Facebook’s recently launched Flyer Pro advertising platform offers a phenomenal, albeit manual, mechanism for targeting advertisements on Facebook. It also shows some interesting statistics about Facebook’s reach. I ran some quick numbers to see which countries were most saturated with Facebook’s +48M users. The winners:
Canada: 22.12%
Norway: 18.68%
UK: 10.58%
Sweden: 9.09%
Australia: 6.64%
United States: 6.57%
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October 19, 2007 at 3:15 am
Interesting data. Just wanted to add that while a lot of these countries like Germany and the Netherlands might have a low Facebook penetration, they have very successful Facebook clones (think StuiVZ in Germany). Those might have a far higher penetration than FB itself. Mostly a language issue, I think.
November 13, 2007 at 7:25 am
Fascinating. Great job.
November 15, 2007 at 6:35 pm
i am deeply suprised nigeria is not included in that least as they have a tremendous large amount of facebook users. In the irepresent application they are pne of the top five.
May 9, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Before realizing somebody had done this before, I did the same calculations based on today’s data. The numbers are climbing… I broke down the number of users under 18 vs users over 18, and I also graphed the country GDP vs Facebook’s market penetration. You can find the graphs and the original Excel spreadsheet here:
http://www.ngenera.com/convs/show/6535-facebook-users-per-country-and-correlation-to-gdp