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Google+ celebrated its one year anniversary in Hong Kong at an event at Pacific Coffee Emporium in Causeway Bay – see the Google+ Events page for photos.

Global Director, Google+ for Brands, Gretchen Howard appeared via teleconference at Google’s Hong Kong office to share some news about how well Google+ is doing:

Google+ Metrics:

  • More than 400 million people have upgraded to Google+. 150 million are 30-day actives and 50 percent of them log on to Google+ daily
  • Daily active users spend spend over 60 minutes per day on Google
  • Daily active Google+ users spend 12 minutes per day on the stream, up from 9 minutes just 3 months ago
  • More than one million Google+ Pages have been created
  • We’re seeing that people are two to three times more likely to share content with one of their circles than to make a public post
  • Over 3.4 billion photos have already been shared in Google+
  • We are now seeing more users access Google+ from mobile devices than from the desktop

Google+ Live Hangouts Events:

  • Google’s own video conferencing technology runs on Hangouts, and as a company we conduct around 10K+ Hangouts daily

  • In the first 90 days since the launch of Hangouts, we have seen:

  • Over 200 apps built for Hangouts

  • The average duration of a Hangout increases by 2.5 times when participants use an app

  • 1 in every 3 Hangouts use an app

Magical Users / Uses of Google+ in Asia: