Thursday, 25 February 2010

10 billion songs have been downloaded from iTunes

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"Apple® today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 10 billion songs from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com), th...
Wednesday, 24 February 2010

50m tweets are posted every day

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Click to enlarge "Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 mill...
Friday, 19 February 2010

Fewer than 20% of the Top 100 videos on YouTube are user generated content

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Source: Data from TubeMogul, reported by AllThingsDigital, 17th February 2010 There's a version of the data as a bar chart here Note - t...

31% of American households have no internet connection

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"Just 31 percent of American households lacked an Internet connection as of October 2009, down from 38 percent in 2007. The vast majori...

Farmville sells 800,000 virtual tractors every day

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"FarmVille has nearly 81 million monthly uniques on Facebook, and [Gerd] Leonhard pointed to sales of 800,000 virtual tractors daily. ...
Thursday, 18 February 2010

Over 27% of American mobile users use the mobile web

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Click to enlarge Source: comScore MobiLens, comScore, Inc. quoted in a press release, 8th February 2010

American mobile internet usage

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"Mobile phones are a social connector. 91% of mobile users go online to socialize, compared to only 79% of traditional users. They are...

2009 - The US digital year in review

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"The U.S. core search market grew 16 percent in 2009, driven by a 6-percent gain in unique searchers and a 10-percent gain in search qu...

Highest selling digital songs & ringtones in the US, 2000-2009

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"Highest certified digital song: Group: Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” – 3x multi-Platinum (EMI/Capitol, 2008) and The Fray’s “How to Save a...
Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Demographics of American social networks

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Age Distribution Estimated Average Age Click either to enlarge Source: Data from Google AdPlanner, 2009, analysed and reported by Pingdom, ...

Publisher Hachette made approximately 5% of its US revenues from eBooks in 2009

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"In the United States, which posted double-digit growth to end September, sales fell by about 20% in the final quarter. During 2008, th...

An average American Facebook user spends 7 hours a month on the site

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"The average U.S. Internet user spends more time on Facebook than on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft, Wikipedia, and Amazon combined....