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Best Social Media Websites For Job Recruitment
An increasing number of human resources professionals are making use of social media websites to recruit new people to their organization.
According to a study conducted by Jobvite, 2010 will see 46% more social recruiting as compared to 2009. Consequently 36% of these HR managers are likely to reduce their time on job boards. The survey showed that only 14% of HR managers were strongly against the use of social media. 9% were in the planning phase while 73% revealed that social media was already in use for recruitment purposes.
So which of the social networking websites are the most favored channels for recruitment purposes? Here is a list ranked by the HR managers
1. LinkedIn : 78%
2. Facebook : 55%
3. Twitter : 45%
4. Blog : 19%
5. Youtube : 14%
6. MySpace : 5%
7. None : 14%
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An overwhelming 90% or above of online adult population (18+ years of age) use email as their prime source of communication. Less than a quarter of Japanese…
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How many emails do you think a corporate manager reads and sends per day? Average number of emails sent per day : 38 Average number of emails received per day…
December 19, 2007, 19:52
As the American Presidential elections draw near, the number of spams related to politics is likely to increase. And that’s for 2008. For 2007, here is the…
December 15, 2007, 13:40
It’s big and attractive. This year (2007), .2 billion was spent on Email advertising, and is projected to grow to billion by 2012. However, advertising…
December 11, 2007, 16:09
Jaxtr claims it is the one in its recent press release. That means, Jaxtr is ahead of Skype, Hotmail and ICQ when it comes to growth rate. Six months ago,…
December 6, 2007, 17:58
Well, Google is not the leader in this one at least. The Comscore Media metrix for October shows Gmail jumped a 64% increase in userbase from the same time…
December 1, 2007, 22:09
Mobile messaging includes the following: SMS MMS Mobile IM Mobile e-mail Global market for mobile messaging in 2007 is billion. This is expected to grow…
December 1, 2007, 22:05
What’s your age? If you are a teen, then like 50 percent of people your age, chat on IM. But if you are an adult, then like 75 percent of all adults, then you…
May 20, 2010, 06:09
It is a no-brainer that the number of internet users are on the rise, not just in UK, but globally. Refreshingly, a modest level of increase has been coming…
May 3, 2010, 07:44
Pew Internet has published an interesting study that looks into the usage of Government owned websites by citizens. Here are some interesting perspectives into…
April 9, 2010, 05:30
When it comes to gadgets like smartphones, you would normally expect men to be more predominant in ownership. However, Blackberry pleasantly surprises with its…
March 22, 2010, 05:16
Close to one-third of social network users are over 45 years of age. This is according to a recent study from Pingdom. The study looks at the age distribution…
March 4, 2010, 04:02
Unlike popular perception, it is not the kids and young adults social networking on the go with their mobile phones. Instead it is mostly the middle aged…
February 18, 2010, 04:55
A comprehensive study of social gamers (which includes games like Farmville and Mafia Wars) was conducted by Information Solutions Group in USA and UK. Here…
February 9, 2010, 04:12
In a study published on eMarketer last year, the internet penetration among the African Americans is close to 50%. While this might not be a particularly…
December 11, 2009, 04:16
The generation gap is seemingly narrowing online with popular online destinations among the senior citizens (65+) being not too different from what it could be…
December 5, 2009, 04:17
The e-book reader market is assumed to be worth 1 million in 2009 riding on the sale of close to 22 million e-readers this year. Who is buying these…
December 1, 2009, 05:38
I must admit that this statistic caught me by surprise. The percent of Internet users in UK looks pretty lower than one would have assumed. First let us look…
December 1, 2009, 04:08
A couple of months back, we had written about the Male-Female distribution on social networks. The data was from Google Ad planner, a seemingly credible…
November 21, 2009, 05:36
How many senior citizens and baby boomers are online and what exactly are they doing here? Well, there are quite a few active users in this demographic. 28%…
November 11, 2009, 05:39
Ever wondered how big Twitter is in your country? With a valuation of over billion and easily one of the fastest growing websites (though it has slowed down…
October 28, 2009, 04:23
Here is a nice comprehensive picture about what your average Twitter user from the United States is like. These numbers are as a percentage of the total…
October 27, 2009, 06:07
In a recent study by GreyStripe, “iPhone Moms” or the mothers of children who use iPhones is found to be a significant proportion of the whole iPhone population…
October 26, 2009, 05:36
This has been a constant worry that women are under-presented in the IT jobs. While some have taken this as an issue of ‘glass ceiling’, it looks more as an…
October 22, 2009, 04:15
How much time do we spend on social networking? If this study is to be believed, social networking can well be a full time profession for some of us. Here is…
October 15, 2009, 05:44
I do not have a comprehensive distribution chart for the users of popular business networking website LinkedIn. However, according to a recent blog post by the…
October 14, 2009, 06:30
Over 95% of college student in the US have access to the Internet. This number is likely to increase over the next five years where it will cross the 96%…
October 10, 2009, 05:27
Facebook and MySpace are the number one and two social networks in US respectively. How do the profiles of users from these two social networks stack up…
October 7, 2009, 04:13
Close to one-fifths of Facebook users are now above the age of 45, which is interesting because this can potentially be detrimental to one another social…
October 5, 2009, 07:19
There are more men than women among the 56.9 million mobile internet users in the US. What is more noteworthy is that a majority of the American mobile…
October 5, 2009, 07:12
Mobile internet users in USA increased by 34% in the past year and they now number around 56.9 million. The growth rate among women was higher than men by 9…
October 3, 2009, 11:51
Women rule in most of the social networks, except one, where they just cannot beat the men anytime soon – Digg.com. Also, never knew Twitter, MySpace and…
September 28, 2009, 08:49
Internet in Mexico is growing at a healthy pace. Though it does lag behind quite a few Latin American countries, the overall penetration and numbers are very…
September 17, 2009, 08:12
More women are into Facebook in the US than men. In the most recent study, there were over 34.3 million American men and 45.4 million American women who were…
September 4, 2009, 08:37
Lifestyles seemingly are very different when it comes to the internet behavior of Americans vis-a-vis Europeans. Peak Internet traffic in Europe : 7 PM…
September 1, 2009, 08:55
The numbers may not be proportionate to the population, but the Indian users are very highly engaging: The number of broadband subscribers : 6.8 million The…
August 17, 2009, 08:02
Not all women who are on sites like Facebook are there to answer those ‘How many crushes do I have’ kind of quizzes. A study of American women revealed the…
August 14, 2009, 07:48
What is the population of Internet users in United Kingdom? It is definitely projected to grow to the following numbers in the coming years: 2009 : 37.1…
July 7, 2009, 15:00
USA accounts for 62% of all Twitter users. Then, it should come as no surprise that four out of the top five cities with the most number of Twitter users are…
July 7, 2009, 13:37
2009 has been a tremendous year for the proliferation of Facebook among the elderly. The numbers have been so good that their numbers (55+ age group) has…
June 11, 2009, 15:10
Orkut is the largest social network in India. Here are a few interesting facts about the social network’s presence in India. Page views per month : 5…
June 10, 2009, 15:12
Who views online classifieds? Here is a list based on the percentage of respondents from different age groups who accepted to have used online classifieds: 18-…
June 3, 2009, 14:30
Mexico is among the hub of Internet growth in the past few years. Here are a few numbers to complement this growth: Internet user base grew 10% to 13 million…
May 23, 2009, 13:12
The teenagers population (12-17 years of age) that shall have access to Internet is expected to crawl from 20 million odd presently to 22 million by 2013. Here…
May 16, 2009, 15:30
Children in rich families get online much earlier than those in other families, seemingly. They form close to 10 percent of all Internet users from families…
May 9, 2009, 11:18
Asia has a lesser inclination to social networks as compared to Europe, but it is still a healthy internet population that is in to social networking. Here is…
May 9, 2009, 11:13
A majority of the Internet users are on to social networking in Europe. Social networking in France has grown 45%! Here is the percent reach of social networks…
April 14, 2009, 15:21
More women are getting online than men and this trend is expected to increase in the next few years. Here is the share of men in percentage for 2008 and the…
March 12, 2009, 14:43
The African American population has had relatively lesser Internet penetration compared to the other ethnic groups in the US. However, the gap has been…
January 31, 2009, 14:40
Men shall continue to outnumber women in terms of Internet usage in the United Kingdom, though the gap is closing in gradually. Here is a projection of the…
December 6, 2008, 14:43
Inspite of the huge adoption of mobile internet among British internet users, the growth rate of internet has still surpassed WAP. Internet: Grew 11 percent…
December 4, 2008, 04:15
Baby boomers form the largest segment of the US Internet population. Here is their percent share of the entire American Internet population from 2008 projected…
December 3, 2008, 18:08
What is the average annual income of MySpace and Facebook users? Here is a percent distribution that is likely to throw some idea: MySpace: Income>K :…
November 18, 2008, 17:32
There are 49 million Internet users in India; 40 million from the Urban areas. 35 million people access Internet regularly. This is a 19 percent jump from last…
October 23, 2008, 17:09
The best ad format depends on your user’s age as well. Here is the most favorite ad format inferred from the US internet users who happened to click on online…
July 25, 2008, 13:04
Race/Ethnicity of bloggers in USA (in percentage) White – 69.7% Hispanic – 20% African American – 12.2% Asian – 3.7%
May 28, 2008, 07:29
Internet penetration among the senior citizens in USA (62+ years) is increasing. Here is a projection in terms of the percent of the total population of senior…
May 24, 2008, 08:08
The most recently updated demographic profile for America was released by Nielsen. Accordingly, the numbers in percent terms are: Male : 48.48% Women :…
May 15, 2008, 07:49
This study is based on the October 2007 study of the internet access (in percentage terms) among the different races in America: BROADBAND White : 54.9% Black…
May 6, 2008, 08:22
In a 250 million Urban population in India, 65 million are PC literate. Out of them, 46 million claim to be internet users though only 32 million are active. T…
May 6, 2008, 07:34
Inspite of diversifying the samples in order to get closest to actual numbers, different market research agencies have come up with different numbers when…
May 5, 2008, 13:54
More than one-third of the Americans in the senior age group (62 years and above) use the internet. Among them, the younger group (62 to 71 years) are much…
May 1, 2008, 21:56
A recent study of the online activities of Non-Resident-Indians revealed the following as the top most: General News about India Indian Sports and Music Datin…
April 12, 2008, 14:58
Percentage of Baby Boomer population with annual income of ,000 or more that shoppped online: 2004 – 50.2% 2007 – 65.6%
April 5, 2008, 07:23
There are now more female Brits online than Male Brits. And this trend is likely to increase over the next few years. Here is a year-wise projected growth of…
March 22, 2008, 21:39
Women have been surprisingly outnumbering men in terms of the number of online population. The numbers and projections till the year 2012 are: 2007: 90.8…
March 14, 2008, 07:16
35 million – This is the number of American women with children under 18 who are online. This is more than 40 percent of all online women in US. The projected…
February 28, 2008, 19:11
A study into the race of the bloggers reveals the following information: 69.7% of bloggers are White/Caucasian 12.2% of them are African Americans or…
February 26, 2008, 18:38
Google has beaten Microsoft in the race to the top of the Canada websites ratings. The top 10 websites are 1. Google 2. Microsoft 3. Yahoo 4. Facebook 5.…
February 16, 2008, 15:57
The age-wise distribution of Yahoo Search users: 18-24 : 19.33% 25-34 : 23.13% 35-44 : 22.34% 45-54 : 17.97% 55+ : 17.23% The age-wise distribution of…
February 12, 2008, 18:32
USA ranks third in terms of the number of Orkut users with Americans comprising 14.89% of the total Orkut member base. Within USA, the popularity of Orkut in…
February 7, 2008, 06:53
The online population in Russia has taken off and expected to boom in the next few years. The numbers for 2007 and the projections till 2012 are given…
February 6, 2008, 06:30
India’s share of online commerce is projected to grow from 1.3 percent of Asia-Pacific in 2006 to 3.3 percent by 2011. The projected value of the market over…
January 23, 2008, 07:23
Average number of languages for the top 10 global brands : 30 Only 37% of American websites do not provide content in other major languages Websites that…
January 22, 2008, 13:38
The top ten websites in terms of the number of unique visitors from Canada for the month of December 2007 are: 1. Microsoft 2. Google 3. Yahoo 4. Facebook 5.…
January 18, 2008, 13:10
China is slated to overtake USA as the largest Internet market in terms of the number of users. The Chinese internet market rose to 53% to 210 million at the…
January 17, 2008, 12:55
Number (in millions) of Asian Americans online: 2006 : 10.2 2007 : 10.9 2008 : 11.6 2009 : 12.3 2010 : 13 2011 : 13.7 A majority of Asian Americans are…
January 16, 2008, 12:39
More than one third of young adults had visited Youtube or other video sharing website in December. Percentage of Young adults (18-29 years) visiting Video…
January 13, 2008, 09:04
US Hispanics have greater tolerance to Email marketing compared to Non-Hispanic US citizens. This is attributed to the larger time spent online. Number of…
January 13, 2008, 08:45
According to the Comscore rating released for December: 1. AOL Finance – 13.5 million unique visitors 2. Yahoo – 13.2 million unique visitors 3. MSN Money -…
January 1, 2008, 21:42
Here is the latest market share of the different Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP : 76.97% Windows Vista : 10.43% MacIntel : 4.01% Mac OS : 3.28% Windows…
January 1, 2008, 14:30
Public Libraries are visited by over 53 percent of the Americans. Of these, the majority of the Generation Y (18 to 30 years) made use of the computer…
December 28, 2007, 21:15
Worth of online advertising market in Japan : .4 billion to .1 billion Projected growth by 2011 : .8 billion to billion Contribution of Search based…
December 28, 2007, 21:01
India’s internet population is 42 million strong Percentage of them that are active gamers : 5% Revenues from Gaming in India : million per year
December 28, 2007, 15:18
38% Americans watch Television shows online 36% use Cellphones for entertainment purposes 45% are involved in creating Social web content 62% of millennials(13-…
December 28, 2007, 11:29
90 percent of Japanese own a mobile handset. 40 percent of this population use mobile phones to surf internet. Population of Japanese using the Internet : 89.1…
December 27, 2007, 10:47
The following is the Ad-impressions that the online campaigning of the US Prez candidates generated through 2007 Romney 103.8 million John McCain 94.6…
December 27, 2007, 10:25
Unique Japanese visitors to Yahoo properties : 41 million (August) Unique Japanese visitors to Google properties : 31 million (August) Search Engine market…
December 27, 2007, 10:14
Possibly the Scotland way! Previous studies in Scotland showed that out of 902 Television Public Service Announcement ads showed in over 30 markets, only 11.2%…
December 26, 2007, 19:34
Yahoo has around 1084 subsites. Among them the top subsites in popularity terms are Yahoo.com Yahoo Homepages Yahoo Mail Yahoo Search Yahoo US Mail Yahoo US…
December 26, 2007, 15:44
62.5 items were ordered on Amazon every second on December 10. The best sellers at Amazon from November 15 to December 19 are Toys : Jakks EyeClops Bionic…
December 25, 2007, 07:39
The study shows Online TV works better for advertisers. and the producers alike 47% of the people feel more engaged with Online TV ads 25% of the people are…
December 24, 2007, 20:10
From November 2006 to November 2007, the traffic on Ask.com has increased from 29.8 million visitors to 46 million visitors. This is after 0 million was…
December 24, 2007, 14:18
Taiwan by all means. Except for Haucha village which is damaged due to Typhoon, the whole country has now access to high speed internet connectivity. Taiwan…
December 22, 2007, 18:24
The traffic is still as much growing as it had been all along. Overall growth has been 22.42 percent. Gainers iGoogle : 267.64% Book search : 54.66% Gmail :…
December 21, 2007, 07:24
An overwhelming 90% or above of online adult population (18+ years of age) use email as their prime source of communication. Less than a quarter of Japanese…
December 21, 2007, 06:58
Here is the list of the fastest growing websites in France for November. Social networking on top, as usual. Growth percent shown adjacent to the website…
December 20, 2007, 07:23
The UK internet population seems to be ageing. Under 25 year olds Percent share in 2006 : 29% Percent share in 2007 : 25% This is a relative drop of 16% Aged…
December 20, 2007, 07:09
An increasing number of them! 65 percent of American adults watch them online compared to just 42 percent same time last year. 42% of Youtube users are…
December 20, 2007, 06:57
How much are the American 12 to 17 year old involved in User-Generated-Content creation? 64 percent of all those online do it. Blogging : 35% girls and 20%…
December 19, 2007, 20:50
How many emails do you think a corporate manager reads and sends per day? Average number of emails sent per day : 38 Average number of emails received per day…
December 18, 2007, 14:03
Here is a head to head comparison of the European and American markets: 2006 Europe : €8 billion US : €12.8 billion Difference : €4.8 billion 2007 Europ…
December 18, 2007, 13:49
The global study certainly thinks so. Nearly 50 percent of Web site decision makers worldwide translate their website content to another language in order to…
December 15, 2007, 14:00
In US, 65 percent of all searches are done on Google; three times more than the searches made on Yahoo. Amongst these searches, the key demographics are Health…
December 15, 2007, 13:43
A full workday every week on an average is spent surfing the internet! The time spent online for one full work-week : 7.8 hours This amounts to almost 31…
December 15, 2007, 13:21
Food brands dominate this category. The top 5 consumer packaged goods websites in terms of unique visitors in the third quarter of 2007 are: Kraftfoods.com -…
December 11, 2007, 17:18
Probably it does. More than 25 percent of European online shoppers decided to purchase after looking at the retailer’s green policies or were willing to pay a…
December 5, 2007, 10:02
Population of American baby boomers using internet in 2006: 58.2 million Estimated population of Baby boomers using internet in 2011: 68.3 million The…
June 5, 2010, 07:18
eCommerce in India is more or less the same as online travel. A study by Visa last year showed that all the three top categories in online shopping was related…
June 4, 2010, 05:38
Virtual goods are growing to become a massive economy in itself. Several companies including Facebook, SecondLife and game developers like Zynga are banking on…
May 22, 2010, 06:18
Comscore conducted a study of digital music download among mobile phone users in five major European markets : UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. The…
May 19, 2010, 06:50
The Western Europe region has been the leader when it comes to retail e-commerce sales. According to a report on e-Marketer, while Great Britain has traditional…
April 14, 2010, 19:03
A recent study by Coda Research agency has revealed that mobile eCommerce in the US shall grow at a compounded rate of 65% between 2009 and 2015. According to…
April 5, 2010, 05:41
Have you ever purchased any product through your mobile phone? I have not. A recent study conducted by Retrevo concludes that mobile phones are getting…
April 5, 2010, 05:07
One of the most interesting aspects about owning an online store is that many of the things that go with running an ecommerce shop may be outsourced – The…
March 23, 2010, 08:18
eCommerce is truly taking over traditional retail stores in many segments like books, apparels and software. However, there is still a far way to go in…
March 18, 2010, 04:06
Frauds in online commerce appear to be on the wane. This is according to a study published by CyberSource. According to the study, total revenues lost in 2009…
March 12, 2010, 05:59
With 384 million internet users, China is seeing a massive growth in ecommerce. Close to 7.9% of the population now makes online travel bookings. Here are the…
March 11, 2010, 03:58
Internet retailers are among those with the highest number of consumer complaints filed against them. This is according to the North American Better Business…
February 26, 2010, 04:02
According to a study by Javelin Strategy and Research, the volume of debit card usage online in US is expected to grow over the next few years. However, as a…
February 20, 2010, 04:21
Mobile commerce is a huge industry in some parts of the world. For instance, in Japan, billion worth of goods and services were puchased online in the past…
February 3, 2010, 14:10
During the recent quarterly earnings announcement, Amazon chief Jeff Bezos announced that several million Kindles have been sold till date. The precise…
January 30, 2010, 09:53
A low internet penetration and customer apprehensions has meant that eCommerce is still not huge in India. Despite this, in absolute terms, the volumes are…
January 21, 2010, 12:57
Online commerce is turning to be one of the major revenue drivers for enterprises in Europe. In a recently released report (PDF) by Eurostat, the overall…
January 20, 2010, 06:06
If your online store is not delivering encouraging conversion rates, you can probably try one of the following stratgies. In a study by Compete, free shipping…
January 9, 2010, 04:00
There was a 4% increase in online commerce in the holiday shopping season of 2009 compared to the sale numbers in the last months of 2008. But the top…
December 29, 2009, 05:01
eBay has close to 3 million registered users from 2471 cities in India. While the numbers are not huge, it is still big enough considering that eCommerce in…
