1. 10 SOCIAL SHARING
STATISTICS
2016 EDITION
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2. “As of the fourth quarter of
2015, Facebook had 1.59
billion monthly active
users. Social media users
have risen by 176 million in
the last year”
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“According to Q4 Social Sharing
Report from ShareThis. Mobile
device (or smartphone) users now
spend 20% of their activity on that
device sharing content.”
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“Infographics are liked and shared
on social media 3X more than other
any other type of content.”
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5. “Over 15% of tweet mentions
originate from the tweet buttons
embedded on your site.”
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6. “27 million pieces of content are
shared every day (source)
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“Brands with social sharing that
create 15 blog posts per month
average 1,200 new leads per month”

8. “Only 28% of content sharing happens through
the big social networks. The other 72% is shared
through “Dark Social” (Social Media Today)
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9. “Every minute, Tumblr owners share
approximately 27,778 new blog posts.
(Source: IACP)
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10. “The top three reasons consumers share
content online are to entertain (44%); to
educate (25%) and to reflect their identity
(families, friendships, values, etc. – 20%).
(MarketingProfs)”
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11. “The world’s top websites include: social feeds, a
prominent link to their blog /RSS feeds, links to
each social profile and share buttons so that visitors
can easily share the webpages.”
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“Where do some of the biggest sites on the
web place their social media buttons?
The answer? Everywhere!” source

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Top of post
Do users share before they actually read the article?
This is still one of the most common placement options
frequently used by sites like TechCrunch and Mashable.

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Left of post
Placing social buttons to the left of the blog post
makes a lot of sense, as readers follow text left to
right. This is the placement used by CoSchedule.

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Right of post
This one surprised me but
it is out there.
Social Media Examiner is a
good example of a site
with this placement.

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Bottom of post
Placing social media buttons at the bottom of the post is
very common and I have chosen this option at
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Contextual Sharing
A growing trend is to actually place shareable content inline
with the rest of your content. I do this on my own blog
using the Click To Tweet plugin.

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Takeaways
 Social media buttons do work, and you need to be using them
 Great content is still the key to social sharing
 Buttons should be localized for each culture
 Search engines include the strength of social media as an
algorithm-ranking factor
 Social share buttons help increase traffic to your site
 Social share buttons increase brand exposure