Showing posts with label bizarre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bizarre. Show all posts
Tuesday, 25 February 2020

Billie Eilish & Drake 'stream more than all 1980s music'

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"I don’t view it as problem solved. There’s been progress, but there’s a ways to go yet. If I were still at Interscope, here are the th...
Thursday, 26 September 2019

Americans spend on average 50 minutes a day behind the wheel

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"For the time being, new car sales are trending up — believe it or not. The AAA says Americans spend 50 minutes behind the wheel each d...

48% of UK residents did not take an overseas flight in the last year

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"Just 1% of English residents are responsible for nearly a fifth of all flights abroad, according to previously unpublished statistics....
Monday, 8 July 2019

Netflix has roughly 75 brand partnerships for Stranger Things

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"A limited supply of [New Coke] will be available starting on Thursday as part of a robust promotional campaign related to the coming s...
Monday, 25 February 2019

The Super Bowl caused Netflix viewing to drop by 30%

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"Super Bowl 53, which saw the New England Patriots defeat the LA Rams in a poorly received contest, had a profound effect on Netflix us...

Peppa Pig 'is teaching American kids to speak with an English accent'

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"A British show for children is allegedly warping American toddlers’ speech toward “Mummy” and “to-mah-to,” according to several parent...
Friday, 8 February 2019

1/3 of American Millennials joined a boycott in 2018

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"In the past year, 33% of millennials and 35% of Gen Xers boycotted a company or product they had previously spent money on, according ...
Thursday, 7 February 2019

Songs are getting shorter - probably as a result of streaming

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"Popular music is shrinking. From 2013 to 2018, the average song on the Billboard Hot 100 fell from 3 minutes and 50 seconds to about 3...
Thursday, 18 October 2018

Amazon has over 120 own-label brands

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"Amazon created its first private label brand in 2007, when it started selling bedding and bath products under the Pinzon line. Since ...
Wednesday, 18 July 2018

At least 6,000 homes in the UK have a black & white TV licence

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"The BBC’s Annual Report & Accounts states that at least 6000 homes are viewing TV on monochrome licences.  The colour TV licence w...
Tuesday, 29 May 2018

Over 10% of spending on toys is adults buying things for themselves

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"The profitable ‘kidults’ market is continuing to grow as new data reveals that adults spent £383 million on toys for themselves in 201...
Friday, 6 April 2018

The US self-storage industry generated nearly $40bn a year

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"Despite recessions and demographic shifts, few building types have boomed like self-storage lockers. In fact, they’ve proven to be one...
Monday, 26 February 2018

A mention on the TV show Rick & Morty led to McDonalds re-introducing Szechuan dipping sauce

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"If you’re going to ride a pop culture trend, you’ve got to ride it full send — and that’s why McDonald’s says it’s bringing back its S...
Tuesday, 19 December 2017

The videos that get the most engagement on Facebook are food videos

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Source:  Buzzsumo blog, 23rd August 2017

A six year old is making an estimated $11m a year as a toy reviewer on YouTube

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"Ryan, the 6-year-old "host" of Ryan ToysReview, a popular toy-review channel on YouTube, is also reportedly a multi-milliona...
Tuesday, 5 December 2017

People have spent $1.3m buying virtual cats in the CryptoKitties game

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"Launched a few days ago, CryptoKitties is essentially like an digital version of Pokemon cards but based on the Ethereum blockchain. A...
Thursday, 15 June 2017

17% of Daily Mail readers who voted in the June 2017 General Election voted for Labour

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Source:   YouGov, 13th June 2017
Thursday, 18 May 2017

#NuggsForCarter is the most Retweeted Tweet of all time

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"It’s official. Carter Wilkerson’s (@carterjwm) call for a year’s supply of free nuggets from @Wendys has become the Tweet heard around...
Wednesday, 3 May 2017

Amazon is getting more than 4 orders from Dash Buttons a minute

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""Just a year ago, orders via Dash Button were occurring more than once a minute, now that rate has increased to more than 4x a mi...
Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Tesla 'spends less than $6 on advertising per car sold'

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"Car makers spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to promote their products. Anyone who has ever watched the TV series Mad M...