In our Social media fast facts series, we examine social networks, local influencers and popular brands on social around the world. This month, we\u2019ll be focusing on the Latin American market, and with the World Cup only two months away, we\u2019ll be taking an extra close look at Brazil.
\nLatin American nations share elements of a common cultural and linguistic heritage, but each nation has its own pre-colonial traditions and history, which have created the countries they are today.<\/p>\n
Latin America had 159 million internet users in 2013<\/a>, a rise of 21% from 2012. Forty-two per cent of these users were from Brazil, while 15% were from Mexico, 11% from Argentina, and 7% from Colombia. Facebook is the most popular social network in Latin America, with around 179 million users, growing from 116 million<\/a> users in June 2011. Nineteen per cent of Facebook\u2019s user base lives in Latin America. In 2012 Semiocast reported that Brazil was second to the USA in total number of Twitter users.<\/a> Brazil had 41.2 million users, opposed to the USA\u2019s more than 140 million. Twitter is the 15th most visited site in Brazil, below Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn. Almost 60% of Latin American YouTube users are under 34. It\u2019s the largest market for YouTube outside of the USA. LinkedIn opened its Brazil office in 2011,<\/a> when 14 million of its 135 million members were Latin American, and six million were from Brazil. By 2013, Brazilian LinkedIn membership had risen to 11 million (the same as the UK). Brazil has also become the second fastest growing market for mobile LinkedIn use<\/a>. Brazil is the third biggest user of Google Plus<\/a>, with more than 2 million users. Mexico has more than 364,000 users, and Colombia more than 318,000. The other Latin American nations have between 236,000 users (Argentina) and 16,000 users (Bolivia). More than 8% of visitors to Ask.fm come from Brazil, making it second only to Poland<\/a>, which has the largest Ask.fm user base. It grew from 247,000 unique visitors from Latin America in November 2011, to almost 13 million unique visitors<\/a> in November 2012.<\/p>\n Pinterest reached 1.3 million Latin American users<\/a> in April 2012. By July 2013 it had almost 1 million users in Mexico (its fifth largest market), and around 750,000 users in Brazil<\/a> (its sixth). It also had less than 500,000 users in Argentina and Colombia. Google\u2019s previous attempt at a social network,\u00a0Okrut, is still popular in Brazil<\/a>, with almost 47% of its visitors coming from the country. It received 1.73% of visits made by Brazilians to social networks in July 2013.<\/p>\n Dating-focused social network, Badoo, is quite popular in Latin America. It notches up 6.6% of its visitors<\/a> from Brazil, 4.3% from Mexico, 3.8% from Argentina and 2.5% from Venezuela.<\/p>\n In 2013, Cushman & Wakefield reported<\/a> that Brazil was the only Latin American country in the world\u2019s top 20 markets for internet retail sales in 2012. Two Latin American countries were also listed in fastest growing markets for online retail sales: Mexico (fourth) and Colombia (fifth). The most popular Facebook page in Brazil is Facebook for every phone, which has 33 million<\/a> local fans. That\u2019s followed by Brazilian drinks brand, Guaran\u00e1 Antarctica<\/a> (with more than 16 million local fans), and Coca-Cola<\/a> (which also has over 16 million local fans).<\/b><\/p>\n Perhaps unsurprisingly, the two most followed Twitter accounts in Brazil belong to Brazilian football players, 18.2 million people<\/a> follow @KAKA, and @neymarjr has 9.93 million followers<\/a>. Brazilian singer\/songwriter @ivetesangalo has more than 9.55 million followers<\/a>.<\/p>\n Disney Collector Brazil is the most popular YouTube channel in Brazil, with more than 1.5 billion views<\/a>. A Brazilian music project for children, called Galinha Pintadinha (aka The Dappled Chicken), also has more than one billion views<\/a>. Finally, Brazilian singer\/songwriter, Michel Tel\u00f3, has more than 842 million views<\/a> on his channel. Check out previous blogs in our series looking at regional use of \u00a0social media<\/p>\n In our Social media fast facts series, we examine social networks, local influencers and popular brands on social around the world. This month, we\u2019ll be focusing on the Latin American market, and with the World Cup only two months away, we\u2019ll be taking an extra close look at Brazil. Latin American nations share elements of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,35,26,31],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nMobile internet is becoming an popular way to access the internet and social media in Latin America, with eMarketer predicting that there will be 120.8 million mobile internet users in Brazil alone by 2017<\/a>.
\nA staggering 94.1% of internet users in Latin America are using social networks, and Latin American nations take five of the top ten spots for the most time spent on social networks (from Brazil at 13.3 hours a month, to Colombia at almost six hours a month).<\/p>\nFacebook<\/h4>\n
\nBrazil had 65 million Facebook users by 2013, and was second only to the USA<\/a> for the most represented nation on Facebook. Almost 95% of time spent on social media<\/a> in Brazil is spent on Facebook.<\/p>\nTwitter<\/h4>\n
\nIn 2013, Peer Reach found that Brazil was the fifth biggest Twitter user, with 4.3% of global users (behind the UK and ahead of Spain), while Mexico had 3%, Argentina 2.6% and Colombia 1.9%. However, when it looked at the number of active Twitter users compared to internet users, it found that Venezuela led Latin America, with 14% of internet users also using Twitter. Argentina had 12%, Colombia 10%, Mexico 8% and Brazil 5%.<\/p>\nYouTube<\/h4>\n
\nBy July 2013, YouTube accounted for 16.7% of all social network visits made by Brazilians each month.<\/p>\nLinkedIn<\/h4>\n
\nColombia is the second fastest growing country on LinkedIn.<\/p>\nGoogle+<\/h4>\n
\nBy July 2013, Google Plus accounted for just 0.74% of all social network visits made by Brazilians each month.<\/p>\nOther social networks<\/h4>\n
Ask.fm<\/h5>\n
Pinterest and its competitors<\/h5>\n
\nTwo per cent of Pinterest user<\/a>s come from Mexico, and 1.5% from Brazil. Competitor, weheartit<\/a>, gets 2.6% of its users from Mexico and 2.1% from Brazil and Argentina.<\/p>\nOkrut<\/h5>\n
Badoo<\/h5>\n
Focus on Brazil Influencers: brands, celebrities & sports stars<\/h4>\n
\nIt was estimated that Latin American ecommerce would generate $69 billion in sales<\/a> in 2013, and an increase of 60.5% from 2011. Big consumer brands<\/a> like L\u2019Oreal and Nike have launched major social media campaigns in Brazil to capitalise on this, acquiring millions of followers in the process.<\/p>\nFacebook<\/h5>\n
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YouTube<\/b><\/h5>\n
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