“Social Media Demographic Statistics

1. 75% of male internet users are on Facebook as well as 83% of female internet users  Tweet This!
2. 32% of teenagers consider Instagram to be the most important social network  Tweet This!
3. Female internet users are more likely to use Instagram than men, at 38% vs. 26%  Tweet This!
4. 29% of internet users with college degrees use Twitter, compared to 20% with high school degrees or less  Tweet This!
5. 81% of millennials check Twitter at least once per day  Tweet This!
6. Most Instagram users are between 18-29 years old, about six-in-ten online adults  Tweet This!
7. 22% of the world’s total population uses Facebook  Tweet This!
8. LinkedIn boasts more than 450 million user profiles  Tweet This!
9. On any given day, Snapchat reaches 41% of 18 to 34-year-olds in the US  Tweet This!
10. YouTube overall, and even YouTube on mobile alone, reaches more 18-34 and 18-49 year-olds than any cable network in the US  Tweet This!

Social Media Usage Statistics

1. Facebook continues to be the most widely used social media platform, with 79% of American internet users  Tweet This! Based on total population, (not just internet users) 68% of U.S. adults are on Facebook.
2. Instagram receives the silver medal with 32% of users  Tweet This! Pinterest coming in a close third with 31%, and LinkedIn and Twitter at 29% and 24% respectively.
3. 76% of Facebook users visited the site daily during 2016, with over 1.6 billion daily visitors, compared to 70% of daily usage  Tweet This! in 2015.
4. The average LinkedIn user spends 17 minutes on the site per month  Tweet This!
5. 51% of Instagram users access the platform daily, and 35% say they look at the platform several times per day  Tweet This!
6. Almost 80% of time spent on social media platforms happens on mobile  Tweet This!
7. Katy Perry has the most worldwide twitter followers, at 94.65 million  Tweet This!
8. Over 400 million snaps are shared on Snapchat per day, and almost 9,000 photos are shared every second  Tweet This!
9. Just 10 thousand YouTube videos have generated more than 1 billion views  Tweet This!
10. More than half of all YouTube views are on mobile devices  Tweet This!

Social Media Business Statistics

1. Instagram earns $595 million in mobile ad revenue per year, a rapidly increasing number  Tweet This!
2. Despite news of layoffs and executives leaving the company, Twitter’s revenue is up 8% YOY  Tweet This!
3. 59% of Americans with social media accounts think that customer service through social media has made it easier to get questions answered and issues resolved  Tweet This!
4. Over 50 million businesses use Facebook Business Pages  Tweet This!
5. 2 million business use to Facebook for advertising  Tweet This!
6. Facebook’s total revenue grew 56% in 2016, and advertising revenue grew 59%  Tweet This!
7. 93% of Pinterest users use the platform to plan or make purchases  Tweet This!
8. 39% of LinkedIn users pay for monthly premium accounts  Tweet This!
9. Pinterest drives 25% of all retail website referral traffic  Tweet This!
10. More than 56% of online adults use more than one social media platform  Tweet This!

Social Media Content Statistics

1. Tweets with images receive 18% more clicks than tweets without images  Tweet This!
2. 100 million food and 146 fashion boards exist on Pinterest  Tweet This!
3. On LinkedIn, 98% of posts with images receive more comments and posts with links have a 200% higher engagement rate  Tweet This!
4. There are about 81 million fake Facebook accounts and about 5% of twitter accounts are bogus  Tweet This!
5. 100 million hours of video content are watched on Facebook daily  Tweet This!
6. More than 1 million LinkedIn users have published long-form content, with 160,000 long-form posts being published weekly  Tweet This! and over 19.7 million SlideShare presentations have been uploaded to the platform.
7. 88% of businesses with more than 100 employees use twitter for marketing purposes  Tweet This!
8. The user-submitted YouTube video with the most views is Charlie bit my finger with over 845 million views  Tweet This!
9. Pizza is the most widely instagrammed food, directly ahead of steak and sushi  Tweet This!
10. Blogging continues to grow, with over 409 million people viewing more than 23.6 billion pages each month on WordPress alone  Tweet This!

Check out this infographic from Red Website Design which compiles the pertinent statistics relating to social media marketing.”