YouTube Rewind 2012 - Year in Review

YouTube Rewind 2012 has arrived and if you can bear through the Gangnam (Rewind YouTube) Style, it is pretty funny. Reviewing the top 10 videos of the year based on views, shares, searches, parodies, remixes and responses, find all the videos on youtube.com/user/theyearinreview.

News on YouTube is huge! 2012 highlights in the infographic below, from the official YouTube blog.

Related:

• Google Zeitgeist 2012
• YouTube Rewind 2011

Social Media Revolution 4 - Infographic 2012

Erik Qualman has produced his annual statistical infographic video on social media and the web.
Saw a few stats from last year, but I am very glad the Fat Boy Slim sound track has been kept.

Cannot wait for what next year has in stall for the internet:

• 1 Billion “strong” on Facebook – 3rd largest country in the world.
• Over 50% of the world’s population is under 30 years old.
• Each day 20% of Google searches have never been searched before.
• In 10 years, over 40% of the Fortune 500 will no longer exist.
• Social Media is the number 1 activity on the web – yet Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Google are not welcome in China.
• “What happens in Vegas stays on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube.”
• The Ford Explorer launch on Facebook generated more traffic than a Super Bowl ad.
• 1 in 5 couple meet online.
• 3 in 5 gay couples meet online.
• 1 in 5 divorces are blamed on Facebook.
• Kindergartens are learning on tablets, not chalkboards.
• 69% of parents are “friends’ with their kids on Social Media.
• 92% of children under age 2, have a digital shadow.
• Linked – a new member joins every 2 seconds.
• Social gamers will buy $6 billion in virtual goods in 2013 – moviegoers only 2.5 billion in real goods (scary!).
• YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world.
• Every minute, 72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube.
• If Wikipedia were a book, it would be 2.25 million pages long.
• 97% of Pinterst fans are woman!
• 53% of people on twitter recommend products in their tweets.
• 90% of consumers trust peer recommendations.
• “Socialnomics" = Word of Mouth on Digital Steroids” – Erik Qualman.
• New Yorkers received tweets about the east coast earthquake 30 seconds before they felt it.
• We will no longer search for products and services… they will find us via social media – 93% of markers use social media for business.
• The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years.
• Word of Mouth becomes World of Mouth.
• Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of countries like, South Africa, Germany, Argentina, Canada and Turkey.
• Babies in Egypt have been names Facebook and Twitter (that's crazy!).

Previous Social Media Revolution videos.

Mobile Year in Review 2011

Is the pen mightier than the sword? Probably not, but the mobile device might be. 2011 wasn't just the year of mobile, it was the year that mobile took over the world, as they say in this video, along with some mind blowing stats. Exciting growth in 2011 and another awesome video following last years.

by MobileFuture

Related Posts:

• YouTube Rewind 2011
• Google Zeitgeist 2011
• Social Media 2011 Statistics
• 2010 in Review

YouTube Rewind 2011

Rebecca Black presents, the cool and whack of what we watched most on YouTube in 2011.

Find the Top 10 videos and more at http://www.youtube.com/rewind

Android Market Growth [Infographic]

Interesting that the peak time of Android downloads is in the late evening on a Sunday and "Games" (at least 'brain' related games second) is the most downloaded category, but look at the top 4 most active countries per capita. Google Maps Android app navigates over 12 billion miles p/year.

View more Infographics or Visit the Android Apps Market.

Social Media 2011 Statistics

Similar to Social Media Revolution, an informative infographic video of Social Media activity in 2011.

Facebook:

1. 11% of the world population have an account.
2. There are more Facebook users (±800mil.) than motor vehicles (±750mil.) in the world.
3. 50% of users log-on daily.
4. The average user has 130 friends.
5. The average user spends 700 minutes per month on Facebook.
6. Every 60 seconds: 510 000 posted comments. 293 000 status updates. 136 000 photos uploaded.      
7. Ferrari sold 5329 cars last year, but gained 5 267 367 fans.
8. Facebook accounts for 10% of all mobile data on iPhone's.

Twitter:

1. 225 million users.
2. 150 million tweets per day, which equates to 1736 per second.
3. Highest record of tweets per second is 8900.
4. The average user has 115 followers.
5. Lady Gaga has the most followers on Twitter: 15 864 378 followers.

LinkedIn:

1. 135 million 'users', which is more than 15x the population of New York City.
2. A new member joins LinkedIn every 2 seconds.
3. Age of members: 18-24 = 21% | 25-34 = 36% | 35-54 = 36% | 55+ = 7%
4. Membership includes executives from every company listed on the Fortune 500.

YouTube:

1. 490 million unique visitors.
2. 92 000 000 000 page views per month, leading to 700 000 000 playbacks recorded last year.
3. 35 hours of video is uploaded per minute.
4. "more video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years."
5.  Justin Bie(what's his name)'s, "Baby" video has had over 659 070 256 views.

Flicker: 3500 pictures uploaded per second.

Google+: already has more than 50 million users.

Instagram: more than 150 million photos have been uploaded.

Foursquare: over 2 million check-ins per week.

Smartphone owners are 2x more active on social media than non smart phone owners,

60 % admit to using their devices while in the bathroom and woman (55%) 

are more active on social media than men (45%).

Social Media Revolution 2011 by Erik Qualman

Erik Qualman is back again in 2011 for the next installment of the Social Media Revolution videos, based on his book Socialnomics. The song for this video is called Baba Yetu by Christopher Tin and although I like the African sound, I much prefer the Fat Boy Slim tune in his previous videos. Some facts that stood out for me in this video are as follows:

• over 50% of the world population is under 30 years of age.
• this year Facebook topped Google for weekly site traffic.
• 1 in 5 couples meet online | 3 in 5 gay couples meet online.
• 1 in 5 divorces are blamed on Facebook.
• 50% of mobile internet traffic in the U.K is for Facebook.
• eReaders surpassed traditional book sales.
• social gamers buy $6 billion in virtual goods | movie goers only buy $2.5 billion in real goods.
• if Wikipedia was a book, it would have 2.25 million pages & take 125 years to read.
• 90% of consumers trust peer recommendations.

Catch my previous post on the Social Media Revolution 2! (2010)
Also see the first Social Media Revolution infographic video. (2009)

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