By Judith Lee,

On Monday, Aug. 24, we were reminded why we cannot ignore Facebook as a marketing vehicle. For the first time, over a billion people used Facebook on a single day, according to company founder Mark Zuckerberg, who announced in a post that “1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family.”

Here are 12 more reasons marketers cannot ignore Facebook:

1. Each day on Facebook, there are 350 million photos uploaded; 45 billion “Like” buttons clicked; and 10 billion messages sent. (The Wonder of Tech)
2. Facebook accounts for 21% of all social media referral traffic to websites. (TechCrunch)
3. 81% of B2B marketers use Facebook to distribute content. (Digital Marketing Philippines)
4. Worldwide digital ad spending topped $140 billion in 2014. Facebook accounted for 7.8% of that total. (eMarketer)
5. 8.3% of Fortune 500 CEOs have a Facebook account, putting them firmly behind America’s grandparents in terms of adoption. 2.6% of CEOs have Instagram accounts. (MediaPost)
6. While 55% of SMBs maintain a Facebook Page, just 20% have run a Facebook ad or promoted post. (MediaPost)
7. 77% of B2C companies have acquired customers through Facebook. (Ber|Art)
8. In an average month, 1.28 billion users are active on Facebook. (Convince & Convert)
9. In the United States, average click-through rate (CTR) for Facebook advertising increased by better than 50% last year, from .09% to .14%. But the average Facebook CTR in the U.K. is nearly twice that, at 0.27%. (Convince & Convert)
10. Facebook drives 23% of all website traffic. (Shareaholic)
11. 81% of millennials are on Facebook and their median friend count is 250. (Heidi Cohen)
12. 30% of the U.S. population gets its daily news on Facebook. (BentoBox Media)

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Judith Lee is a marketing and communications professional who focuses on social media and email marketing based in Atglen. She is a SCORE Volunteer and the Chair-Elect of the Southern Chester County Chamber of Commerce. She can be reached at 610-368-2058 or via email at judithlee@epix.net.