Happy 2011 to you all! Most of us UK worker bees are back at our desks today – we hope you had a wonderful New Year and are as excited as we are about the coming year. 2011 has a lot to offer in the world of internet marketing, SEO and social media, and we are looking forward to another great year!
The growth and development of online marketing has been vast over the past few years, with smart phones, the iPad, mobile marketing, social media, viral marketing and the insane growth of internet and social networking use. (For an idea of what’s coming next, have a look at Trendwatching.com’s Crucial Consumer Trends for 2011.)
Here are some of our favourite 2010 stats:
Facebook grew by over 30% last year, now boasting 500 million users
Top Google search terms were dominated by social media, with users looking for Facebook, YouTube and MySpace. The social network giant Facebook nabbed over 3% of all searches in 2010.
For a handy Twitter roundup (and so I don’t have to go and research it all), check out the Most Powerful Tweets of 2010
I love Time’s Best Blogs of 2010 list, which shows that no matter how much information we have access to for free on the internet, most of us are still going to end up looking at humorous sites like CakeWrecks, Sh*t My Kids Ruined and The Oatmeal for cheap laughs. And if we’re not doing that, we’re searching for the next must-have technology or the coolest designs. Interesting also is that TechCrunch is voted ‘essential’ and Mashable ‘overrated’ this year.
The most watched YouTube videos revolved around music, parodies and humour (albeit annoying oranges saying “Whazzzzup!”). A representation for social media marketing took number 5 with The Old Spice Man, but my favourite has to be OK Go’s video for This Too Shall Pass:
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