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More than 48 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

37% increase in video uploaded per minute in the past six months and a 100% increase from last year.

3 billion views in one day — a 50% increase compared to last year

uploaded more than 13 million hours of video content to its servers in the last 12 months, resulting in more than 700 billion YouTube video views

uploaded 850,000 minutes of video and watched 1.9 billion videos per day in the past year

For many educational tasks it is simply easier for you to show someone how to do something rather than to write it all down, edit it, and illustrate it in a written format.

simply take the top 5 or 10 most frequently asked questions in your business and start there.

make a video to enhance your current customer experience and they will bring you new customers. Moreover, the tone of the content will not be “salesy”, because you already sold them.

ocial media is not just popular among the younger generation. The use of social media among older faculty (those teaching more than 20 years) is only slightly lower than that of young educators. •Some colleges are now accepting a one minute long YouTube video as a substitute for the traditional college essay. •61% of educators say they have a Facebook account and 12% of them say they use it to communicate with students. •40% of educators report having a YouTube account and 21% of them report using it to communicate with students. •18% of educators say they have a Twitter account, however that is on the rise. •46% of educators play social videos and podcasts as educational supplements to their lectures. •Skype has created opportunities for foreign language students to connect with a native speaker to help further develop their language skills. •Social media has created a new form of communication between students and faculty.

Macy's is behind the most visible QR-education effort, with a 30-second spot now running nationally. The spot, which was cut down from a demo posted to Facebook, YouTube and Macy's own site, shows shoppers how to use the codes and explains what they'll get access to when they scan one with their phone.

There are abundant in-store signs and employees are armed with more than 100,000 lanyards containing instructions on how to use the codes.

The Backstage Pass videos have attracted anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand views on YouTube, with a video featuring Kelly Osbourne grabbing just shy of 3,500 views; the video demo of QR codes has snared 2,200 views.

Email: 91% use email marketing; among them 78% say such efforts are moderately (46%) or very (32%) effective. Websites: 95% have websites; among them 75% say their sites are moderately (38%) or very (37%) effective. Online advertising: 69% use digital ads; among them 60% say those efforts are moderately (39%) or very (21%) effective. Social media: 73% use at least one social channel for business; among them 54% say such efforts are moderately (37%) or very (17%) effective. Blogs: 43% have a blog; among them 47% say their efforts are moderately (33%) or very (14%) effective.

80% have increased slightly or substantially their use of social tools in the previous 12 months.  

Moreover, 81% of those currently using social media expect to increase their efforts in the coming year.

90% of Marketers indicated that social media is important for their business. 2. Only one-third of social media marketers want to know how to monitor and measure the return of investment of social media. 3. 58% of marketers use social media for 6 hours or more each week. 4. 77% of marketers plan on increasing their use of YouTube and video marketing in 2011. 5. 70% of marketers want to learn more about Facebook. 6. 69% of marketers want to learn more about blogging. 7. The number-one advantage of social media marketing is generating more business exposure, as indicated by 88% of marketers.

Only 28% of businesses are outsourcing some portion of their social media marketing.9. 32% of the surveyed marketers said they have less than one year of experience with social media.

B2C companies were more likely (50%) than B2B (42%) to increase their use of online ads.

Ninety percent of those surveyed agreed that social media is important to their business. The report reveals that the self-employed (67%) and small business owners (66%) were more likely to strongly agree with this statement.

88% of all marketers found social media helps get them increased exposure. Additionally, 72% of those surveyed saw increased traffic and subscriptions as a result of social media.

Small business owners were more likely than all other groups (89.2% reporting benefits) to see increased exposure.