Original Counter and Post from 24 Sep 2009!
August 2016 ‘Social’ Update
- YouTube mobile videos viewed 1 billion per day Source Jul 2016
- Photos on Instagram 95 mill daily Source Jun 16
- Likes on Facebook 10 bill per day Source Jun 2016
- YouTube ad revenue $4.28 bill per year Source 2015
- Hours streamed on netflix 42.5 bill per year Source Jan 2016
- Snapchat video views 10 bill per day Source
- iPhones sold $150 bill per year Source 2016
- New mobile social users 1 mill per day Source Nov 2015
- Plus 1s on Google Plus 5 bill per day Source Nov 13
- Money made in US from PokemonGo $1.6 mill per day Source Jul 2016
- Messages on Facebook messenger & WhatsApp 60 bill per day Source Nov 2015
- Likes on Instagram 4.2 bill daily Source Jun 16
- Profiles viewed on LinkedIn 25 mill per day Source Jan 2016
- Photos uploaded to Facebook 400 mill per day Source Feb 2015
- Snapchat photos shared 9000 per second Source Jan 2016
- Google searches 100 bill per month Source 2016
- Videos viewed on Facebook 8 bill per day Source Jan 2016
- Users joining LinkedIn 2 per second Source Nov 2014
- Searches on Facebook 1.5 bill per day Source Nov 2015
- Videos watched on YouTube 5 bill per day Source Jul 2016
- Hours uploaded to YouTube 400 hrs per minute Source Nov 2015
- Tweets tweeted 6000 per second Source Jun 2016
June 2013 ‘Social’ Update (mobile, games & heritage to come)
- 2.7 billion likes on Facebook daily Source May 13
- 100 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute Source May 13
- 1.5 million Android phones activated daily Source May 13
- 13.7 billion Google searches per month Source Mar 13
- 350 million photos loaded to Facebook daily Source May 13
- 2.5 billion ads served on YouTube monthly Source Mar 13
- 4 billion Tweets sent daily Source Mar 13
- 5 million images loaded to Instagram daily – May 13
- 5 billion minutes spent watching online video ads monthly Source Mar 13
- 343 million new users of Google + monthly Source Jan 13
- $5 billion made by Facebook 2012 Source May 13
- 833 thousand Apple iOS devices sold daily – Jan 13
- 4 billion hours of content streamed over Netflix per quarter Source Apr 13
- 5 million press the Google+ button daily – May 13
- 400 million made by Twitter per year from ad revenue Source May 13
- 250 million users login and play a Facebook game monthly Source May 13
- 1.28 billion YouTube videos are watched monthly Source Mar 13
- 250 million Android apps installed every month Source Mar 13
- 656 per second likes & comments by Instagram users on Facebook Source Jan 13
- 3.4 billion searches on Bing per month – Jan 13
- 2.1 billion searches on Twitter per day Source May 13
June 2012 ‘Social’ Update
- 3.2 billion likes and comments on Facebook daily Source Apr-12
- 40 billion android and IOS apps downloaded monthly Source Mar-12
- 2 million blogs posts written daily Source Mar-12
- 175 million tweets sent daily Source Feb-12
- YouTube has 2 billion plays per day Source Apr-12
- The Google+ button is pressed 5 billion times daily Source Feb-12
- There are 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook daily Source Apr-12
- 294 billion emails sent per day Source Mar-12
- Samsung sells 42.2 million smartphones each quarter Source Mar-12
- 2.2 million pages added to StumbleUpon monthly Source Feb-12
- Pinterest gets 17 million visits daily Source Mar-12
- Facebook has an annual net income of $1 billion Source Feb-12
- Daily videos uploaded to YouTube is 829 440 Source Apr-12
- 58 photos per second uploaded via Instagram Source Mar-12
- 66 million iPads sold annually since early 2011 Source Mar-12
- G+ gains 625 000 more users each day Source Feb-12
- 22 million hours of TV & Movies watched on Netflix daily Source Mar-12
- Facebook gets 526 million users daily Source Apr-12
August 2011 Update
- 30 billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook each month Source Jul-11
- 550,000 Android-enabled phones are activated every day Source Jul 11
- 48 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute Source May-11
- $2.1 billion per year are spent on Virtual Goods in the US Source May-11
- 1 billion tweets are sent per week Source Mar-11
- YouTube per day has over 3 billion video views Source May-11
- There are currrently 10 billion iPhone apps downloaded each year Source Jul-11
- 20 million people joined Google + in the first 3 weeks Source Aug-11
- There were 80 million new FB accounts 1st quarter 2011 Source Apr-11
- 460,000 New twitter accounts daily Source Mar-11
- There are 50 million likes of Facebook pages per day Source May-11
- Skype users make 300 Million Minutes of Video Calling Per Month Source Jul-11
- Google Chrome browser webt from 10-20% of global browser share in 10 months Source Jul-11
- There are now one million new LinkedIn members every week Source Apr-11
- Facebook ad revenues per year now more than $4 billion Source Jan-11
- Google + users pressing +1 over 2.5 billion times every day Source Jul-11
ABOUT 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.
If you want to embed this on your page just click the button in the bottom left of the app to copy the code to your clipboard OR use the code/s in the boxes at the bottom of this post. Drag select it all then copy/paste into any site. Use this code as I will be regularly updating it with latest stats.
