Wednesday, 26 June 2013

More than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube each minute

"Today, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. That’s more than four days of video uploaded each minute! Every month, more than 1 billion people come to YouTube to access news, answer questions and have a little fun. That’s almost one out of every two people on the Internet."
Source:  YouTube's blog, 19th May 2013
Earlier - 72 hours per minute reported in May 2012

Why people like brands on Facebook



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Source:  Mashable, 26th June 2013, using data from Syncapse
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Frequency of activities like texting carried out on smartphones and mobiles in the UK


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Source:  The Deloitte Consumer Review - Beyond The Hype: The True Potential of Mobile, June 2013 (UK data only)
Note - lots more stats in the full report - although I'd treat their assertion that 72% of the population has a smartphone with caution

Monday, 24 June 2013

93% of Apple devices are using iOS 6


"As measured by the App Store during a 14-day period ending June 3, 2013"
Source:  Apple developer page, retrieved 24th June 2013

WhatsApp has more than 250 million monthly active users

"WhatsApp tells The Wall Street Journal it has more than 250 million monthly active users, the first time it has revealed a rough number of users for its popular smartphone messaging app.
The figure is impressive for a company that launched its app just four years ago and that spends no money marketing itself. It makes WhatsApp one of the largest messaging platforms and possibly bigger than Twitter, which in December announced it had eclipsed 200 million monthly active users. Microsoft MSFT -0.67% in October said its video-chat service Skype had 280 million monthly active users."

Sunday, 23 June 2013

5 million Instagram videos were uploaded in the first 24 hours

"Instagram Video turned out to be quite popular, with users uploading as many as 5 million videos within the first 24 hours of the feature's launch.
Facebook owns Instagram, which until now was a photo-sharing app. Twitter owns Vine, which allows users to share short videos. Facebook and Twitter are always competing with each other, and Facebook just launched Instagram Video to challenge Twitter's Vine."
Source:  Mobile&Apps, 22nd June 2013

Friday, 21 June 2013

The top organic result in Google search gets 35% of the traffic on average



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Source:  Data from Chitika, reported by Search Engine Watch, 19th June 2013

Apple sells more than 800,000 TV episodes and 350,000 films every day

"Apple on Wednesday announced that it sells more than 800,000 TV episodes and 350,000 movies every day on iTunes, bringing its combined total to 1.38bn downloads since video first arrived on iTunes, way back in 2005.
Apple charges anywhere between 99c for movie rentals and $20 for new releases, while TV shows are typically $3 for HD episodes, suggesting a range of $3m to $4m in revenues (before the studios take their cut) everyday."
Source:  Financial Times, 19th June 2013

The average iTunes member spends $12 a year on music

"According to research just published by Asymco analyst Horace Dediu, the average iTunes user now spends just $12 on music, a year, down from $42 five years ago.  
Other categories like software and books are also declining, which makes sense given an iTunes registered user base that is ballooning towards 600 million worldwide.  Sounds like that would naturally drive the average down, except for the inconvenient truth that apps are still increasing quite comfortably.
Which means: not only is there more stuff for 'music fans' to buy, they're buying more of that other stuff."
Note - Click on the link to see a graph of the data

Tablet or smartphone activities while watching TV



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Source:  NielsenWire, 17th June 2013

Instagram has 130 million monthly active users; 45m photos are uploaded per day

"130M Monthly Active Users
50%+ People Outside U.S.
16B Photos Shared
1B Likes Daily
45M Photos Per Day."