Why Facebook Users Are Valuable to Marketers

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Facebook is the most popular social network in the world, filling a need of users to connect to family, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, clients and others with potential for some form of relationship. Facebook also has the highest user engagement in terms of average hours spent per month per user. This makes Facebook users highly valuable to marketers.

Facebook for Marketers: The Numbers

General Statistics

1.26 billion users passed in Q3’13.
1.19B MAUs (Monthly Active Users) worldwide as of Q3’13 — an increase of about 18% (18.1%) from Q3’12, and an increase of nearly 50% (48.7%) from Q3’11.
20 billion minutes is the collective amount of time spent daily by users worldwide in Jun 2013. This is equal to about 8.3 hours per month per user in Jun 2013.
67% of American Internet users across all age groups use Facebook. In the U.K., it’s 82%. The largest U.S. age category for usage is 18 to 29-year olds, with 83% of them using Facebook.
66% of social media sharing via mobile (American users) is from Facebook’s iPhone app. Facebook is the most popular smartphone social media app.
About 75% of American Internet users having some college education use Facebook.
73% of American Internet users in the $75K and above per year salary range use Facebook. Only 17% of this category uses Twitter; 13% use Pinterest.
69% of American Internet users in the $50K-$74,999 yearly salary range use Facebook.
62% of American Internet users in the $30K-$49,999 yearly salary range use Facebook.
68% of American Internet users in the less than $30K yearly salary range use Facebook.
150 billion total friend connections worldwide (as of Feb 2013).
4.75 billion items shared daily (as of Sep 2013).
76% of users log in to their Facebook account at least once a day (as of Apr 2013).
40 page likes per user, on average (as of Aug 2013).
250 million users play Facebook games each month (as of Mar 2013).

Overall Usage, Desktop and Mobile

Collective Usage: Daily, Monthly, Ratio

While both DAUs (Daily Active Users) and MAUs (Monthly Active Users) have been growing over 10 quarters (from Q2 2011 to Q3 2013), a more interesting value to track is the ratio of DAUs to MAUs for each quarter. This ratio gives a sense of how much more engaged users are in a given month. The higher the ratio, the more engaged users, since daily use is closer to monthly use. In this case, the ratio has grown slowly over 10 quarters.

Quarter	DAUs	MAUs	Ratio
	in millions	in millions	DAUs/ MAUs
Q2’11	417	739	56.43
Q3’11	457	800	57.13
Q4’11	483	845	57.16
Q1’12	526	901	58.38
Q2’12	552	955	57.80
Q3’12	584	1007	57.99
Q4’12	618	1056	58.52
Q1’13	665	1110	59.91
Q2’13	699	1155	60.52
Q3’13	728	1190	61.18

Mobile Usage, Monthly

Facebook usage on mobile devices has enjoyed steady growth for at least 10 quarters — from Q2 2011 to Q3 2013, in terms of Mobile MAUs worldwide — and is a significant means of engaging on the network:

325M – Q2’11
376M – Q3’11
432M – Q4’11
488M – Q1’12
543M – Q2’12
604M – Q3’12
680M – Q4’12
751M – Q1’13
819M – Q2’13
874M – Q3’13 — An increase of about 45% (44.7%) from Q3’12, and an increase of about 132% (132.4%) from Q3’11.

User Behavior Data

User behavior data is amongst some of the most potentially-rich marketing information, with or without user demographic information (age, sex, salary breakdown), as it provides a sense of topical importance. Examples of useful behavior data includes popular topics of discussion, important life events, and location check-ins.

Verbatim from Facebook’s 2013 Year in Review, here are some examples of user behavior data.

Top Life Events in the U.S.

The top 10 life events for American users:

Added a Relationship
Got Married
Got Engaged
Traveled
Moved
Ended a Relationship
Had a Baby
Expecting a Baby
First Met
Lost a Loved One

Most Talked About Topics in the U.S.

The top ten most-talked about topics in 2013 by American Facebook users:

Super Bowl
Government Shutdown
Boston Marathon
Syria Crisis
Harlem Shake
Pope Francis
George Zimmerman
Royal Baby
Nelson Mandela
Presidential Inauguration

Most Talked About By Topic in the U.S.

The 10 most-talked about categories by topic by American Facebook users:

Sports – Super Bowl
Movies – The Conjuring
TV Shows – Scandal
Music – Get Lucky by Daft Punk*
Books – “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander” by Phil Robertson
Games – Criminal Case by Pretty Simple Games
Public Figures – Peyton Manning
Politics – Government Shutdown
Technology – Instagram
Viral Moments – Harlem Shake

*Most Played on Facebook via Spotify

Top Check-Ins in the U.S.

Top top 10 American locations check-in at:

Disneyland & Disney California Adventure (Anaheim, CA)
Times Square (New York, NY)
Epcot – Walt Disney World (Lake Buena Vista, FL)
Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, CA)
AT&T Park (San Francisco, CA)
Rangers Ballpark (Arlington, TX)
Universal Studios Hollywood (Universal City, CA)
Fenway Park (Boston, MA)
MGM Grand Hotel & Casino (Las Vegas, NV)
Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo (Houston, TX)

Top Check-Ins Worldwide

Of the top 25 check-in locations worldwide, the brand that stands out the most is Disneyland with four different locations. In decreasing order of check-ins, they are:

France: Disneyland Paris, Marne La Vallée
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Disneyland
Japan: Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo
United States: Disneyland, Anaheim, California

References

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