2. For Millennials, Social Media is integral to their lives Social networks are more popular than email Time spent on these sites are growing 3X faster than overall time on the Internet More than 2/3 of the world’s online population now visits social networking and blogging sites. - The Nielsen Company
4. Don’t forget Twitter Twitter is the third largest social network with roughly 6 million monthly visitors and the number of monthly visits at 55 million.* (Growing at + 1000%) * Estimate, Compete.com February, 2009
5. Number of Hours of Television watched a week Millennials watch less television on the actual television compared to other age groups. They are watching television shows on the internet and social media sites such as YouTube and Hulu Data from Deloitte .com
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7. Top 5 YouTube Videos of all time Avril Lavigne - “Girlfriend” (Music Video) From YouTube.com VIDEO VIEWS Avril Lavigne - “Girlfriend“ (Music Video) 117,109,652 Evolution of Dance 115,676,810 Lezberado: Revenge Fantasies 92,989,872 Chris Brown - “ With You” (Music Video) 90,034,707 Charlie bit my Finger- again! 86,268,897 Rihanna - “Don’t Stop the Music” (Music Video) 84,585,275
10. Teens visit the site to both get the real story, and to find out what made the moms on the site say “yes” to their child joining the Navy
11. The power of the Social Network “ 1.5 million. That’s how many people have now donated to Obama. No one has ever come close to this in history. And it was done by the Internet, destroying the power of major donors to control a candidate, empowering so many to make a difference and altering the face of campaign finance for ever. “ -Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic , May 6, 2008
18. So what happens when an optimistic, idealistic, civic-minded, connected, helicopter-parent supported, high-esteem generation meets the Great Recession?