December 7, 2009, 05:12
The Chinese eCommerce market is growing and most of it is through consumer-to-consumer selling on sites such as Taobao.com. Here are some interesting statistics…
November 30, 2009, 06:38
How did the various popular online retail stores fare this Thanksgiving? Amazon got close, but not close enough to Walmart. Here is where the online traffic…
November 30, 2009, 04:02
Is an increase in the value of online shopping point towards a recovery in the economy or merely that more people choose to order from their homes to save on…
November 26, 2009, 05:12
Visa recently studied the state of eCommerce in India that showed that the eCommerce segment has really been picking up well in India. Nevertheless, I am…
November 16, 2009, 05:21
Purchasing stuff over the web increases when you know there are a lot more people doing it, and also when you are recommeded to it by your own network of…
November 16, 2009, 04:21
A study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) paints a pretty optimistic picture on the growth of eCommerce in the Europe region…
November 6, 2009, 05:39
Free shipping is increasingly being used to incentivize online shoppers. Comscore reports that close to 42% of all shipped items today are shipped ‘free of…
September 28, 2009, 08:27
Online banking has risen to the top spot in the most popular ways to bank. 25% of all surveyed respondents regarded online as the most preferred way to bank.…
September 23, 2009, 08:23
65% of those who add items to cart only to log off later actually return to buy the item. Here is the average delay time between adding an item to cart to…
September 18, 2009, 07:34
Yes, absolutely. In a recent study by McAfee of over 165 million shoppers, it was observed that those B2C sites that had some kind of security seals over them…
September 7, 2009, 16:45
Online retail apparel is a category which I would not personally think would click. But it sure is growing. Here are the top ten retail clothing websites in…
September 3, 2009, 08:14
If you are on the move and would want to take away a Pizza from a nearby Pizza Hut, would you mind ordering via your mobile even as you reach there? M-Commerce…
August 19, 2009, 09:48
South East Asia has been ahead over the rest of the world when it comes to mobile technology, especially using your cell phones as a mobile wallet. Here is the…
August 19, 2009, 09:29
This is one segment of the mobile market that is not showing much promise. Here are a few stats to bore you: 10% of Americans listen to music on mobile…
August 17, 2009, 07:52
The number of internet users in UK is seen to grow steadily over the next few years from 37 million to 42 million. However, a larger percent of them will shop…
June 3, 2009, 14:53
Ecommerce in Germany has almost tripled in the five years from 2003 to 2008. Here are the retail ecommerce sales numbers in value from 2003 to 2008. 2003 :…
March 4, 2009, 14:19
Retail ecommerce grew only by 6% in 2008, which is the slowest since the dot com crash in the early part of the decade. The most popular ecommerce categories…
March 2, 2009, 15:55
A recent research by Informa predicts a very optimistic picture for mobile banking. Here is the scenario of mobile banking predicted for the year 2013: Number…
March 1, 2009, 08:40
Craigslist is increasing on the lead it enjoys over its eBay competitor Kijiiji.com. The gap widened with the worldwide number of visitors in January. Kijiji…
January 21, 2009, 15:16
What’s the most preferred method for internet users to pay their bills online? No surprises for guessing credit cards. Here is the ranking of the most…
December 11, 2008, 15:03
The average annual spending online per online buyer in UK is projected to increase at a nominal rate till 2012. Here is the spending online on an average: 2007…
September 6, 2008, 17:43
From a personal viewpoint, most of us might not agree to having bought from Spam, but the results differ from market researches. A recent study shows 30…
May 9, 2008, 09:06
The Indian retail growth story continues on the internet as well. The ecommerce sales have been growing consistently over 30 percent year on year: 2006 :…
February 26, 2008, 17:08
The American retail ecommerce is growing at a 12 percent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR). The growth in value terms over the next few years shall…
February 21, 2008, 19:01
The projections for the US Online retail market has widely differed among the different research agencies. eMarketer projects a 0 billion more in 2012 than…
February 14, 2008, 16:57
Were you among those who bought a gift for your valentine online? Then you are more likely to be a Brit than an American. In a recent poll, 49 percent of…
February 6, 2008, 06:35
Online travel is the largest category of ecommerce among the major economies in the Asia Pacific region. It is projected to grow from .7 billion in 2007 to…
February 6, 2008, 06:30
India’s share of online commerce is projected to grow from 1.3 percent of Asia-Pacific in 2006 to 3.3 percent by 2011. The projected value of the market over…
February 1, 2008, 06:28
More than 85 percent of the worldwide respondents to a poll had purchased something online. Growing middle class is spurring online commerce in China and…
January 24, 2008, 12:06
In the final quarter of 2007, Netflix added 451,000 new customers to its online DVD rental service Earned .8 million or 24 cents per share Now, Netflix…
January 16, 2008, 12:33
The top 10 categories that attracted the maximum traffic for the month of December: 1. Fragrances/Cosmetics 2. Consumer Goods 3. Jewelry/Luxury Goods/Accessori…
January 15, 2008, 08:27
The period between September and October was taken as the base period for the study. Dec 3 – Dec 9 resulted in a 38 percent increase in shopping in UK and 45…
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- Amazon Vs. eBay by: Anand
January 15, 2008, 08:22
eBay has always beaten Amazon when it comes to traffic. However, for the holiday season in December Amazon had won over eBay for the first time ever. 59,624,00…
January 15, 2008, 07:50
The Business to Consumer ecommerce in Asia Pacific region shall grow at 23.11 percent annually. The projected volume by 2011 is 8.7 billion. Japan and South…
January 10, 2008, 21:41
Chinese video sharing market is small, yet growing. Youku.com is one of the largest and raised million in venture fund. Revenue from Chinese Video Sharing…
January 10, 2008, 20:48
In 2006, the online spending of B2B advertising was .8 Billion. That was 16.6% of the total spending online. It grew to .5 Billion in 2007. The projected…
December 28, 2007, 15:00
Legally filling up an iPod shall cost upto ,000. This has been the reason of the rampant violation of IP. According to Digital Music News, over 36.4 percent…
December 28, 2007, 14:53
This post is not about the revenue from sales of iPods and iPhones. It is about the sale of songs, movies and TV Shows through iTunes. 5 Million iPhones are…
December 27, 2007, 18:09
Amazon is currently winning over Apple. Amazon Collections from Warner Music Group ( Led Zeppelin, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Green Day) EMI Universal and 33,000…
December 27, 2007, 10:18
The deal is between Apple and 20th Century Fox. This shall be announced formally on Jan 14. Possible video rental charge :.99 for 30 days.
December 26, 2007, 15:44
62.5 items were ordered on Amazon every second on December 10. The best sellers at Amazon from November 15 to December 19 are Toys : Jakks EyeClops Bionic…
December 22, 2007, 10:48
Retail firms topped the rankings for customer respect index, measured to see the customer service levels on the web. Overstock.com was ranked Number 1. Now why…
December 19, 2007, 20:23
That’s a mammoth .2 Billion!! Number of victims in 2007 : 3.6 million Average loss per incident : 6 Most spoofed portals : Paypal and eBay
December 11, 2007, 17:18
Probably it does. More than 25 percent of European online shoppers decided to purchase after looking at the retailer’s green policies or were willing to pay a…
December 10, 2007, 15:31
The market for local online ads seem to be erupting again. Estimated worth of market by end of 2008 : Billion Growth from 2007 : 50 percent What’s…
December 10, 2007, 15:08
More than 18 percent from what was spent a year ago. Since November 1, the holiday spending on purchasing online has reached billion. The day with the…
December 6, 2007, 18:20
Buy videogames this Christmas!! A Comscore study shows that Videogames and consoles have had an 145% increase in sales compared to the holiday season till date…
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January 26, 2010, 04:44
IT spending by enterprises is expected to see a revival this year following last year’s decline. However, IT spending of the 2008 levels is not expected to…
November 2, 2009, 05:27
Google wave is touted as the next big thing from Google assisting in real time collaboration. So if you thought why it is so necessary, here are some recent…
October 17, 2009, 07:15
Facebook now has close to 300 million users on its social network. Ever wondered what it takes to manage the activities of so many users? 300 million users…
September 16, 2009, 09:17
Enterprises are looking more and more towards the web in order to be able to communicate better with their clients. These tools are used not just to communicate…
August 31, 2009, 08:33
Cloud computing and services could be generating craze, but still a whopping 44.1% of the small businesses interviewed do not use them. Here is a statistic on…
April 22, 2008, 18:42
Businesses are using more and more Web 2.0 in their enterprise. This includes spending on Social Networking, RSS, blogs, mashups, wikis, podcasting, etc.…
February 19, 2008, 18:08
A survey among IT decision makers’ perception revealed the following important statistics: 63 percent shall upgrade to Windows Server 2008 18 percent are…
April 22, 2010, 07:24
AT&T reported revenues of .5 billion and sales worth .6 billion for the quarter ending March 2010. So where has this money come from? According to the…
April 21, 2010, 08:27
Following up with Apple’s Quarterly revenues distribution by geography, it also an interesting study to look at it from the product perspective. While the…
April 21, 2010, 08:09
Apple has just announced its latest quarterly earnings. It is apparently the company’s highest ever earnings outside the holiday season. Also impressive is its…
April 1, 2010, 05:53
How much money does Twitter make? While realistically, they have just made about million so far following the real-time search deals that they signed with…
March 27, 2010, 04:33
Yes, Facebook has just overtaken Google Search in traffic. What does that amount to? Nothing significant, if a study of the revenue per unique visitor (total…
March 10, 2010, 05:36
Ever since the eBook as a format appeared in the early part of the decade, the market has been growing steadily. However, the biggest spike has come in the…
March 5, 2010, 04:35
Data ARPU among American mobile network service providers is steadily on the rise since 2004 and the corresponding number for voice has been falling. In a…
March 4, 2010, 05:34
Thanks to the terrific growth in number of subscribers, mobile network service providers from the emerging economies are among the fastest growing companies.…
March 4, 2010, 05:19
The average revenue per user (ARPU) on voice has been steadily falling as the data usage has been on the rise. According to a study by Chetan Sharma Consulting,…
February 25, 2010, 04:22
Apple iTunes just crossed a milestone..Over 10 billion songs have now been downloaded from the online music store. Here are the approximate revenues made by…
February 9, 2010, 05:40
In 2007, Apple’s profits from its mobile handset business constituted just 3% of the overall profits made by the industry. At the end of 2009, this number was…
February 3, 2010, 13:34
Google’s share of revenue from United States have fallen below the 50% over the past one year. One of the primary contributors to Google’s revenue from outside…
January 21, 2010, 04:09
There are over 380 million Chinese who use the internet today. Popular activities include gaming, shopping and social networking. Revenues from these as well…
January 19, 2010, 05:55
A Forrester Research study on the uptake of digital music against the decline in purchase of physical music reveals that digital music growth is still not…
December 8, 2009, 04:17
Twitter’s 1.84% market share in the US is no match for Facebook’s 58% share. LinkedIn users’ average salary of 0,000 is much higher than the other social…
November 27, 2009, 05:01
If you are following the job market closely, you might be aware of Monster’s Career Ad Network. So how has the job based ad network perform? Here are the…
November 24, 2009, 04:14
Will Windows 7 help in spurring the growth in PC shipments? Gartner looks skeptical. The company predicts only a modest increase in the shipment and sales…
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- Who Owns Skype? by: Anand
November 20, 2009, 04:42
You might have been following the dispute over the past few months between VOIP provider Skype’s original founders and eCommerce giant eBay, the company that…
November 12, 2009, 04:25
The Software-as-a-Service model has been getting pretty popular in the recent times and as Gartner notes, the revenue from SaaS are growing in double digits…
November 10, 2009, 05:50
How much money do these paid apps on smartphones such as iPhone and others bring? A study by eMarketers shows a terrific potential for growth over the next 3-4…
November 2, 2009, 09:12
Do Freemium models work on social networks? A good number of social media market leaders think so, and it also seems so looking at the revenues paid social…
October 23, 2009, 06:11
Much like Skype, Paypal, the ecommerce platform from eBay too has been growing significantly through the downturn. This is despite a 29% drop in profits for…
October 22, 2009, 05:30
The third quarter earnings for Skype were announced recently. We now have the latest information on the number of registered users, revenue made,etc. Number…
October 20, 2009, 04:26
More iPhones and Macs have been sold this year than same time last year. iPod sales have however seen a decline in the YoY comparison. Here is the latest sales…
September 29, 2009, 09:53
NewEgg.com, the electronics ecommerce retailer recently filed for an IPO to raise 5 million. From the filing, here are some numbers that we know regarding…
September 26, 2009, 09:19
Wall Street Journal needs to rethink about its monetization strategies. Clearly with free alternatives abound, not many are going to pay for their services.…
September 8, 2009, 09:33
SurveyMonkey lets users create surveys and is highly popular among small businesses. And they are bigger than one would assume. Here are some details about…
September 2, 2009, 08:24
eBay sold a majority stake from Skype to Silver Lake group. Here are the details of the transacation: Company on sale : Skype Communications Value of the…
August 25, 2009, 09:18
Yahoo has acquired Maktoob, which is a popular portal from the Gulf region. Value of the deal (estimate) : million Yahoo users from Gulf : 20 million Makto…
August 21, 2009, 08:21
China mobile has seen a drop in profits YoY for the second quarter of 2009. It has also failed in its attempt to proliferate 3G in the country. Net Income :…
August 12, 2009, 12:45
Facebook has acquired Friendfeed and that’s known. Here are the details about the deal: Value of Friendfeed : million Amount paid in cash : million Amo…
May 26, 2010, 07:14
Tablet PCs were not considered an ideal form factor until now. However, the success of the iPad has changed it all and every other technology manufacturer is…
May 5, 2010, 06:21
Semiconductor sales normally see a slump during the March season since a majority of electronic good shopping happens during the Christmas holiday season.…
May 1, 2010, 05:16
IDC has published their latest report on the state of mobile phone growth worldwide. One of the biggest take-aways from the recent study is the emergence of…
April 23, 2010, 04:33
In the quarter ending March 2010, Apple shipped 1.69 million iPhone units to Japan. This accounted for 72% of all smartphones shipped to the country in the…
March 29, 2010, 04:16
Attractive features, the app economy trend, affordable prices and a whole lot of other factors have all helped in expediting the adoption rate of smartphones…
March 24, 2010, 04:29
Apple iPad has generated a lot of buzz and though that is not strictly an eReader, it goes without saying that the ebook reading population is a primary target…
March 23, 2010, 04:03
China and India are among the countries with the fastest growth in mobile phones. However, when it comes to its penetration in the market, these countries…
March 19, 2010, 05:41
There used to be a time when smartphones were primarily used for business purposes. That has quite changed since the likes of iPhone came into the market. A…
March 10, 2010, 04:31
In 2009, Netbooks accounted for 11.9% of the portable computer market. This is according to a study published on the Washington post. While the growth in…
February 25, 2010, 06:05
The Environment Working Group has come up with some statistics on how the new age smartphones have been pushing towards the edge of acceptable levels of cell…
February 16, 2010, 01:43
Till a couple of years back stylus supported touchscreens were the norm. However, ever since Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone as a device with the best user…
February 10, 2010, 03:58
Last month In-Stat published statistics on the growth of Wi-Fi enabled handsets globally. According to this, 184 million Wi-Fi enabled mobile handsets will be…
February 4, 2010, 04:30
Mobile phone ownership among teenagers is on the rise. In August of last year, a Pew Internet study had put the number of cell phone toting teens in US at 71%…
February 2, 2010, 05:42
The arrival of Motorola Droid and HTC myTouch have seriously shaken up the Android market. According to a report by media portal Myxer, three months back in…
January 29, 2010, 05:34
Features such as Internet and Camera are nearly ubiquitous on mobile phones, let alone smartphones. Yet, they remain the “must have” features among smartphone…
January 14, 2010, 04:52
In August last year, I had written about the cell phone ownership among teenagers. A recent study by MediaMark R&I group studies cell phone ownership among…
January 13, 2010, 05:38
Smartphone ownership has increased by over 30 percentage points in three years. A recent study on smartphone ownership among Americans reveals the growth over…
January 8, 2010, 06:14
Apple is expected to announce the launch of their Tablet at the end of this month. With Google and a few other companies also in the process of launching their…
January 6, 2010, 04:11
How much money do you spend on your iPhone or the Motorola Droid over the entire contractual period? While iPhone looks cheaper at the cost price, it in fact…
December 23, 2009, 04:23
Apple iPhone, for all the buzz hasn’t surely been the best selling manufacturer, yet. However, on a model-by-model basis, it looks like Apple has something to…
December 21, 2009, 04:19
Android is definitely promising and already holds significant market share among the mobile operating systems. However, the bigger concern is the fragmentation…
December 16, 2009, 05:55
A recent survey was recently conducted to look into the gadget ownership among the average internet users. What comes as striking is that a lot more respondents…
December 2, 2009, 05:05
Last week, I had written about the average revenue share held by Apple and Microsoft in the desktop and laptop market. So, what is the average selling price of…
November 26, 2009, 04:22
After all those Mac and PC ads, who’s winning? Well, Microsoft PCs are still the leaders, but the Mac is not too far behind if we go by the revenue share. Here…
November 18, 2009, 05:52
A study by SquareTrade looks into the malfunction rate among the different laptops over a three year period. The conclusion of the study is that smaller brands…
November 14, 2009, 04:13
The gap between market forecasting and prophecies seem to be narrowing by the day. This is because thanks to the PR that research reports generate, market…
November 13, 2009, 04:35
The iPhone has been at the forefront of smartphone growth. Despite this, when it comes to the volumes of smartphones sold, Nokia has still managed to cling on…
November 5, 2009, 04:13
As of today, the number of cell phones shipped by the gray market in China constitutes 13% of the legitimate cell phone market. And the bad news is that it has…
November 4, 2009, 05:27
Touchscreen phones have been growing much faster than the smartphone segment and with many more touchscreen phones expected to be launched during the Christmas…
October 9, 2009, 06:40
More women in the US and more men in Canada own more than one device for communication. The Average North American had 1.3 cellular device with them. Here’s…
October 8, 2009, 05:22
A recent Forrester research has increased its forecast of the sale of e-readers from 2 million to 3 million for 2009 following an increased optimization of…
September 25, 2009, 09:14
Nokia is yet to discover upon a device that will comprehensively compete against the likes of iPhone and the other smartphones. Here is a snippet from the…
September 1, 2009, 09:32
Netbooks are cheaper than Notebooks and maybe that’s a reason why they grew by 40% in the last quarter compared to 22% growth of notebooks. Here are the…
August 27, 2009, 09:23
First there was Amazon’s Kindle. Then there are the new ones launched by Sony and Barnes & Nobles. How big can this market grow? Here are some forecasts: Numbe…
August 14, 2009, 08:30
What will the Zune HD cost when it launches? Here are the prices: 16GB : 0 GB : 0 It’s existing competitor, iPod touch 16GB is now being offered at…
August 11, 2009, 16:17
The second quarter results are out and based on the results posted in Q1 and Q2 of 2009, here is the ranking of global handset makers in the order of the…
July 16, 2009, 13:57
Apple and Dell are two companies that are predicted to have lost market share since winter of 2008. Here are the top five computer vendors in America according…
March 25, 2009, 14:17
Admob reports that the smartphone market share has grown from 26 percent to 33 percent. Here are the top five smartphones globally: 1. iPhone 2. Nokia N70 3.…
March 18, 2009, 14:19
No surprise, but a recent research has just confirmed that the sale of music CDs is on the drop while the sale of digital music is on the rise in USA. Digital…
February 26, 2009, 15:09
It is a very uncertain market and projections have consistently been revised. Here are the 2009 sales projections that have been made (and revised) by Gartner…
December 19, 2008, 15:02
What are the top five most searched gadgets during the Christmas season? Nintendo tops the list in Britain, Germany and France! TOP FIVE GADGETS IN UNITED…
May 13, 2008, 06:10
Microsoft Zune, the portable media player developed as a rival to the iPod has completed two years of launch. It now has reached a milestone two million units…
March 22, 2008, 18:18
China and India are two very critical markets for Dell and they have also plans to introduce market specific PCs for these two countries. Last year, Dell…
January 10, 2008, 07:49
Google processes 20 petabytes of data per day. That is, 20,000,000,000,000,000 bytes every day. This works out to around 231,000,000,000 bytes per second!!!
