Médias sociaux Archive

53% DES FEMMES SUR LES RÉSEAUX SOCIAUX SONT ÂGÉES DE 40 ANS ET PLUS

Selon une récente étude américaine 36 % des femmes se débarrasseraient de leurs chocolats, de leurs Pradas, ou encore de leur belle-mère avant de se priver de leurs réseaux sociaux ! Évidemment les références culturelles évoquées par les sondeurs sont décalées de la réalité Québécoise, mais le constat est frappant : les réseaux sociaux font maintenant partie intégrante de nos modes de communication et de socialisation. Une affaire de jeunes ! que je vous entends me dire. Et bien non ! 53 % des participantes à des réseaux sociaux seraient âgées de 40 ans et plus. Pour un peu plus de détails, vous pouvez jeter un coup d’œil à la présentation Slideshare ci-bas mise en ligne hier.

On ne peut qu’être étonnés face à de tels chiffres, qui démontrent l’avancement constant des réseaux sociaux. On peut toutefois peut-être mettre un bémol à ce sondage commandé par une entreprise de marketing social, dont le produit regroupe des communautés de femmes et qui vend son expertise concernant ce groupe spécifique de consommateurs.

Social media : tools for tracking your footprints on the Web

I’ve been reading around different social media-related sources, and am finding that last year’s growing interest in measurement tools for word-of-mouth has bloomed into practicality. There is now an exponentially-increasing amount of tools to help track web PR or what some would call “virality” (altough the term is now somewhat obsolete), and even actual conversations on live micro-blogging applications such as Twitter, FriendFeed and the likes.

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How Many Canadian Singles on Facebook?

People who are looking for a soul mate are in good company. Here’s a heads up for advertisers: Close to 1.8 million Canadian men and women list themselves as single on the most popular social network. From now on, those Don Juan party animals can put away the keys to their bachelor pads and find a match by buying advertising on Facebook to find their ideal mate.

Take a look at these telling numbers culled from Facebook today:

  • 1,752,080 people are single
  • 1,775,080 people are in relationships
  • 331,080 people are engaged
  • 1,775,160 people are married.

So, are Canadians faithful?

Well, 33% of Canadians prefer to be “discreet” about their marital status. As the saying goes, discretion is the greater part of valour. A friend who is a big Facebook fan recently experienced the true power of this social network. Feeling the sting of unrequited virtual love, he changed his profile before going to bed. From now on, he was going to be a bachelor! But common sense and pillow talk prevailed that night, so he changed his profile back again in the morning.

The problem is that his 267 “friends” had already received a “notice of change in marital status.” The end result? Twenty-three sympathy calls and two rather questionable propositions…

Oh Cupid, what have you done now?!

Facebook now twice as big as MySpace

Caroline McCarthy from CNET’s TheSocial blog writes about ComScore’s recent statistics, showing that the world-famous social networking site has nearly double the amount of traffic than MySpace.

(From TheSocial): “The blogosphere’s love affair with Facebook-MySpace traffic wars just won’t stop.

On Thursday, TechCrunch posted new statistics from ComScore that show Facebook now pulling in nearly twice as many unique visitors worldwide as its News Corp.-owned competitor.

About 222 million people visited Facebook worldwide in December (keep in mind that the social network pegs its active user count somewhere just north of 150 million these days) versus 125 million people for MySpace.

Read the full article here.

Righting the Wrong in Mobile Marketing

[from my blog AdKrispies]

Did you happen to read Deloitte’s latest TMT Predictions for 2009? Every year since 2006, Deloitte produces this interesting study debrief on what movements to expect in the fields of Technology, Media and Telecommunications — and their impact on canadian businesses. It’s usually very insightful and well-documented, and indeed — as they say — it “…provides a diverse selection of views and thoughts that challenge, inform and engage industry leaders and executives.”

Well, case in hand, they truly did challenge me. A friend of mine posted a Tweet that attracted my attention on point 8 in their “2009 Canadian TMT Predictions” PDF : “Mobile advertising finds its meaning: cellphones are the new billboards“. Wow. I read on with more attention, making sure I wasn’t distracted by all the dinosaur roaring behind me. I read on, thinking there had to be a deeper thought or explanation hiding somewhere in the body copy.

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