Market Research on Social Media

Description
Perception of social media, Usage pattern of social media, E-paper reading habits, Usage of image sharing website.

SOCIAL MEDIA
GROUP I

A MARKETING RESEARCH ON

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Social Media
Facebook is the Web property mostly commonly used in social media, with 85% of companies using this site as part of their marketing strategy.

This is followed by Twitter (77%), LinkedIn (58%) and YouTube (49%). Social networks and blogs are the 4th most popular online activities online, including beating personal India is the fastest growing market of email Flickr now hosts more than 4bn images but Photo uploads to Facebook have increased by more than 100%. Facebook claims that 50% of active users log into the site each day. This would mean at least 175m users every 24 hours Four out of five companies (81%) expect social media budgets to increase over the next year 1/19/13

Research Objectives


Studying –

Perception of social media Usage pattern of social media E-paper reading habits Usage of image sharing website









Target segment


Professional Students

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Research Methodology


Exploratory research


Focused Group Discussion (3) In-Depth Interview (1)





Conclusive research


Descriptive research


Questionnaire (64)

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Exploratory Research Insights

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Respondents Profile
Social Media Usage Gender

Educational Background

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E-Paper
E-Paper Reader E-Paper Reading

E-Paper Reding Frequency

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Image Sharing
Image Sharing Website

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Social Media Users
Social Media Users
12

10

8

Users

6

4

2

0

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Social Media Usage
Overall Monthly Usage (Hrs)

0

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4

6

8

10

12

Factor Analysis


9 independent variables Brought down to three factors




Factor 1( Recreational Benefits)

Gaming, Entertainment and recreation, spending leisure time


Factor 2 (Data Sharing)

Expressing your views, information sharing, staying in touch with friends, image and video sharing


Factor 3 (Communicating )

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Discriminant Analysis


Dependent Variable


Usage Rate – High, Medium and Low



Independent Variables


Importance to entertainment and recreation Express your views Connecting with new people





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Multidimensional Scaling


Paired Comparison method is used Dissimilarity matrix was drawn for different social media websites for different category of students




Dimension 1 - Personalized Dimension 2 – Information Sharing





Bloggers and engineering students found that blogs are significantly different from Facebook, Orkut and LinkedIn



Pharmacy students considered Facebook, Orkut and blogs similar but different from other social media websites



TAPMI students considered Flicker, Picasa and blogs closely 1/19/13 related

Perceptual Mapping


General students could not clearly differentiate whether Orkut, Facebook and twitter are more personalized. TAPMI students considered Facebook and Orkut to be more personalized but twitter more informative than either of them.



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Social Media Future

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Conclusion


Reasons for using social media


Recreational Benefits Data Sharing Communicating with new people







Bloggers and engineering students found that blogs are significantly different from Facebook, Orkut and LinkedIn



Pharmacy students considered Facebook, Orkut and blogs similar but different from other social media websites



TAPMI 1/19/13 students considered Flicker, Picasa and blogs closely

References
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http://econsultancy.com/blog/4402-20+-more-mind-blo
http://econsultancy.com/reports/value-of-social-mediahttp://chris.pirillo.com/social-media-statistics/http://www.wordle.net/create


http://econsultancy.com/blog/5324-20+-mind-blowing-





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THANK YOU

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