Before launching yoursocial media marketing strategyfor yourecommerce business, you need to first get an overview of the distribution of social media usage. Given thegrowing penetration and usage of social mediathese days, you should start your marketing efforts by focusing on the platforms where you can find most of your target audience. To do that, you need to find out which social media platform has the largest user base.
The latest statistics show that Facebook continues to reign strong as theking of social media, with2.94billion active usersin 2022. That means that around three out of every four of the3.96 billion social media usersare active Facebook users.
Facebook’s statistics and its social media ranking say it all. Not only is it the social media platform with the most active users, but it also ranks among the most-used social media apps. 27 percent of Android users worldwide use the Facebook app daily.
Second on the list of the most popular social media platforms in 2022 is YouTube with 2.48 billion active users – 84 percent of the number of Facebook users.
Given that 720,000 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every day worldwide, it may seem like an uphill task to get your video noticed. But also consider theseYouTube statistics: 1 billion hours of video on YouTube are watched daily and 90 percent of consumers say they discover new brands and products through YouTube.
The third- and fourth-most popular social media platforms are WhatsApp and Instagram, with two billion and 1.44 billion active users, respectively. Incidentally, both are owned by the same parent company as Facebook: Meta (previously Facebook).
Further down the list are WeChat,China’s version of WhatsApp, and TikTok, with 1.29 billion and 1.02 billion global users respectively. This is followed by Facebook Messenger with one billion users worldwide.
These statistics paint a clear picture of Meta’s dominant social media ranking. Of the seven most popular social media platforms, more than half are its entities—namely Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger.
The eighth- to tenth-most popular social media platforms are:
- Telegram: 700 million
- Snapchat: 617 million
- Douyin: 613 million
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