Demystifying Social Media - South African Research in how young people consume social media

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Demystifying Social Media Research Findings November 2009

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First time research showing how young people are consuming social media in South Africa.

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Demystifying Social Media

Research FindingsNovember 2009

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KK69 – students with book

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The conversation is powered by•Social Networks•News & Bookmarking•Blogs•Microblogging•Video Sharing•Photo Sharing•Message boards•Wikis•Virtual Reality•Social Gaming•Mobile•Podcasts•Real Simple Syndication (RSS)

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People like this guy

• ….and most of the SA student population

• Research conducted, November 2009

• 660 respondents across SA tertiary institutions

• 18-24 age group

• 80% research conducted in-the-field, 20% online

• Demographic representative of SA population

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Question Areas – Social Media

• Do they use it ?

• Where do they go ?

• What do they do there ?

• Which Brands stood out ?

• PC vs Mobile ?

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Over 70% have joined a social network

Spends close to 3 hours a day online

They care about what their friends think and what they like, not traditional marketing and ads

SA Student 18-21

Cell phone =O2

1in 3 create blogs and groups online

60% log on a few times a day.

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Internet usage Stats for SA

9.4%

90.6%

SA Internet Penetration

Uses Internet

Does not use internet

99%

SA Student Internet Pen-etration

Uses Inter-net

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They go online mainly from their cell phone and from campus

International

17%

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Average time spent daily online

67 Min

96 Min

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Media Consumption

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They watch less TVand spend more

time online

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Engagement with social media

JOINERS

SPECTATORS

COLLECTORS

CREATORS

CRITICS 70%

70%

83%

90%

96%

44%

42%

21%

79%

77%

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Visiting SN sites, watching videos and using wiki’s more popular than podcasts

79%

63%

70%

40%59%

JOINERS

SPECTATORS

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Main networking site visited

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At least 1 in 3 students create

groups online and have published their

own blogCREATORS

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Social media has changed our world

The power to define and control a brand is shifting from corporations and

institutions……to individuals and communities.

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Brands that stood

out

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Converse

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Smirnoff Spin

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• Half said they were comfortable receiving advertisements on social networking sites based on their profile activities

• They also said brands SHOULD create special applications or provide unique content on social networking sites.

KK69 – visual

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Full Research Report• The figures and analysis in this

report are just a small fraction of the insight available from the research.

• Access the full research, which contains a much wider range of information: detailed facts, figures and insight that are crucial to understanding how young people are behaving.

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