‘Statistics’

Everything you want to know about LinkedIn – Facts & Figures 2013

Last week LinkedIn announced officially that they have over 200 million members worldwide. But what are the trends? How often is this online network really visited? By whom? And how many companies use this site? LinkedIn Global Stats 2013 Let’s have a deep dive again in the global LinkedIn statistics (previous edition LinkedIn facts & figures […]

Everything you wanted to know about Facebook – Facts and Figures 2012

Did you know that Facebook is responsible for 20% of all US Internet traffic? That might explain why they’re worth approximately 100 Billion Dollars these days. Here’s a list of the most compelling facts and figures about Facebook.com. 901 million monthly active users. Most popular page: Facebook, with 67,385,331 fans. 300 million photos uploaded per day, […]

A/B Testing in Sourcing to radical change results

Every recruiter/sourcer has it’s own preference when it comes to approaching potential candidates for a career opportunity. Some prefer to call, most choose to send an (in)mail directly to the person, and others prefer to contact someone via a mutual friend or colleague (reverse referral).  But which message gets the best response? A short teaser […]

10 facts why Facebook matters for Employer Branding

So you don’t have a Facebook Fan Page yet? And you don’t have a LIKE button on your Career Site or Job Pages? Think again. Here are 10 quick facts you should know about consumer behavior on Facebook.

Worlds Largest Social Networking Sites (2011)

Looking for the current highest traffic social networks? Check out this infographic with 29 very active social networks that have at least one million visitors per day. Of course Facebook dominates the list. Interestingly, if you combine all the daily visitors for the other 28 social networks on this list you end up with two-thirds […]

Everything you wanted to know about Facebook

This infographic (and presentation) is all about Facebook statistics and it shows a demogrpahic breakdown by continent, macro-area and countries of the 596,371,760 users worldwide.

New LinkedIn Company Profiles coming soon

LinkedIn is working on a re-design of the Company Profile pages. It includes rich information about a company, including new hires, employees, recent tweets, activities, news articles and insightful statistics based on LinkedIn user profiles.

Social Media Revolution 2010 (video)

Erik Qualman is the man behind a great series of videos in which the the development, in facts and figures, of social media is beautifully portrait. It had been a while since he published his last video, Social Media ROI in November 2009, but now there is an updated version of the original video ‘Social […]

Everything you wanted to know about LinkedIn – statistics and trends 2010

On request and by popular demand, I’ve compiled a list of facts and figures about the most professional networking site; LinkedIn. Did you know that the LinkedIn.com site was launched exactly 7 years ago, on 5 May 2003, and has 66,266,528 members at this moment? LinkedIn corporation has currently 500 employees with its headquarters based […]