13 Mind-Bending Social Media Marketing Statistics

reprinted from Hubspot

1. 20 percent of searches on Google each day have NEVER been searched for before. (Source)

2. There are more than 3.5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, etc.) shared each week on Facebook. (Source)

3. 43 percent of all online consumers are social media fans or followers (Source)

4. 53 percent of people on Twitter recommend companies or their products in their tweets. (Source)

5. The average American internet user watches 30 minutes of video online per day. (Source)

6. 35 hours of video footage is uploaded to YouTube every minute. (Source)

7. 56 percent of LinkedIn’s 100 million users are outside of the United States. (Source)

8. Every day, 2,300 new Wikipedia articles are created, adding to its 17 million articles, with contributions from 91,000 active contributors. (Source)

9. 1.4 million new blog posts are created every day. (Source)

10. 200 million Facebook users access the service from a mobile device. (Source)

11. There are more than 5 billion photos on Flickr. (Source)

12. 45 million people view SlideShare presentations each month. (Source)

13. $3.08 billion will be spent to advertise on social networking sites in 2011, a 55 percent increase over 2010. (Source)