Music phones outsell mp3 players by 3 to 1

Source: Tomi Ahonen Almanac 2009 Mobile Telecoms Industry Review
From http://www.tomiahonen.com/ebook/almanac.html

There are more than twice as many mobile phones in use as TV sets

Source: Source: Tomi Ahonen Almanac 2009 Mobile Telecoms Industry Review
From http://www.tomiahonen.com/ebook/almanac.html

40% of US TV stations are now only broadcasting digitally

"About 40 percent of the nation’s TV stations — 681 of them — have made the switch to digital." (The official cut-off date is 12th June)
Source: LostRemote, 17th February 2008

UK national newspaper sales fell by 17% between 2002 and 2008

"Consider first the overall daily national newspaper market. The monthly year-on-year drop comparing December 2008 to December 2007 was 4.5%. That compares with 2% (2007-6), 3.2% (2006-5), 1.7% (2005-4), 3.2% (2004-3) and 3.8% (2003-2). Clearly, therefore, the downward trend is accelerating."
Source: Roy Greenslade in The Guardian, 9th January 2009 using figures from the ABC
(Working to produce the aggregate decline done by me - please leave a comment if you get different figures)

In 1998 there were 10 TV programmes in the UK with >15m viewers

In 2008 there was only one
Source: BARB - 1998 & 2008

The top 3 categories of iPhone apps are Games, Entertainment & Utilities

Currently 78% are paid for, 22% are free.
Source: Mobclix.com; data retrieved 6th February 2009
Also shows the top 5 paid apps, top 5 free apps, latest 5 apps

6.3m UK homes have PVRs

"New data from Sky shows they have 5.4m customers with Sky+ boxes (of which 779k are High Definition). And Freeview recently reported they have sold over 900k Freeview + boxes."
Source: Data from Sky and Freeview, cited in Big Picture on Advertisng, 28th January 2008

US album sales have fallen 55% since 2001

"Since peak year 2000, US-based album sales have dropped an unbelievable 514.6 million units, or 54.6 percent. In 2000, the climax of a dreamlike 90s, album sales surpassed 943 million units, according to figures published by Nielsen Soundscan."
Source: Nielsen Soundscan, quoted by DigitalMusicNews 27th January 2009

Mobile internet page views increased by 312% from Dec 2007 - Dec 2008

Internet page views from mobile users of the Opera Mini browser increased by 312% from December 2007 to December 2008. (1,558,566,188 in 2007 vs 6,418,665,392 in 2008). Opera Mini is the most widely used mobile web browser.
Source: Opera Mini Mobile Web Report December 2008

93 of the world's top 100 brands have their twitter name taken by someone else

"Of the top 100 global brands, 93% have had their Twitter usernames taken by somebody else (i.e. Twittersquatted).
Twittersquatting, like cybersquatting, is when somebody registers a company's trademark (or a famous person's name) as a Twitter username with the intent of profiting or causing confusion. Other possible names for this practice include username squatting, usernamesquatting, squitting, usersquatting, and brandsquatting."
Source: Erik J Heels, 9th January 2009. Includes a list of the 100 top brands and whether or not their own their twitter name. The only 7 that own their own names are Accenture, Blackberry, Harley Davidson, Oracle, Starbucks, Thomson Reuters & Yahoo

35% of all games revenues are generated online

Industry - Share of Revenues
Games - 35%
Recorded Music - 20%
Newspapers - 4%
Films - 4%
Magazines - 1%
Source: PWC Global Entertainment and Media Report (2008), cited in IFPI Digital Music Report 2009

In Japan 140m mobile singles were sold in 2008

"In Japan, a predominantly mobile music market, digital sales helped overall trade
revenues to growth in the first half of 2008. 140 million mobile singles were sold in
2008, an increase of 26 per cent on the prior year"
Source: RIAJ, quoted in the IFPI Digital Nusic Report 2009