Tubearoo.com Predicting Death Of Basic Cable?

May 3, 2007, 9:45 am

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Tubearoo.com, a popular(?) video-sharing site, shot out a press release today with an interesting statistic about the growing number of people viewing streaming video that I took extreme liberties with when I wrote the headline.

According to the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, the number of U.S. basic cable subscribers was 65.6 million in December 2006; while comScore Video Metrix reported the number of unique U.S. Internet video streamers at nearly 123 million in January 2007.

Tubearoo.com President and CEO Paul Medvedev sees this stat as “amazing” since, if you take it at face value, the number of people streaming videos is nearly double that of basic cable TV subscribers. But by “basic cable” do they mean people who just get the most basic package? And WTF qualifies you as a “streamer?” I mean, I like watching the occasional 30-second clip of some guy getting racked in the junk by his kid, but I’m not dropping my cable subscription for it.

So what’s the point of this statistic other than to fool people into believing that crappy Internet video clips on yet another video-streaming/social-networking site is relevant? Oh, I just answered my own question. Though where else am I going to get my fill of violent, homo-erotic clips like the one above?

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iPhone Research: Who Exactly Will Wait In Line For One?

June 13, 2007, 6:25 am

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Professional researchers (that is, not fake ones like us) put together a little survey to see just who would be willing to wait in line for an iPhone come June 29. Not surprisingly, you’ll see a whole lot more guys in line than girls, with 72 percent of men saying they’d wait in line, compared to only 28 percent of women. You’re also more likely to find young guns there than old guys: 31 percent of people in line are between the ages of 15 and 24; 32 percent are between 25 and 34; then the rest.

Another neat finding is that iPhone users are most likely to live in New York and California. Those coastal values are not in sync with Middle America, I say.

Who Will Line Up for the iPhone? (PDF) [Solutions Research Group via SlashPhone.com]

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CEA: 1/3 of US Households to be HD by Next Year

June 27, 2007, 5:45 pm

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So now that we’re almost exactly half-way through 2007, it’s time to start looking at the holiday shopping season. While iPhones and new Zunes and stuff will get most of the attention, the Consumer Electronics Association has pointed out that it expects 16 million HDTVs will be sold this year, putting the percentage of households with HDTVs at 36% by the beginning of next year. That’s a significant number.

If over 1/3 of us are watching HDTVs, then the carriers are going to start giving us more HD content, and that is a good thing. One of the only real disadvantages to HDTV right now is the dearth of Hi-Def video that cable and satellite operators give us. More is better.

The time will come soon when almost everything we watch will be in HD, and it will be glorious. Anything taking us a step closer is welcome news.

36% of U.S. to have HDTV by 2008 [ministryoftech]

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PDAs of our past, it's been real

November 13, 2007, 12:02 pm

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Remember PDAs? Those nifty little handheld tablets that let you track appointments and set to-do lists? Yah, we do too, and they seem like an artifact from yesterrday. With the rise of the smartphone, the PDA has become redundant, all of the features you’d want in a PDA are included in the generic smartphone, as well as instant email and Web browsing.

The third quarter of this year saw less than one million PDAs sold globally. That’s a 40% decrease from the same quarter last year. And really, did anyone not see this coming? Now that people’s grandmas are getting Treos, we can expect the nail in the proverbial coffin any time.

Will the PDA market totally disappear? It’s doubtful, there are vertical markets that rely on the devices but have no need of many things smartphones do, the medical field is one example. But as far as a consumer product goes, I’m afraid combo devices like smartphones and iPod Touch are the future of handheld personal organization.

PDA sales down 40% [Pocket Lint]

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New study shows that many pirates would buy movies if they couldn't pirate

July 8, 2008, 11:00 am

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An interesting study (PDF) carried out by an organization called Futuresource Consulting (and sponsored by Macrovision, for you tin foil hat types) just showed up in our inbox claiming that consumers love to pirate stuff, sorta. The study looked at folks in the United States and United Kingdom, and found that one-third of respondents admitted to the horrible crime of copying a DVD in the last six months. “Copying” includes using DVD copying hardware, which I’d wager few people use, and software-based copying on a computer. Mac the Ripper, etc.

