Fanpages: List of top 100+ Australian Facebook Fan Pages

 Facebook, Featured, Featured Articles, social media  105 Responses »
Mar 312010
 

Ever wondered which Australian companies, icons, brands have the most fans on Facebook?  Here’s a list of fan Pages for Australian companies, in order of most fans. Please don’t confuse volume with being “good” at social media. Alriighty?

Nothing to see here, move along, this is for my social media classes. :P

I use this list to teach classes on social media. We go through some of the pages and evaluate how well they are doing. We also look at the pages that aggregate all their products and brands on multiple tabs on one page versus individual pages for each brand. What is their default landing tab for non-members? We look at engagement, competitions, regularity of updates, if they seem to have a preplanned diary or are winging it etc.  How many have a clean URL how many don’t. We usually pick a few and see how it works as a Hub-and-Spoke (do they have Facebook links/widgets on their website?). There’s always big debate over the list and how well they are doing. Don’t forget – numbers change over time ….

So, 21.5 million Australians. About 11 million to date are on Facebook with over 8 million “active” monthly (March 2010). How many Australian brands have “set up shop” to access Australian Facebookers do you think? Oh, and in the spirit of “I don’t have to get them all right because I have the internetz to help me” please let me know of the one’s I missed.

Page member numbers are current for end of March 2010.

Australian Facebook Fanpages by Member Numbers

  1. ACDC 1,950,000
  2. Bananas in Pajamas 1,132,000  (others include BiP 643,000)
  3. NZ Flight of the Conchords 726,000 and here 93,000
  4. Hamish & Andy 648,552
  5. Hey Hey It’s Saturday 432,000
  6. Australia Tourism Australia 372,000 fans unofficial 169,000
  7. Peter Andre 364,000 from Australia’s New Faces, then Britain
  8. Ugg Australia 330,000
  9. Billabong Girls  290,000
    Billabong 200,000
  10. Pringles 261,000
  11. Bubble O Bill’s Icecreams from Streets 260,000
  12. Kylie Minogue 206,000 (spelt Kyle in URL)
  13. Steve Irwin 204,000
  14. Mr Squiggle 200,000 ABC TV?
  15. Hillsong 198,000
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Gary Hayes Social Media Count

 Online Communities, social media, social networks, statistics  20 Responses »
Oct 212009
 

Social Media statistics: Ever wondered how many people are blogging, uploading videos, tweeting right at this very minute? Here’s a counter that displays growth of Twitter, money spent on Facebook gifts, number of SMS’s sent worldwide second by second. Social Network activity measured in real time.

Facebook: 200 million users or more

 Facebook, Online Communities, social networks  5 Responses »
Mar 292009
 

Amazing news that Facebook -  footage from AllFacebook.com also amazing is that once again, we see information that a few years ago wouldn’t have made it far out of that room, now available on the ‘net. Facebook should theoretically be crossing the 200 million users level tomorrow based on our estimates but according to Wei Zhu of Facebook, the number could be as high as 280 million. While speaking at a Facebook Tech Talk, Wei Zhu slips and says that the site has 250 million users if not 280 million users (I’ve included the video below). At that point a Continue Reading…