The global ecommerce market is expected to total $4.89 trillion in 2021. That figure is estimated to grow over the next few years, showing that borderless ecommerce is becoming a profitable option for online retailers [Shopify 2021]

70% of social media users agree that they don’t trust brands who place profits before people during the pandemic [Hootsuite 2021]

✈️ People are traveling 18% less than they were a year ago. This is measured using Apple Maps routing requests, which cover walking, driving, and transit [Apple’s Mobility Trends Reports]

⬆️ LinkedIn Live streams have increased 89% since March [LinkedIn]

📸 96% of marketers consider Instagram their preferred platform for influencer partnerships [SocialPubli]

🌎 Active social media users have increased globally YoY by 13.2% in 2021 [Digital 2021 Global Report, Hootsuite]

🌎 4.20 billion active social media users recorded worldwide. Equating to 53.6% of the global population [Digital 2021 Global Report, Hootsuite]

🖥 UAE boasts the highest percentage of total population that uses the internet at 99.0%. Followed closely by Denmark 98.1% and Sweden 98.0% [Kepios, Jan 2021]

🛒 Over 2.14 billion people worldwide are expected to buy goods and services online in 2021 [Statista]

🌎 The most popular global social media network based on audience size is Facebook [Statista]

📊 In Q3 2020, Twitter reported an average of 187 million monetizable daily active users (mDAUs), up 29% year over year [Sprout Social]

📲Instagram stories are the rising star of social media. In just two years, Instagram stories increased from 150 million to 500 million daily active viewers [Statista]

👀Social media user numbers have surged in the past 12 months too, with 490 million new users joining social media in the year to January 2021 [Hootsuite, Digital 2021]

📲Data shows that 9 in 10 internet users go online via their smartphones, but two-thirds also say that they use a laptop or desktop computer to access the internet [GWI]

🌎There are more than 1.8 billion using tens of millions of Facebook groups [Facebook, Q3 2020]

📲Facebook brought in $27.2B in ad revenue across Q4 2020 [Facebook 2021]

📲98.3% of Facebook users access the social media app via their mobile phones [DataReportal 2021]

Worldwide, the average user spends 2 hours and 25 minutes on social media every day [Hootsuite 2021]

Instagram stories are the rising star of social media. In just two years, Instagram stories increased from 150 million to 500 million daily active viewers [Facebook 2021]

It is expected that mobile commerce will take a market share of ecommerce of 72.9% by end of 2021 [99Firms]