Garys Social Media Count

 Posted by on January 29, 2011 at 4:42 pm  Brands, Business, Companies, Cross Media, Distribution, Education, Featured Articles, Innovation, Marketing, Metadata, Participatory Media, Portals, Social Media, Social Networks, Social Software, Statistics, Transformation, Transmedia, Web 2.0, Web 3.0  943 Responses »
Jan 292011
 

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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.

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You are what your twitter lists say you are?

 Posted by on January 17, 2011 at 1:43 pm  Alternate Reality, Augmented Reality, Blended Reality, bloguilt, Business, Cross Media, Distribution, Education, Games, Innovation, Locative, Marketing, Mobile, Participatory Media, Personal Media, Personalization, Profiling, Psychology, Social Media, Social Networks, Social Software, Storytelling 2.0, Transformation, Transmedia, Web 2.0  18 Responses »
Jan 172011
 

Social media is a humbling experience much of the time. For one it is a super fast barometer of many aspects of our digital persona made up partly of a) our online influence, b) what people ‘feel’ about you (sentiment) and c) who we are connected too but more recently with the introduction of Twitter Lists we now have an element of ‘labelling’ aka ‘tagging’. Like most I am not keen on being pigeon holed, filed and rubber stamped as ‘this kind’ of person or someone who only ‘thinks/creates/is involved’ in those things, but I was fascinated this morning in doing what Laurel Papworth did some months ago, looking at how others saw me based only on my Twitter activity.

I have currently been added to 700 lists (which I think is up in the top 10% or so?) –

the key of course is that these lists are created un-prompted by those they follow, they have selected ‘you’ quietly in the background to be a part of a personal filter, carefully structured by users who want a way to distill the vastness of a 140 character universe of noise, that is twitter – making lists for themselves of a few key personal influencers through to hundreds of sharing tweeters across several lists on quite broad topics, the lists themselves followed by thousands.

There were over 6.5 million twitter lists at the start of 2010 so I suspect at least double that for 2011 according to TNW and there are hundreds of tList directories on the web now such as ListAtlas that focuses on the most popular lists such as 22 000 following the @bieberarmy :: justinfollowplease list of 91 fans who “want to be followed” by JB himself or  38 verified world leaders compiled into this list @verified :: World Leaders followed by 15 000 or so. But back to my own little world…I am not sure if the lists below represent ‘who I am’, especially as 75% of my twitter activity is sharing links, but they certainly represent areas I work in and am interested by.

… without further ado – I quickly used TextWrangler to pull out key words and broke the 700 lists (I am on) into smaller ‘categorised’ batches. This serves as a one stop shop for me to dip in and out and decide which lists I will follow and for you to possibly find ones you may find of interest.

What do your lists say about you?

