Some very interesting facts and figures around our industry. Maybe we can design some porn banners for our very corporate clients

Facebook

• There are more than 14 million photos being uploaded to Facebook each day
• There are 6 million active user groups
• Segment of users who are 25 years or older are the fastest growing segment
• There are more than 250,000 new registrations per day since January of 2007
• There are more than 859 million installations of 20,000 applications
• Super Wall by Rock You! is the most popular application with 28 million installs on Facebook
• 2,600,000,000 – number of minutes global users in aggregate spend on Facebook daily
• 100 – number of friends the average user has
• 140 – number of new applications added per day

World Internet users

• 35.6% of internet users are Asian (389 million unique users each month)
• In Africa, 3 out of 100 surf the Internet
• In Asia, 10 out of 100 surf the Internet
• In Europe, 38 out of 100 surf the Internet
• In Middle East, 10 out of 100 surf the Internet
• In North America, 70 out of 100 surf the Internet
• In Latin America, 16 out of 100 surf the Internet
• In Australia, 53 out of 100 surf the Internet
• Only 16.6% of world population surf the internet
• 1 billion users around the globe are surfing the Internet every month
• The amount of internet surfers in Asia is 11 times the population of Australia
• 19% of internet users are from United States
• Around 18 countries still doesn’t have Internet connection

Porn

• 33% of all search engine requests are porn related
• 40% of all internet downloads are porn in nature
• Every second, $95.00 is spent on internet porn
• Everyday, 320 new porn sites appear on the internet
• “Sex” is the most searched word on the internet
• Estimated US revenue from internet porn in 2008 – $3.44 Billion
• 72% of internet porn users are men, 28% are women
• 70% of internet p0rn traffic occurs during the 9-5 workdays
• There are an estimated 450 Million porn web pages

Blogs

• Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.
• The highest amount of blog readers are Canadian.
• 46% of bloggers are women.
• 54 % of bloggers are men.
• The most popular blog in the world is that of Chinese actress Xu Jinglei.
• 133,000,000 – number of blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002
• 346,000,000 – number of people globally who read blogs
• 900,000 – average number of blog posts in a 24 hour period
• 1,750,000 – number of RSS subscribers to TechCrunch

Browsers as of Jan 2009 (global)

• MSIE 7    42%
• MSIE 6    34%
• FireFox 17%
• Safari         4%
• Opera        1%

Google

• One trillion – approximate number of unique URLs in Google’s index
• Two billion – very rough number of Google searches daily
• $110,000,000 – approximately amount of money lost by Google annually due to the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button
• 24,400 – number of people employed by Google (December, 2008)
• 68,000,000 – the average number of times people Googled the word Google each month for the last year
• $39.96 – the average cost per click for the phrase “consolidation of school loans” in AdWords
• 5,540,000 – the number of Google results for “Amorphous”

Twitter

• 1,111,991,000 – number of Tweets to date
• 3,000,000 – number of Tweets/day(March 2008)
• 165,414 – number of followers of the most popular Twitter user (@BarackObama)
• 86,078 – number of followers of the most active Twitter user (@kevinrose)

Youtube

• 70,000,000 – number of total videos on YouTube (March 2008)
• 200,000 – number of video publishers on YouTube (March 2008)
• 100,000,000 – number of YouTube videos viewed per day
• 112,486,327 – number of views the most viewed video on YouTube has
• 2 minutes 46.17 seconds – average length of video
• 412.3 years – length in time it would take to view all content on YouTube (March 2008)
• 26.57 – average age of uploader
• 13 hours – amount of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
• US $1.65 billion in Google stock – amount Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for in October 2006
• $1,000,000 – YouTube’s estimated bandwidth costs per day

Sources:

Kreuzner’s Korner
The MoneyAc.com
Rose DesRochers
The Counter
Wikipedia
HongKiat

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