30 head spinning new media stats

30 HEAD-SPINNING NEW MEDIA STATSTech Tuesdays

July 2013

Tuesday, July 23, 13

“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers”

-- Plato

Tuesday, July 23, 13

EXTRA-STRENGTH![you’re gonna need ‘em]

Tuesday, July 23, 13

Americans spend 23 hours per week online, texting

http://news.yahoo.com/americans-spend-23-hours-per-week-online-texting-092010569.html

Tuesday, July 23, 13

Americans spend 16 minutes of every hour online on social networks

http://www.experian.com/blogs/marketing-forward/2013/04/18/for-every-hour-online-americans-spend-16-minutes-on-social-networks/

Tuesday, July 23, 13

56% of social media users report suffering from FOMO

http://mashable.com/2013/07/09/fear-of-missing-out/

Tuesday, July 23, 13

80% of smartphone users check their phones within 15 minutes of waking up

http://blogs.constantcontact.com/fresh-insights/smartphone-usage-statistics/

Tuesday, July 23, 13

79% of smartphone users have their phone on or near them for all but two hours of their waking day

http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/smartphones_b39001

Tuesday, July 23, 13

Smartphone owners are now a solid majority of U.S. mobile subscribers at 61%

(75% of 18 to 24-year-olds have smartphones)

http://mashable.com/2013/06/06/smartphones-61-percent/

Tuesday, July 23, 13

Smartphone users check their phones an average of 150 times a day

http://tech2.in.com/news/smartphones/smartphone-users-check-their-phones-an-average-of-150-times-a-day/874882

Tuesday, July 23, 13

Usage is growing rapidly: 85% of smartphone users reported second

screen-linked behavior at least once a month 

https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/welcome?utm_source=House&utm_medium=Edit&utm_term=SS&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=BIIMobile+

Tuesday, July 23, 13

1.5 million Android phones are sold or activated every day.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57579804-94/android-phones-to-top-1b-by-years-end-eric-schmidt-says/

Tuesday, July 23, 13

http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2122187,00.html

(actual 13 year old!)

13 years old is average age person gets first mobile phone

Tuesday, July 23, 13

Addictive mobile app ‘Angry Birds’ has been downloaded more than 1.7 billion times

(most downloaded paid app of all time)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2013/mar/11/angry-birds-toons

Tuesday, July 23, 13

204 million emails sent

Amazon generates $83K sales

Every

on the internet

20 million photos are viewed on Flickr

100,000 new tweets are published

277,000 people login to Facebook

100 hrs of video uploaded to YouTube

http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/internet-minute_b38168http://allthingsd.com/20130529/mary-meekers-internet-trends-report-is-back-at-d11-slides/

Tuesday, July 23, 13

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/17/facebook-engagement/

Collective time Americans spend on Facebook amounts to < 100K years each month

Tuesday, July 23, 13

Google + shares (aka +1s) growing by 19% per month

At that rate, Searchmetrics estimated, Google will surpass Facebook in shares per month

by May 2016

http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/08/google-plus-one-number-two/

Tuesday, July 23, 13

Google+ is catching up on a lot of fronts to Facebook, but it’s still lagging on one key metric: TIME SPENT

6 hours, 44 mins/month

21 mins/month

7 mins/month

http://mashable.com/2013/05/10/google-has-20-million-u-s-monthly-mobile-users-report-says/

Tuesday, July 23, 13

40% of Twitter users have never sent a single tweet

http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/100-social-media-stats_b33696

Tuesday, July 23, 13

59% of journalists worldwide use Twitter, up from 47% in 2012

http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/journalists-twitter_b45416

Tuesday, July 23, 13

Path is now growing by 1 million registered users a week after its most recent launch

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/04/25/path-a-social-diary-app-is-adding-1-million-new-users-a-week/

Tuesday, July 23, 13

18.6% of all iPhone users use SnapChat... and it’s gaining ground on Twitter

http://www.businessinsider.com/186-of-all-iphone-users-use-snapchat--and-its-gaining-ground-on-twitter-2013-7#ixzz2ZLCziRIE

Tuesday, July 23, 13

Since 2012, 1.2 billion minutes have been spent using Pinterest on the web

http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/100-social-media-stats_b33696

Tuesday, July 23, 13

6% of online adults are Reddit users

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/reddit/Findings.aspx

Tuesday, July 23, 13

Number of tablets shipped surpassed desktop PCs & Notebooks in 2012

http://allthingsd.com/20130529/mary-meekers-internet-trends-report-is-back-at-d11-slides/

Tuesday, July 23, 13

“Girls still have a very much of a nurturing element and still play with dolls. Boys are gravitating toward

electronics at an earlier age now”

“Hasbro suffers as action figures lose sheen in iPad era”Company says revenue in its boys’ toy business fell 35% to $253.7 million in the

Q2, overshadowing growth in the girls, games, and preschool units

http://www.livemint.com/Companies/XJzdO8r1wYaoLhIt7tE6LO/Hasbro-suffers-as-action-figures-lose-sheen-in-iPad-era.html

Tuesday, July 23, 13

Number of Chinese internet users has increased by 2100% since year 2000.

Today, 1 out of 4 internet users is from China.

http://www.bestfreeonline.net/rise-of-social-media-in-china-infographic/

Tuesday, July 23, 13

Estimated number of active social networking users in China: 597 Million

91% of the online population in China has an account on a social media site

[compared to 67% in the USA]

http://visual.ly/social-media-china-%E2%80%93-statistics-and-trends

Tuesday, July 23, 13

Today, the number of networked devices = global population

By 2015, the number of networked devices = 2X global population

http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/files/2013/03/internet-minute.jpg

Tuesday, July 23, 13

Speaking of 2015, it’s predicted you will need 5 years to view all videos crossing IP networks every second

http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/files/2013/03/internet-minute.jpg

Tuesday, July 23, 13

It’s estimated that Netflix alone takes up a third of U.S. bandwidth between 9:00 PM and midnight

http://bgr.com/2013/04/23/netflix-bandwidth-consumption-estimate-459489/

Tuesday, July 23, 13

70 million smart wearable devices predicted will be sold in 2017, including smart glasses, health and fitness devices along with enterprise wearables

http://www.juniperresearch.com/viewpressrelease.php?pr=357

Tuesday, July 23, 13

59% of Americans claim admit they work while on vacation

35% of employees say they take their work computers and all of their important business files

with them on vacationhttp://www.fastcompany.com/3014147/creative-conversations/the-truth-about-unplugging-and-vacation

Tuesday, July 23, 13

More than a third of those who married between 2005 and 2012 met online

That’s more than 4X the number of people who met at bars, clubs and other social events combined http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/we-just-clicked-more-and-more-couples-are-meeting-online-and-marrying-8650770.html

Tuesday, July 23, 13

All stats + articles have been curated HERE:pinterest.com/victorhernandez/30-head-spinning-new-media-stats/

Tuesday, July 23, 13