It seems the whole point of the study was to prove, in some fashion, that movie studios and the like do lose money as a result of copying. The numbers show that 63 percent of those in the UK and 77 percent of those in the U.S. would have purchased the DVD in question if they hadn’t been able to copy it. (Presumably, these people are copying DVDs their friends give them, or they get at BlockBuster or something.)

Oh, and the most likely people to copy a DVD are guys aged 25-34, which is a little surprising. I would have thought the high school crowd would be heavy into piracy.

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See what’s hot in the iTunes app store with Medialets

July 15, 2008, 12:00 pm

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Looking for the perfect site for tracking the stats of all the apps in your Fantasy iPhone League? Do such leagues even exist?? Who knows?! At any rate, a site called Medialets.com has up to date stats on which free and for-pay iTunes apps are being downloaded with reckless abandon. You’ll see by the above image that “Super Monkey Ball” is WHITE HOT in the for-pay category. Check out the image below to confirm that “Remote” is still the Belle of the Ball in the freebies category.

Onward, statistics enthusiasts!

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Study: Internet radio reaching 32% of households, e-readers are hot

January 20, 2010, 7:31 am

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L.E.K.’s Media Consumption Survey polled over 2,000 consumers, asking them about their general media “diet,” from ereaders to online video. The results? Ereaders are big, older folks are into the Internet, and online radio is finally reaching the mainstream.

Most of this isn’t huge news but the statistics are pretty striking. For example:

32% of users listen to an average of 5.8 hours of Internet radio a week, a huge jump.
iPod owners consume 8.9 hours of media per week while e-reader owners consume 18.2 hours of new media per week. That means e-readers have a captive audience.
Folks aged 50-64 use 8.3 hours of Internet per week compared to 24-39 year olds who use it for 6.8 hours.

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In related news, kids are huge multitasks with at least 30 percent reporting they watch TV and listen to music while online. The study also concluded that TV is the media of choice for most folks while box office numbers are highly fragile and there is a chance that theatre and box office sales could tank in the next few years.

Obviously 2,000 respondents is a fairly low sample size but even given issues of self selection and potential skewing towards the an middle class audience it seems they got some fairly decent data on browsing and media consumption habits. Now excuse me but I have 3.6 more hours to surf the Internet to meet my age quota.

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Statistics prove the obvious: The Internet is for porn

June 3, 2010, 11:00 am

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What is the Internet for? It’s certainly not for education or the betterment of humankind. No… No, the Internet is for porn, and the sooner we admit this to ourselves, the better. New stats show that, yeah, people don’t like Internet porn, they love it! One great stat to get us started: 25 percent of all searches are porn-related. One out of every four times someone goes to Google they’re looking for naughty bits. Nice.

The stats are simply hilarious, but totally expected.

• 12 percent of all sites online are porn

• 40 million Americans regularly visit porn sites

• 35 percent of all downloads are porn

• Utah is the number one U.S. state for porn downloads

• Kids first see porn online, on average, at age 11

• 20 percent of men watch porn at work

This probably isn’t breaking news in the traditional sense, but it’s nice to have some numbers to back up that famous song.

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Twitter Releases Numbers Related To Hurricane Sandy: More Than 20M Tweets Sent During Its Peak

November 2, 2012, 9:48 am

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As you know, the devastation of Hurricane Sandy has hit millions. Many turned to Twitter to discuss what they were going through. Today, the company shared some interesting facts and numbers having to do with Hurricane-related activity on the site.

What does this tell you? Twitter was a fine replacement for cell phones and landlines that weren't working. The interesting thing about these numbers is that the company dug deep down to see exactly what people were talking about.

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Instagram Reports 90M Monthly Active Users, 40M Photos Per Day And 8500 Likes Per Second

January 17, 2013, 1:12 pm

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Instagram reported a few usage stats today, marking the first time it has talked about numbers on its own site since the kerfuffle raised over its terms of service change following the Facebook buy-out. The internal stats show strong engagement, and user growth, rather than a decline in active Instagram members. Part of the discrepancy between the these numbers and third-party doom and gloom reports may have to do with the fact that Instagram is tracking monthly active users, of which it has 90 million, versus the less stable daily active users stat often cited by others.

