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Social networking is the #1 activity online. Even though Google gets the most visitors, Facebook is where most of us are spending our time. 
Sixty-five per cent of the 16-24 year-olds who were polled for the survey, listed talking to their friends via Facebook and Twitter, as their top leisure activity. 
Finally, Facebook releases long-held company secrets.
Financials: - 2011 Revenue was $3.711 billion vs. $1.974 billion in 2011. - 2011 net income (taxed): $1 billion vs $606 million in 2010. - Annual revenue grew 154% from 2009 to 2010 and 88% from 2010 to 2011. - Cash on hand: $3.9 billion - Raising: $5 billion - Ad revenue in 2011: $3.2 billion over $1.9 billion for 2010. There was a 42% increase in ads delivered in 2011. There was an 18% increase in price of ads 2011. - Revenue mix: 2011 85% was advertising. 2010 95% was advertising. 2009 100% advertising. - Payments revenue in 2011: $557 million up from $106 million in 2010. - Zynga is 12% of Facebook's business. Facebook lists innovation from Google, Microsoft, and Twitter as risk factors. Why increasing ad rates: "improvements in ability to deliver more relevant ads. Product changes to deliver higher interaction."
Quick Take: 88% overall growth y/y is not as impressive as we'd like. 500% growth in payments is very impressive, however. So is increasing the price of ads 18% while increasing ads sold 42%.
USER NUMBERS: 845 million users (monthly) 483 million daily – daily is up 43%. More than 425 million mobile users in December. Facebook mobile app is most downloaded app on all smartphones. Quick Take: Those are STUNNING daily numbers.
SEXY STUFF: Mark Zuckerberg owns 28.4% of Facebook. He's worth $25bn+. Zuckerberg spent $800,000 on airplanes last year. Dustin Moskovitz, cofounder, owns 7%. Between her stock, options, unexcercised options, and restricted stock units, Sheryl Sandberg SEEMS to be worth about $2 billion. The math is a little unclear since we don't know if RSUs convert to stock on a 1 to 1 ratio. Peter Thiel's stake is worth $2.2 billion Jim Breyer (Accel Partners) has a stake worth around $10 billion.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - YouTube, Google Inc's video website, is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 percent increase in the past eight months, according to the company. According to the company, roughly 60 hours of video is now uploaded to YouTube every minute, compared with the 48 hours of video uploaded per minute in May. 
Google+ Growth Accelerating. Passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day. Prediction: 400 million users by end of 2012. What does this all mean? What does the future hold? 
For the first time, the Facebook for Android mobile app has eclipsed the daily active user count of Facebook for iPhone. The Android app launched in September 2009 more than a year after its iPhone sister and has been playing catch-up ever since. 
Facebook has more than 800 million active users with more than 200 million added in 2011. Twitter now has 100 million active users every month with visitor growth up 60% this year. Social media has become a pervasive part of culture and digital life all around the world. It’s essential that brands understand how their fans and customers interact with them on Facebook and Twitter if they hope to leverage these great platforms and grow their businesses. 
We all know about the high profile Google+ users such as Mark Zuckerberg or Sergey Brin, but what about the average user? ![Tumblr Numbers: The Rapid Rise of Social Blogging [INFOGRAPHIC] | Social Networks & Social Media by numbers | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/KqcAFGQsrNrz4t7pmdb32Tl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
In just a few short years, Tumblr has risen to the world stage as a popular social media platform. Check out the system's nuts and bolts. Social media use has become so pervasive in the lives of American teens that having a presence on a social network site is almost synonymous with being online. Fully 95% of all teens ages 12-17 are now online and 80% of those online teens are users of social media sites.1 Many log on daily to their social network pages and these have become spaces where much of the social activity of teen life is echoed and amplified—in both good and bad ways. |
Facebook's rise never ceases to amaze us - from a net income of $229 million in 2009 to a cool $1 billion last year, as illustrated in our latest infographic. Among other things, we look at the number of active Facebook users around the globe (Asia has the most users, but the U.S. has the largest penetration per population), what they actually do on Facebook (like uploading 250 million photos a day), the games they like to play, and some interesting facts from Facebook's recent IPO filing. 
Microsoft edged out Yahoo in January again to become the second-largest Web property behind Google, according to the latest data from comScore.
Unique visitors to Microsoft sites, including MSN, surpassed 179 million last month -- about 2 million ahead of Yahoo’s total traffic.
Google was No. 1, with more than 187 million visitors. Rounding out the top five were Facebook (163.5 million) and Amazon (110 million).
The comScore report also underscored the growing popularity of virtual bulletin board Pinterest, which was the third-fastest-growing site in January behind IRS.gov and ED.gov (U.S. Department of Education).
Buddy Media released some great data today focused on how social media can influence consumer behavior. The research was put together in concert with Comscore and focuses on Facebook. 
For a few years now, brands have been touting frothy Facebook "like" numbers as evidence of their social-media acumen. But how many of those fans are actually bothering to take part in conversation with brands?
Not too many, as it turns out.
Slightly more than 1% of fans of the biggest brands on Facebook are actually engaging with the brands, according to a study from the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, an Australia-based marketing think tank that counts Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and other major advertisers as its supporters. 
Stop talking about "time spent" and "sharing." Start looking at revenue. 
A new report from the Royal Bank Of Scotland (RBS) has revealed that medium to large-sized businesses are betting on social media to play a significant role in their marketing plans next year, with almost nine out of ten corporations saying that they will maintain or spend more on their social media budget for 2012. 
A couple of days back Seth Godin weighed in against thinking of social media influence as a numbers game, arguing that once you focus on numbers you invite more noise. Here’s why Haydn Shaughnessy thinks we need to be cautious about that argument and measure social media influence more. This video infographic shows all the latest facts & figures about social media. 
2011: Tumblr Sharing Grew by 1300%, Google Plus Plateaued. Some other interesting statistics: - Facebook makes up 52.1% of all sharing on the web. - Twitter makes up 13.5% of all shared items on the web - Internet Explorer is on the decline for total shares - Chrome is slowly gaining market share, and has passed Firefox in terms of shares 
Twitter Mobile Usage In Europe More Than Doubles Over Past Year... 
Twitter Now Employs More Than 700 People... |
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