December 28, 2007, 21:24
The list of 25 products are 1. Google Gears 2. Apple iPhone 3. One Laptop per Child OLPC XO Notebook 4. Apple Time Machine, in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) 5.…
December 27, 2007, 10:14
Possibly the Scotland way! Previous studies in Scotland showed that out of 902 Television Public Service Announcement ads showed in over 30 markets, only 11.2%…
December 26, 2007, 15:44
62.5 items were ordered on Amazon every second on December 10. The best sellers at Amazon from November 15 to December 19 are Toys : Jakks EyeClops Bionic…
December 7, 2007, 18:23
Radicati group estimates that Current number of installed base lines : 92 million Estimated number of installed base lines by 2011 : 118 million Estimated…
November 10, 2007, 09:04
Green computing is an initiative taken by Google to make computers more environment friendly. There are a few upfront costs to using a green computer, but it…
October 27, 2007, 21:12
Third quarter resulted in a 58 percent growth for Acer. Acer shall gain 11-12 percent market share by 2008. The percent growth in sales shall be 25% in this…
May 25, 2010, 08:08
Spending on video games in the US is estimated to be close to .2 billion for 2009. This includes a variety of platforms including mobile phones which is…
May 12, 2010, 07:42
PlaySpan, a company focused on providing monetization solutions for online games, social networks and virtual worlds has released its latest report on the…
April 20, 2010, 08:45
First things first – this is not a study from an established market research firm. Independent review site, NoFussReviews conducted a survey of over 500,000…
April 15, 2010, 16:51
Comscore has published its results on a recent study conducted to look into the mobile gaming market in the US. The study reveals that the number of mobile…
April 14, 2010, 08:19
Internet connected gaming is slowly becoming the norm. You may recall a recent study which pointed out that close to 85% of online gamers preferred their PC…
April 8, 2010, 04:07
Facebook gaming is one of the most popular pastimes of late and close to 70 million users (of the total 400 million Facebook users) play just one game -…
April 2, 2010, 04:37
In a study published late last year, Analysys International projected the revenues from the Chinese gaming industry to be around .8 billion in 2009 and…
March 23, 2010, 08:47
If you need any proof to underline the fact that the Apple App Store is proving to be a serious threat to the video gaming market as we know it, it is here. A…
March 12, 2010, 05:52
USA is without doubt the leader when it comes to revenues made from Massively Multiplayer Online games like World of Warcraft and Runescape. In a new study by…
March 11, 2010, 05:55
The PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA) recently unveiled their report that studied the growth in PC Gaming revenues over the past one year. Here are some interesting…
March 9, 2010, 05:17
According to a study by Strategy Analytics, The video game market worldwide has grown by over 50% in the period 2005-2010 thanks to the popularity of console…
March 3, 2010, 04:19
The PC is without doubt the most used gaming platform for online games. However, a recent study by NPD Group reveals that gaming consoles have been contributing…
February 22, 2010, 13:23
Virtual goods are big business. According to a study by Piper Jaffrey last year, the industry was expected to be worth billion by 2013. So how much do…
February 20, 2010, 05:48
With Farmville, Mafia Wars and the likes on Facebook, there is no doubt that Facebook is the most preferred platform to play social games. A study (also read…
February 18, 2010, 04:55
A comprehensive study of social gamers (which includes games like Farmville and Mafia Wars) was conducted by Information Solutions Group in USA and UK. Here…
January 27, 2010, 07:18
Second Life is one of the early games that spawned web based virtual economy with the use of virtual goods. Is Second Life still growing? A recent blog post on…
January 22, 2010, 05:54
Mobile Gamers are a rapidly growing breed in UK. A recent study constituted by UK National Gamers Survey Report once again reveals the revolution that iPhone…
January 11, 2010, 04:22
Video gaming is getting popular among the baby boomers and matures. A recent report from Deloitte shows the surging popularity of gaming among the older…
December 31, 2009, 05:38
Gaming is very highly popular among the kids in USA with children as young as 2 joining the gaming crowd. A recent study by the NPD group revealed the…
December 31, 2009, 05:08
Computer games are least associated with females and have always been male-oriented. However, that has been changing over the past few years with more and more…
December 25, 2009, 04:30
Online gambling continues to thrive in Germany despite a state ban. The stats emphasize the need to legalize gambling in a country where more than 2 million…
December 7, 2009, 05:37
The current internet penetration in China is close to 27% and there are close to 69 million online gamers in the country. The online gaming industry is…
November 13, 2009, 05:15
We had seen the list of most popular games websites in USA just a couple of months back and it is interesting how the rankings have changed quite a bit since…
November 11, 2009, 04:15
The portable and mobile gaming market has just seen the start of a boom. A study by DFC Intelligence sees a huge surge in the industry revenues as more and…
October 26, 2009, 11:22
Fans of Farmville and Mafia Wars should be happy to note that they are among the games with the largest number of users on the social network platform. Here…
September 28, 2009, 07:43
Nintendo Wii was launched in November 2006. Ever since, sold at a price of 9, Nintendo Wii has sold over 53 million units worldwide. Of this close to half…
September 26, 2009, 11:54
A sidetrack to the growth of iPhones has been Apple’s foray into the portable gaming platform. The iPhone platform has a lot many more games than what is…
September 25, 2009, 12:30
Casual gaming is as big a market, if not bigger than MMORPGs. Here are the top destinations for casual gamers in this recently released list by Hitwise for…
September 23, 2009, 10:09
Nintendo Wii is apparently the most popular video game console in the US owned by close to 32% of all gamers. A large percentage of them also own an XBox or a…
September 16, 2009, 09:12
Online gaming in Japan has grown by over 18% in the past one year ending July 2009. There were 16.5 million online gamers in the month of July. Here are the…
August 20, 2009, 09:40
I don’t know how true this survey is, but coming as it is from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, here is how the average video game player looks…
August 13, 2009, 07:44
Virtual goods like avatars are money makers in MMORPGs, virtual worlds, and even on Social networks. Apparently, a lot of people are buying virtual goods. Here…
July 19, 2009, 17:31
The Gaming market had evaded the effects of recession for quite sometime. However, the time has come and here are the results of the same: Total industry…
July 3, 2009, 15:37
MMORPG stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. Though World of Warcraft is a rage among its users, survey upon the average time spent per…
February 26, 2009, 15:26
Sony PlayStation is focusing at its online service PlayStation Network to increase its sales. Here are the membership of PlayStation Network as compared to…
February 2, 2009, 14:05
Free online games have picked up momentum thanks to the downturn and avid gamers are seeking cheaper alternatives. Here is an overview of the online gaming…
March 19, 2008, 15:19
The American gaming industry growth rate was a prolific 34 percent to reach .33 billion for the month of February. This includes the sales of both the…
March 9, 2008, 08:30
Gamers are fast moving from video games on their personal computers to game consoles in Germany. The sale of game consoles grew by 21 percent to reach .1…
March 5, 2008, 18:56
The Estimates for revenues from mobile phone gaming industry for USA, Canada: 2007 – 7 millions 2011 – 1700 millions In comparison, the revenues from the…
March 5, 2008, 16:46
The projection of the US in-game advertising market for the years 2007 – 2012: 2007 – 5 millions 2008 – 3 millions 2009 – 1 millions 2010 – 9…
February 29, 2008, 19:01
A look into the sales figures for consoles in Japan for the month of February: Nintendo Wii – 331,627 consoles Playstation 3 – 89,131 consoles XBox 360 -…
February 6, 2008, 18:06
Which is better – Free to play games, but embedded with 15 or 30 second ads between levels OR No-Ads, but paid casual games? A survey has found that the…
January 29, 2008, 13:07
This is not about Olympics. Here is a list of eight most hyped video games for 2008: Grand Theft Auto IV KillZone 2 LittleBigPlanet Metal Gear Solid 4 – Guns…
January 23, 2008, 14:16
The game now has 10 million paying subscribers worldwide. This includes 5.5 million players in Asia, 2.5 million in the US and 2 million in Europe. The…
December 28, 2007, 21:01
India’s internet population is 42 million strong Percentage of them that are active gamers : 5% Revenues from Gaming in India : million per year
December 27, 2007, 10:42
The following is just a few of the many present in virtual worlds for marketing their brands Second Life Microsoft Starwood Hotels Reuters CBS CSI (franchise) …
December 27, 2007, 10:14
Possibly the Scotland way! Previous studies in Scotland showed that out of 902 Television Public Service Announcement ads showed in over 30 markets, only 11.2%…
December 26, 2007, 15:44
62.5 items were ordered on Amazon every second on December 10. The best sellers at Amazon from November 15 to December 19 are Toys : Jakks EyeClops Bionic…
December 6, 2007, 18:20
Buy videogames this Christmas!! A Comscore study shows that Videogames and consoles have had an 145% increase in sales compared to the holiday season till date…
November 12, 2007, 08:45
More and more casual games sites are looking into advertising as the form of revenue. SHOCKWAVE.COM Traffic to free, ad-suported games: 90 percent Revenue…
June 9, 2010, 07:39
Close to 40% of iPhone users earn more than 0K a month in the US. While this may sound impressive, it also needs to be noted that the iPhone users are, on…
May 27, 2010, 06:57
In its latest report, Admob has compared the geographic distribution of Android OS devices against iPhone OS. While Apple has seen a major portion of its sale…
April 29, 2010, 13:34
Hitwise has released its latest report for March 2010 where it has published its list of the most searched terms on Google. Unsurprisingly, it is ‘Facebook’…
April 22, 2010, 13:37
Google has released a new online tool called ‘Government Requests’ that chronicles the number of data requests and removal requests the several Governments…
April 7, 2010, 02:56
Microsoft has been slowing clawing its way up the search engine market share. But no, Google is not feeling the heat. Rather, it is the other search engines in…
March 3, 2010, 05:05
The rise of Google has been an amazing success story in the past decade. As of July 2008, over 1 trillion pages had been indexed on the Google search index…
February 18, 2010, 06:02
Companies spend thousands of dollars in trying to get their websites up on the first page of search engine results. A recent study by iCrossing underlines the…
February 11, 2010, 06:08
Google is no doubt the biggest online ad network worldwide. As we had reported earlier, nearly 50% of Google’s ad revenues come just from the US. So, how much…
January 26, 2010, 07:30
As an Adsense publisher, most of us would have wondered the exact share of the ad-click revenue that Google shares with us. Interestingly, this can be roughly…
January 12, 2010, 04:30
Remember our post on the cost of iPhone components? The manufacturing cost of the iPhone worked out to 8. Nexus One is just marginally cheaper – at 4.15.…
October 13, 2009, 05:15
With more and more webmasters focusing on SEO to get to the top of the search results, it is probable that the users are finding it more difficult to exactly…
September 15, 2009, 08:29
India and Brazil are pretty similar when it comes to website preferences, be it in search, social networking or anything else. Google dominates in these two…
September 15, 2009, 08:20
In India, Google is omnipresent. The top five websites in India are Google.com,Google.co.in, Yahoo, Youtube and Orkut – a 4/5 dominance by Google. So is…
September 2, 2009, 08:00
Personally, how many searches do you do on a monthly basis? I cannot tell for myself, cos I search a lot! Probably that is why the worldwide internet search…
August 24, 2009, 08:05
A study of the most important search engine ranking factors according to 72 expert SEOs at SEOMoz revealed the following list: 1. Anchor text from external…
August 17, 2009, 08:36
The search engine market is so vulnerable and market share keep changing, albeit by a few percentage points every month. Here are the top ten search engines in…
July 9, 2009, 15:03
If Google is a killer search engine on the internet, it is even more – a monopoly on the mobile web. Google is almost the only search engine that is accessed…
March 11, 2009, 14:19
Google is not just a search engine now. At least four of Google’s services including search are among the top ten most visited websites on the Internet. So…
December 5, 2008, 13:12
In 2008, Google used 16.5 percent of all US Consumer internet traffic. This is projected to rise to 25% in 2009 and 37% in 2010. This terrific share is because…
September 22, 2008, 12:06
Here are a few interesting statistics on the search engine market for June 2008: Worldwide number of searches : 74,217 million Worldwide number of searchers :…
September 21, 2008, 09:31
Americans watched 558 million hours of Online videos in a single month of July 2008. Among the different online video sharing websites, Youtube was the most…
July 27, 2008, 16:40
Google has announced a major landmark. The search engine has now crawled 1 trillion unique URLs. Here is how Google grew in terms of number of indexed…
May 25, 2008, 18:42
Do people using search engines able to achieve what they wanted to? At least the growing numbers indicate so. 60% of people achieved their objectives using…
April 12, 2008, 15:08
Here is a list of the most commonly searched Health Terms on Search Engines: 1. Pregnancy 2. Cancer 3. Flu 4. Depression 5. Diabetes 6. Addiction 7. Herpes 8.…
March 27, 2008, 18:08
According to a Comscore report, Google had 515mm Paid clicks in the US in February. This is how the paid clicks growth rate on Google have been over the past…
February 1, 2008, 06:14
Google deals with two major social networks : MySpace and Orkut. With MySpace, Google has also signed a deal to deliver at least 0 million per annum in…
January 18, 2008, 13:18
Do you think Google is trustworthy? More and more people have begun to distrust information provided by Search Engines. Only 51 percent of people in 2007 trust…
January 10, 2008, 07:49
Google processes 20 petabytes of data per day. That is, 20,000,000,000,000,000 bytes every day. This works out to around 231,000,000,000 bytes per second!!!
