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Monday, 20 May 2013
The inverse relationship between Netflix & AOL subscribers
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Source: Business Insider, 9th May 2013
Note - US only, Yellow bars show AOL dial-up subscribers
Google processes 100 billion searches a month
"Supposedly, there is nothing new under the sun.
But there are nearly 500 million new things per day being asked of Google that the search engine has never seen before.
"Every single day 15 percent of the questions people ask of Google are questions we've never seen before," John Wiley, lead designer for Google Search told Bloomberg TV's Jon Erlichman.
Part of the reason is that the Internet is growing so fast, it's hard even for Google to get its arms around it:
Google says it has found 30 trillion "unique addresses" on the Web, meaning websites, web apps and other stuff connected to the Internet.
Every day, Google crawls 20 billion websites per day.
Google processes 100 billion searches each month.
At 100 billion searches for month, that's just over 3.3 billion per day, which means more than 495 million per day are for things Google has never seen before."
Source: Business Insider, 13th May 2013
Note - it's not clear whether this includes YouTube, but I suspect not
But there are nearly 500 million new things per day being asked of Google that the search engine has never seen before.
"Every single day 15 percent of the questions people ask of Google are questions we've never seen before," John Wiley, lead designer for Google Search told Bloomberg TV's Jon Erlichman.
Part of the reason is that the Internet is growing so fast, it's hard even for Google to get its arms around it:
Google says it has found 30 trillion "unique addresses" on the Web, meaning websites, web apps and other stuff connected to the Internet.
Every day, Google crawls 20 billion websites per day.
Google processes 100 billion searches each month.
At 100 billion searches for month, that's just over 3.3 billion per day, which means more than 495 million per day are for things Google has never seen before."
Source: Business Insider, 13th May 2013
Note - it's not clear whether this includes YouTube, but I suspect not
Thursday, 16 May 2013
48 billion apps have been downloaded from the Google Play Store
"Google said it had passed 48 billion downloads from Google Play, at roughly the same time that Apple said it had reached the 50 billion milestone.
With Google Play having launched well after the App Store, the Android app tally is closing fast on Apple’s cumulative download total. Google said that there have been more than 2.5 billion downloads in the last month alone."
With Google Play having launched well after the App Store, the Android app tally is closing fast on Apple’s cumulative download total. Google said that there have been more than 2.5 billion downloads in the last month alone."
Source: Mobile World Live, 16th May 2013
50 Billion apps have been downloaded from the iTunes app store
Source: Special Apple page retrieved 16th May 2013
"Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded over 50 billion apps* from the revolutionary App Store℠. Customers are downloading more than 800 apps per second at a rate of over two billion apps per month on the App Store. The 50 billionth app was Say the Same Thing by Space Inch, LLC, which was downloaded by Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio who received a $10,000 App Store Gift Card to commemorate this historic milestone.
“Apple would like to thank our incredible customers and developers for topping 50 billion apps downloaded,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “The App Store completely transformed how people use their mobile devices and created a thriving app ecosystem that has paid out over nine billion dollars to developers. We’re absolutely floored to cross this milestone in less than five years.”
The App Store opened in July 2008 with 500 apps. Since its introduction, Apple’s incredible developer community has created an app for doing almost everything imaginable on an iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch®."
Source: Press release from Apple, 16th May 2013
Earlier - 30bn announced on 12th June 2012
25bn announced on 5th March 2012
10bn announced on 22nd January 2011
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
On a typical week night Netflix accounts for almost a third of all US household internet traffic
"On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That’s more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com, HBO Go, iTunes, and BitTorrent combined. Traffic to Netflix usually peaks at around 10 p.m. in each time zone, at which point a chart of Internet consumption looks like a python that swallowed a cow. By midnight Pacific time, streaming volume falls off dramatically."
Source: Business Week, 9th May 2013
Source: Business Week, 9th May 2013
7 million adults in the UK have never used the internet
"More than seven million adults in the UK have never used the internet, official figures suggest.
The data revealed around 1 million more people have ventured on to the web since this time last year.
But the latest statistics show 14% of those over the age of 16 have never accessed material online.
Significantly more women than men have never used the internet (4.2 million compared with 2.8 million), the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
It found that 326,000 adults used the internet for the first time between January and March this year."
The data revealed around 1 million more people have ventured on to the web since this time last year.
But the latest statistics show 14% of those over the age of 16 have never accessed material online.
Significantly more women than men have never used the internet (4.2 million compared with 2.8 million), the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
It found that 326,000 adults used the internet for the first time between January and March this year."
Source: The Guardian, 15th May 2013
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Slideshare hosts ten million presentations
"As SlideShare hit 10 million uploads – thanks to all of you! — we at SlideShare took a step back to reflect on all the great presentations we’ve seen over the years. Talk about inspiration and creativity! There have been poignant photo essays, detailed how-to guides, industry deep dives, creative narratives and so much more."
Source: Slideshare blog, 13th May 2013
(Too many of their favourite presentations are lists, but the Tartiflette one is great!)
(Too many of their favourite presentations are lists, but the Tartiflette one is great!)
Monday, 13 May 2013
Facebook Home users spend 25% more time on Facebook
"Despite some bad reviews, it appears that people are, in fact, using it. In the first month, about one million people downloaded Home, Ondrejka said, which lines up with what the Home team expected (he would not, however, say how many of those people are still actively using Home).
The app also seems to be having the desired effect on user activity. Ondrejka said that Home users are spending 25 percent more time on Facebook, and are interacting with other users 25 percent more as well. He added that there has also been a 7 percent increase in chat usage and a 10 percent increase in the amount of messages that Home users send, on average. And over 10,000 people were so desperate to get Home on their unsupported Android smartphones that they installed a hacked version, Mosseri said."
The app also seems to be having the desired effect on user activity. Ondrejka said that Home users are spending 25 percent more time on Facebook, and are interacting with other users 25 percent more as well. He added that there has also been a 7 percent increase in chat usage and a 10 percent increase in the amount of messages that Home users send, on average. And over 10,000 people were so desperate to get Home on their unsupported Android smartphones that they installed a hacked version, Mosseri said."
Note - I'm assuming that this means 25% more time than before, rather than 25% more time than the average
79% of smartphone owners are 'smartphone shoppers'
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"Now that consumers have product details, price comparisons and reviews available instantly at their fingertips, shoppers complement what they’re seeing on store shelves with what they can find on the web. This behavior isn’t just limited to high consideration purchases like appliances and electronics. In every industry we looked at, including household items, apparel, and pet care, more than 70% of smartphone shoppers use their phones in store to help with shopping. In fact, two-thirds of baby product shoppers compare prices on their phones in-store.
So what are shoppers using their smartphones for in stores? The research showed that phones were primarily used for:
Price comparison (53%)
Finding offers and promotions (39%)
Finding locations of other stores (36%)
Finding hours (35%)"
Source: Research from Google, published in a blog post, 9th May 2013
Full research here
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