My presentation at the Musicians Making A Difference Conference - Access All Areas - in February 2011 at the Seymour Centre.
The presentation is on how to build your band's fan base and promote your gigs using social media.
15. Facebook The most popular social networking platform in Australia and worldwide. More than 550 million users. Works in 75 languages. 9.7 million users in Australia alone – that’s almost half of us! That number has more than doubled in the last 12 months.
16. Facebook 29% of all time spent online by Australians is on Facebook. Over 60% of people check Facebook everyday. 49% of 18-34 year olds check Facebook when they wake up with 28% doing so before even getting out of bed! If Facebook were a country, it would be the 3rd most populated on Earth.
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18. Facebook 24 million connect with Facebook Pages every day. Who has the biggest?
19. Facebook Michael Jackson 29,152,206 Eminem 28,917,066 Lady Gaga 28,892,176 Rihanna 23,394,349 Shakira 22,132,433 Justin Beiber 21,885,412 Bob Marley 20,307,944 Katy Perry 19,436,510 Taylor Swift 17,890,427 Beyonce 16,328,174
74. Twitter Twitter grew by 1150% in the last 12 months. 300,000 new users are added everyday. 75 million ‘tweets’ each day. Only 4 out of 10 new users continued to use Twitter and many of them quit Twitter within a month of signing up.
75. Some Aussie(ish) Tweeters Guy Sebastian 33,682 The Temper Trap 31,690 Ladyhawke 13,269 Kate Miller-Heidke 10,842 John Butler Trio 10,924 Hilltop Hoods 9,073 Megan Washington 8,750 Clare Bowditch 8,509 Bliss N Eso 6,834 Cat Empire 6,709
76. Twitter 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices which means when someone has a bad live music experience, they can tell everyone – right there, right then. Twitter Search.
85. YouTube YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world after Google. In 2006, Google paid $1.65 billion to acquire YouTube. 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute. 46 years of video is watched on Facebook every day.
86. YouTube 2 billion videos are watched on YouTube every day. That’s 2,000,000,000 …