December 27, 2007, 10:25
Unique Japanese visitors to Yahoo properties : 41 million (August) Unique Japanese visitors to Google properties : 31 million (August) Search Engine market…
December 25, 2007, 21:39
Popularity of each of these mail accounts: Hotmail : 47 million unique visitors (April) AOL : 42.3 million unique visitors (April) Gmail : 90 million (approx.…
December 22, 2007, 18:24
The traffic is still as much growing as it had been all along. Overall growth has been 22.42 percent. Gainers iGoogle : 267.64% Book search : 54.66% Gmail :…
December 20, 2007, 19:51
No. According to the Federal Wire Wager Act, unregulated commercial gambling is prohibited throughout United States. This has cost the Big 3 of internet to…
December 17, 2007, 11:22
Ego Surfing: The act of searching your own name on Search Engines. This has almost doubled in five years. 22% of users ‘googled’ their own name back in 2002.…
December 15, 2007, 14:00
In US, 65 percent of all searches are done on Google; three times more than the searches made on Yahoo. Amongst these searches, the key demographics are Health…
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- What is Knol by: Anand
December 15, 2007, 12:52
Knol is Google’s ‘unit of knowledge’. It is the new tool introduced by Google to let users to write articles on subjects they are authoritative in. In other…
December 11, 2007, 17:04
For the month of October, the market shares (in percent terms) are as follows: Google (55%) Yahoo (19%) Microsoft (14%) AOL (4%) Ask (3%)
December 6, 2007, 17:58
Well, Google is not the leader in this one at least. The Comscore Media metrix for October shows Gmail jumped a 64% increase in userbase from the same time…
December 5, 2007, 18:00
According to the 2007 Global Accountability report: Google Net income: .25 billion Transparency : 0 percent Environmental and Social impact evaluation : 0…
November 12, 2007, 17:21
Android is the new mobile platform that Google has announced. Google has recently launched the Android Software development kit that will allow developers to…
November 12, 2007, 08:34
Mozilla foundation owns assets around million. In 2006, the revenues came to about million. Of this million, 85 percent has come from Google.…
November 10, 2007, 09:13
It used to be less. But now YouTube allows upto 1GB (one gigabyte) long videos. How many videos can I upload at a time? Till now, it was just one. But now,…
November 3, 2007, 07:09
Techcrunch reports spotting a Google PC at Wal-mart What makes it stand out, however, is GOS, a version of Linux specially made to run Google applications…
November 3, 2007, 07:04
Google Stock price at the end of the first day of trading: 8.31 Time taken to rise from 0 to 0: 30 months Time taken to rise from 0 to 0: 5…
October 31, 2007, 20:27
OpenSocial is an alliance of different network sites collaborated by Google to tackle the competition from Facebook. The API shall give developers access…
May 26, 2010, 07:38
Ookla, the company behind the popular ISP speed measurement tool, SpeedTest has introduced a broadband index that assimilates data from the over 1 million…
May 24, 2010, 06:42
Nielsen’s latest report for internet use in the United Kingdom shows that social networking comprises close to one-fourth of all user time spent online. For a…
May 7, 2010, 12:48
Mexico has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world in terms of internet users. A recent report by ComScore concluded that the number of home and…
April 23, 2010, 16:42
The first Instant messaging program was launched in 1993 – CU-SeeMe. Another popular IM Client called PowWow launched two years later. But it was not until AOL…
April 21, 2010, 07:41
If you thought Facebook, with its 400 million registered users was huge, then consider this : Skype has 560 million users and unlike on Facebook, these users…
April 20, 2010, 07:50
Managed security company, Network Box has studied over 13 billion URLs visited by businesses in the first quarter of 2010. The results are not too surprising.…
April 19, 2010, 13:23
Though media tycoons like Rupert Murdoch may lament the slow death of print media in the hands of their online counterpart, there is no gainsaying the fact…
April 19, 2010, 08:01
With an increasing number of desktop and mobile devices available to surf the internet from, the internet is seeing an amazing growth in terms of the number of…
April 13, 2010, 17:54
Online radio listeners in the US have grown from a mere 2% of the internet audience in 2001 to over 17% of the internet audience in 2010. That is approximately…
April 9, 2010, 05:07
The internet penetration in the US will breach the 70% mark this year. In a recently published report, eMarketer studies the internet growth rate in US as well…
April 3, 2010, 04:06
This is one stat that could be truly misleading. A recent study published by Hitwise looks into the most searched brands in the US and concludes that Facebook…
April 1, 2010, 06:09
The online travel market is huge and in USA, this market is expected to cross the 0 billion mark in another couple of years. This is according to a recent…
March 30, 2010, 04:02
All the prominent websites out there including Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are out there with their data portability offerings that let users…
March 26, 2010, 04:29
In a recent release, the World Intellectual Property Organization published a stat on the number of internet cybersquatting cases dealt in the past one year.…
March 25, 2010, 03:56
The online dating industry is one of the biggest and most profitable online segments. Websites such as eHarmony and Match.com have between 15-20 million…
March 23, 2010, 04:30
The competition between Google and Facebook has been brewing up on a lot of fronts. Facebook is now bigger than Google in a few countries like Indonesia and…
March 20, 2010, 05:42
The stats here may be a little outdated (noted in Sep 2009), but is nevertheless an interesting pointer. A study published by the MiniWatts group notes that…
March 17, 2010, 06:12
Do you read news online? Do you click on ads? If your answer to both these questions is Yes, then you could be among the one-fifth of news readers who actually…
March 15, 2010, 05:10
Local shoppers no longer have to rely on information about coupon, offers and reviews from the local advertisers on newspaper while shopping in their neighborho…
February 24, 2010, 05:51
Internet research project Zooknic analyzed the country code top level domains (ccTLD) from various countries to rank the top ten ccTLD in terms of number of…
February 24, 2010, 04:27
Comscore is out with its study on the most popular sports websites among Indian Internet users. Without doubt, almost all the top websites are cricket-focused.…
February 19, 2010, 04:25
Thanks to social networking websites such as Facebook, the time spent on internet has seen an overall increase over the past few months. For instance, the…
February 17, 2010, 05:45
There are 221 million internet users in the United States as of 2010. The most internet savvy population is without doubt in the age group of 12-24. However,…
February 15, 2010, 05:14
How has the number of internet users across the world increased in the past decade? Not surprisingly, the highest growth in internet usage between 2000 and…
January 29, 2010, 05:26
South Africa has for long been one of the underperformers when it came to internet penetration. That is finally changing as more companies are making the shift…
January 23, 2010, 04:59
Between December 2008 and December 2009, the search engine market grew 46% worldwide. The highest growth has come from Russia, Brazil and France. Here is the…
January 23, 2010, 04:08
At the end of H1 2009, there were close to 184 million TLD (Top Level Domains). In the six months that have passed since then, another 3 million domain names…
January 12, 2010, 05:38
Tweens (8-14) have never experienced life without mobile phones and internet and without doubt rely on it for a lot of things. A study conducted by Walt Disney…
January 12, 2010, 05:22
Stay at home mums are increasingly visible on social networks and chat forums at the cost of child-care. A recent study conducted for a competition website…
January 11, 2010, 05:36
Pew Internet recently conducted a study to see the internet usage classified by the community type among Americans. What is interesting is that suburban…
December 30, 2009, 05:25
This past decade can well be dedicated to the growth in internet. How else can you explain the fact that four out of the top five industries to have grown the…
December 26, 2009, 05:20
How long are you willing to wait on a page before deciding to abandon it? Here are the results of a survey commissioned by Akamai to study customer perception…
December 24, 2009, 06:09
How much time does an average adult internet user spend online? Harris Interactive has been measuring this for quite sometime now and here is how the time…
December 15, 2009, 05:50
According to Comscore, nearly 16 million Indians accessed news online in the month of October 2009, which is a 37% growth from October 2008. The most surprising…
December 12, 2009, 04:45
There is a gradual increase in the popularity of online radio in UK. The spike has especially been boosted by online services such as Last.fm which is also…
December 5, 2009, 06:07
If you were wondering why Rupert Murdoch is so vehemently against allowing Google News to show his news, here’s why. A study conducted by Fair Syndication…
November 28, 2009, 05:34
Is finding relevant information on Google getting increasingly difficult? The trend of search terms getting longer continues as we see more and more long tail…
November 25, 2009, 05:14
A recent ComScore report elaborately talks about the internet usage scenario in Portugal. Here are a few snapshots Total Population of Portugal : 10…
November 25, 2009, 04:15
News Corp has been vociferous in recent times about Google “stealing” their news content and are now planning to deindex from Google News and instead sign up…
November 20, 2009, 04:08
What brands do people love online. A survey was done by Forrester Research and every respondent was given an opportunity to mention two internet brands. And…
November 17, 2009, 05:58
There has been a double digit growth in Internet usage across most parts of Asia Pacific. This has propelled the number of unique visitors in the region up to…
November 7, 2009, 05:53
One interesting (or not so interesting) part of statistics is that the numbers differ vastly based on who is measuring it. Recently, I had written here about…
November 4, 2009, 04:21
Of late, there has been a lot of talk about the need for companies to move to a new IPv6 in order to avoid the imminent running out of web addresses. Here is…
October 30, 2009, 04:52
Two years and several hundreds of thousands of smartphone sales later, the mobile internet revolution is finally beginning to kick off and the smartphones have…
October 23, 2009, 05:33
It was recently announced that the 300 million users on Facebook spend close to 8 billion minutes per day on the site. What do you make of the 8 billion…
October 20, 2009, 04:02
Yahoo leads the pack in the list of the largest online news site in terms of the number of monthly uniques (for the month of September). Here are the top 15…
October 15, 2009, 05:59
The affluent are mad about online coupons; that much is clear from a new study by Harris Interactive on the usage of internet coupons among Internet users in…
October 15, 2009, 05:02
Internet usage among Americans still trails TV viewership, but is still carving its own niche in terms of the number of websites visited and time spent online.…
October 14, 2009, 06:24
It is a world where Instant Messengers are still twice as popular as social networks for communication. Here are the top online activities in Hong Kong based…
October 12, 2009, 05:37
Decades after its introduction, email is still growing. However, email is no longer the quickest way to communicate thanks to the Twitters and Facebooks of…
October 9, 2009, 07:27
People are no longer the voracious online ads clickers they once were. People click only half many times as they used to two years back. But what is saving the…
October 7, 2009, 05:02
I’m sorry I really don’t agree to what is given here. Makes for a good read though. Which of the websites bring in visitors that is most valuable? Chitika…
October 6, 2009, 12:39
Two websites I use the most when it comes to discovering new content online are Google and Wikipedia. It is so easy to directly jump to the ‘What is’ part of…
October 1, 2009, 07:06
Internet penetration will grow by over 8 percentage points over the next five years in Canada as we witness a broadband boom. Here are the projected number of…
September 30, 2009, 08:41
FCC in a report on the broadband stimulus plan released some info that will reveal the state of internet in the United States. Here are a few stats from the…
September 30, 2009, 07:33
Where do you head to learn more about a breaking news? Here are the most popular websites for current events and live news updates, marked by unique visitors…
September 30, 2009, 07:26
We recently saw Yahoo Finance leading the pack in the list of the most popular investment news websites. Where do the visitors head from there? Here is the top…
September 30, 2009, 07:16
This is not necessarily the best automotive websites around, but surely is the most popular in terms of the number of unique visitors each of these websites…
September 29, 2009, 10:00
It was only last week that MySpace enabled two-way syncing to update statuses between MySpace and Twitter, and the shotr links from MySpace are already the…
September 29, 2009, 08:51
When it comes to online videos, there is none to beat Youtube. However, MySpace has nurtured its own small niche and has a loyal following of video viewers.…
September 29, 2009, 08:42
Youtube which contributes to 99% of all online videos served by Google along with Google Video has now crossed the 10 billion videos watched per month mark.…
September 29, 2009, 08:24
More and more TV channels have started promoting their websites as well. Not only does it give them access to many more eyeballs, but is also an additional…
September 29, 2009, 08:16
Mocospace is among the most popular websites on the mobile phone with nearly 1 in 5 users accessing the site from mobile phones. Here are the top ten mobile…
September 26, 2009, 12:32
A Hitwise report on the most popular community based organization websites in USA shows a good share of websites that are popular among the visitors. Here are…
September 26, 2009, 08:40
Time Magazine released a recent list of the Internet’s most useful websites for 2009. I am surprised Delicious is still hanging in there. It no doubt, is…
September 25, 2009, 08:18
When traffic to entire web properties can show the health of the website traffic, the visit to the homepages of portals show the brand recognition of these…
September 25, 2009, 08:03
Facebook has beaten Google for the top spot in the latest release of the most popular websites on the mobile internet in UK. Here is the top ten list 1.…
September 25, 2009, 08:00
Google still rules the internet, wired or wireless. In the recent list of the most popular mobile internet websites in the USA, two of Google’s properties rank…
September 25, 2009, 07:53
The new list released by Opera for its browser mini reveals the most popular websites in India on the mobile phones. But yes, no surprises here for the most…
September 24, 2009, 09:32
It is a nobrainer that .com is the most popular among all the top level domain names. But how popular are the other TLDs like .net, .info, .biz apart from the…
September 24, 2009, 09:24
The number of domain names that had been increasing at a terrific pace over the past few years has now started to show stabilize. Total number of internet…
September 24, 2009, 08:53
A slightly old report, but nevertheless important to know what percent of physicians actually think Internet is vital to their professional practice. There are…
September 22, 2009, 09:00
With so many Twitter apps present now, you would expect lots and lots of people to be tweeting every move that they make. But hardly 27% of the people write…
September 19, 2009, 06:45
In a month long study of the behavior of the American internet users to reading online newspapers, here are the results: Unique visitors : 70.3 million i.e.…
September 19, 2009, 06:37
Sweden and Netherlands are among the European countries with the highest internet usage (measured in terms of the percent of the population who access internet…
September 18, 2009, 07:58
For a moment, I wondered if I should make the topic as ‘Average time wasted’, then realized there is also a Google search engine and so it cannot be strictly…
September 18, 2009, 07:30
Content websites seem to be the place where people hang out the most times. In a study of how time spend on the various websites have changed over the years…
September 14, 2009, 09:31
This cannot be strictly taken as reflecting the behavior of all Indian Internet users. But a study of a small sample size of 205 college goers revealed the…
September 14, 2009, 08:12
The number of users on Twitter just keeps growing by the day. A new study predicts that the number of Twitter users from USA will cross the 25 million mark by…
September 12, 2009, 08:15
I’ve always loved browsing the web from my computer; and never really liked using the mobile phone for browsing. Most people using smartphones don’t think so,…
September 10, 2009, 09:23
Online TV viewership is seeing a terrific growth and more people are now choosing to watch TV online. Here are the most popular ways by which these viewers…
September 10, 2009, 09:19
More and more people are choosing to watch TV online at their preferred timing and not the conventional ‘appointment’ way. Here are a few stats in this…
September 9, 2009, 10:07
Bit.ly has finally bit off the leadership from TinyURL in the URL shortening category. Here is a traffic comparison in terms of unique visitors from US on a…
September 9, 2009, 09:59
Is Digg.com finally reviving itself? One year back, they laid off 10% of the workforce in a struggle to achieve profitability. Here are a look at the growth…
September 9, 2009, 09:25
Blackberry is increasingly being used as the preferred mobile medium for accessing the web. Here are stats to corroborate the growth: 14% of all mobile web…
September 9, 2009, 09:08
Wikia is a poorer cousin of Wikipedia in terms of website traffic, but should be adding more money to the treasury considering Wikia is a commercial venture.…
September 3, 2009, 09:34
A survey of the broadband internet users (the main competition to mobile internet videos) reveals the following interesting information: 10% of broadband…
September 3, 2009, 09:04
Yelp seems to be growing while CitySearch has stopped doing so! Monthly Unique visitors (July 2009) Yelp : 8.6 million (80% YoY) CitySearch : 15.4 million (0%…
September 1, 2009, 09:06
USA leads the public Wi-Fi hotspots race by a huge margin. The country has 67,420 hotspots, more than double of the country that is second, China (28,678…
August 28, 2009, 06:36
This is making a bit of news today because the first domain name to be ever registered has just changed its ownership. The domain name is Symbolics.com Registe…
August 27, 2009, 08:41
Can you imagine that the most popular video on Youtube has been watched close to half a billion times! Here are the top five most popular Youtube videos of all…
August 25, 2009, 09:37
Search for Jessica Biel and there is a 20% chance of you landing at a site which is loaded with trojans, viruses or spyware. Here is the newest list of the…
August 25, 2009, 09:05
The number of American internet users who will access from the mobile phones is surging ahead and the rate of growth is also projected to increase over the…
August 22, 2009, 08:59
Social media is the number one category when it comes to websites being blocked at office. Here are the most prominent sites and the percent companies having…
August 22, 2009, 08:06
The times of recession are good times for online job boards to get a lot of traffic on board. But what is to be seen is how much revenue can be made out of it…
August 20, 2009, 10:05
The internet usage has grown, but that has been at the cost of other activities like watching TV or reading a magazine offline. Here’s how the hours spent on…
August 20, 2009, 08:42
It is not readership that is affecting newspapers, it is the advertising. That much is clear with the new report on the online newspaper usage among American…
August 18, 2009, 10:04
India loves Google. That’s evident in this top ten list where 4 out of 10 are Google properties. Here is the top 10: 1. Google 2. Yahoo 3. Gmail 4. Orkut 5.…
August 18, 2009, 09:55
It is no news that the internet penetration in India is below abysmal. A Juxt Consult report only makes it look worse: Families using internet at home : 6.5…
August 18, 2009, 09:06
The Googles and Facebooks are omnipresent. Ignoring them for the list of popular websites, here is the list of the most visited native sites in Malaysia: 1.…
August 17, 2009, 12:05
The most popular website by uniques is commonly available. But how about usage time? Facebook clearly gets the edge being the social network that it is. A…
August 14, 2009, 08:57
The internet penetration into European households has been on a steady rise. Here is the list of percent households with overall internet access in Europe. 200…
August 5, 2009, 15:46
There might not be too much of a surprise in this top 10 list. However it might heartening for a Facebook fan to see it climb to the fourth position in this…
August 2, 2009, 16:15
A survey conducted by Tata Consultancy Services among 14000 kids in the 12 biggest cities of India shows the following interesting statistics: 93% of students…
May 8, 2009, 15:11
At what rate is the number of websites on the Internet growing? It has picked up terrific pace in the past couple of years. Here is the rate of growth since…
April 2, 2009, 15:01
The following numbers are taken from the ‘State of the Internet’ report by Akamai technologies which can be downloaded here. It is India’s ranking in terms of…
March 27, 2009, 16:40
