social media 2008
Blogs and social networks are now part of our daily lives.
* comScore MediaMetrix (August 2008) - Blogs: 77.7 million unique visitors in
the US - Facebook: 41.0 million | MySpace 75.1 million - Total internet
audience 188.9 million * eMarketer (May 2008) - 94.1 million US blog readers
in 2007 (50% of Internet users) - 22.6 million US bloggers in 2007 (12%) *
Universal McCann (March 2008) - 184 million WW have started a blog | 26.4 US -
346 million WW read blogs | 60.3 US - 77% of active Internet users read
blogs YouTube = 10 percent of all internet traffic
(source: Ellacoya Networks)
YouTube & Wikipedia among top brands
(source: brandchannel.com)
Five of the top 10 websites are social
(source: Alexa)
Over 100 million blogs exist
(source: Technorati)
120,000 new blogs launched every day
(source: Technorati)
1.5 million posts per day (17 per second)
(source: Technorati)
Brian Solis’s notes
http://www.briansolis.com/2008/09/state-of-social-media-2008.html
