Social Media Marketing Resources

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Only 38% of US adults age 65+ are online––a significantly lower rate of Internet adoption than both the general population (74%) and the next-oldest group, adults age 50-64 (70%), according to research from Pew Internet.

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YouTube is set to debut movie rentals this week with a limited selection of independent films from the Sundance Film Festival, according to YouTube Biz Blog.

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Two-thirds (66%) of marketing professionals plan to invest in social media over the next 12 months and 40% will shift more than one-fifth of their traditional direct marketing budget toward digital, interactive, or social channels, according to a new survey from Alterian.

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In the aftermath of the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, much of what people are learning about the quake is coming from social media––with Twitter posts the leading source of discussion, followed by online video, blogs, and other online boards/forums, according to The Nielsen Company.

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Though the US accounts for 50.1% of all Twitter users––down from 62.1% in June 2009––Twitter use elsewhere, particularly Brazil, Germany, and Indonesia, is quickly growing, according to a study by Sysomos.

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Despite the rising prominence of new media, newspapers and other "traditional media" still generate the bulk of original news that gets to US consumers, according to a study by the Pew Research Center.

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Display advertising is forecast to grow 13% in 2010 after a dismal performance in 2009 (down approximately 5% in the US), while US search advertising is forecast to grow 13%, up significantly from 2009's roughly flat year, according to research from JP Morgan.

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Consumers who contribute to online forums are overwhelmingly more engaged in "influential" activities–– both online and offline––than people who don't use forums, according to a study by PostRelease and Synovate.

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US Spending on paid social network advertising is forecast to reach $1.3 billion in 2010, a 7.1% increase from the estimate of $1.2 billion for 2009––but a decline of 4 percentage points as a share of worldwide spending, according to research from eMarketer.

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Online US holiday spending from November 1 through Christmas Eve 2009 reached $27 billion, a 5% increase over the same period a year earlier, according to comScore. Consumer electronics led among product categories, recording sales growth of 20% over 2008 levels.

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During 2009, nearly a hundred million words a day were posted in status updates on Facebook—well over a thousand per second during peak times and up by a factor of four from the previous year, according to Facebook's Data Team. In addition, Farmville became the most talked-about application in status updates during 2009 and now boasts over 72 million monthly active users.

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As the decade draws to a close, only 27% of Americans have positive things to say about the past 10 years and 50% say they have generally negative feelings about them, according to Pew Research. The Internet, email, and cell phones, however, are viewed by many consumers as a change for the better.

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Though 2009 may have been a trial run for many companies using social media, CMOs expect social initiatives to have a direct impact on their bottom lines in 2010, according to a study from Bazaarvoice and the CMO Club.

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Despite reports of its demise, email continues to beat out emerging social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook as the favorite way to share information with colleagues and friends, according to a study from ShareThis.

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The use of Facebook, Twitter, and blogs for business purposes has skyrocketed in the last six months—with indications of wider adoption and more frequent sessions, according to research by Palo Alto Networks into application traffic patterns of computer networks.

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Small business owners are planning to engage customers in new ways in 2010, according to an Ad-ology Research study: 28% say they will spend at least the same or more on online video, an increase of 75% over last year's plans; 25% say they will commit more resources to social media; and 21% say the same for mobile advertising.