Posts Tagged ‘ trends ’

iPhone Browser Market Share Up 58% In One Month

Sep 2nd, 2008 | By | Category: General

Rapid adoption of the iPhone 3G has led iPhone Safari’s browser usage share to jump 58% in one month, going from .19% in July to .30% in August. If the trend continues, iPhone Safari’s browser share is on target to see at least 500% annual growth. To put the current numbers in perspective, about 1 […]



Dedicated Podcast Audience Up 300%

Aug 29th, 2008 | By | Category: Featured Story, Podcasting, Podcasting Research, Podcasting Statistics

Podcasting continues to grow by leaps and bounds, with the total audience for podcasts increasing by 58% in under two years.

The dedicated podcast audience – those that download podcasts every day – has gone up 300% in the same time.



Hulu Close To Overtaking YouTube

Aug 20th, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

Nielsen has released its VideoCensus rankings of the top online video sites for July, and it looks like long-tail television site Hulu is the company to watch. In July, Hulu’s traffic grew to 105 million streams per month, and the site leapfrogged several competitors to become eighth most popular vide site. Not bad for a […]



People Trading Traditional Media News Sources For New Media

Aug 18th, 2008 | By | Category: Featured Story, General

New research shows that people are relentlessly moving from traditional media – including newspaper, radio & television – to Internet-based news sources.

In the last ten years, the percent of people getting their news from the Internet has tripled, while the radio and newspaper news audience has declined 14% and the television news audience has declined 9%!



Amazing Video Technology Makes Lousy Home Videos Look Awesome

Aug 18th, 2008 | By | Category: Video, Video Software

Researchers at the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory at the University of Washington have created amazing new software technology for automatically enhancing videos of a static scene using photographs of the same scene. According to the researchers: Our system can transfer photographic qualities such as high resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the photographs […]



Podcasting, Social Media Important Technologies At Fastest Growing US Companies

Aug 15th, 2008 | By | Category: General, Podcasting Research, Podcasting Statistics

New research shows that podcasting and social media are important technologies at the fastest growing companies in the US. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research recently conducted one of the first statistically significant, longitudinal studies on the usage of social media in corporations. Research Highlights: Four out of five companies in the […]



Why Teens Are Skipping The Olympics

Aug 12th, 2008 | By | Category: Featured Story, Internet TV, Video

Teens are skipping the Olympics this year.

Only 46 percent of teens surveyed by Harris Interactive showed any interest in watching the Olympics.

Here’s why.



New Media Dramatically More Efficient Than Old Media

Aug 8th, 2008 | By | Category: General, New Media Organizations

New media is dramatically more efficient than old media at creating Internet content and getting page views, if numbers published by Gawker Media are any example. According to Gawker publisher Nick Denton, July 2008 traffic to Gawker sites set a record for the organization of 254 million monthly pageviews. Denton goes on to note that […]



Internet Video Producers Making Money, Averaging $12 Per 1,000 Views

Aug 7th, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting Research, Podcasting Statistics, Video

Internet video producers are making money and averaging more than $12 per 1,000 views, according to a Web Video Study (pdf) by video distribution platform TubeMogul. Here are some of the highlights of the survey: More than half (51.1%) of those surveyed are making money with their videos. Of those that are monetizing their videos, […]



Apple Solidifies Dominance Of Music Retailing

Aug 5th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Music

According to the latest MusicWatch consumer surveys from The NPD Group, Apple is again the top music retailer in the US. The five leading music retailers in the U.S. for the first half of 2008 (January through June, based on purchases of CDs and a-la-carte digital music downloads) are: iTunes Wal-Mart (Walmart, Walmart.com, Walmart Music […]