Living statistics – Many of us who have been following social media since the early 90s are very sensitive to today’s exponential 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.
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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 – 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 2010 Morgan 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 (source Everysingleoneofus sms statistics)
If you want to download this counter in its current state then right click and save the following:
- The raw flash movie 82k
- A windows executable app 4.4MB
Finally if you think of any more profound ‘dynamic’ stats to replace some of the above then, comment below!
UPDATE – The counter now has mobile and games added – soon to be included will be ‘heritage or traditional’ media (films shown in cinemas, TV shows being shown globally etc:). The statistical sources for the mobile & games counters are added below (even though they are in other posts).
Some of the sources for the mobile counter
- TechCrunchies – Mobile Video Viewers Statistics
- AdMob June 2009 Mobile Metrics Report
- PortioDirect Mobile Factbook 2009
- Mashable – CITA report – 4.1 Billion SMS Messages Are Sent Daily USA
- iPolicy UK – SMS messaging has a bright future
- Research and Markets Global Mobile Broadband – Statistics and Trends
- Smartbrief Sharp Increase in Mobile Internet Adspend…
- ABI Research In 2014 Monthly Mobile Data Traffic Will Exceed 2008 Total
- HotHardware Huge Growth in Daily Mobile Web Access
- Ecoustics
- Cio GPS Enabled Mobile Phone Shipments to More than Double Over Next Five Years
- Nielsen Americans Watching More TV Than Ever: Web and Mobile Video Up too
Some of the sources for the games counter
- 50 million daily users of Zynga social games (Inside Social Games 2009)
- $2.8 bill generated yearly by China MMOG players (Raph Koster 2009)
- 16 million quests per day completed by WoW players (Maximum PC 2009)
- $22 Billion US games revenue in 2009 (IDE Agency 2009)
- 50 000 person to person auctions per day on Gaia
- 1 million currency transactions per day in Eve Online (MMORPG.com 2009)
- 9 games sold every second 2007 (GrabStats 2007)
- $5.5 bill spent on virtual goods globally
- 4.1 million new MMORPG subscribers 2009 (MMORPGChart.com 2008)
- $125 mill advertising revenues in Social Virtual Worlds (GamineExpedition 2008)
- 575000 log into Fantasy Westward Journey per day (Seeking Alpha 2009)
- 250 thousand virtual goods created on Second Life per day (MarketWire 2009)
- $594 million invested in Virtual World companies in 2008 (Engage Digital Media 2009)
- 1.5 million new 3-11 US children subscribing to Virtual Worlds annually (GamineExpedition 2009)
- 1 million message board posts per day in Gaia online
- 7.5 million per month use Habbo
- $2.45 billion per year revenue made from World of Warcraft (Edge Online 2008)
- 13.4 million portable game units sold in 2007 (Grab Stats 2007)
- 936 mill Chinese user hours per week in online games (78 mill @ 12 hrs pw) (Futures of Learning 2008)
- 1250 text messages sent per second in Second Life (Linden Lab 2009)
- 465 million user hours in second life over the last year (Linden Lab 2009)
Please suggest other stats or point out errors – as this widget is now embedded in 100s of blogs I am keen to keep it up to date and accurate as possible! Cheers
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I must say Gary I am blown away by this app and amazed by the statistics…. Wow! Now I must admit it would be nice to have this app that showed all the reasons why we benefit from marketing with social media. As they say “The numbers dont lie” and these are without a doubt some huge and growing numbers. Great work, I must share this with my friends on Twitter, lol, The number just went up one
Thanks for offering this Info
Dusty
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April 2nd, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Thanks Dusty – yes time to update it yet again! Even though it was only back in Sept when I started it all the numbers have increased! Reminds me of the ever expanding and accelerating universe
Glad you liked it
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Hello.
I’m really impressed, very nice tool, the numbers and stats are more than i expect.
Good job.
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Gary’s Social Media Count: http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/ …impressive
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Hello Gary ! Hope you remember me in Sydney, nice chat over good wine !!!
I have a request regarding your superb social media count, which I use a lot : each second line is with a dark font, and sometime is not visible when displayed on big screen. Could you change this and put two bright fonts ??? Sorry for the low level of this request, but your work is so superb that I cannot find more to ask
Cheers
Serge
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April 5th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Hi Serge – yes of course I remember you! Hope things are good over in Europe. Thanks for the compliments.
Especially for you I just did a much brighter alternate line font (vs doing the whole the same white) but it should be very visible now on even the darkest projectors. Also I am constantly updating the data for reference vs the ones on the site from nearly 6 months ago – I may at a pop-up on the widget to list current data sources too.
Thanks for commenting! and hope to see you this way again soon?!
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Isn’t the ZYNGA count waaay off? If you move the scale to one year it appears that 18 billion new players join….surely this can’t be right?
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April 29th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Hi Michael – The zynga number is actually people logging in to play vs new subscribers. So yes it is likely to be 18 billion who play their social games (which was the intention of that line) – of course many logging in multiple times in a year! Hope that helps. Might change the wording to ‘login to play a zynga game’
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I knew that social media was big….but I never imagined it was this big. I watched for 17 seconds, and the numbers were almost unrea.
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Thank you SO MUCH for this great tool! This really drives home the impact of social media on our culture.
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Hello Gary,
first, thank you for changing the color, now it is perfect wherever I display it.
But, if I may ask… I have decided I would try to make all my presentation on my iPad (BTW I am coming to Sydney end of July to do conferences invited by Hargraves Institute).
And, of course, your counter does not display on my ipad (flash…)
Is there a work around ??? (html5 ? cf. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/3B4pkK/www.focus.com/images/view/11905 )
Sorry to be so pushy, but you can’t imagine how much your work is useful to me
Cheers
Serge
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Gary Hayes Reply:
June 9th, 2010 at 10:13 am
Hi Serge – yes I am doing quite a few presentations from my iPad now too, keynote and various browser display apps…still a bit fiddly creating them on the iPad though
– When I designed the app one weekend morning a few months ago I actually saw it full screen on the iPhone/Pad but sadly, as we all know, Apple & Flash don’t get on…it will take a bit of work coding it in Java or html5 (if that is even feasible) but will look into it – for now though I think your best bet would be to run it as a full screen video capture – I might put up a link to a mp4 version which will run full screen on the iPad – try this http://personalizemedia.com/media/SocMedCounter.mp4 (a 5 minute video)
And yes lets meet up and compare iPad apps when you pop over
Best Gary
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Neat, thanks! I am going to embed this on my blog now.
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That is quite cool! Just really shows how much activity there is on social media sites. It continues to increase daily.
Jon Ochs´s last blog ..Stop Trying To Make Money In Social Media And Start Building Relationships
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Gary,
This app rules and show just how crazy people are about social media. I love it and might have to implement the counter on my site.
Cheers,
Richard
Richard´s last blog ..How Do I Get YouTube Videos On My iPod
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This is one of the coolest social media posts i’ve come across. It’s really interesting too to see how flash is adapting to social media and how things are integrating. Thanks for this!
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