2010 Social Media Marketing Industry Report
Have any of these questions crossed your mind? “How much time do my peers invest in social media marketing? What benefits are they achieving? Where will they focus their efforts in the future?”
If you’ve pondered any of these thoughts, look no further. All the answers are right here in this free report.
Watch the above video for a quick summary.
To understand how marketers are using social media, Social Media Examiner commissioned the 2010 Social Media Marketing Industry Report. We set out to uncover the “who, what, where, when and why” of social media marketing with this report.
A significant 1900 of your peers provided the type of valuable insight you won’t find elsewhere. In this free report you’ll discover:
- The top 10 social media questions marketers want answered
- How much time marketers invest with social media activities
- The top benefits of social media and how time invested impacts results
- The most used social media tools
- Marketers future social media plans
- And much more!
If you’re in charge of marketing for your business, you’ll want to closely analyze the pages of this report and use it to persuade others.
Remember, the nature of social media is to “share”, so if you like the report please let your peers know about it.
Download the report here. Note: Having trouble downloading? The file is large and may not display properly in some browsers. Try right clicking (or control click on Mac) to save it to your hard drive.
Michael can be reached at report@socialmediaexaminer.com.
What do you think about these findings? Please share your comment in the box below.
Michael Stelzner is the executive editor of Social Media Examiner, author of the Social Media Marketing Industry Report, and author of the book, Writing White Papers. Other posts by Michael Stelzner »
149 Comments
Thanks for the great report. I participated in the Social Media Success Summit last year and thought it provided valuable information into getting started with social media as well as creative strategies. Cheers!
Can't wait to “dig” into the report. I found last year's report to be so useful as I help the “small business entrepreneur” get started using social media.
Thank you for doing this each year and count me in again for next year!
Terri
http://tastingtheinternet.com
Mike – fantastic work as usually. Really thorough. A couple things that struck me a surprising, was that so few people outsource their social media. We've found really need to put more than a couple hours a week in to get good traction. However, most people don't have time to do that. We expect that to increase for next year's report.
Also, really enjoyed the mobile section. Thanks again!
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Thanks for the report Mike! While many of the results appear to confirm what most of us are experiencing, it seems that more marketers are continuing to dive deeply into the main social media applications: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and blogs. The waters have been tested and the more of us are ready to dive in!
Michael…*big Golden Biscuit for you and your team, dear~! Excellent gathering and analyzing of pertinent data…Seriously a yummy chew toy for my Monday morning kick start~!
Thank you for all of the very hard work you put into this.
Thanks for a fantastic Report Michael. Looking forward to your updates on the Social Media Success Summit.
Thanks so much for putting together such an awesome report! Gold mind of information.
Great work Michael – thanks again for adding insight into the industry.
Roy
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Thanks for the report. Looking forward to read it.
Phenomenal report, Mike, as usual. I agree with Ryan Malone that outsourcing will take off in the coming year(s). Already seeing that with my clients. Big opportunities here. Thank you!
Hi Mike,
Thanks for this report. This will help us strategize as we help our partners and clients in the coming year with their Social Media Marketing efforts. Mobile stats are good to have and with the iPad entering the fray (.03% of all Web traffic as of last week) we will see how much more important a focus area this becomes. Causes, Movements, and Crowds are mobile and key indicators many of our Non-profit partners use. Great job!
Hi! great work! thanks for report! :)
Another outstanding report, Michael! It's interesting to see that social bookmarking, Twitter and Facebook are all still tops on what marketers want to learn about. This was also the case in your last report, wasn't it? This just confirms that social media is still in it's infancy and there are plenty of opportunities out there for everyone.
Thanks so much for pulling this together!
Howdy! I'll read it carefully and come back with comments, thanks for share!
Fantastic to come across this site via my friend Coree above, and excellent report. I agree that for many people they're just scratching the surface of Social Media for their business. It will be great when there are more reports of real tangible ROI for businesses that will convince others of it's worth.
Thanks Michael.
Hi Coree – Actually Facebook moved up a lot since the last report. But I agree that this industry is still in its birthing stage. – Mike
Ryan – That outsourcing finding was also a big surprise to me as well :) Thanks! – Mike
Thanks for sharing.
Great report. Thanks for sharing this. This would be beneficial for everyone.
Thanks… it confirms in real data what I was guessing to be true. That makes it much easier to act on the information with confidence.
Michael,
Like how you brought this to the masses, free and easy, not asking for anything but the exposure will get you plenty of light. Nice work as usual.
Dean
I liked the report as a comparative analysis, in terms of seeing where people are allocating their time with social media, but I wonder where all of those answers to those top 10 questions might be, or what resources those marketers are using to find those answers? Let me guess… at that Social Media Summit right?
Michael,
Thank you for such a comprehensive report!! May I have permission to re-publish a portion of this, giving you full credit for anything we would share. The material would be part of an e-book on the Financial Institution's Guide to Social Media. The company publishing it is Financial Publishing Services at, http://fpsc.com
You'll need to contact me offline Christine. Click about us at top for my contact details
Excellent stats, very interesting, I believe the UK is behind the US in the adoption of social media too so I am interested to see this develop, its a great foresight into the way its developing.
This is really good Mike, just tweeted about it. I read one of your reports in the past and really enjoyed it. Great job man!
Actually Michael I think its about time you were a guest on the Business Hub here in the uk http://www.markandian.com/businesshub we will let you plug the Success Summit lol!