Singapore internet users spend more than 50 percent of their online time on social and entertainment websites. Here is a list of the most popular website…
January 24, 2009, 14:23
Internet population worldwide reached a landmark 1 billion figure this week. Here is the top fifteen nations in terms of the number of Internet users: 1.…
January 19, 2009, 13:41
At what rate is the Internet growing? According to a Chinese research, the internet doubles in size every 5.32 years.The study was conducted retrospectively…
December 21, 2008, 14:48
Facebook is increasingly engaging the users more compared to Google. Here are a few crunchies on what users on Facebook are upto: Average friends per user :…
December 8, 2008, 14:09
We all know .com is the most popular TLD in the world. But you will be mistaken if you thought .net and .org follow .com in terms of popularity. Here are the…
December 6, 2008, 15:16
According to numbers released by Opera Mini, South Africa ranks sixth in the world and Egypt tenth with respect to the number of Opera Mini users. The growth…
November 22, 2008, 14:21
Online videos are set to boom with the increasing of the internet population taking to viewing them. Here is a projection of the percent of internet population…
November 14, 2008, 17:31
A significantly huge percent of teens and nearly half the kids have access to Internet in the United States. Nearly 82% of teens (aged 12-17) shall use the…
November 12, 2008, 18:41
An Internet addict is officially considered a ‘clinical disorder’ by the Chinese Health Ministry. It depends on the number of hours an Internet user spends…
November 10, 2008, 14:50
Over 30 percent of China’s net users access the internet from their mobile phones. Mobile Phone subscriber base in China : 616 million Number of Internet…
November 3, 2008, 14:08
If you were charged a month for all the present day free content on the web, which one would you be most willing to pay? A Rubicon Consulting research on…
June 29, 2008, 12:42
Here are some interesting statistics on the internet usage in France: Internet Penetration : 52% Number of households with Internet connection : 13.5 million…
June 26, 2008, 06:44
In absolute numbers, India ranks fourth in the world when it comes to the number of Internet users. But in penetration terms, Indians lag way behind others at…
May 30, 2008, 19:38
The number of internet users in England is set to increase from the current 36.8 million to 42.8 million by 2012. The percent broadband connection is also set…
May 19, 2008, 13:22
The blogosphere has always been critical of the Chinese government’s censorship of content online. Surprisingly, most Chinese surveyed are okay with the way…
May 9, 2008, 08:58
Here is a list of the most popular internet companies in Japan for the month of March 2008: 1. Yahoo 2. Google 3. Rakuten Inc. 4. Microsoft 5. FC2 Inc. 6. NTT…
May 1, 2008, 10:37
The recent study by Internet World Stats has come up with the number of internet users around the world as on March 31, 2008. This stands at 1,355,110,631.…
April 26, 2008, 18:59
China is now tied with United States for the top spot. The number of web users from both the countries now stands at 221 million. China’s web user base has…
April 19, 2008, 10:43
With the current Internet Infrastructure, the internet is expected to reach its full capacity by 2010. Today, videos account for 30 percent of internet…
March 25, 2008, 18:10
This statistic is based on the most gains made by websites in terms of the number of unique visitors (in thousands) against the same numbers in January…
March 19, 2008, 17:36
US used to account for 66 percent of the world’s internet users back in 1996. Now it is just 21 percen. The percent change in the number of users over the past…
March 5, 2008, 18:49
Debit cards come before Driving licenses. 13% of the kids shop online! Here is all that they did: Played Online games – 78.1% Homework – 34.2% Music -…
February 26, 2008, 18:07
For the seventh straight quarter, Facebook continues to be the hottest spot for American college goers. Here is the top 10 list: Men 1. Facebook 2. ESPN 3.…
February 20, 2008, 19:33
The top European countries with high online buyer penetration are Denmark – 55% Holland – 55% Sweden – 53% UK – 53% Germany – 52% Finland – 48% France – 35%
February 19, 2008, 17:53
There were totally 1319 million Internet users by the end of 2007. Compare this with the number of users at the end of 2000 – 361 million users. That is a…
February 15, 2008, 18:18
Over 60 percent of the English population logged onto the Internet in 2007. This percentage is steadily increasing over the years. In 2007, an average of 37…
February 9, 2008, 09:14
The website growth started to pick up from 1995. In April 2000, there were around 15.6 million sites. By January 2008, this number has grown to 155.5 milion.…
February 5, 2008, 13:32
A recent study shows that the gap between what the children do online and what their parents get to know is widening. A few excerpts from the study are – 30%…
January 24, 2008, 12:02
Last.FM from CBS is supported by advertising. The service has access to over 3.5 million songs from four major labels and open to other independent labels…
January 24, 2008, 11:53
A 2005 study by Motion Picture Association of America found that illegal downloading of movies online was an astounding 44 percent. Students from college…
January 23, 2008, 07:23
Average number of languages for the top 10 global brands : 30 Only 37% of American websites do not provide content in other major languages Websites that…
January 23, 2008, 07:14
Internet is seemingly a better place for women to seek health information than even family and friends. The percent of respondents seeking health information…
January 18, 2008, 13:37
Around a quarter of the American population still do not have access to internet. Broadband at home : 55 percent Dial up at home : 13 percent Broadband at…
January 18, 2008, 13:18
Do you think Google is trustworthy? More and more people have begun to distrust information provided by Search Engines. Only 51 percent of people in 2007 trust…
January 18, 2008, 13:10
China is slated to overtake USA as the largest Internet market in terms of the number of users. The Chinese internet market rose to 53% to 210 million at the…
January 17, 2008, 12:55
Number (in millions) of Asian Americans online: 2006 : 10.2 2007 : 10.9 2008 : 11.6 2009 : 12.3 2010 : 13 2011 : 13.7 A majority of Asian Americans are…
January 16, 2008, 17:06
You might think it is not pervasive enough, and study shows the same. Mobile Internet is still in the infancy stages. However, 40 percent of all mobile users…
January 16, 2008, 12:44
Amongst the American consumer of Health and Beauty tips, over 63 percent research the product online before making the purchase. Owing to this, the ad spending…
January 15, 2008, 08:01
The top 10 websites in terms of the page views for 2007: 1. MySpace 2. Yahoo 3. Google 4. Microsoft 5. Time Warner 6. Facebook 7. eBay 8. Craigslist 9.…
January 13, 2008, 08:45
According to the Comscore rating released for December: 1. AOL Finance – 13.5 million unique visitors 2. Yahoo – 13.2 million unique visitors 3. MSN Money -…
January 13, 2008, 08:18
Here is a list of ‘slow and inaccessible’ website rating by WatchMouse based on Site Performance Index (SPI). Lower the SPI, the better: Facebook – 6629 Vox -…
January 1, 2008, 14:30
Public Libraries are visited by over 53 percent of the Americans. Of these, the majority of the Generation Y (18 to 30 years) made use of the computer…
December 28, 2007, 15:18
38% Americans watch Television shows online 36% use Cellphones for entertainment purposes 45% are involved in creating Social web content 62% of millennials(13-…
December 28, 2007, 11:29
90 percent of Japanese own a mobile handset. 40 percent of this population use mobile phones to surf internet. Population of Japanese using the Internet : 89.1…
December 27, 2007, 18:35
NO. The online coupon market is indeed growing, but at a very sluggish pace The number of visitors to online coupon websites in October 2006 : 19.1 million The…
December 27, 2007, 10:47
The following is the Ad-impressions that the online campaigning of the US Prez candidates generated through 2007 Romney 103.8 million John McCain 94.6…
December 27, 2007, 10:25
Unique Japanese visitors to Yahoo properties : 41 million (August) Unique Japanese visitors to Google properties : 31 million (August) Search Engine market…
December 26, 2007, 19:34
Yahoo has around 1084 subsites. Among them the top subsites in popularity terms are Yahoo.com Yahoo Homepages Yahoo Mail Yahoo Search Yahoo US Mail Yahoo US…
December 26, 2007, 15:44
62.5 items were ordered on Amazon every second on December 10. The best sellers at Amazon from November 15 to December 19 are Toys : Jakks EyeClops Bionic…
December 25, 2007, 21:39
Popularity of each of these mail accounts: Hotmail : 47 million unique visitors (April) AOL : 42.3 million unique visitors (April) Gmail : 90 million (approx.…
December 25, 2007, 07:39
The study shows Online TV works better for advertisers. and the producers alike 47% of the people feel more engaged with Online TV ads 25% of the people are…
December 24, 2007, 20:10
From November 2006 to November 2007, the traffic on Ask.com has increased from 29.8 million visitors to 46 million visitors. This is after 0 million was…
December 24, 2007, 14:18
Taiwan by all means. Except for Haucha village which is damaged due to Typhoon, the whole country has now access to high speed internet connectivity. Taiwan…
December 24, 2007, 07:56
They are indeed gaining lot of popularity this festive season. Users at Hallmark send 300 million ecards every year. American Greetings had a 10 percent…
December 23, 2007, 21:55
Digg and Reddit are two most popular social news aggregation websites. Digg Received 11 million page views in November 2006 and this had increased by 318…
December 23, 2007, 21:45
Comscore reports a very dismal picture. Netscape.com was launched as a social voting alternative to Digg in mid 2006. Here is the traffic at different points…
December 23, 2007, 21:35
Australia recently announced new censorship laws from Jan 20, 2008. If the content is for mature audiences, the website has to verify age of the viewers…
December 23, 2007, 09:46
You had always thought about it right? Well, till now, Mozilla owned two things: Firefox – browser Thunderbird – email Now, they are also adding a new web…
December 22, 2007, 10:48
Retail firms topped the rankings for customer respect index, measured to see the customer service levels on the web. Overstock.com was ranked Number 1. Now why…
December 21, 2007, 06:58
Here is the list of the fastest growing websites in France for November. Social networking on top, as usual. Growth percent shown adjacent to the website…
December 21, 2007, 06:32
The online ad spending in Germany is expected to grow at double digits till 2010. It grew 79% in 2006 and over 37% in 2007 (in € terms). Online ad spending…
December 20, 2007, 19:51
No. According to the Federal Wire Wager Act, unregulated commercial gambling is prohibited throughout United States. This has cost the Big 3 of internet to…
December 20, 2007, 07:23
The UK internet population seems to be ageing. Under 25 year olds Percent share in 2006 : 29% Percent share in 2007 : 25% This is a relative drop of 16% Aged…
December 20, 2007, 07:09
An increasing number of them! 65 percent of American adults watch them online compared to just 42 percent same time last year. 42% of Youtube users are…
December 19, 2007, 20:27
The Forbes released its list of the celebrities on the web 1. Perez Hilton 2. Michael Arrington 3. Mark Frauenfelder 4. Seth Godin 5. Cory Doctorow 6.…
December 18, 2007, 14:03
Here is a head to head comparison of the European and American markets: 2006 Europe : €8 billion US : €12.8 billion Difference : €4.8 billion 2007 Europ…
December 18, 2007, 13:49
The global study certainly thinks so. Nearly 50 percent of Web site decision makers worldwide translate their website content to another language in order to…
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- Digg for Sale by: Anand
December 18, 2007, 13:37
Digg might be looking to sell their social news website. Asking price: 0 million Investment Banker: Allen & Company
December 17, 2007, 11:22
Ego Surfing: The act of searching your own name on Search Engines. This has almost doubled in five years. 22% of users ‘googled’ their own name back in 2002.…
December 15, 2007, 14:00
In US, 65 percent of all searches are done on Google; three times more than the searches made on Yahoo. Amongst these searches, the key demographics are Health…
December 15, 2007, 13:43
A full workday every week on an average is spent surfing the internet! The time spent online for one full work-week : 7.8 hours This amounts to almost 31…
December 15, 2007, 13:21
Food brands dominate this category. The top 5 consumer packaged goods websites in terms of unique visitors in the third quarter of 2007 are: Kraftfoods.com -…
December 7, 2007, 18:23
Radicati group estimates that Current number of installed base lines : 92 million Estimated number of installed base lines by 2011 : 118 million Estimated…
December 6, 2007, 14:59
What else would you say if I were to tell you that more than 25 percent of internet surfing at work is unrelated to work? So what do people do online apart…
December 5, 2007, 10:02
Population of American baby boomers using internet in 2006: 58.2 million Estimated population of Baby boomers using internet in 2011: 68.3 million The…
December 4, 2007, 11:22
Total number of internet users in India at present : 40 million Estimated number of internet users by 2010: 100 million Broadband users in India at present:…
December 4, 2007, 11:13
Percentage households having access to internet: 54 percent (49% in 2006) Percentage of Broadband users: 42 percent Country with most online users: Netherlands…
December 3, 2007, 14:41
Internet ad spend is increasing. The spending on internet ads will surpass radio ads by 2008. It shall overtake Magazine ads by 2010. Share of internet in the…
December 3, 2007, 07:03
October traffic to the campaign sites of the US Presidential candidates (in terms of unique visitors): HillaryClinton.com : 300,000 RonPaul2008.com :…
December 3, 2007, 06:40
Following is the internet penetration levels in some countries of South East Asia. The population of the country is in brackets. Vietnam : 20 percent (85…
November 9, 2007, 09:51
The Gay, lesbian. Bisexual and Transgender market is grouped as “GLBT”. GLBT market in US: 15 million Purchasing Power of GLBT: 0 billion American GLBT…
November 2, 2007, 17:24
eMarketer report on the population of Hispanic Americans: Number of Hispanic Americans online in 2006: 17.5 million Number of Hispanic Americans online in…
October 31, 2007, 10:46
Yes. It’s a BIG market. Casual Games Association report states: Revenues generated in casual games per year: .5 Billion Growth rate of the casual games…
October 28, 2007, 21:19
Internet penetration in Russia is now getting to a level that has got the Kremlin wary of the cyberspace. Internet penetration among adults in 2002 …
April 29, 2010, 06:51
International bandwidth usage has been growing at close to 60% year over year in the past 3 years. This explains the mammoth rise from consumption of close to…
April 27, 2010, 12:27
This may not be a very recent study. Published in October 2009, the ITIF Broadband rankings study looked into the average broadband speeds and cost in…
April 19, 2010, 07:37
Few months back, a study published by SpeedMatters.org listed down the American states with the highest measured broadband connectivity speed. Now, in a…
March 26, 2010, 05:10
How equipped are the various countries to use their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure to an economic advantage? In its recently…
February 6, 2010, 05:52
Internet through fiber broadband cables is growing very fast and nearly 84% of the world’s fiber broadband connections from Asia Pacific; predominantly from…
January 18, 2010, 04:03
Europe and East Asia are regions with the highest broadband speed. The state of internet report by Akamai puts the average global internet speed at 1.7 Mbps…
December 26, 2009, 04:24
A recent study commissioned by FCC into the state of internet in USA show that there is a heavy disparity between the rural and urban areas when it comes to…
December 25, 2009, 05:47
Most of the broadband rankings published are with respect to either the penetration levels (subscriber count) or by speed. However, another important parameter…
December 24, 2009, 04:27
As Om Malik of GigaOm puts it, this past decade from 1999 to 2009 has been the Decade of broadband. The change in internet landscape since then has largely…
December 14, 2009, 04:39
The American government had instituted a broadband stimulus funding to bridge the digital divide between the haves and have-nots. But is the supply sufficient…
December 12, 2009, 05:52
Here is a comprehensive list of broadband penetration as percentage of total households across Europe for 2009. The study about internet usage was conducted by…
December 8, 2009, 05:41
Do dial-up internet connections still exist? Yes, they do and they are not going away anytime soon. The number of dial up connections out of total internet…
November 20, 2009, 05:55
An exclusive iPhone deal has been a double-edged sword for carriers like AT&T and O2. While the craze for iPhone meant that their customer base grew at a…
October 21, 2009, 06:12
Cisco recently studies 20 ISPs around the world to study the average internet consumption among the global households. The study shows some interesting…
October 19, 2009, 04:40
In a study across the million busiest websites on the internet for the month of October 2009, here are the market share of the different web server developers …
September 9, 2009, 09:53
DSL has been king for quite sometime in the broadband market and continues to remain so. Here are the market shares of the various broadband infrastructure…
September 3, 2009, 09:28
Home networks are growing slow in the USA, but this can still be an opportunity. Here are some excerpts from a Forrester report: American Households with home…
September 1, 2009, 08:59
There has been a 9% growth in the total number of wi-fi hotspots worldwide. Here are the top five countries in terms of the number of public Wi-Fi hotspots: 1.…
September 1, 2009, 08:42
How desperate are you to access internet while on board? Will you skip your meal to have internet access? 71% would seemingly do so. Will you defer your travel…
August 26, 2009, 09:15
Delaware is the American state with the fastest broadband speed which is almost twice the national average. But there are other states where broadband is not…
August 26, 2009, 09:05
The average download speed in USA is 5.07 mbps; that’s 28th when it comes to world rankings where the top spot is held by countries like South Korea, Japan,…
August 24, 2009, 08:36
Wi-Fi has now become indispensible in the lives of many people. Here is how often people connect to Wi-Fi networks from laptops: Very often : 42% Daily :…
August 14, 2009, 09:09
The number of broadband internet connections set up by Comcast in the second quarter of 2009 more than halved in comparison to the corresponding number in…
August 11, 2009, 16:26
Email marketing is a medium with high ROI due to the volume of targets reached. However, there is also a lot of spill since a large number of messages conveyed…
May 28, 2009, 15:16
Broadband is set to penetrate higher into the developing countries that include India, China and Brazil. These countries are expected to boost the broadband…
March 18, 2009, 14:38
Mobile broadband which comprises of 3G technologies like W-CDMA, HSPA, CDMA 2000 and EVDO is on the rise to popularity and the number of connections is bound…
March 10, 2009, 14:28
The broadband penetration in Argentina is booming and is expected to continue so for the next few years. Here is a projection of the broadband penetration in…
January 24, 2009, 14:37
Here is the Forbes’ Top ten list of the American cities with the most internet connectivity: 1. Seattle 2. Atlanta 3. Washington DC 4. Orlando 5. Boston 6.…
November 23, 2008, 06:47
In 1998, there were 57,200 broadband subscribers worldwide. In ten years, this number has grown exponentially to reach 400 million. The growth rate of…
November 8, 2008, 15:03
Fiber LAN connections are the most popular ways to connect to the Internet in the Orient. Here is the rank of the top ten countries with fibre broadband…
October 10, 2008, 14:44
China and USA were tied at 78 million broadband lines in the end of August. However, the rate of growth in USA has been slower than China. The number of new…
May 6, 2008, 07:30
The telecommunications market in France was deregulated in 2004 and the numbers have grown exponentially since then. In March 2007, 56.5 percent of the total…
May 5, 2008, 09:52
The subscribers per household of the top ten countries in terms of broadband connectivity is listed below. Conspicuous by its absence is USA which is at number…
May 1, 2008, 11:08
Broadband networks are accelerating at break-neck speeds. Here is a list of the top broadband speeds available in USA: 1. CableVision : Upto 50 Mbps (downstrea…
April 12, 2008, 11:21
Here are few numbers on the number of subscribers of IPTV, VOIP and Broadband: IPTV: 2007 – 12.5 million 2012 – 61.1 million VOIP: 2007 – 69.6 million 2012 -…
March 24, 2008, 17:53
A recent study by the European commission puts US behind eight European countries when it comes to household broadband deployment. Denmark, Finland, Netherlands…
March 8, 2008, 11:51
Broadband: Broadband grew at a rate of 28.6 percent in September 2006. By March 2007, this growth rate had become 18.5 percent. For the six months ending…
March 5, 2008, 16:43
In Ireland, it is still difficult to set up a broadband connection at home – a lot of phone calls and appointment scheduling at that. This explains the…
February 7, 2008, 06:40
Five cables have now been cut under sea in the middle east. The cumulative number of internet users to be affected by this cut is around 85 million. They are…
February 6, 2008, 18:12
Here are a few facts about Broadband connections in UK: There are 15 million households with broadband in UK now The households contribute billion…
January 31, 2008, 07:05
