Social Media Importance

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Jafar Hajeer min7a.com August, 2014 Importance of Social Media

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A lecture presented to Media students. It includes some statistics about Social Media in MENA region, and specifically in Palestine.

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Jafar Hajeermin7a.comAugust, 2014

Importance of Social Media

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Agenda

DefinitionNumbers Talk!Traditional vs. SocialImportance from Goals!Power to ChangeMedia StudentsNot Farmville

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Definition

Internet-based applications.Web 2.0Creation and exchange of user-generated

content.Mobile and web-based technologiesHighly interactive.Share, co-create, discuss, and modify

user-generated content.

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Numbers Talk!

Internet:◦Worldwide: 2.9 Billions.◦Arab World: 86 millions (2012)◦Palestine: 1.5 millions (%57)

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Numbers Talk!

Facebook:◦Worldwide: 2.9 Billions.◦Arab World:

55 million users (May 2013) 81 million users (May 2014) Penetration rate 21.5% 32% Female users 67% between 15-29 years old.

◦Palestine: 1.1 millions. 42% Female users.

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Numbers Talk!

Facebook:◦802 millions log in daily.◦5 new profiles per second.◦83 million fake profiles.◦300 million photos uploaded daily.◦In 1 minute:

510 comments 293K status updates 136K photos uploaded.

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Numbers Talk!

Facebook Penetration:

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Numbers Talk!

Top pages in Palestine:Jawwal: 750K (local fans) 518: ثقف نفسك KPaltel: 463K 462: شبكة قدس اإلخبارية K 403: محمد عساف K

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Numbers Talk!

Top Brands in Palestine:JawwalPaltelWataniya Mobileمركز روزاليندا لبدل العرائسAkram Sbitany

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Top Media pages in Palestine:شبكة قدس اإلخباريةالقدستلفزيون فلسطينShehab News AgencyMBC1

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Numbers Talk!

Worldwide: ◦271 Active Users.◦500 millions daily tweets◦78% of users on mobile

Arab World: ◦5.8 (May 2014)◦40% of them from Saudi Arabia (2.4 millions)◦17.2 millions daily tweets from Arab World.

40% from Saudi Arabia. 17% from Egypt 10% from Kuwait.

Palestine: ◦37K users.

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Numbers Talk!

Twitter Penetration:

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Top twitter profiles in Palestine@MohammedAssaf89 : 815K@abdelbariatwan : 470K@khanfarw : 420K@Darwishiat: 396K@TamimBarghouti: 389K

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Twitter:◦Top twitter brands in Palestine

@JawwalPal 61K @Paltelco 12K @Wmpalestine 2K

◦Top twitter media accounts in Palestine @AqsaTVChannel 87K @QudsN 76K @felesteenonline 13K

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Numbers Talk!

Worldwide: ◦200 millions Active Users.◦2 new users per second◦42% update their profile regularly.◦10 million endorsements daily.◦39% pay for LinkedIn Premium◦2.7 million business pages.

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Numbers Talk!

Arab World: ◦8.5 millions Users.◦Penetration rate 3.7%◦UAE, SA, Egypt with highest number of users.◦UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait & Lebanon with

highest penetration rate.

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Numbers Talk!

75 millions Daily Users.Top country in MENA is UAE, followed by

SA, Kuwait & Lebanon.1.6 Billion daily likes.60 million daily photos.

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Numbers Talk!

Worldwide: ◦1 Billion unique visitors per month.◦6 billion hours of video watched per month◦100 hours of video uploaded per minute.◦Youtube reach US adults

18-34 more than any cable networks!

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Numbers Talk!

Arab world: ◦285 million videos played daily, which is 2nd

highest region consumption in the world.◦2 hours from MENA are uploaded to Youtube

per minute.◦50% from users in KSA are

on mobile.◦KSA is #1 worldwide in term

of Youtube views.90 million daily view!!

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Numbers Talk!

Youtube:◦Top Channels in Palestine:

Alfalstiniah Ch : ◦14 K subscribers◦6 M views

Quds N◦17 K subscribers◦4 M views

Jawwal◦8 K subscribers◦1.7 M views

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Social vs Traditional

◦Passive vs Interactive◦Immediate Call-to-action◦Build relationships◦Target person and his friends.◦Specific audience.◦Report-ability◦Time!

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Importance per sector

◦Enterprises: Jawwal:

◦ Targets?◦ Posts?◦ Frequency?

Coca Cola◦ Targets?◦ Posts?◦ Frequency?

Emotional vs products? Personalized content (Coca Cola instagram) KLM Case Study (Video) Nescafe Malaysia Case Study (Video) My story with Sbitany

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Importance per sector

◦Startups , SMEs Cost reduction? Under spotlight? Great Success stories

(فيديو) فطور فارس◦◦senderyla_store

Start from 200 SARs 4K monthly earnings 11 K followers.

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Importance per sector

◦Media / Journalism Between ignorance, trying to follow up, and big

success◦Al-Ayyam news paper !◦Moaath Shraideh◦Al-Quds news paper

دائرة المعارف البريطانية أوقفت إصدار نسختها المطبوعة بعد عاما من اإلصدار المستمر لتعتمد فقط على النسخة ٢٤٤

اإللكترونية

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Importance per sector

◦Social/Charitable initiatives Dubarah

◦Case study: check FB/ website. Qawareb تسعة قروش

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Importance per sector

◦Celebrities أفيخاي أدرعي

تقرير مهم◦ الملكة رانيا د.سالم فياض

فيديو شرح الضرائب◦

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Importance per sector

◦Websites شبكة قدس منحة ويب طب

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Power to Change

◦Power of hashtag

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Media Students

◦New Career Path.◦Market needs experts.◦ Internet is everywhere◦Don’t wait courses.◦Technology is easy.◦Entrepreneurship

◦Basem Yousef.

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Not Farmville

◦Facebook User vs Social media expert◦How to shape posts?◦How to use photos, videos, infographics?