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Mike great report, I'm writting from Mexico and I think the SMM growing it's so similar or at least give us a clear trend. There's so much to talk about!
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Have skimmed the report and it looks amazing – am printing and digging in to the report ASAP! Thanks for all of your fantastic information!
Thanks Michael for sharing that great report. It´s good to be up to date on the latest trends on social media marketing to create new strategies and drive more traffic into my blogs.
Great report thanks – just what my clients have been asking for…
Cheers…!
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I have also plunged into the world of social media for my small business. However, I wonder where the saturation point will be….I know I'm feeling overwhelmed by all the media information coming at me non-stop, even though it's all good stuff. I have to really pick and choose where and how I spend my time both consuming and producing material. I wonder if my clients feel the same, and will they read or pay attention to what I post and share?
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Really great! I will surely use this information!
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There really is no stopping social media. And the sooner businesses realise this and get on board the better. Great report, very valuable… thanks Mike :)
Thanks for that great report, great resource material there…
Carolyn
Great report, both information and the design
Social media can give best results if done in a strategic manner.
One needs to plan the basic ideology and experiment with what works and what does not.
RedAlkemi
Thanks for this Michael, some really interesting insights. Can I just confirm with you that on page 22 the top graph labels are right, that Forums is the second most used tool by those who commit a small time to social media. It just seemed odd to me, I was expecting to see Facebook further up there.
I will be sharing this on my Facebook Page :) Social Rabbit
That is correct
I think it is absolutely shocking that people want to learn more about social networking over everything else. Not so shocking that only 15% want to learn more about myspace though.
This is a great report, thank you Michael!
Very informative, and it looks great too. Thank you!
Thanks for this report. I'm really excited to dig into it.
Hi Michael, thanks for that great and valuable report. I'm currently writing a german blog post about it (with some excerpts of the data) and was wondering if I could make use of some of the graphs. Obviously I will give you the credit for them and also publish your tweet button and direct link to this page.
Regards from Germany!
Sure thing!
Thanks Brittany!
Thank you Mike!
Many of the answers to those top questions are right there in the report :) Clearly some have yet to be answered in any meaningful way (such as the return on investment question).
Thanks much Dean!
Appreciate it Natalie!
Clearly the mobile marketplace is huge and I agree that the iPad will have a big impact on that as well.
Thanks Denise!
My pleasure Roy, I hope folks find great value in it.
Thank you Nana!
Janet, I hope you found some Eureka moments in the document.
Thanks Nick! Yea, and the findings on blogs was particularly surprising.
Thanks Terri, glad you were part of it.
You can find the german article here: http://bit.ly/aI5cIs – thanks for the report again, Michael.
BTW, yours is one of the best sites going! And I'm not just sucking up either! LOL!! Truly, I love the easy-going look and feel of it. You make the viewer/reader feel right at home. You could say “I heart you” and by “you” I mean Social Media Examiner. I've got you in my sights, mister. Have a good one!!
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Great content and beautiful graphics. I'm impressed to see how much time people are giving to this activity – especially small business owners. Not surprised that people are reluctant to outsource their social media activities; shows that they're taking seriously the creation of their own voice in the social media sphere. It's good to have the numbers – keeps it all in perspective. Thanks for lots of great value here!
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Great report – thanks for sharing. I am not surprised by the relatively small number of companies outsourcing social media marketing – given the skew of the participants to sole proprietor/freelance/consultant. I am however also seeing larger companies not sure where to allocate the role of social media marketing. Often the delegation is to those who show an interest or are seemingly “demographically appropriate” ie Gen Y – so it ends up in the hands of marketing coordinators, exec assistants/PAs and reservations staff. Hopefully the 2011 report will show more people outsourcing this specialized skill to those who understand the delicate communication balance required to implement truly strategic social engagement.
Very informative! I'm looking forward to the summit.
Mike who does the graphics here, after 15 years in the interactive biz im blown away! Thanks in advance feel free to reply privately.
Thanks for the spectacular info and graphics. Looking forward to reading the report this weekend while sitting on my deck in t he sun.
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Wonderful presentation. The layout is simply too good. But as they say …. “Content is King” & you score a 10 on 10 there too.
Thank you so much for all of these wonderful statistics! This is very valuable information for all entrepreneurs and businesses to see the current and future trends.
Much aloha,
Kellie :)
Great report! I really liked your statistics and graphs for the various questions…well done. Thanks for sharing. In regards to measuring Social Media ROI (one of the major questions of marketers) I just wrote a post earlier today ironically about the same issue: http://www.brandadvance.net/blog/measuring-soci...
I will be subscribing to your blog and look forward to future posts.
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Hi Goutham,
It depends what you want to do. Social media is not all about selling but just as much about listening to your customers and potential customers. What industry are you in?
If you'd like, my company offers 30 minute free consultations: http://www.moxiemarketer.com/contact-us/
and can help you get started.
Cheers,
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Michael,
Excellent report. Great job on social media. As an entrepreneur, myself, it is awesome information with clear stats and will help a lot in deciding where to head.
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Hey Guillaume,
We studies social media marketers. That means you need to go where they are. We used Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs and email to help get folks to participate. If you want to understand how social media marketers are using social media you won't find more details.
No, this is not a scientific report :)
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Very useful results, especially the most common questions about social media. Social media definitely work and more and more people seem to understand their importance. I've already used some of the figures with my clients and I am very pleased with their engagement. Many thanks!
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