“It is not about how much you have connected, but what you do with it” – This is the underlying fact of the study conducted to look into how the broadband and…
January 25, 2008, 09:37
American Broadband users surf the internet more regularly than their Dial up counterparts. BROADBAND Daily usage : 65% 3-5 times a week : 16% 1-2 times a week…
December 24, 2007, 14:18
Taiwan by all means. Except for Haucha village which is damaged due to Typhoon, the whole country has now access to high speed internet connectivity. Taiwan…
December 7, 2007, 18:23
Radicati group estimates that Current number of installed base lines : 92 million Estimated number of installed base lines by 2011 : 118 million Estimated…
November 10, 2007, 08:57
American Broadband market is slowing down. In fact, they are falling. Taking into account the four regional players alone – Embarq Citizens CenturyTel WindStre…
October 27, 2007, 20:31
How much did Earthlink post in revenues? The third quarter that ended September 30, 2007 resulted in revenues of 8.8 million. The operational loss was…
April 12, 2010, 05:48
When Bing was launched in the middle of last year, it was touted to be a “decision engine” – a tag that Microsoft sought to differentiate their website from…
April 10, 2010, 05:32
Microsoft is the second largest private employer in the American state of Washington and its impact on the local economy cannot be underestimated. A recent…
February 6, 2010, 04:54
Microsoft continues to dominate the desktop and laptop operating system space with close to 92% market share for its Windows suite of operating system. Eight…
January 30, 2010, 04:22
Windows Operating System remains the most critical part of Microsoft’s business despite the several new businesses Redmond has ventured into of late. Here are…
December 24, 2009, 05:06
Microsoft acquired Hotmail from Sabeer Bhatia in 1997 and since then competition from the likes of Gmail and Yahoo Mail has meant the Hotmail is no longer as…
August 12, 2009, 07:24
Razorfish, the advertising agency that belonged to Microsoft has been acquired by Publicis Groupe. Here are the details regarding the deal: Value of the deal…
December 4, 2008, 16:05
Windows fell below the 90 percent mark for the very first time in October. Here is the share of the top three operating systems on the web: Windows :…
January 25, 2008, 09:41
Microsoft has made a 38 percent increase quarter-on-quarter in the latest update. Online Advertising revenue in the fourth quarter of 2006 : 3 million Onlin…
January 13, 2008, 08:45
According to the Comscore rating released for December: 1. AOL Finance – 13.5 million unique visitors 2. Yahoo – 13.2 million unique visitors 3. MSN Money -…
January 1, 2008, 21:42
Here is the latest market share of the different Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP : 76.97% Windows Vista : 10.43% MacIntel : 4.01% Mac OS : 3.28% Windows…
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December 28, 2007, 21:31
This comparison is solely for the Christmas day 2007. Market share of visits to Zune increased by 392% compared to the previous day Market share of visits to…
December 25, 2007, 21:39
Popularity of each of these mail accounts: Hotmail : 47 million unique visitors (April) AOL : 42.3 million unique visitors (April) Gmail : 90 million (approx.…
December 20, 2007, 19:51
No. According to the Federal Wire Wager Act, unregulated commercial gambling is prohibited throughout United States. This has cost the Big 3 of internet to…
December 11, 2007, 17:04
For the month of October, the market shares (in percent terms) are as follows: Google (55%) Yahoo (19%) Microsoft (14%) AOL (4%) Ask (3%)
October 30, 2007, 06:28
Looks like Google pushed MS to do so by engaging in a bid war though Google was uninterested in Facebook. Microsoft acquired 1.6 percent stake valuing Facebook…
October 27, 2007, 21:02
For the first quarter, Microsoft made revenue of .6 billion. Net income of Microsoft was .29 billion (@
.45 per share). Microsoft Business Division…
February 24, 2010, 06:03
The GK-inclined would probably know that Symbolics.com is the oldest registered domain name in the world. Here is the list of the 25 oldest .com websites in…
December 3, 2009, 04:25
Facebook has hit the 350 million users mark for its social network recently. The website started out in 2004 and while it took close to 4 years to get its…
October 20, 2009, 04:14
It’s a milestone day for the social network Twitter. On November 12,2008 – Twitter crossed the 1 billion tweet mark By October 19, 2009 – Twitter had…
August 18, 2009, 09:26
The English Wikipedia is the the largest section among the different languages on Wikipedia. It recently reached the milestone of the three millionth article. …
August 12, 2009, 12:11
LinkedIn has had a fantastic year. They have been profitable for two years straight. Number of registered users in June 2008 : 7.7 million Number of registered…
April 2, 2009, 17:02
Netflix has been operational since 1999. It recently shipped the 2 billionth DVD to its customer. The DVD was of Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Netflix has…
May 1, 2008, 20:57
Nearly one third of the online population in UK has taken to online banking. The number now stands at 10.9 million. The bank with the most online customers was…
April 24, 2008, 19:09
In 30 years, SeaGate became the first manufacturer to ship One Billion hard drives. The first SeaGate hard drive made in 1979 could store 5 MB of data. Since…
March 30, 2008, 18:16
Wikipedia reached a milestone 10 million articles recently. The article was a Hungarian article about a sixteenth century painter Nicholas Hilliard. English,…
March 19, 2008, 15:28
Not surprisingly, this list is headed by Google. The list of the highest ad revenue gains or losses over the previous year in descending order: Google – .6…
March 12, 2008, 19:21
32 million online quotes for auto insurance were requested through 2007. This helped in the purchase of a record 2 million policies overall through the…
February 22, 2008, 18:33
Firefox has now been downloaded 500,000,000 times. This is a milestone for the browser that now has a regular users base of over 150 million users. The site…
January 24, 2008, 12:06
In the final quarter of 2007, Netflix added 451,000 new customers to its online DVD rental service Earned .8 million or 24 cents per share Now, Netflix…
January 23, 2008, 14:16
The game now has 10 million paying subscribers worldwide. This includes 5.5 million players in Asia, 2.5 million in the US and 2 million in Europe. The…
January 23, 2008, 07:42
Around .5 million (5 percent of the total Presidential Campaign Spending) shall be spent in 2008 on the Internet. Another .1 million shall be spent by…
January 22, 2008, 13:38
The top ten websites in terms of the number of unique visitors from Canada for the month of December 2007 are: 1. Microsoft 2. Google 3. Yahoo 4. Facebook 5.…
January 16, 2008, 12:33
The top 10 categories that attracted the maximum traffic for the month of December: 1. Fragrances/Cosmetics 2. Consumer Goods 3. Jewelry/Luxury Goods/Accessori…
January 16, 2008, 11:30
The site was launched in November and it has already reached one million users. The reach is made by way of providing embeddable widgets. Next in line is a…
January 15, 2008, 17:34
October 2007 marked the highest perpetration of spam emails. According to Commtouch, the Global Spam levels during this month reached an astounding 96 percent…
January 15, 2008, 08:27
The period between September and October was taken as the base period for the study. Dec 3 – Dec 9 resulted in a 38 percent increase in shopping in UK and 45…
January 15, 2008, 08:01
The top 10 websites in terms of the page views for 2007: 1. MySpace 2. Yahoo 3. Google 4. Microsoft 5. Time Warner 6. Facebook 7. eBay 8. Craigslist 9.…
December 28, 2007, 21:24
The list of 25 products are 1. Google Gears 2. Apple iPhone 3. One Laptop per Child OLPC XO Notebook 4. Apple Time Machine, in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) 5.…
December 28, 2007, 20:48
AOL that acquired Netscape in November 1998 shall stop development work on the Netscape Navigator browser from February 1, 2008. This shall mark the end of the…
December 26, 2007, 19:34
Yahoo has around 1084 subsites. Among them the top subsites in popularity terms are Yahoo.com Yahoo Homepages Yahoo Mail Yahoo Search Yahoo US Mail Yahoo US…
December 26, 2007, 15:44
62.5 items were ordered on Amazon every second on December 10. The best sellers at Amazon from November 15 to December 19 are Toys : Jakks EyeClops Bionic…
December 24, 2007, 20:10
From November 2006 to November 2007, the traffic on Ask.com has increased from 29.8 million visitors to 46 million visitors. This is after 0 million was…
December 24, 2007, 14:18
Taiwan by all means. Except for Haucha village which is damaged due to Typhoon, the whole country has now access to high speed internet connectivity. Taiwan…
December 24, 2007, 08:04
Which of the two is doing better? Facebook Opened to all in September 2006. Traffic multiplied six times over since then. Current user base : 59 million Projec…
December 23, 2007, 21:55
Digg and Reddit are two most popular social news aggregation websites. Digg Received 11 million page views in November 2006 and this had increased by 318…
December 23, 2007, 21:45
Comscore reports a very dismal picture. Netscape.com was launched as a social voting alternative to Digg in mid 2006. Here is the traffic at different points…
December 22, 2007, 18:24
The traffic is still as much growing as it had been all along. Overall growth has been 22.42 percent. Gainers iGoogle : 267.64% Book search : 54.66% Gmail :…
December 22, 2007, 10:48
Retail firms topped the rankings for customer respect index, measured to see the customer service levels on the web. Overstock.com was ranked Number 1. Now why…
December 21, 2007, 06:58
Here is the list of the fastest growing websites in France for November. Social networking on top, as usual. Growth percent shown adjacent to the website…
December 19, 2007, 20:23
That’s a mammoth .2 Billion!! Number of victims in 2007 : 3.6 million Average loss per incident : 6 Most spoofed portals : Paypal and eBay
December 19, 2007, 19:52
As the American Presidential elections draw near, the number of spams related to politics is likely to increase. And that’s for 2008. For 2007, here is the…
December 18, 2007, 14:03
Here is a head to head comparison of the European and American markets: 2006 Europe : €8 billion US : €12.8 billion Difference : €4.8 billion 2007 Europ…
December 11, 2007, 16:09
Jaxtr claims it is the one in its recent press release. That means, Jaxtr is ahead of Skype, Hotmail and ICQ when it comes to growth rate. Six months ago,…
December 10, 2007, 20:45
The subscriber numbers are increasing in leaps and bounds NYTimes.com : 19.4 million readers (181 million pageviews) BusinessWeek.com : 4.4 million readers WSJ…
December 10, 2007, 15:08
More than 18 percent from what was spent a year ago. Since November 1, the holiday spending on purchasing online has reached billion. The day with the…
November 3, 2007, 06:58
Mininova is a peer-to-peer BitTorrent site. It has reached a landmark 3 billion downloads. Daily visits to the site: 3 Million Daily downloads: 10 Million Min…
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April 2, 2010, 05:23
The growth in the global telecom market can be looked at from two angles : in terms of subscribers and in terms of revenues. Whereas the number of subscribers…
March 12, 2010, 05:29
According to a recent study by TeleNav, Walmart, Starbucks and Target are among the highest searched businesses on GPS in USA. The highest number of GPS…
March 1, 2010, 05:23
According to a study by Pew Internet, 59% of the American population access their news from a combination of offline and online news sources with 2% of readers…
February 24, 2010, 05:11
Cloud Security firm Zscaler recently released its ‘State of the Web’ report for Q4 ’09 which lists the top P2P file sharing websites in the world. One of the…
February 22, 2010, 05:59
According to a new study by Bitkom, digital music downloads off the computer are estimated to have reached 51 million by the end of 2009. This is at an average…
December 28, 2009, 04:51
The IT services market in India is projected to grow at a healthy CAGR over the next few years according to a study by SpringBoard research Indian IT…
December 10, 2009, 06:33
Mobile coupons are a small speck of the overall coupon “industry” in US and Canada. But like it has already happened in Japan, mobile couponing is likely to…
November 17, 2009, 04:01
Rupert Murdoch must be thinking of shifting base to Italy. The media baron’s obsession to get people to pay for online content is pretty well known and it now…
November 10, 2009, 05:19
What kind of promotional offers do customers expect from the online travel agents websites? A little study by About.com revealed the following results (based…
November 5, 2009, 05:36
The American mobile phone penetration is inching towards the 80% mark which shall be attained in the next 4-5 years. Here is the number of mobile phone…
October 19, 2009, 04:05
These are seemingly unrelated entities, but a recent study of over 20,000 email addresses and the corresponding credit scores showed what is plausible – free…
October 17, 2009, 05:23
Nokia’s one year free unlimited subscription – ‘Comes With Music’ has not had too many takers. The whole month of July just saw 107,000 active users worldwide.…
October 10, 2009, 06:23
It sounds unbelievable to me that one-third of Urban Indians own more than one mobile connection. Is it simply the name the connection is purchased with or…
October 6, 2009, 06:13
If you need any parameter to realize how irrelevant Twitter is to the lives of most people, here is one. First of all, the study shows close to 75% of Twitter…
October 2, 2009, 06:42
I really don’t know whether you can trust these numbers, especially when internet is said to be only 8.2% of all ad spending, which seems a little too low.…
October 1, 2009, 07:11
No surprises for the top spot at all. As it is the world over, Youtube reigns supreme with being the only player with a respectable market share. There is a…
September 24, 2009, 08:45
Most companies use web analytics merely to look at how many page views are being clocked by their web campaigns. But serious internet marketers look at more…
September 24, 2009, 08:08
White Spaces are those section of TV airwaves that have hitherto remain unused by any of the TV channels. The FCC had recently approved the usage of these…
September 22, 2009, 08:41
The ability to tweet from your mobile phone has meant that it is virtually accessible all times of the day and a lot many people tweet even while they are…
September 17, 2009, 07:09
Ranked by the number of visits in the month of August 2009, here are the top ten most visited automative classifieds websites in the USA. The marker share of…
September 15, 2009, 08:13
No matter you are a traveler who is curious to know what people research on before hitting on a vacation or a website guy who wants to know what’s hot, here’s…
September 12, 2009, 08:22
If you are a mobile phone website developer, what should you focus most on? Apparently, smartphone owners and feature phone owners have slightly different…
September 12, 2009, 08:03
There was Delicious, Reddit, Digg in the social bookmarking race. Now, they have all been relegated. This is such a finicky market. Here are the top ten social…
September 10, 2009, 10:27
How you behave on social networks can cost you a lucrative job if a new research study is to be believed. Here are some of the interesting outcomes from the…
September 9, 2009, 08:50
81 million of the total 195.5 million internet users in USA visit a government website every month. Here are the top five departments and their websites that…
August 31, 2009, 08:26
In July, 38 million people watched a video on Hulu. That’s a tad more than the viewership on Time Warner cable. Here is the viewership comparison of Hulu…
August 25, 2009, 08:28
Your followers on Twitter can influence your decision on which movie to go in the evening, and supposedly this helped Inglourious Basterds improve its box…
August 25, 2009, 08:12
Which has a higher pay off – Search Engine Optimization or Search Engine Marketing? The study needs to be comprehensive depending on how much you spend for…
August 20, 2009, 10:12
A major percent (51%) of the American households rely on the Sunday newspapers to scout for discount coupons. But email and mobile coupons are growing in…
August 19, 2009, 10:49
MySpace Music is one of the growing segments on MySpace. Here are a few little tidbits about the growth of the service since its launch in September 2008: Traf…
August 19, 2009, 10:42
When selecting URL shorteners, the speed of redirection to the main URL in question also becomes important. Here are the fastest URL shortners and the average…
August 18, 2009, 09:36
Revenues from ad sales are likely to see a decline in the coming few years as printed newspapers fight for survival with their digital counterparts. 2006 :…
August 18, 2009, 08:35
The job search market has changed dramatically with internet playing a huge role in the providing more effective ways to find a new job. Here is a ranking of…
August 15, 2009, 06:55
Sale of ringtone is one the crucial contributors to all revenues from mobile music. Other major contributors include full-track downloads and ringback tones.…
August 13, 2009, 08:33
Twitter is less as much about pointless babbling as it is about conversations. Here is a study to categorize tweets. The percent of spam looks smaller than…
August 12, 2009, 12:55
It was only in March that I had posted about market share of URL shortening services which was then led by TinyURL. Since then, Twitter changed to Bit.ly as…
June 24, 2009, 17:10
Facebook has more than 200 million users worldwide, and the most popular names on Facebook can be quite close to the most popular names worldwide. Mohammad is…
June 24, 2009, 16:57
Online newspapers in Germany attract close to 13 million readers on a monthly basis and they form close to one-third of the total German internet population.…
June 3, 2009, 14:58
There has not been any substantial increase in the box office revenues in the past decade in USA. Here are the American box office revenues from 1999 to 2008…
March 31, 2009, 15:06
URL shortening services are essentially websites that provide you with a smaller URL that you may substitute for long URLs that are difficult to be passed in…
February 27, 2009, 17:38
Quite a few prominent names missing from the survey of the “most popular” Indian websites. But among the websites considered for survey, here are the most user…
February 16, 2009, 14:09
There are 1.13 million lesser job requirements posted online in US for January 2009 compared to November 2008 taking the total number of job ads posted online…
February 16, 2009, 13:57
A high 35.58% of traffic to online travel portals came from search engines. The leader among them was, not surprisingly, Google. Here is the contribution of…
January 30, 2009, 17:38
Yahoo’s search engine market share in the United Kingdom has reached an all time low, also dipping its search ad revenues in the process. Google seems to be…
January 5, 2009, 14:11
I do not have the numbers for all the top networks worldwide, but here are some numbers to chew: Telefónica O2 (UK) : 166 million Telia (Sweden) : 24…
December 21, 2008, 15:41
eBay has won over AOL in the list of the most trusted companies for privacy in the US. Google was at number 10 in 2007, and is now off the top 20 list. Here…
May 14, 2008, 08:39
The Sun was the most widely read online UK newspaper for the month of March 2008. Here is a list of the Top 10: 1. The Sun Online 2. Guardian.co.uk 3.…
May 9, 2008, 09:10
Mother’s day is two days away. And people are busy making purchases for gifting their moms. So, what percent of that is online? Malls – 28% Discount Stores -…
May 6, 2008, 08:01
The ranking takes all individual websites cumulatively under the banner of the parent company: 1. Google sites 2. Microsoft sites 3. Yahoo sites 4. Facebook 5.…
May 1, 2008, 10:59
LinkedIn.com is World’s leading Social Network for Business Professionals. Here are a few interesting facts about the site: User base: 17 21 million Average…
March 26, 2008, 18:09
The study was conducted on 162,662,052 sites for the month of March 2008. The market share rankings are: 1. Apache : 49.38% 2. Microsoft : 35.20% 3. Google :…
March 20, 2008, 18:50
The currently unstable American market has taken its toll on the consumer tech spending. In a recent survey to understand the same, only 19% respondents shall…
March 20, 2008, 18:46
The list of VC investments in web 2.0 companies region-wise for the year 2007: Bay Area : 72 deals worth 1 million (Including Facebook) New England : 20…
March 5, 2008, 19:07
Here is the most recent list of the top 5 videos on Youtube: 1. CANSEI DE SER SEXY Music is My Hot Hot Sex 2. Evolution of Dance 3. Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend …
March 5, 2008, 17:51
The combined worth of all the TVs, HiFis, speakers, video and DVD players, digital recorders and satellite boxes in their homes is estimated to be worth €362…
February 29, 2008, 19:53
In USA, Digital Music now accounts of nearly 30 percent of the total sales in the music industry. In Europe, this share is around 20 percent. Sales from…
February 28, 2008, 15:26
It has only been two months into the new year. An early peek into the server downtimes at the various social networking websites: Bebo – 12 hours 28 minutes Wi…
February 21, 2008, 18:38
Health expenses in US are increasing exponentially to reach 20 percent of all expenses made by 2018. That is, health expenses would constitute out of every…
February 20, 2008, 18:37
Health related websites are growing by leaps and bounds. In 2005, There were 1047 sites reaching 0.3% of the internet population By January 2008, There are…
February 14, 2008, 17:19
The traffic Year-on-Year for this past week prior to Valentine’s day has increased by 26 percent. The top American dating website for this past week and their…
February 4, 2008, 17:12
