25 billion apps have been downloaded from the Google Play store

"Just six months after its launch, Google Play has reached 25 billion-with-a-B downloads.
Play has become the de facto application store for the Android platform, replacing Google’s range of Android app-, game-, and music-purchasing software. Today, the marketplace contains 675,000 total applications, including games.
Before Play launched, Google Music, Google Books, the Android Market, and a few other separate products made up a diverse (and not in a good way) media store for all Google and Android products and devices. The diversity read like fragmentation to frustrated users with app overload."

Source:  VentureBeat, 26th September 2012

Attitudes to mobile websites among US mobile users

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Source:  Google Mobile Ads Blog, 25th September 2012
Methodology:  "Discover these and more findings from, What Users Want Most From Mobile Sites Today, a study from Google (conducted by Sterling Research and SmithGeiger, independent market research firms). The report surveyed 1,088 US adult smartphone Internet users in July 2012."

45% of Americans say TV is mainly where they watch web video

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Source:  Data from NPD, reported by AllThingsD, 26th September 2012

Mobile accounts for 18% of Domino's Pizza's UK online sales

"Domino’s Pizza Group, today announces its interim management statement for the 13 week period up to 23 September 2012. The document in its entirety might not be a tech news spectacular, but it does have a few threads that show how UK pizza lovers are also fans of convenience.
Overall, system sales for the period were up by 7.9% to £136.4m, with year-to-date system sales up by 10.0% to £424.1m.
Online sales for the pie seller have continue to increase, with e-commerce accounting for 58.4% of UK delivered sales. So not only do we like our pizza delivered, but it seems that the Domino’s website is striking the right chord with users making their orders online.
Total online sales for the period rose by 39.3% to £62.8m and have reached £184.9m for the year-to-date. Within this figure, mobile sales continue to rise sharply, up by 46.9%, and now account for 18.5% of total online sales."

Source:  The Next Web, 26th September 2012

100 million eBay mobile apps have been downloaded

"eBay, a global leader in mobile commerce, is celebrating its 100 millionth app download across its suite of apps spanning the major mobile operating systems. Available in eight languages, and in more than 190 different countries around the world, the eBay apps have been downloaded 25 million times in the last six months alone, making them some of the most popular and successful shopping apps anywhere. The growth of eBay’s mobile properties also aligns with the milestone of 100 million listings via mobile, as a record number of sellers choose to list their products on eBay through devices that didn’t exist just a few years ago.
Globally, eBay expects to transact $10 billion in mobile volume in 2012, which doubles last year’s total.  That figure is more than the annual GDP of 75 countries throughout the world .  With mobile commerce growing from a $3.4 billion market in the U.S. in 2010 to a projected $119 billion across the globe by 2015 , mobile innovation is a key force behind eBay’s strategy to make buying and selling easier and more enjoyable anytime, anywhere, and on any device."

Source:  Press release from eBay, 24th September 2012

The London 2012 Olympics 'was the most watched TV event in US History'

"Roughly 217 million people in the United States watched the London Games, making it the most watched television event in history. And unlike other big, live events like the Super Bowl or the Academy Awards, the Olympics offer researchers a prolonged, 17-day period during which to study behavior.
That sandbox showed that eight million people downloaded NBC’s mobile apps for streaming video, and there were two billion page views across all of NBC’s Web sites and apps. Forty-six percent of 18- to 54-year-olds surveyed said they “followed the Olympics during my breaks at work,” and 73 percent said they “stayed up later than normal” to watch, according to a survey of about 800 viewers by the market research firm uSamp.
Forty-six percent said they “delayed doing laundry and other household chores” to catch events like gymnastics, where the United States inched out a win over Russia and Romania for the gold, and swimming, where Michael Phelps narrowly came in second in the men’s 200-yard butterfly."

Source:  New York Times, 25th September 2012

Note - As I pointed out when the UK figures were reported, it's not that helpful to compare a sporting event spread out over more than 2 weeks to a single televised TV event

Apple sold over five million iPhone 5s in the opening 3 days

"Apple® today announced it has sold over five million of its new iPhone® 5, just three days after its launch on September 21, and more than 100 million iOS devices have been updated with iOS 6, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system. iPhone 5 is available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the UK, and will be available in 22 more countries on September 28 and more than 100 countries by the end of the year. Demand for iPhone 5 exceeded the initial supply and while the majority of pre-orders have been shipped to customers, many are scheduled to be shipped in October."
Source:  Press release from Apple, 24th September 2012

Earlier - More than 4m iPhone 4Ss in the opening weekend in October 2011

The demographics of American Instagram users

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Source:  Photos & Videos as Social Currency Online, Pew Internet & American Life Project, 13th September 2012
Note 1 - The 3 stars next to the figure for 18-29s means 'treat with caution' - that's why I haven't used it as the headline for the story.
Note 2 - The report also has similar figures for Pinterest, Facebook, Tumblr & more

There are 193m 3G subscribers in China

"China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has released its August 2012 telecom industry statistics. The figures for the month were as follows:
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Total telephone subscribers saw a net increase of 9.21 mln in August to reach 1.354 bln. Mobile subscribers grew by 10.21 mln to 1.072 bln, and fixed-line subscribers dropped by 1.01 mln to 282.18 mln. Broken down by traditional fixed-line and PHS, the traditional (i.e. non-PHS) fixed-line subscriber base decreased by 678,000 to 268.39 mln, while the PHS subscriber base declined by 328,000 subs to 13.79 mln. 8.80 mln new 3G subscribers were added in August to reach a total 3G user base of 192.56 mln.
A total of 73.07 bln SMS messages were sent during the month of August, bringing the total for the first 8 months of 2012 to 597.58 bln, a 3.9% increase over the figure during the same period of 2011.
Broadband added 1.86 mln new registered users in August to reach a total of 168.29 mln. Dial-up decreased by 1.02 mln users, reducing the total dial-up user base to 4.70 mln."
Source:  MIIT via Marbridge Daily, 21st September 2012

45% of pictures posted to Instagram use no filter

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Source:  Webstagram, retrieved 21st September 2012, based on analysis of over 2 million photos
Note - This also includes Hipstamatic pictures (some are their filters) but the vast majority will be from Instagram

US Newspaper advertising revenue 1950 - 2012

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Source:  Newspaper Association of America / Business Insider, 15th September 2012

More than 3 million UK smartphone owners scanned a QR code in Q2 2012

"More than 3m UK consumers used their smartphone to scan QR codes in Q2, according to new data from a comScore survey of 15,000 consumers.
This equates to 11.4% of the total smartphone audience and represents a year-on-year growth of 43%.
But the data suggests that other European nations have actually been quicker on the uptake than the UK. For example, 18.6% of German smartphone owners scanned a QR code in Q2, a YoY growth of 128%.
While in Spain 16% of users have used the technology, up a massive 218% from the same period last year.
The study claims that across the EU5 more than 17m smartphone owners have scanned a QR code."

Source:  eConsultancy, 20th September 2012