TRANSMEDIA

  1. twitter.com/tlists/transmedia-995 The most listed Tweeters on 37 lists about Transmedia
  2. twitter.com/#!/aliciakan/transmediatweeps Teaching me a little bit more about transmedia, everyday
  3. twitter.com/#!/annabelroux/transmedia
  4. twitter.com/#!/matthanson/screen-bleed Media theories & futures in a multiplatform world.
  5. twitter.com/#!/brand_candy/transmedia-storytelling People interested in transmedia storytelling
  6. twitter.com/#!/bulldogmi/isthistransmedia A list of crossmedia, transmedia and storytelling tweets
  7. twitter.com/#!/Ch_Larue/transmedia
  8. twitter.com/#!/daniele_ferrari/crossmedia-transmedia
  9. twitter.com/#!/DilemmaLA/transmedia
  10. twitter.com/#!/eceilhan/transmedia
  11. twitter.com/#!/FilmThreat/transmedia-artists A self-updating filtered list of people I follow (generated by twitter.com/#!/formulists)
  12. twitter.com/#!/FLB_AlainThys/media-innovation tweets about media innovation, crossmedia, transmedia and other interesting media developments
  13. twitter.com/#!/frank_tentler/transmedia-avangard List of Transmedia and Transmedia Storytelling Avangard on Twitter
  14. twitter.com/#!/geoffreylong/transmedia Scholars and practitioners in transmedia.
  15. twitter.com/#!/helloflow/worldoftransmedia all people you want to follow on transmedia storytelling!
  16. twitter.com/#!/ivanovitch/transmedia People working in, interested in, thinking about Transmedia.
  17. twitter.com/#!/jlsimons/transmedia TM
  18. twitter.com/#!/KH_enthu_Ziasm/transmedia well, are you transmedia ready ?
  19. twitter.com/#!/melaniemcbride/gaming-transmedia-10 Makers, observers, researchers and players of games/transmedia.
  20. twitter.com/#!/nouners/transmedia
  21. twitter.com/#!/nwangpr/transmedia This list follows those who are exploring new storytelling opportunities for brands and agencies.
  22. twitter.com/#!/nyuji/transmedia
  23. twitter.com/#!/onceuponaword/transmedia A list of people who regularly tweet smart things on transmedia
  24. twitter.com/#!/pascalmory/transmedia
  25. twitter.com/#!/paulalexgray/transmedia
  26. twitter.com/#!/Pixel8studio/transmedia Stories to be told.
  27. twitter.com/#!/pseudonymDK/transmedia Important people to follow to learn more about transmedia
  28. twitter.com/#!/Sarn/transmedia-2
  29. twitter.com/#!/tactica/transmedia
  30. twitter.com/#!/TedHope/transmedia
  31. twitter.com/#!/WebVideoMedia/transmedia-storytelling
  32. twitter.com/#!/nativeshell/trans-incidental Transmedia news and peeps

NEWER MEDIA

  1. twitter.com/#!/thatgreg/new-media-2 People actively changing the way media is created and ultimately consumed.
  2. twitter.com/#!/chicklitgurrl/new-media-9
  3. twitter.com/#!/ftiwa/new-media
  4. twitter.com/#!/iamlowetion/new-media
  5. twitter.com/#!/Morgan_Flood/new-media
  6. twitter.com/#!/pascalroeyen/new-media
  7. twitter.com/#!/RichGarner/new-media

AUGMENTED REALITY

  1. twitter.com/#!/AaronMarshall/augmented-reality Cool folks tweeting interesting things about Augmented Reality.
  2. twitter.com/#!/ayaLAN/augmented-reality
  3. twitter.com/#!/Balubab/augmented-reality Augmented Reality universe
  4. twitter.com/#!/bobbyverlaan/augmented-reality
  5. twitter.com/#!/BrianSe7en/augmented-reality
  6. twitter.com/#!/chrisgrayson/augmented-reality-peeps People & Companies involved in Augmented Reality, as well as AR Blogs
  7. twitter.com/#!/claudiochea/augmented-reality-ar
  8. twitter.com/#!/fbeeper/augmented-reality
  9. twitter.com/#!/Franck_Briand/augmented-reality
  10. twitter.com/#!/jamesalliban/augmented-reality
  11. twitter.com/#!/renatefischer/ar
  12. twitter.com/#!/konterkariert/augmented-reality
  13. twitter.com/#!/mikeyjhay/augmented-reality
  14. twitter.com/#!/RWW/augmented-reality
  15. twitter.com/#!/eduardovalencia/augmentedreality
  16. twitter.com/#!/tomyun/ar
  17. twitter.com/#!/GaryPHayes/alternate-augmented
  18. twitter.com/#!/siyann/immersive virtual worlds, augmented reality, immersive experiences
  19. twitter.com/#!/dromescu/ar Augmented Reality
  20. twitter.com/#!/jlapoutre/mobile-ar Mobile Augmented Reality

