As we explore in the new GWI Social report (download a free summary here), Facebook is still by far the most popular platform on traditional metrics such as membership and active usage. However, look instead at visitation rates – those who say they’ve visited the service in question during the last month – and YouTube leapfrogs Facebook to take first place.
Outside of China, an extremely impressive 81% of online adults are visiting the video-sharing site on a monthly basis. That means it has almost as many visitors as Facebook has members. It also gives YouTube an 8-point lead over Facebook when it comes to visitor numbers.
Significantly, this is a pattern which is repeated in all parts of the world; break the figures down by region and YouTube has the lead in all places (albeit with the contest admittedly extremely close in North America).
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