Did you know YouTube now accounts for 1 in every 4 visits to a social network in the UK?

Are you missing out on an important social media opportunity?

Did you know YouTube now accounts for 1 in every 4 visits to a social network in the UK and 1 in every 30 visits online. Hitwise Intelligence, January 2012. http://goo.gl/XRq9F

YouTube was consistently one of the fastest moving websites within the Experian Hitwise Social Networking and Forums category and had six consecutive months as the fastest growing social site in the UK. Total visits to YouTube increased by 45% between December 2010 and December 2011 going up from 417 million visits to 606 million visits.

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Social Media is a major lever to amplify and generate inbound enquiry

Social Media is a major lever to amplify and generate inbound enquiry. In a recent post the “Social Media and the 3 New Pillars of Marketing“, I outlined how the following elements were crucial in growing your business in the “Digital” and “Internet” generation.

• Content: The home base your “Blog”.. plus other media such as online video that you can integrate with your blog
• SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) of Website’s, Blogs and Social Media Channels
• Social Media (such as Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube)

You have uploaded more than 13 million hours of footage -YouTube

In 2010 people watched more than 700 billion YouTube videos and uploaded more than 13 million hours of footage. And these aren't shoddy made up stats like ours, these are genuine and come direct from the video giant itself.

And to celebrate, YouTube has produced the video above showing off the top 10 videos of 2010, along with a brilliant video-rich, flash-based, timeline that gives a great overview of what videos have been popular during 2010.