INTERESTING, THOUGHT LEADER & MINDS

  1. twitter.com/#!/_Antonella_/ar-thoughtleaders
  2. twitter.com/#!/9dimension/brightside bright ppl
  3. twitter.com/#!/owlark/interesting-people-a1 Great people: listed or interested
  4. twitter.com/#!/InShot/thought-leadership James Grant Hay’s Thinking Out Aloud
  5. twitter.com/#!/7seashell/interesting-people
  6. twitter.com/#!/torridluna/minds
  7. twitter.com/#!/BlessTheTeacher/interesting-people
  8. twitter.com/#!/CelticWitch99/no-idea-but-interesting
  9. twitter.com/#!/holla_tweet/interesting-ppl
  10. twitter.com/#!/LMurphy140/from-far-far-away non local interesting
  11. twitter.com/#!/ManuCedat/interesting-people
  12. twitter.com/#!/Marcey_H/interesting-people
  13. twitter.com/#!/MikeFreyParadux/bloggers Bloggers! Check these wonderful blogs by interesting tweeps.
  14. twitter.com/#!/OwenKelly/people a miscellaneous assortment of interesting people
  15. twitter.com/#!/paolonieddu/insight-and-cool-shit Links to interesting stuff
  16. twitter.com/#!/robbnotes/interesting
  17. twitter.com/#!/sonjagottschalk/interesting
  18. twitter.com/#!/WayneNH/interesting-watch

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When a Virtual World Glitch Rocks Real World Parliament: The Power of Ripples

 Posted by on May 29, 2009 at 4:20 pm  Advertising, Alternate Reality, Augmented Reality, Blended Reality, Brands, Business, Companies, Cross Media, Cross Reality, Events, Games, Innovation, LAMP, Law, Marketing, Participatory Media, Press Release, Second Life, Social Issues & Privacy, Social Media, Storytelling 2.0, Transmedia, viral, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0  23 Responses »
May 292009
 

ABC Island Second Life Panorama 3000 wide!
While lecturing to AFTRS students last week about multi platform, social media & new forms I got on to games and social virtual worlds. When I asked who knew about Second Life one student chirped up “oh isn’t that the place where ABC TV got bombed”. Now a few things immediately sprung to mind when hearing this comment

  1. Having built the ABC TV Island in 5 days or so and part running it at the time I knew the background to this intimately, so how much detail to go into?
  2. I was also bizarrely running a LAMP residential lab in Tasmania when this event occurred and Lisa Romano then an ABC producer was one of our mentors, she also was in charge of the ABC Island at the time – so very much involved in the response
  3. These events are very rare and my experience was either mostly technical server errors or simple admin error, so the problem was fixed in an hour or so as we immediately liaised with Linden Lab who run Second Life and fixed the problem

But the thing that really sprung to mind was, wow this event was back in May 2007. A two year old story. How and why would it persist so long and into the heads of ‘one so young’ – well mid 20s gen, young in my book :). Then I started to think about the story I used to tell not so long ago to folk who were fascinated by the story of the intriguing ‘ripple’ effect. How a technical error ended up with the CEO of ABC TV being interrogated in government about the act being about anti- Public Service commercialisation combined with terrorism training. This also reminded me forcibly of Laurel Papworth’s Ripple effect and more importantly the Long Tail of an influenced ripple effect – whereby a story is spread like chinese whispers and in some cases enters into folklore and myth – even with endless online interrogation. I also liken this to the Butterfly effect or chain reaction, where a small event can end up causing something far more significant. In this case study below of ABC Island, as you see below, it was more to do with a kind of mass hysteria about the medium of branded virtual worlds & the reflection of that out into real ‘prejudiced’ society. An example of online mass hysteria or clever marketing? You decide.

So here is a glimpse into the Butterfly Effect chronology on 2nd year anniversary of the momentus event 🙂

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Machinima Rivals Animation

 Posted by on May 22, 2009 at 1:07 am  Education, Events, Games, machinima, Marketing, Mobile TV, Second Life, Storytelling 2.0, viral, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0, Web 3.0  14 Responses »
May 222009
 

heavyrainAs is my curse I gave another overview introduction presentation last week on films made with games engines aka machinima. I then ran a workshop on the production process and techniques particularly looking at dedicated machinima tools through to games engines – now my YouTube machinimas have gone past 300 000 must be doing something right for some!  But one of my key points in my intro talk was the exponential evolution of the form. It has moved away from dodgy, quick gag,  non-lip synch first person shooter ‘head-shots’ through to quality tales – emotional drama, visually entrancing alongside real character led comedy. Add to this the fact that many machys are at a quality now to rival tradtional animation (see examples below).

So all speakers referred to story, quality writing but also the importance of being true to the culture of the existing game world (more at the bottom). Here are my opening slides showing key examples, classified into my categories as to what machinima is created for:

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