 million unique users and over 11,464 active communities not to mention 853,824 subreddits. It has a very robust and active user base amongst the social media networks with average visit length at 13+ minutes, 8 billion monthly Reddit pageviews and over 25 million votes on Reddit daily.

YouTube is big, but Facebook is colossal

Many people out there think YouTube out does Facebook in very many aspects. Well, it is high time you updated your info. Facebook eclipses YouTube in an unfathomable way. A poll of web users showed that 77% use Facebook, 63% use YouTube, 25% use LinkedIn, 24% use Google Plus and 21% use Twitter. Now, as you can see, the competition leaves all the other social networks in the dust especially twitter. Regarding Facebook and YouTube, YouTube has around 1 billion users monthly yet Facebook boasts of over 1.86 billion users monthly. Now that is a table turner. Even Facebook messenger is most popular instant messaging app.

LinkedIn is the most important social network for professionals

For those inclined towards networking with professionals, this social media platform is of great help. With over 467 million members worldwide, it is amongst the popular networks with active users. Also, a huge number of the users are students and college graduates. Due to the trustworthiness of LinkedIn, lots of millionaires seem to prefer it to other social networks excluding Facebook. In fact, in a poll of 1300 millionaires, at least 41% of them used LinkedIn regularly. In addition, LinkedIn is regarded as a trustworthy source of professional content according to UK business professionals.

Surprising Social Media Facts And Stats You Should know