According to a new report from Deloite “A Bluprint for Digital Success,” by Connie Hwong, and reported verbatim, “succeeding in the digital era isn’t about becoming the Uber or the Amazon of an industry. Instead, it involves establishing the companies’ own digital ambitions, taking a hard look at the necessary traits the enterprise has and lacks and creating a plan to achieve that singular vision
This month’s Verto Index looks at the most popular social media apps, websites, and services, from Facebook to Tumblr, based on monthly unique users (among U.S. adults, ages 18 and above). Data provided in this report was revised and updated on November 21.
Facebook’s flagship property far outranks any other property in the list of the top ten social media properties in nearly every metric, with nearly 200 million monthly unique users who spend an average of almost 18.5 hours per month using Facebook”, says the report. “That’s more than quadruple the amount of time spent on any other social media property on our Verto Index. Here are some other highlights:
According to Verto Analytics’ data, with the exception of Facebook, these major social media players aren’t the social networks where consumers are spending the most time. Instead, dating properties such as Grindr and POF (Plenty of Fish), as well as niche social media properties like Kik and Discord (a network for gamers), garner the largest amount of time from their users on a monthly basis. Following in Facebook’s footsteps, Grindr users spent 14.5 hours per month using the platform, while Kik users spent more than 8 hours on the relatively small social network.
Stickiness is how Verto identifies which properties are most engaging, by comparing daily users to monthly users. The latest look at the stickiest properties on our Index shows that, unsurprisingly, Facebook is the most engaging social media property, with a rating of 70%. This still places the company well above some of its biggest rivals: Snapchat has just a 47% stickiness and Twitter ranks at just 27%.
Dating apps and websites have emerged as some of the stickiest properties on our Index, with relatively large amounts of time spent per user and number of monthly sessions per user. Besides Grindr, which has a stickiness score that outranks Twitter and Snapchat, dating properties like Tinder, Bumble, and OkCupid attract more monthly user time than bigger properties like Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and even Reddit.” says the report.
“And while dating apps and sites form a niche group within the great social media landscape (and have comparatively tiny monthly user numbers when compared to the likes of Facebook or Twitter), it’s not surprising to see several dating properties expand into more fully-fledged social media (or even career networking) platforms: Bumble recently launched both Bumble BFF and Bumble Bizz, while Tinder Social has experimented with group dates and social activity matchmaking. “
The post, by Connie Hwong,the global content marketing director at Verto Analytics.