Most Popular Social Networks in the UK
A list of the best social networking websites in the UK for 2017 with a proven track record in offering a high return on investment for your business products and/or services. We will be updating this list quarterly based on market as well as our own agency-generated data.
| Description | UK Users | Total Users | Useful information | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Facebook: | A social sharing networking site. | 32,000,000 | 1.65 billion | 83.6% of Facebook’s daily active users live outside the U.S. and Canada. | |||||
 | YouTube: | The top website used for video uploading and viewing. | 19,100,000 | 1,300,000,000 | 3.25 billion hours of Youtube videos are watched each month. | |||||
 | Twitter: | A Micro-blogging platform. | 20,000,000 | 1.3 billion | 50% of users visit the website of a small or medium business they follow. | |||||
 | Instagram: | A photo and video sharing social networking. | 14,000,000 | 500,000,000 | 80 million photos are shared each day on Instagram. 14 million. | |||||
 | Google+: | A social networking project used to connect with businesses and users. | 12,600,000 | 2,200,000,000 | 74% of Google+ users are male. | |||||
 | Pinterest: | A popular photo sharing website. | 10,300,000 | 92% of Pinterest users access it through their mobiles. | ||||||
 | Snapchat: | Send images and videos with a short life span over an app. | 13.6 million | 600,000,000 | 9,000 Snaps are shared each second on the app. | |||||
 | LinkedIn: | B2B platform for networking professionally. | 19,000,000 | 467 million | The most overused word on a LinkedIn profile is “Motivated”. | |||||
 | Tumblr: | A popular microblogging platform used to broadcast messages. | 9,000,000 | 69% of Tumblr users are Millennials. | ||||||
 | Reddit: | An entertainment, social news and social networking website. | 6,600,000 | 1.3 billion | The average time a Reddit user spends on the site is 16 minutes. | |||||
 | Vimeo: | A video uploading and sharing website. | 412,085 | 170,000,000 | Vimeo gets 715 million monthly video views. | |||||
 | Vine: | A mobile app used to record and share short, looping video clips. | 1.5 billion vine loops are played daily. | |||||||
 | Foursquare: | A local search and discovery app. | 60,000,000 | There are 1.3 million business pages on foursquare. | ||||||
 | Flickr: | An image hosting website used to showcase photography work. | 112,000,000 | 1 Million photos are shared daily on Flickr. | ||||||
 | Periscope: | Twitter's new live-streaming video app. | 10,000,000 | 350,000 hours of video is streamed daily on Periscope. | ||||||
 | Bloglovin': | A blogging platform used by bloggers to gain awareness. | 30,000,000 |
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