Americans spend 23 hours per week online and texting. 56% of social media users report fear of missing out from social media. 1.5 million Android phones are sold daily and the average age of getting a first mobile phone is 13 years old. Tablet shipments surpassed desktop PCs in 2012.

1. 30 HEAD-SPINNING NEW MEDIA STATS
Tech Tuesdays
July 2013
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2. “A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers”
-- Plato
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3. EXTRA-STRENGTH!
[you’re gonna need ‘em]
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4. Americans spend 23 hours per week
online, texting
http://news.yahoo.com/americans-spend-23-hours-per-week-online-texting-092010569.html
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5. 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

6. 56% of social media users report
suffering from FOMO
http://mashable.com/2013/07/09/fear-of-missing-out/
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7. 80% of smartphone users check their phones
within 15 minutes of waking up
http://blogs.constantcontact.com/fresh-insights/smartphone-usage-statistics/
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8. 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
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9. 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/
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10. 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
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11. 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

12. 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/
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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
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14. 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

15. 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/
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16. http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/17/facebook-engagement/
Collective time Americans spend on Facebook
amounts to < 100K years each month
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17. 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/
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18. 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/
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19. 40% of Twitter users have never
sent a single tweet
http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/100-social-media-stats_b33696
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20. 59% of journalists worldwide use Twitter,
up from 47% in 2012
http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/journalists-twitter_b45416
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21. 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/
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22. 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
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23. Since 2012, 1.2 billion minutes have been
spent using Pinterest on the web
http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/100-social-media-stats_b33696
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24. 6% of online adults are
Reddit users
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/reddit/Findings.aspx
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25. 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

26. “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

27. 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

28. 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
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29. 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
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30. 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
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31. 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

32. 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

33. 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 vacation
http://www.fastcompany.com/3014147/creative-conversations/the-truth-about-unplugging-and-vacation
Tuesday, July 23, 13

34. 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

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