As the markets
slow down toward Christmas its always interesting to look back to
see what topics and people made the news. We have put together a summary
of the top searches around the world including Facebook's
most talked about topics (US only), Google's top
trending searches and Youtube's top trending videos. We considered
Yahoo/Bing but most users are probably on those two by mistake....
It's not even an election year (next year 2016) yet politics
was the most discussed Facebook topic. When Donald Trump is involved it creates
a lot of lively discussions. Facebook released other data including their
most checked in locations which were Disney and Universal Studios, no data but they were probably the most popular selfie/photo location as well. The most discussed show was Game of Thrones.
The top google searches revolved around people and movies
personally was surprised that Star Wars did not make the list. It topped
December but not throughout the year apparently the most searched Star Wars
question was what order should I watch them. There were over 897 million searches for Paris as users followed the latest news about the terrorist tragedy. In finance the top searches revolved around the Greek debt crisis (remember that) and the China stock
market crash. Australian users searched for news on the Chinese economy
more than any other country.
This year was also Youtube's 10th birthday surprisingly 2 TV
commercials and 3 late night clips made the top ten trending Youtube video
list. Youtube is no longer just User generated content it's becoming more much
professional similar to TV.
Jason
Decisive
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