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Evasi0n By The Numbers: 2 Days In, Cydia Usage Jumps To Over 4M Devices, Jailbreak Website Sees 5M Uniques

February 6, 2013, 11:19 am

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You would be forgiven if you thought jailbreaking was dead. There hadn't been a good, untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S or iPhone 5 running the current version of the iOS operating system for some time. But this week's launch of the new "evasi0n" jailbreak demonstrates the pent up demand in the jailbreak community for a new release. Immediately upon its debut, traffic to evasi0n.com flared, and the jailbreak app store Cydia became nearly unusable due to the huge influx of users.

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Kickstarter Funded Nearly 4,500 Projects To The Tune Of $112 Million Last Quarter

April 3, 2014, 11:20 am

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Kickstarter published its first quarter report yesterday - a tongue-in-cheek but data-filled blog post - about its project statistics. According to CEO Yancey Strickler, the company funded 4,497 projects with pledges of $1,244,868 per day which adds up to a solid $112,038,158 total pledged in a single four month period. And they say crowdfunding is just for desperate singer-songwriters.

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Twitter User Growth Will Come From Asia-Pacific – Region Accounting For 40% Of Users By 2018

May 27, 2014, 6:49 am

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Figures out this morning from eMarketer estimate Twitter’s growth to continue in the double-digits through 2018, with the Asia-Pacific region playing a large part in that growth trend. Today, Twitter users in Asia-Pacific already outnumber those in North America and Western Europe, accounting for 32.8% of all Twitter users, compared with just 23.7% in North […]

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Twitch’s Users Watch More Video In A Month, On Average, Than Typical YouTube Users Do

February 11, 2016, 10:08 am

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Twitch, the Amazon-owned video game streaming site, has been growing in popularity as more of today's younger users look to online video instead of traditional television for entertainment. Today, the company released figures that paint of picture of its user base and how deeply they engage with Twitch's content. Though the company didn't disclose how many total users it has, it did note that it averages over half a million concurrent viewers who tune in to watch videos from its 1.7 million monthly broadcasters. And those users are heavily engaged with the site, watching more minutes of video every month than the average YouTube user.

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Pokémon Go tops Twitter’s daily users, sees more engagement than Facebook

July 13, 2016, 9:14 am

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Pokémon Go has quickly become one of the most viral mobile applications of all time. The game is now the biggest ever in the U.S.; it has now topped Twitter's daily users, and it sees people spending more time in its app than in Facebook, according to reports from various tracking firms.

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Pokémon Go installed on more devices than Candy Crush, LinkedIn, Lyft, Tinder & more

July 14, 2016, 7:45 am

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Still fascinated by the viral spread of Pokémon Go? So are we. The app on Monday topped Twitter’s daily users, and has people spending more minutes per day playing the game than browsing Facebook, reports have indicated. Now comes word that game has also topped Pandora, Netflix, Google Hangouts, and Spotify, in terms of daily active users, and is installed on […]

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Pokémon Go’s retention rates, average revenue per user are double the industry average

July 15, 2016, 9:02 am

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New data released this morning on the mobile phenomenon Pokémon Go shows that the popular game isn’t only the biggest in U.S. history – it’s also breaking records when it comes to its ability to monetize and retain its users, as well. According to a report from SurveyMonkey, Pokémon Go is seeing retention rates at more than double […]

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Twitter traffic doubled, Facebook up by 30% on election night

November 9, 2016, 9:01 am

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Social media usage spiked on election night in America, but overall, internet traffic was down – likely the result of people tuning in to watch election coverage on television, instead of online. In addition, Facebook saw an increase of almost 30% on Tuesday night, while Twitter traffic more than doubled, according to new data published by broadband […]

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Report: Smartphone owners are using 9 apps per day, 30 per month

May 4, 2017, 10:16 am

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Smartphone users are spending more time in apps than in years past, and now access over 30 apps on a monthly basis, according to a new report from App Annie out this week. These 30 apps work out to being roughly one-third to one-half of the apps users have installed on their smartphones. And using […]

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