Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market
by scarface74 on Monday September 03, 2018 @10:19PM
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Facebook has 1.2 Billion active daily users. https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...
Even if they aren’t actively posting updates, they are liking, following, clicking on things.
Other staggering statistics are that 50% of all 18-24 year olds check Facebook when they first wake up....
https://zephoria.com/top-15-valuable-facebook-statistics/
And “email is for old people” has been a popular topic for over a decade.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/dec/06/digitalco...
How much personal email are people really doing in 2018 that’s not not either bulk email or business to business (meaning Google wouldn’t have visibility), etc?
Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market
by dragonwriter on Monday September 03, 2018 @10:45PM
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> Even if they aren’t actively posting updates, they are liking, following, clicking on things.
Or logging on to third party sites that use FB login.
Agreed, I'm raising anecdotes as I haven't seen any data users frequently update.
Quick search shows https://zephoria.com/top-15-valuable-facebook-statistics/. If you do the math, there's about 1.3 status updates/week/active-user. That's not a lot of voluntary data being given per user and I suspect this is subject to a huge power law where median is far less than 1.
> how will it correlate LinkedIn profiles with Google users?
Profiles are public and picked up by Google search. Correlation is pretty easy to do - simple method is real name match + geo-ip.
> How many people use email in 2018 for personal communications?
I don't have solid data; do you? That said, I and almost everyone I know uses email as the primary means for long-form (i.e. anything that requires more than a sentence) personal communication. (I feel like we're talking past each other due to the lack of data + being in different circles)
> People only use maps when they don’t know where they are going. People will check in a lot more.
Source on both pieces of data?
I'm skeptical as:
1. Maps is valuable for traffic-adjusted navigation.
2. Maps has 1B montly active users
3. Check-ins are rare. (looking at my feed - I can't find numbers)