Living Online
Comprehensive TNS study on Digital Life: Discover how the world lives online; http://eicker.at/LivingOnline
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Gerrit Eicker
Facebook: Global Leader
Facebook is cementing itself as the global leader: quadrupled in Germany, to 19 million users; http://j.mp/dhA5mP
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Gerrit Eicker
NYT: “Facebook, the social network service that started in a Harvard dorm room just six years ago, is growing at a dizzying rate around the globe, surging to nearly 500 million users, from 200 million users just 15 months ago. – It is pulling even with Orkut in India, where only a year ago, Orkut was more than twice as large as Facebook. In the last year, Facebook has grown eightfold, to 8 million users, in Brazil, where Orkut has 28 million. … Now about 70 percent of Facebook’s users are outside the United States. And while the number of users in the United States doubled in the last year, to 123 million, according to comScore, the number more than tripled in Mexico, to 11 million, and it more than quadrupled in Germany, to 19 million.”
Gerrit Eicker
Twitter: 142% Growth
ComScore: Twitter grew to 90.2M unique vistors in May (37.3M in 2009) from 83.8M in April worldwide; http://j.mp/aS10SV
Gerrit Eicker
Twitter: Beyond the Red Carpet
Barracuda (PDF): Only 24% of Twitterers tweet. Growth rate down to 0.34% (12/09) from 21.17% (4/09); http://j.mp/aChaaH
Gerrit Eicker
Internet Growth
The BBC is mapping the growth of the Internet since 1998: comparable patterns to Facebook today; http://j.mp/9dKpUx
Gerrit Eicker
CheckFacebook
Each day, CheckFacebook tracks data reported from Facebook to visualise reach, growth; http://j.mp/8pA2Lg (via @mooose)
Gerrit Eicker
Bad Marketing
Trout: “Most bad marketing is driven by the desire to grow”; http://cli.gs/auPgqN
Gerrit Eicker 07:55 on 12. October 2010 Permalink |
TNS: “The largest ever global research project into people’s online activities and behaviour – Digital Life – was launched today, ‘digital day’ by TNS, the world’s biggest custom research company. Covering nearly 90 per cent of the world’s online population through 50,000 interviews with consumers in 46 countries, the study reveals major changes in the world’s online behaviour. … ‘This study covers more than twice as many markets as any other research.’ said TNS Chief Development Officer Matthew Froggatt. ‘It is the first truly global research into online activities, including all the key emerging markets of the BRICs and many of the ‘Next 11’. We have also researched beyond basic behaviour to provide more detailed data into attitudes and emotional drivers of that behaviour.‘”
TNS Key Findings
Globally, people who have on-line access have digital sources as their number one media channel. 61% of online users use the internet daily against 54% for TV, 36% for Radio and 32% for Newspapers.
Online consumers in rapid growth markets have overtaken mature markets in terms of engaging with digital activities. When looking at behaviour online, rapid growth markets such as Egypt (56%) and China (54%) have much higher levels of digital engagement than mature markets such as Japan (20%), Denmark (25%) or Finland (26%). This is despite mature markets usually having a more advanced internet infrastructure.
Activities such as blogging and social networking are gaining momentum at huge speed in rapid growth markets. The research shows four out of five online users in China (88%) and over half of those in Brazil (51%) have written their own blog or forum entry, compared to only 32% in the US. The Internet has also become the default option for photo sharing among online users in rapid growth markets, particularly in Asia. The number of online consumers who have ever uploaded photos to social networks or photo sharing sites is 92% in Thailand, 88% in Malaysia and 87% in Vietnam, whilst developed markets are more conservative. Less than a third of online consumers in Japan (28%) and under half of those in Germany (48%) have uploaded photos to such sites.
Growth in social networking has been fuelled by the transition from PC to mobile. Mobile users spend on average 3.1 hours per week on social networking sites compared to just 2.2 hours on email. The drive to mobile is driven by the increased need for instant gratification and the ability of social networks to offer multiple messaging formats, including the instant message or update function. When looking at how the digital landscape will change in the future, research shows that consumers expect their use of social networking on mobiles to increase more than use through PC. In the US, for example, a quarter (26%) of online consumers expect their use of social networking on a PC to increase in the next 12 months compared to over a third (36%) who will be looking to their mobile to increase usage. In Australia the figures are 26% and 44% respectively, and in Sweden they are 28% and 53%.
RWW: “The study was aimed to uncover how the world’s online behavior may be shifting, in terms of both consumption and communication. And among the findings were that online consumers in emerging, rapid growth markets are more engaged than those in mature markets, with Egypt and China, for example, having much higher levels of digital engagement than Japan, Denmark, or Finland.”