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/REARRANGED Jan 2011 – TAKING INTO ACCOUNT VARIOUS 2010 STATS
- 107 trillion emails sent during 2010 Source Jan 2011
- Apps installed by users on Facebook per day 20 million Source Jan 2011
- 35 hours of video uploaded onto YouTube per minute Source Jan 2011
- 10.2 million comments made every 20 minutes on Facebook Source Jan 2011
- 2.16 million images per day uploaded to Flickr Source Jan 2011
- 30 billion pieces of content shared on Facebook every month Source Jan 2011
- 15 million iPads sold in 9 months after launch April 2010 Source Jan 2011
- many more to come during Jan 2011…
UPDATED Oct 2010 – 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
- $805 mill made from physical books in the US in Jan 11, 30% drop from last year Source AAP Mar 2011
- $69.9 mill made from eBooks in Jan 11 in US a 115% increase from last year Source AAP Mar 2011
- 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 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 Everysingleoneofussms 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)
EMBED CODE
For a 600 pixel wide site/pane
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For a more typical 450 pixel wide site/pane
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The text will be small but to fit a 260 wide sidebar
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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
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
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
Hello.
I’m really impressed, very nice tool, the numbers and stats are more than i expect.
Good job.
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
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?!
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?
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’
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.
Thank you SO MUCH for this great tool! This really drives home the impact of social media on our culture.
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. 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
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 personalizemedia.com/media/SocMedCounter.mp4 (a 5 minute video)
And yes lets meet up and compare iPad apps when you pop over 🙂 Best Gary
Neat, thanks! I am going to embed this on my blog now.
That is quite cool! Just really shows how much activity there is on social media sites. It continues to increase daily.
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
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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I love the new design !
Gary,
I think your app demonstrates up-to-date stats on social media´s momentum. It´s a true phenonemon but I think it will peak and then drop off a bit. Highly enjoy the app! –Chris
Hello Gary I was wondering if you have the stats regarding skype and those signing up or subscribing to their service.
Thanks for reminding me Carl – I might actually drop a couple of stats on the counter and add some Skype ones. Two recent articles look at the remarkable growth of our favourite VOIP service – This year gigaom.com/2010/04/20/skype-q4-2009-number/ and a year ago techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/skype-hits-521-million-users-and-185-million-in-quarterly-revenue/
Cheers!
OMG! Is this an updated count? It’s kinda fun watching all those numbers change every second and I don’t see any indication of it ever slowing down.
Gary: I love the density of data provided in your tool.
your global assessment is inspirational!
It seems that it would be fantastic to see a personalize “all in one” number similar to Klout.com to assess the overall value of someone’s impact on the web.
Hi Olin – I nearly have a tool ready that will allow you to understand your impact across the web, it is metaphorical vs actually based on your name…that would require a little more effort 🙂 But the counter of course is meant to be big picture, I wonder if it would work if you could for example enter in a name or brand and see the ‘impressions’ tick up across the same sort of metrics? Might be worth a try…another weekend project 🙂 Thanks
real great stuff. I like the table. It’s enormous
Gary:
Very smart approach. We might have a solution that eliminates most of the work involved in creating a natural language approach to track name/brand impressions.
Klout’s is a “Tipping Point” approach by identifying online influencers of the crowd then tracking them. Nice. Google should have thought of that a long time ago.
You approach might benefit from looking at the speed a concept propagates across the web. This will infer impact from a different perspective than Klout.
How are you developing this? Are you raw coding or configuring open-source tools, etc?
I am part of a stealth-mode start-up that is developing some interesting semantic tech. We have 4 patents pending and will be ready to go to market in about 3 months.
Once we do, let’s stay in touch! It might make sense for us to provide you with some tools that would help with the semantic layer filtering and analysis.
Many thanks,
Olin Hyde
I liked this very much.
I think it’s the only kind of this?!
Hey
great stuff. Thanks a lot for this peace of grafic
Super article, j’adore le tableau, ça montre l’immensité et l’ampleur du phénomène d’internet! Ça fait réfléchir.
This is magical, Gary is one of my SuperStar. I’ve shared this throughout my social network.
Your counter is amazing!! I would love to put it on my school’s site which supports parents in raising good digital citizens. www.iCybersafe.com Some parents don’t see it as a problem – they believe that we are making a bigger fuss than necessary and that social media is not crucial to their child’s life. This counter would make a statement! I don’t seem to be able to get it to show up on my blog – maybe wordpress doesn’t accept the code? I am not sure. Anyway, just wnated to say it is a terrific way of visually realising that the social media is not going away! Thanks.
Hi Renata,
Thanks and totally agree that the need to be safe on the web is highlighted by the amount of content available, a real filtering challenge!
The embed code, which you can get simply by clicking on the mini button on the bottom left of the counter “click to copy EMBED code to you clipboard” – this will then allow you to just ‘paste’ the code into you blog post (but it has to be in html or code write mode of course). It normally takes seconds and if you have problems get back.
Best Gary
Maybe I never read about this good enough but, is this a plug-in that I could add to my blog? I love what you have done, and I’m sure it took a long time to code, just want to try to understand this a little better.
Hey Gary,
this counter is absolutely amazing.
Just tweeted it away, so some of friendos will see it too.
Keep up the good work.
Cheers!!
One word. Awesome.
I love this statistic ever and ever again
Wow! This count is really awesome! Amazing statistics too.