Garys Social Media Count

Living statistics – Many of us who have been following social media since the early 90s are very sensitive to today’sexponential growth in usage of the sharing web. Inspired by other cool real time counters, Social Media Industry Head, Laurel Papworth, my own Rise & Rise of Social Media presentations and various ‘cool’ videos (you know the ones) I decided to put together this little Flash app (which is in constant development) showing how active & dynamic the Social Web, Mobile Industry and Game Business is. More after the embed.



If you want to embed this on your page just use the code in the box below. Drag select it all then copy/paste into any site. Use this code as I will be regularly updating it with latest stats.

For a 600 pixel wide site/pane

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The text will be small but to fit a 260 wide sidebar

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More about the Count - I quickly built and coded the app based on data culled from a range of social media sources & sites originally at the end of Sept 2009. The design has been finessed extra functionality  has been added such as week, month & year lookahead/backs plus some dynamic data input. Also mobile and games tabs were added. (A combined Film, TV and advertising tab in development Apr 2010).

The social web has exploded in the last year and below are some of the social media statistics based on key data points that the ‘Gary’s Social Media Count’  is based on (many will be updated!).

UPDATED Oct 20{10 – ONGOING SOCIAL MEDIA STATS PLUS NEW HERITAGE MEDIA ADDITION

• 2 billion YouTube videos watched per day & over 24 hours per minute uploaded Source Google 2010


• 17 million apps per day downloaded from the iPhone App Store Source Asymco Sep 2010


• 90 million tweets sent per day on Twitter Source TechCrunch Sep 2010


• 36.1 billion minutes of calls on Skype in last quarter of 2009 Source Gigaom Apr 2010


• $11.03 billion made at US box office Source 2010


• $20 bill Lost in US economy due to movie piracy Source 2010


• Nearly 50 million read a newspaper in the US daily Source 2009


• $341 bill in global TV revenue from ads, subscription & public funds Source


• 1.4 billion single music tracks downloaded globally Source 2008


• Around 20.9 million attend an orchestral concert in the US each year Source 2008


• $134 bill is made from global print ads Source


• US $336 mill US is the total spend making Australian films Source 2010


• US $1.48 billion US is the total spend on making UK films Source 2010


• US $140 bill ! wages for just the jobs component making US movies Source 2009


• 82 million hardcover books sold worldwide each year Source 2010


• 44 million kindle books sold by Amazon per year Source 2010


• 236 million people a week in the US listen to the radio Source 2009


• $11.4 billion is made from music concerts worldwide Source 2008


• $8.73 billion made in US by DVD & Blu-ray of US made movies (big drop) Source 2009


• $12 billion US lost in pirated music & movies in Spain every year Source 2009


• $66.4 bill made from all music sold worldwide Source 2009


• 30 hours of TV watched by UK viewers each week Source 2010


• 2.8 billion movie tickets sold in the US, EU, China & Japan combined Source 2010


• $27 bill spent on new TV sets in the US this year Source 2010


• 70.6 billion printed press page views per month in the US Source

UPDATED – ONGOING SOCIAL MEDIA, MOBILE and GAME STATISTICS:

• Social/mobile – 2 million iPads sold in first 2 months June 2010 Guardian


• Social – One new member of LinkedIn every second June 2010 MktCharts


• mobile – iPad shipments running at 9 million global shipments in the first 12 months. May 2010Morgan Stanley


• 1.4 billion music tracks sold on iTunes between Sep 09 & Feb 10 Wikipedia iTunes tracking


• 300 000 new twitter users per day Apr 2010 TechRadar


• 247 billions emails per day and 18% growth in internet users (of 1.75bn) Jan 2010 Royal Pingdom‘Internet 2009 in Numbers’


• 280 mill iPhone apps per month Jan 2010 GigaOm


• 3.5 billion pieces of content shared on Facebook each week and 2.5 billion photo uploads to Facebook per month Feb 2010 eConsultancy


• Facebook 635mill in ad revenue & $75 mill in gifts Mar 2010 InsideFacebook


• Facebook 25 million new members each month Feb 2010 Mashable


• 50 million Tweets per day Feb 2010 - eConsultancy


• YouTube 1Billion watched per day Dec 2009 SMH

STATS USED IF NOT IN THE UPDATED LIST ABOVE

• 20 hours of video uploaded every minute onto YouTube (source YouTube blog Aug 09)


• Facebook 600k new members per day, and photos, videos per month, 700mill & 4 mill respectively (source Inside Facebook Feb 09)


• Twitter 18 million new users per year & 4 million tweets sent daily (source TechCrunch Apr 09)


• iPolicy UK – SMS messaging has a bright future (Aug 09)


• 900 000 blogs posts put up every day (source Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008)


• YouTube daily, 96 million videos watched, $1mill bandwidth costs (source Comscore Jul 06 !)


• Second Life 250k virtual goods made daily, text messages 1250 per second (source Linden Lab release Sep 09)


• Money – $5.5 billion on virtual goods (casual & game worlds) even Facebooks gifts make $70 million annually (source Viximo Aug 09)


• Flickr has 73 million visitors a month who upload 700 million photos (source Yahoo Mar 09)


• Mobile social network subscribers – 92.5 million at the end of 2008, by end of 2013 rising to between 641.6-873.1 million or 132 mill annually (source Informa PDF)


• SMS – Over 2.3 trillion messages will be sent across major markets worldwide in 2008 (sourceEverysingleoneofus sms statistics)

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