YouTube continues to be the top platform among teens, followed by TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram. On the other hand, Facebook is increasingly viewed as the “old person’s platform”, with only one in five teenagers using the platform daily. Read more…
How long have other popular platforms—TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube to name a few—taken to build their user base? Pulling data from PwC and Yahoo, we rank how long it took popular platforms to get to 100 million users. Read more…
Chinese company ByteDance took just five years to reach a billion users — three years less than Instagram and four years less than Facebook — and those users spend 100 minutes/day on the platform. When young people are asked to…
The report, from consumer intelligence platform Talkwalker and customer engagement firm Khoros, identified the following trends by gathering data from a variety of media, including news sites, social media channels, blogs and forums. Read more in PRweek What are the…
The question we want to be able to answer is how does TikTok compare against Twitter or WeChat as against WhatsApp. And what we’ve essentially found is that things like GDPR have done a lot of good in terms of…
There are numerous well-known orchestrators managing platform-based ecosystems engaged in social media, e-commerce, transportation, banking, and even mining. These include tech leaders Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple, as well as longer-established companies, such as Maersk and Cisco Read more in…
Facebook reported a huge, 134% increase in the number of hate posts it removed from its primary social media platform from the first quarter to the second quarter. The company says in a new Community Standards Enforcement Report that it took action…
By discussing a range of studies and statistics we will demonstrate the different experiences of online culture based on gender. We’ll also reveal how attitudes to online harassment can vary between men and women. Read more in Comparitech Are women…
As our collective attention has shifted toward the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbury and the resulting international protests, the role of social media in amplifying injustice has become even clearer. But for many of us, the…
Hip Scandinavian fashion retailer Carlings knew it had to make a big impression when it launched its first online store in 2018 — years after most other apparel brands. When it finally started selling online last year, it wanted to…