A significant population of the physician population has begun to engage in the online social media thus initiating a new marketing opportunity online for the…
February 2, 2008, 07:18
Businesses have been using 94 different open source tools to do their jobs at reduced costs. The growth of open source usage at business work places has grown…
February 1, 2008, 06:00
The American Podcast audience grew by over 285% last year to 18.5 million listeners. This number shall continue its dramatic rise to reach 65 million listeners…
January 30, 2008, 17:35
In the last quarter of 2007, nearly 54 million Europeans visited a career related website. The top 5 websites to have been visited are 1. Monster 2. StepStone …
January 25, 2008, 13:34
The online audience for the US Newspapers grew by over 6 percent in 2007. Traffic for US Newspaper websites in 2006 : 56.4 million Traffic for US Newspaper…
January 25, 2008, 09:45
Entertainment seems to be the craze with the majority of Facebook users. The most popular Facebook apps are 1. Top Friends (Slide) 2. Movies (Flixster) 3.…
January 24, 2008, 12:02
Last.FM from CBS is supported by advertising. The service has access to over 3.5 million songs from four major labels and open to other independent labels…
January 24, 2008, 11:53
A 2005 study by Motion Picture Association of America found that illegal downloading of movies online was an astounding 44 percent. Students from college…
January 23, 2008, 07:14
Internet is seemingly a better place for women to seek health information than even family and friends. The percent of respondents seeking health information…
January 19, 2008, 16:09
For the American industry, the industry verticals that spend the maximum on Online ads are 1. Financial Services 29% 2. Telecommunications 14% 3. Web Media…
January 16, 2008, 17:41
It is found that 57 percent of online users navigate their favorite sites from the home page. A study shows that more and more space should be given to…
January 16, 2008, 12:44
Amongst the American consumer of Health and Beauty tips, over 63 percent research the product online before making the purchase. Owing to this, the ad spending…
January 16, 2008, 12:33
The top 10 categories that attracted the maximum traffic for the month of December: 1. Fragrances/Cosmetics 2. Consumer Goods 3. Jewelry/Luxury Goods/Accessori…
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- Amazon Vs. eBay by: Anand
January 15, 2008, 08:22
eBay has always beaten Amazon when it comes to traffic. However, for the holiday season in December Amazon had won over eBay for the first time ever. 59,624,00…
January 13, 2008, 08:18
Here is a list of ‘slow and inaccessible’ website rating by WatchMouse based on Site Performance Index (SPI). Lower the SPI, the better: Facebook – 6629 Vox -…
January 13, 2008, 07:37
Internet Explorer remains the most favorite corporate browser. The market share ascertained from 17 top B2B websites are Internet Explorer (IE) – 67% Firefox…
January 10, 2008, 21:41
Chinese video sharing market is small, yet growing. Youku.com is one of the largest and raised million in venture fund. Revenue from Chinese Video Sharing…
January 10, 2008, 21:14
48% of internet users had ever been to a video sharing website like Youtube. This is a 45% increase in the visitor base over last year. While last year 8% had…
January 1, 2008, 21:42
Here is the latest market share of the different Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP : 76.97% Windows Vista : 10.43% MacIntel : 4.01% Mac OS : 3.28% Windows…
December 28, 2007, 21:24
The list of 25 products are 1. Google Gears 2. Apple iPhone 3. One Laptop per Child OLPC XO Notebook 4. Apple Time Machine, in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) 5.…
December 28, 2007, 15:00
Legally filling up an iPod shall cost upto ,000. This has been the reason of the rampant violation of IP. According to Digital Music News, over 36.4 percent…
December 27, 2007, 18:35
NO. The online coupon market is indeed growing, but at a very sluggish pace The number of visitors to online coupon websites in October 2006 : 19.1 million The…
December 27, 2007, 18:09
Amazon is currently winning over Apple. Amazon Collections from Warner Music Group ( Led Zeppelin, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Green Day) EMI Universal and 33,000…
December 27, 2007, 10:47
The following is the Ad-impressions that the online campaigning of the US Prez candidates generated through 2007 Romney 103.8 million John McCain 94.6…
December 27, 2007, 10:14
Possibly the Scotland way! Previous studies in Scotland showed that out of 902 Television Public Service Announcement ads showed in over 30 markets, only 11.2%…
December 24, 2007, 07:56
They are indeed gaining lot of popularity this festive season. Users at Hallmark send 300 million ecards every year. American Greetings had a 10 percent…
December 23, 2007, 21:35
Australia recently announced new censorship laws from Jan 20, 2008. If the content is for mature audiences, the website has to verify age of the viewers…
December 23, 2007, 09:46
You had always thought about it right? Well, till now, Mozilla owned two things: Firefox – browser Thunderbird – email Now, they are also adding a new web…
December 22, 2007, 10:48
Retail firms topped the rankings for customer respect index, measured to see the customer service levels on the web. Overstock.com was ranked Number 1. Now why…
December 21, 2007, 06:58
Here is the list of the fastest growing websites in France for November. Social networking on top, as usual. Growth percent shown adjacent to the website…
December 20, 2007, 19:51
No. According to the Federal Wire Wager Act, unregulated commercial gambling is prohibited throughout United States. This has cost the Big 3 of internet to…
December 20, 2007, 07:23
The UK internet population seems to be ageing. Under 25 year olds Percent share in 2006 : 29% Percent share in 2007 : 25% This is a relative drop of 16% Aged…
December 19, 2007, 20:27
The Forbes released its list of the celebrities on the web 1. Perez Hilton 2. Michael Arrington 3. Mark Frauenfelder 4. Seth Godin 5. Cory Doctorow 6.…
December 18, 2007, 13:49
The global study certainly thinks so. Nearly 50 percent of Web site decision makers worldwide translate their website content to another language in order to…
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- Digg for Sale by: Anand
December 18, 2007, 13:37
Digg might be looking to sell their social news website. Asking price: 0 million Investment Banker: Allen & Company
December 17, 2007, 11:22
Ego Surfing: The act of searching your own name on Search Engines. This has almost doubled in five years. 22% of users ‘googled’ their own name back in 2002.…
December 15, 2007, 13:43
A full workday every week on an average is spent surfing the internet! The time spent online for one full work-week : 7.8 hours This amounts to almost 31…
December 15, 2007, 13:21
Food brands dominate this category. The top 5 consumer packaged goods websites in terms of unique visitors in the third quarter of 2007 are: Kraftfoods.com -…
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- What is Knol by: Anand
December 15, 2007, 12:52
Knol is Google’s ‘unit of knowledge’. It is the new tool introduced by Google to let users to write articles on subjects they are authoritative in. In other…
December 11, 2007, 17:18
Probably it does. More than 25 percent of European online shoppers decided to purchase after looking at the retailer’s green policies or were willing to pay a…
December 11, 2007, 17:04
For the month of October, the market shares (in percent terms) are as follows: Google (55%) Yahoo (19%) Microsoft (14%) AOL (4%) Ask (3%)
December 10, 2007, 20:45
The subscriber numbers are increasing in leaps and bounds NYTimes.com : 19.4 million readers (181 million pageviews) BusinessWeek.com : 4.4 million readers WSJ…
December 7, 2007, 19:20
This presidential election will see 145 percent higher spending than seen during last elections. However of the total .5 billion spent on advertising…
November 9, 2007, 09:58
Yes, quite a few alternatives are available on the internet that will let you do most of the tasks that you use Photoshop for, and they are free too. But,…
June 4, 2010, 05:57
With the growth of social media, lead generation has become much more personal and social. Earlier, online lead generation techniques would majorly depend on…
May 14, 2010, 07:08
The recession is no longer around. That is the crux of the report ComScore has published which notes that the online display advertising market has seen a…
May 10, 2010, 05:11
According to a recent report by Kantar Media, a subsidiary of WPP, Microsoft was the largest advertiser among technology companies in 2009. The report claims…
April 14, 2010, 08:34
According to Comscore, 174 million American internet users watched more than 28.1 billion videos in February. This presents a huge opportunity for video ad…
April 13, 2010, 18:45
How much money do websites like Google, Yahoo and AOL make on an average against a unique visitor? A recent study published by Experian Hitwise has revealed…
April 10, 2010, 04:34
The study of the internet advertising market in the United States conducted by IAB and PWC has concluded that revenues for 2009 have been marginally lower than…
April 3, 2010, 04:44
What are the most important marketing objectives and strategies that marketers resort to while running a digital marketing campaign? A recent survey by Datran…
April 2, 2010, 04:20
It is a well known fact that promotional messages hidden inside actual content actually pay off better than explicit banner or pop-up ads. Without looking into…
March 31, 2010, 05:46
The Network Advertising Initiative, in its recent research on conversion rates looked into the conversion rates among the different kinds of ad segments has…
March 30, 2010, 04:20
While text based advertising has been one with high returns on investment for a long time, image advertising too has remained popular, especially among website…
March 29, 2010, 05:49
The Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization – SEMPO, has released its latest report on the state of SEO among organizations. One of the striking…
March 27, 2010, 04:17
If there is any doubt that social media marketing is an important part of today’s marketing campaign, consider this: 62% of companies surveyed recently…
March 24, 2010, 04:19
Who would you blame if you clicked on an ad on a website and it got malware to your computer? The website owner because he is playing party to the ad network…
March 11, 2010, 05:15
The American Direct Marketing Association (DMA) recently studied the returns on investment (ROI) of major marketing channels both online and offline. The…
March 8, 2010, 08:18
How are email marketers supposed to be segmenting their audience? Is segmentation necessary at all? A recent study by GetResponse looked into what the popular…
March 6, 2010, 05:32
A recent survey conducted by EmailStatCenter concluded that close to half of the email marketers earned over ,000 annually. It also appeared that in-house…
February 23, 2010, 05:26
The advertising market post recession is yet to bounce back and the CAGR in traditional advertising is expected to fall by 1.2% between 2009 and 2014. However,…
February 17, 2010, 04:56
In a study published in December 2007, the market for behaviorally targeted ads was predicted to grow to .8 billion by 2011. Now, in a study published…
February 13, 2010, 04:38
The US has been a focal point of online ad spending all along. However the balance has slowly started to shift. Google’s recent quarterly earnings report…
February 12, 2010, 04:23
While total advertising spending across the various geographies tell us how much the different markets have matured, it makes more sense to look at it on a…
February 11, 2010, 05:15
Monetizing online video is a tough ask and one of the more effective options is by using preroll ads. While websites such as Youtube have refrained from trying…
February 9, 2010, 04:32
Comscore has published the list of the largest web publishers in the US for display ads for the year 2009. The most significant inclusion in the top five is…
January 27, 2010, 07:12
A new study conducted by cost per lead marketplace, Pontiflex throws some interesting results. Personally, I had imagined entertainment to be one segment where…
January 25, 2010, 05:49
Primarily, I believe there is nothing called an ‘important’ technique because as marketers would realize, every brand has its own ways to reach people. Having…
January 22, 2010, 05:18
UK is among the very few countries where ad spending on internet exceeds the spending on traditional advertising media. A study by KeyNote studied the exposure…
January 22, 2010, 04:27
Click fraud is one of the greatest malaises of PPC marketing – Publishers or other parties fake click-throughs on websites in order to command a higher revenue…
January 19, 2010, 05:37
Real estates have been one of the big spenders online. However, with the recession the advertising spending fell. However, according to a recent study by…
January 16, 2010, 04:09
This comes as a bit of surprise; at least to me that Google’s is not actually the ad network with the biggest reach in the US. In fact, it is number 3 after…
January 15, 2010, 05:36
An eye-tracking study to understand what kind of online ads are “seen” and what goes unnoticed was published recently in the book ‘Eyetracking Web Usability’.…
January 7, 2010, 04:05
Okay, this is not to advocate use of “spam marketing” but to see why spamming continues unabated even though most of us now are now tired of them. A study…
January 6, 2010, 05:10
Good news for online advertisers. A study by JP Morgan of the state of display advertising in the American market has shown that the difference between CPM…
January 5, 2010, 05:16
Email marketing is still going strong. In an earlier article, we had seen that Email marketing was still among the top online marketing strategies, only next…
January 4, 2010, 03:55
Branded content or Advertainment has always been a popular way for brands go get their message across to their target audience. With the advent of internet and…
December 23, 2009, 05:55
Sharing links among friends through social networks does indeed get a lot of traffic, but does the traffic convert? A recent study by StrongMail suggests that…
December 22, 2009, 05:53
Is MySpace still popular? Apparently, it is still making money. While ad spending on Facebook is seen to grow to 5 million worldwide in 2010, MySpace is…
December 17, 2009, 05:36
The online display ad market is growing at a constant 30%+ rate in India over the past few years and shall continue the growth towards the next fiscal as well.…
December 16, 2009, 05:36
In a study conducted by a European advertising association earlier this year, close to 50% of the online advertisers had revealed that they used behavioral and…
December 15, 2009, 04:20
There seems to be a glimmer of hope for newspaper industries to make a rebound in the American market where the newspaper revenues have been falling for quite…
December 12, 2009, 04:31
A huge majority of websites on the internet make money simply from visitors clicking on advertisements. This simply means these are the people who have been…
December 11, 2009, 05:36
Spending on video advertising is likely to see a huge spurt in the next few years. Here is the projected spending over the next few years 2008 : 4…
December 11, 2009, 05:08
Apparently, it is easiest to get the users of Microsoft products to click on website ads. Firstly, here is the average Click-through-rate on ads by browser I…
December 9, 2009, 04:04
The Google Adsense optimization team recently released a list of the best performing Adsense banners based on the Click-Through Rate (CTR). The ranking was…
December 3, 2009, 04:01
Online banners targeted at a people from a particular region shall grow strong in the next 4-5 years says a study by BIA/Kelsey. In my opinion, the potential…
November 30, 2009, 04:23
The online ad market, with its Pay-Per-Click kind ad models has for a long time been the most popular choice for the small time advertiser. The luxury brands…
November 28, 2009, 04:48
The CPM rates for pre-roll video ads has been falling. This is the news from the World’s largest branded video advertising network, BrightRoll. However, a good…
November 27, 2009, 04:14
So is it true that CPM rates have been falling? Apparently yes, unless you are in the ‘food’ vertical. That is what the Adify report suggests. While the new…
November 23, 2009, 06:20
If you are into email marketing, you would have realized that it is not only important that you build the list, but also retain the users in the list for a…
November 18, 2009, 04:12
Small and medium businesses have been long time users of banner ads. Even outside the internet marketing domain, they had always been dominant in the local TV…
November 17, 2009, 04:26
Affiliate marketing is incomplete without PPC advertising as niche, low-competition products cost less money and hence it makes sense for affiliate marketers…
November 14, 2009, 05:50
A research by Borrell Associates shows that car dealers spend more than double the money spent by car manufacturers on online advertisements. What more, a vast…
October 23, 2009, 04:19
Earlier, we saw where display advertisements appear the most. According to a study by Nielsen, here are the industries that contribute to the majority of image…
October 21, 2009, 05:29
Search engine marketing and email marketing are two evergreen online marketing tactics. Here are the most popular online marketing tactics ranked by the…
October 20, 2009, 07:23
If you want to improve the performance of your ads, don’t simply make the ad banner bigger. Floating ads perform relatively better when it comes to Click…
October 13, 2009, 07:13
Online display ads have low CTRs. Part of the blame goes to the fact that people are now blind to display banner ads. Another part of the blame goes to the…
October 8, 2009, 07:19
Western European countries are seeing market share of online ad spending in double digits consistently over the past few years, the highest being in UK where…
October 6, 2009, 06:36
This article is not to convince marketers to go with online advertising, but a compilation of perspectives from marketers who have already taken the online…
October 2, 2009, 07:44
Display advertising is seen to be reducing in its effectiveness over the years and there has been a sharp reduction in the click through rates (CTR) just in…
October 1, 2009, 05:20
Internet has, for the first time overtaken TV as the medium with the maximum spending in UK. In fact, UK is the first among the major world economies to report…
October 1, 2009, 05:12
Are internet users okay if their online behavior is tracked and ads served accordingly? According to a study by University of California, here are the…
September 30, 2009, 09:00
People have tripled the time spent on the social networks in the past year and close to 17% of online time is on social networks. That doesn’t surprise then,…
September 30, 2009, 08:54
Online advertising is still in double digit growth worldwide, though that could come down in the near future, yet, the spending on online advertising is…
September 29, 2009, 10:11
It is no news that social media is hot among online marketers. Over 50% of the marketers who were surveyed in a study were already active users of social. Here…
September 29, 2009, 07:43
Is it worth it to build friend lists, followers or fans (whatever it is called) on social networks, talk authoritatively on a subject and occasionally sneak in…
September 29, 2009, 07:33
Spending on affiliate marketing is projected to touch billion by 2014. Affiliate marketing has been primarily an activity of small to mid size websites that…
September 28, 2009, 08:20
Social media is no longer viewed as a separate marketing channel. Retail marketers have started to integrate their social media marketing along with their…
September 26, 2009, 12:11
Americans spend close to 17% of their time on all internet time on social networks. A year back this was close to 6%. Here is a YoY growth in ad spending on…
September 26, 2009, 09:13
Facebook is easily the most preferred social network for the advertisers. However, MySpace is stil hanging in there. Here the industry-wise preference for the…
September 23, 2009, 10:15
Mobile ad spending is seen to rise tremendously in the coming five years and medium such as text messaging based advertising is also seen to have a terrific…
September 22, 2009, 08:08
Image advertising is best suited for two kinds of industries – those which require to generate a lot of leads and those who want to create a branding. No…
September 22, 2009, 08:00
Financial services find a lot of success online in generating leads for their services who can possibly convert and hence they tend to be heavy advertisers.…
September 21, 2009, 08:24
Online marketing will see a lot of increase in spending in 2010 compared to traditional medium. In a recent study done on the readiness of American marketers…
September 21, 2009, 08:13
Which of the websites add the most marketing value among social networks? You are wrong if you guessed Twitter or Facebook. Here are the top social networking…
September 21, 2009, 08:07
Share of internet advertising had always been marginally less than advertising spending on local and national TV. This has changed in favor of Internet for the…
September 14, 2009, 07:59
Pretty interesting that the CTR on ads can also widely vary based on the mobile OS of the audience. Pray for less iPhone users. Here’s why: Palm : 0.90%…
September 10, 2009, 10:07
When is the best time to send an email marketing message? Or when is the best time to make a wall post on Facebook that gets clicked on by the maximum number…
September 8, 2009, 09:50
An eMarketer study had thrown a highly different picture than this current study by Yankee group. The projected revenues from mobile advertising in USA is…
September 4, 2009, 09:20
Small and Medium Businesses are increasingly getting used to spending online for their marketing needs. Here is the online ad spending of SMBs as a percent of…
September 4, 2009, 07:55
21.1% of all ads served on the internet is on the social networks. Here is the distribution of online ads among the social networks: MySpace : 43.60% Facebook…
