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Social Networking Stats: 25% of US Smartphone Users Will Use Instagram in 2014, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

via YouTube. 25% of US Smartphone Users Will Use Instagram in 2014. When the data is narrowed down to smartphone users, Instagram is set to overtake Twitter in 2014. Instagram users are evening out in terms of gender; in 2012: two-thirds of Instagram users were female — by 2016 the ratio will become 55% female, 45% male.

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How Short-Form Video Impacts Presence on 5 Platforms

Jon Loomer

I’ve consistently published short-form videos to TikTok, Facebook Reels, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and LinkedIn for most of the past six months and change. I started my channel in 2012 and recently surpassed 15,000 subscribers. What was the impact on my presence (impressions, engagement, and followers) in each case?

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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Debuts New Ad Types, Vine Gets Direct Video Messaging

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube: Vine adds direct messaging via video (photo: Vine blog). Facebook updates Pages Manager for IOS – Facebook released version 3.0 Any social media updates that we missed?

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Business Mistakes on Social Media: Learn from their #FAIL!

Devumi

— Nidge (@nlinghm) July 13, 2014. — Todd (@BlessYouMadly) December 30, 2012. It’s an interesting idea, but their YouTube video ad for it is 100% #Fail: . — Matt Frost (@mattfrost) November 11, 2014. — Moiz Syed (@MoizSyed) November 6, 2014. McDstories. Not a whole lot of good PR there!

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47 Superb Social Media Marketing Stats and Facts

Webbiquity SMM

All 100 of the top global brands maintain at least one company YouTube channel, and more than half (27 of 50) of CEOs in top global companies have appeared in a company video. And yet—only 27% of top companies said their C-level executives were actively engaged in social media last year, down 20% from the peak in 2012. Pew Research ).

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4 Tips for Sharing Videos On Facebook

Convince & Convert

Last year, for the first time, it surpassed the number of YouTube videos that were uploaded to pages on the site. According to a SocialBakers study of more than 180,000 Facebook videos on 20,000 pages in December 2014, people posted 20,000 more Facebook videos than YouTube videos (highlight to tweet).

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Top 10 Powerful Moments That Shaped Social Media History Over the Last 20 Years

Buffer Social

Going “Viral” How many of you have sat around with friends or family and binge-watched several classic YouTube videos in a row? ” This launched YouTube into a massive entertainment hub – complete with TV streaming, movies, music videos, tutorials, celebrities, vloggers, and of course, viral videos.