Studies Show More and More Companies Using Social Media

Studies Show More and More Companies Using Social Media 75% Social media generates almost double the marketing leads of trade show, telemarketing, daily mail, or PPC of people use social media to find or share information about brands 46% 82% of web users turn to social of consumers trust a company media for making purchase. more if they are involved with social media Facebook is the top priority for 80% people to get connected to brand than any other social networking There are over 1.11 billion sites users of Facebook with 665 million daily active users On Facebook, brand posts get half of their reach within 30 minutes of being posted 751 Million users access Facebook from mobile with 7,000 different devices Every day 1 Million new accounts are registered and more than 11 every second There are over 500 million users of Twitter with 288 million monthly active users 60% of Twitter users access it from mobile Since last year Twitter encountered 44% of growth in active users 50% of companies across the globe have YouTube channels Each month, YouTube has over 800 million unique users visiting Over 4 billion hours of video (over 450,000 years' worth) are the site and over 4 billion hours of video watched viewed each month on YouTube YouTube is the second largest search engine after Google (bigger than Bing, Yahoo!, and Ask combined) Despite of this, Social Media usage is still increasing, and expected to continue to increase through the next decade. Currently, 18% of the time spent on the Internet accounts for usage of social media. Do You know? A study conducted by the University of Massachusetts indicates that a growing number of Fortune 500 companies are making their presence felt in social media and buying likes and / or links. 83% of buyers say their trust in a company increases when it has a Facebook account with many likes 80% of consumers will purchase from a company if their CEO is on social media 92% of small businesses consider social media the perfect marketing tool, with an estimated 80% of Facebook users stating they would choose brands with a page on Facebook than those that don't. 50% of Twitter users are likely to buy from brands that they follow, and the more Twitter followers a company has, the greater the chances of a click through. Many customer are connecting on social media for more reasons. Wheather they are seeking to engage with a brand they are loyal to or finding out which brands their peers prefer, social media has become a major influencer for many buyers. Thus, top as well as small companies are making their presence felt in social media and buying likes andlor links. http://mysocialimage.co.uk