{"id":22850,"date":"2020-03-12T19:24:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/?p=22850"},"modified":"2020-03-19T14:30:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T09:00:31","slug":"25-social-media-statistics-everyone-should-know-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/25-social-media-statistics-everyone-should-know-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Social Media Statistics Everyone Should Know in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since social media first became mainstream in 2004, it has grown exponentially. What first started out as platforms for people to connect with each other is now much bigger. Social media today is the domain of advertisers, brands, products, services, influencers, and much more than just simple human-to-human interaction. Thanks to widely available and competitively priced internet options like Optimum internet all over the United States, most of the stats we look at deal with social media use in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Social Media \u2013 An Immense Audience<\/h2>\n

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, etc. all have billions of users all over the globe. In fact, according to Emarsys, around 42% of the world\u2019s population uses social media. That amounts to roughly 3.2 billion people all over the globe! One of the reasons brands and businesses are actively engaging with people on social media is because there is simply a very big audience to tap in to. Furthermore, many companies are helping brands to use social media for branding and promotion with their apt social media marketing services<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why Brands Use Social Media<\/h2>\n

Social media offers alternatives to brands that go above and beyond traditional radio, television, and telephone marketing. Advertising on social media is fairly cheap and simple, which levels out the playing field for small mom-and-pop businesses and multinational corporations in terms of ad spend. Social Media plays a vital role in lead generation<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

Platforms like Facebook and Instagram allow brands to advertise their products and services to targeted audiences and generate quality leads. Thanks to their sophisticated algorithms gathering and analyzing social data, these platforms are able to create what is known as the social graph. The platform already knows things like your name, age, occupation, gender, interests, friends, and acquaintances. It also knows all of these things about ALL the people in your friends list or followers, and about all the people in their lists. This gives the platforms a significant edge, allowing brands to target very specific audiences based on demographics, geolocation, interests, and other data.<\/p>\n

A Better Way to Advertise<\/h2>\n

You can see why advertising on social media is so popular. Traditional marketing and advertising channels don\u2019t really allow you to select a specific audience. And even if they do, there is no guarantee your target audience will see your ad. On the other hand, social media allows you to target very specific audiences. Social media platforms also offer analytics, which is very important to keep optimizing your social media advertising campaigns.<\/p>\n

Social media has evolved from a communications platform to a commercial platform. Businesses generate significant revenue from advertising on platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. On the other side, 37% of consumers find inspiration to make a purchase on the social media platform they use, according to this report by PWC<\/a>. This makes social media the biggest source to influence consumer buying decisions.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s have a look at some of the most important social media statistics for 2020.<\/p>\n

Social Media Marketing<\/h2>\n
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  1. There are roughly 3.2 billion social media users all over the world.<\/li>\n
  2. Out of all social media browsers, 54% use it to look for products.<\/li>\n
  3. The average time spent on social media is roughly 2 hours and 22 minutes.<\/li>\n
  4. Social media saw 366 million new users in 2020.<\/li>\n
  5. 4% of millennials use social media.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    \"facebook<\/p>\n

    Facebook<\/h3>\n
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    1. 7 out of 10 Americans use social media (68%).<\/li>\n
    2. The average person accesses Facebook 8 times a day.<\/li>\n
    3. Over 95% of Facebook users are mobile users.<\/li>\n
    4. 74% of users check their feed every day.<\/li>\n
    5. Facebook ads with images are 75 to 90 percent more effective.<\/li>\n
    6. Facebook Security Breach<\/a> Exposes Accounts of 50 Million Users<\/li>\n
    7. 3% of the profiles on Facebook are fake.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      \"Twitter<\/p>\n

      Twitter<\/h3>\n
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        1. Every month sees 326 million new Twitter users.<\/li>\n
        2. 1 in 4 adults (around 25%) in the US uses Twitter.<\/li>\n
        3. Only 3% of customer service complaint tweets on Twitter @ the company.<\/li>\n
        4. Twitter ads are 11% more effective than TV ads.<\/li>\n
        5. 9% more people than last year use Twitter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          \"Instagram<\/p>\n

          Instagram<\/h3>\n
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            1. There are 1 billion monthly Instagram users.<\/li>\n
            2. 50% of Instagram users check their apps every day.<\/li>\n
            3. Almost 60% of Instagram users are below 30.<\/li>\n
            4. 71% of businesses in the United States use Instagram.<\/li>\n
            5. Businesses spend 23% more on advertising on Instagram than on Facebook.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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              \"Youtube<\/p>\n

              YouTube<\/h3>\n
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              1. 96% of teenagers in the United States use YouTube<\/li>\n
              2. YouTube users are 55% male and 45%, female<\/li>\n
              3. 54% of Americans want more video content from brands<\/li>\n
              4. 83% of all consumers in the United States prefer YouTube\\<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                Author Bio<\/strong>–<\/p>\n

                \"Yash<\/p>\n

                \u00a0Yash Chawlani is a Digital Marketing Strategist associated with UnboundB2B<\/a>, who specializes in SEO, Social Media Optimization (SMO) and Content Marketing. You can connect with him on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,82],"tags":[83,131,143,139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22850"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23546,"href":"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22850\/revisions\/23546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyfuture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}