Keen to get some stats into your life to profile your audience or understand what your business should be doing in the social media world? There’s some decent social media research studies out there ranging from how SMB’s are using social media platforms to what Generation Z are doing online.
Here’s our Social Media Highlights – link round up .
We Are Social together with no less than 6 data partners share their global digital overview in a comprehensive slide deck showcasing insights (above) and the summary from the report can be found here – https://wearesocial.com/blog/2020/01/digital-2020-3-8-billion-people-use-social-media
Yellow Pages Social Media Report
Yellow Pages releases a Social Media report yearly – surveying over 2,000 SMB’s. Interestingly, their 2020 report notes that ‘One third of consumers agree that they will inspect a brand’s social media presence before making an online purchase if they have not purchased from their website before.’ Also ‘Eighty-two per cent of consumers following brands or businesses on social media are keen on accessing benefits like discounts (62%) and give-aways (47%) from them. SMBs who offer incentives (39%) are in tune with this, being most likely to offer discounts (67%) and giveaways (45%)”. Does this sound like you?
Read more here – https://2k5zke3drtv7fuwec1mzuxgv-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Yellow_Social_Media_Report_2020_Consumer.pdf
The Digital Experience is the Human Experience
According to The Center for Generational Kinetics in collaboration with WP Engine – ‘The average person will spend approximately five years and four months of their lives on social media’ . This study called “Reality Bytes – The digital experience is the human experience) delves into the way Gen Z (those born from the mid to late 90’s to the early 2010’s) blend the online and physical worlds.
Fascinating read here – https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/GenZ_RealityBytes_EbookUS.pdf