September 3, 2009, 08:24
Display has remained close to stagnant over the past few years while search format continues to entice both the consumers as well as advertisers. Here is the…
August 24, 2009, 07:53
An ad click measures how effective your preselling was. But, an interaction with your ad or how much time the viewer remains engaged on your ad measures the…
August 24, 2009, 07:47
An ad click does not measure about the success of any ad campaign as much as the dwell rate does (which is the time spent on any ad). Here is the time spent by…
August 21, 2009, 08:54
In a study of the different standard ad formats available online, here is a ranking in terms of the most effective ad formats: 1. Rectangle 180×150 2. Half…
August 21, 2009, 07:41
To most people, just an automated account on Twitter is enough to cure their product of all promotional hassles. But how effective is Twitter to the mortal…
August 15, 2009, 06:49
As expected in any ad networks list, Google finds itself among the top three. Here is the latest report on the largest mobile ad networks in terms of unique…
August 14, 2009, 09:25
Advertising spending on online videos seem to be a far cry from the corresponding spending on TV. Here is the projected spending per hour of online video…
August 13, 2009, 08:12
Though social media marketing and other new age marketing techniques are finding takers, the most popular online marketing techniques are those that have…
August 12, 2009, 06:58
Google has always preached about the non intrusive ways of sponsored links. Probably it is time they thought otherwise. Here are the possible Ad CTRs observed…
August 11, 2009, 16:08
Viral marketing or word of mouth marketing is a vital marketing tool during times of economic downturn where your budgets are limited. No wonder then that word…
August 5, 2009, 15:24
Mobile marketers are likely to cross 0 million in mobile advertising spending in 2009 which is projected to cross billion by 2013. Here are the projection…
July 31, 2009, 14:54
Online advertising is growing at a terrific pace in Canada and now constitutes 11% of all advertising revenue. Online advertising revenue has quadrupled in the…
June 24, 2009, 14:09
What is it that an internet user would like to recommend on the internet? When does a word-of-mouth epidemic start? Here are the reasons according to a study…
May 18, 2009, 14:55
What proportion of your advertising budget should you spend on ad networks? Here is proportion of US advertisers who spend the following percent of their…
April 24, 2009, 15:46
Video advertising is one of the costliest ways to advertise online. Here are the average CPM (cost per thousand impressions) rates for the different formats of…
April 24, 2009, 14:27
Which online ad format is most receptive in terms of viewer response? Here is the ranking of the different formats in order of which one invites the best…
April 10, 2009, 11:26
While things like email marketing seem like a thing of the past, a lot of companies still rely on these ‘traditional’ media to market online. Here is a…
March 27, 2009, 19:13
The fourth quarter of 2008 had 8 percent lesser ad spending on digital newspaper as compared to the ad spending in the fourth quarter of 2007. Online…
March 11, 2009, 15:40
This has always been a million dollar question, right? A study of more than 10 billion ad inquiries by Adtech reveals the obvious – that banner blindness has…
January 6, 2009, 14:03
Annual growth rates for advertisement spending on search engines will decline over the next few years. Here is a projection of the annual growth rates: 2007 :…
December 16, 2008, 16:32
One of the major impacts recessions has is on advertising budgets. This downturn has affected online ad spending quite well that the projected spendings for…
December 6, 2008, 14:58
Are voters influenced more on the web than anywhere else? Possibly so, at least from the online ad budgets of the two American Presidential nominees – McCain…
November 19, 2008, 14:21
The top ten online display advertising publishers in US, ranked by the number of display ads viewed: 1. Fox Interactive Media 2. Yahoo! sites 3. AOL LLC 4.…
November 10, 2008, 14:14
Advertising Spending by American advertisers on online social networks from the year 2006 and projected till 2012: 2006 : 0 million 2007 : 0 million 2008…
November 9, 2008, 19:22
A survey among Bango content providers provided the following ranking for mobile advertising networks: 1. Google Adwords 2. Yahoo 3. Adultmoda/Admoda 4. Third…
July 12, 2008, 12:33
The share has hovered in the teens among the different geographies: Western Europe : 18.2% Japan : 16.3% US : 14.6% Worldwide : 13.6%
May 24, 2008, 07:37
The Beijing Olympics is expected to provide a boost to the growth of online advertising in China. The market is expected to grow 52% this year largely due to…
May 15, 2008, 11:04
Social Network Ad revenues account for 5.5% of revenue from all web ad revenues in US in 2008. This is predicted to increase to 6% in 2009. However, this is…
May 10, 2008, 20:29
The following ranking was based on data available for February 2008: 1. University of Phoenix Online 2. Bank of America : Consumer Services 3. Progressive…
April 22, 2008, 18:57
Pharma is one of the most profitable segments online. Here is the online spending on advertisements from Pharma companies (The stipulations to advertise are…
April 20, 2008, 18:52
More and more marketers are resorting to unusual methods of marketing online according to a survey: Word of mouth : 49% Blogs : 49% Social Networking : 49%
April 15, 2008, 18:13
Thanks to AOL’s acquisition of Advertising.com, AOL’s Platform A is now the top Ad network in US: 1. Platform A 2. Yahoo Network 3. Google Ad Network 4.…
April 10, 2008, 20:49
The projected spending on online video advertising for Asia , Europe and USA for 2008 and 2012: ASIA: 2008 – 2 million 2012 – 00 million EUROPE: 2008…
April 8, 2008, 19:09
Here is the list of the market share claimed by the companies for US Ad server space in terms of unique monthly users. DoubleClick acquisition indeed was a big…
March 23, 2008, 08:08
The North American SEM market is projected to grow to reach billion by 2011. The estimated market size over the years as provided by SEMPO: 2007 – .2…
February 22, 2008, 18:19
16.6 percent of all clicks on ads in the last quarter of 2007 were click frauds. For the same period in 2006, the fraud percent was just 14.2. The top…
February 21, 2008, 18:14
Advertisers have observed that television has become less effective than it was two years ago as a medium for advertisements. The focus is hence shifting…
February 13, 2008, 14:49
It is a question that every webmaster asks himself – ‘Who is generating the Adsense money for his website’. If a recent study is to be taken seriously, 6…
February 6, 2008, 18:06
Which is better – Free to play games, but embedded with 15 or 30 second ads between levels OR No-Ads, but paid casual games? A survey has found that the…
January 30, 2008, 17:48
From Q4 of 2006 to Q4 of 2007, Search Engine Marketers put an additional 29 percent into the search engine advertising market, and out of this 97 percent fell…
January 25, 2008, 09:41
Microsoft has made a 38 percent increase quarter-on-quarter in the latest update. Online Advertising revenue in the fourth quarter of 2006 : 3 million Onlin…
January 24, 2008, 12:15
The most trusted online marketing medium is Search Engine Marketing and company websites. However, newer medium are evolving as profitable channels. 21% of…
January 24, 2008, 12:02
Last.FM from CBS is supported by advertising. The service has access to over 3.5 million songs from four major labels and open to other independent labels…
January 23, 2008, 07:42
Around .5 million (5 percent of the total Presidential Campaign Spending) shall be spent in 2008 on the Internet. Another .1 million shall be spent by…
January 19, 2008, 16:09
For the American industry, the industry verticals that spend the maximum on Online ads are 1. Financial Services 29% 2. Telecommunications 14% 3. Web Media…
January 19, 2008, 16:06
If the trend on companies spending more and more on Email marketing is to be studied, the return-on-investment on such campaign looks encouraging. Marketers…
January 18, 2008, 13:55
The American local online advertising market shall reach .9 billion in the next five years. The display and search advertising spending will grow at…
January 16, 2008, 17:57
The spending on Online ads shall exceed that on radio very soon. Ad expenditures in the first nine months of 2007 : .4 billion @ 17.2 percent Projected…
January 16, 2008, 17:46
Email marketing is estimated to have reached .2 billion through 2007. This amount is projected to reach .1 billion by 2012.
January 13, 2008, 09:04
US Hispanics have greater tolerance to Email marketing compared to Non-Hispanic US citizens. This is attributed to the larger time spent online. Number of…
January 13, 2008, 08:58
It is projected to happen either in 2009 or 2010. A Group M forecast puts 2008 Online ad spending in UK at £3.4 billion. 65 percent of this shall come from…
January 10, 2008, 20:48
In 2006, the online spending of B2B advertising was .8 Billion. That was 16.6% of the total spending online. It grew to .5 Billion in 2007. The projected…
December 28, 2007, 21:15
Worth of online advertising market in Japan : .4 billion to .1 billion Projected growth by 2011 : .8 billion to billion Contribution of Search based…
December 27, 2007, 18:35
NO. The online coupon market is indeed growing, but at a very sluggish pace The number of visitors to online coupon websites in October 2006 : 19.1 million The…
December 27, 2007, 10:47
The following is the Ad-impressions that the online campaigning of the US Prez candidates generated through 2007 Romney 103.8 million John McCain 94.6…
December 27, 2007, 10:42
The following is just a few of the many present in virtual worlds for marketing their brands Second Life Microsoft Starwood Hotels Reuters CBS CSI (franchise) …
December 25, 2007, 07:39
The study shows Online TV works better for advertisers. and the producers alike 47% of the people feel more engaged with Online TV ads 25% of the people are…
December 24, 2007, 08:04
Which of the two is doing better? Facebook Opened to all in September 2006. Traffic multiplied six times over since then. Current user base : 59 million Projec…
December 21, 2007, 06:32
The online ad spending in Germany is expected to grow at double digits till 2010. It grew 79% in 2006 and over 37% in 2007 (in € terms). Online ad spending…
December 18, 2007, 14:03
Here is a head to head comparison of the European and American markets: 2006 Europe : €8 billion US : €12.8 billion Difference : €4.8 billion 2007 Europ…
December 15, 2007, 13:40
It’s big and attractive. This year (2007), .2 billion was spent on Email advertising, and is projected to grow to billion by 2012. However, advertising…
December 14, 2007, 19:24
Yes, it seemingly will. The online ad market shall grow by 29 percent this year. However, the growth will slow down to around 12 percent growth rate by 2011.…
December 14, 2007, 18:38
It is no more a trickle. Advertising on social networks like MySpace, Facebook, Orkut is now officially a flood. Advertisement budget on Social networks in US…
December 10, 2007, 15:31
The market for local online ads seem to be erupting again. Estimated worth of market by end of 2008 : Billion Growth from 2007 : 50 percent What’s…
December 7, 2007, 19:20
This presidential election will see 145 percent higher spending than seen during last elections. However of the total .5 billion spent on advertising…
December 3, 2007, 14:41
Internet ad spend is increasing. The spending on internet ads will surpass radio ads by 2008. It shall overtake Magazine ads by 2010. Share of internet in the…
December 3, 2007, 07:03
October traffic to the campaign sites of the US Presidential candidates (in terms of unique visitors): HillaryClinton.com : 300,000 RonPaul2008.com :…
December 2, 2007, 19:26
Search results pages show ads close to the keyword searched. Similarly, ads that are shown relevant to a user’s behavior on websites is called behavioral…
November 9, 2007, 10:06
The top 5 advertisers on Internet, according to Media Value’s list of 50 top advertisers on Internet: LendingTree E-Trade Financial Privacy Matters Services L…
November 8, 2007, 08:31
Growth is slowing down. Third quarter results show a revenue of 0 million from advertisements. Growth rate is about 13% year-on-year But why is growth rate…
November 1, 2007, 21:42
Facebook application developers have been given their first monetizing solution on Facebook mobile through AdMob. Developers can download ads from their huge…
November 1, 2007, 21:22
AOL’s new behavior targeted ads shall serve ads to consumers based on what they have searched. This will reach almost 91% of America’s online audience. A twist…
October 30, 2007, 06:17
Developers of Facebook applications may choose their own monetizing model. Adbrite is one of the popular choices. Number of Facebook applications using…
October 29, 2007, 21:18
Percentage Ad budget spent online (2007) 17% Percent Satisfied with advertising options…
April 27, 2010, 12:58
2009 was not a great year for advertising. Nevertheless considering that mobile advertising is among the hottest emerging segment in advertising, it saw a 32%…
April 19, 2010, 07:15
Millennia media has published its latest report that looks into the media consumption among various smartphone users by way of the number of ad requests noted…
March 17, 2010, 05:20
The BRIC regions of Brazil, Russia, India and China are among the fastest growing regions in the telecommunication sector. While cell phone penetration in the…
March 17, 2010, 04:20
With modern day mobile phones being able to relay location among other specifics about the user, targeted advertising offers are seen to be increasingly…
March 2, 2010, 11:37
In its latest “SMART” report, Millennial Media looks into the various targeting options available for US mobile advertisers and has also measured the average…
February 8, 2010, 06:15
At a time when marketers have been contemplating how the marketing budget should be allocated between traditional and online advertising channels, there…
January 29, 2010, 03:54
Millennia Media’s Q4 ’09 report on the biggest spenders on mobile advertising has some interesting pointers. Unlike the online medium where Financial services…
January 18, 2010, 04:25
The AdMob acquisition has given Google the chance to turn their ad network into a powerhouse on the mobile space as well. According to a research by IDC, the…
January 14, 2010, 04:33
Is the mobile operating system a factor while determining the kind of CTR that ads receive? Apparently it does. Symbian users tend to click on ads much more…
October 16, 2009, 04:58
SMS advertising is the biggest constituent of the mobile ad revenues currently. We already saw how Display and Search advertising could take over from SMS by…
October 7, 2009, 05:39
Today a predominant number of mobile advertisers are doing so with the help of SMS. That could change in less than five years thanks to the proliferation of 3G…
January 28, 2010, 04:29
Netflix is no doubt one of the most popular channels for people to rent movies. There has been a recent discussion on how Apple iPad, Youtube rentals,etc. will…
October 31, 2009, 04:25
Here is a comprehsive comparison of features and price that you would pay for an Apple iPhone 3GS as against Motorola Droid (Pricing for the US market) Carri…
October 25, 2007, 15:01
Recently I ran a small budget campaign at Clicksor, a PPC network. There were two objectives of the campaign: 1) To increase the subscriber base for Techcrunchi…
June 1, 2007, 16:09
“If you are in India and can use internet, you have to have an orkut account” – this is an unwritten rule. Almost everyone in India (a lot many below 18 years…
January 20, 2007, 18:56
You might have noticed slideshows of pics on Flickr. There is an easy way, as Paul Stamatiou tells us in his blog. For this, first tag all the photos that you…
January 15, 2007, 18:36
Bloggers often tend to tweak the blog template that they find online, and those who are not well-versed with CSS and HTML codes atleast try changing the…
January 9, 2007, 20:52
IMvite was launched as a free to use website to view TV channels online. Now, the website has improved further upon this service to now allow users to view TV…
January 8, 2007, 18:38
Yahoo India has now a new feature to help you create a backup of your important SMSes. To avail the SMS Backup service, all you need is a Yahoo email id.…
January 3, 2007, 20:06
Bloggers typically require quite a bit of research before making a post. For example, if I were to write about ‘Google acquires YouTube’, I would have to…
January 2, 2007, 19:50
Happy New year!If you had been to a party for the New Year celebrations, and loved the remixes that were played, you definitely would want to make something of…
January 1, 2007, 19:51
YouTube has an option to create your own playlist.That is a channel for all your favorite videos.What if your favorites extended beyond only YouTube?There are…
December 28, 2006, 20:24
With increasing number of social networking websites, inevitably, there has to arise websites that help in consolidating the various profiles you maintain at…
December 26, 2006, 18:46
Snap was launched as “the other way to search” concept. Accordingly, while the conventional search engines judge the usability of a destination page based on…
December 25, 2006, 20:42
Incidentally, after my last post regarding Mash-ups, I found a good tutorial on what Mash-ups are and how they work. The presenter is David Berlind, executive…
December 25, 2006, 08:01
Building maps are one of the most common amongst mash-up programmers. Some of the most well known and popular maps available on the internet are Google Earth…
December 23, 2006, 19:31
Some companies have started scanning the emails of their employees for security purposes. Though this is for good, it can also hamper other innocuous things…
December 9, 2006, 20:10
Google has recently introduced a new exciting feature in gmail. As per this, you can now integrate all your email ids (i.e upto a maximum of five) under one…
December 8, 2006, 19:18
Screensavers are most often chosen to display your attitude or passions. However, newer softwares allow you to customize screensavers to show your RSS feeds.…
December 6, 2006, 16:27
If you are my kind, then you surely do not want to display Internet Explorer windows that you have kept open to track cricket scores or to simply chat or…
December 3, 2006, 12:22
If you notice my blog, I have a link for you to bookmark my blog above each of my blog entries. With so many social bookmarking tools available, it can…
November 30, 2006, 19:04
How many times have you been stuck up at a place you did not want to be in, and was only hoping that one of your other friends makes a call to your rescue.…
November 28, 2006, 15:43
Often, you may have to come across lengthy text that you do not have the patience to go through in totality. It is here that summarizing tools come handy.…
November 26, 2006, 12:19
Face recognition softwares are going to be the way for future technology. And that technology has already started making news. MyHeritage is a website…
November 26, 2006, 11:38
Generating a consistent flow of traffic to the website requires a lot of hard work. The most consistent traffic however comes from search engines. If you…
November 20, 2006, 20:20
It is always a question of curiosity about where Google is heading to. What began as a mere search engine is now well spread across viewing your apartment from…
November 16, 2006, 20:30
Last year, AOL acquired Weblogs for an amount amounting anywhere between million and million. This high amount is not because of the traffic it…
November 14, 2006, 18:28
Well, copyright laws prevent YouTube and the other video sharing websites from explicitly providing a service for downloading the videos. This has led to a lot…
November 11, 2006, 16:34
Last week, I had written about a piece on one of the online scam websites in my other blog. The page got indexed within a couple of days. With this came a lot…
November 7, 2006, 16:33
If you were looking to convert your file from one format to another, most probably you might have downloaded a software that does this specific conversion.…
November 6, 2006, 19:52
Recently I had been flooded with requests from my friends to join them on Gazzag, a social network site. The requests were not in single digits, believe me,…
November 2, 2006, 18:22
Sometime back, I had discussed about a company called UTube which had to lose its site bandwidth because lost YouTube visitors came to UTube.In fact, when I…
October 31, 2006, 17:02
Have you come across websites where, as soon as you load the page, you have some animated character speaking to you about their services? If you want your own…
October 29, 2006, 16:39
One thing Google has so well managed to do is capture the top market share in any side of web technology they get into. Blogger was a top blogging platform and…
October 28, 2006, 19:45
Dreamweaver, I guess is now facing serious competition. Microsoft has come up with a beta version of its own website designing software under the name…
October 27, 2006, 19:32
If you are a webmaster or a SEO expert yourself, you will know the extent of influence a high ranking website’s link to your website does. I recently had this…
October 25, 2006, 11:38
Moo the printer website is offering 10000 Skype minicards for free. Just customize them to display your Skype details and anythings else that you want to…
October 25, 2006, 08:47
Do you like the changes that I have made to my blog? I have now set any links to be highlighted with an orange background whenever you take the pointer over…
October 24, 2006, 17:42
Many of you have Google ads on your blogs. But, most often it looks pretty out of place, either on the sidebars or above or below the blogs. I do not know how…
October 23, 2006, 17:43
Getting indexed in Google can be hard and tiring. Sometimes it takes months before you can see your blog appear in the Google listings, let alone moving up the…
October 22, 2006, 18:07
There was a recent post on Digg about an American Skyper who was skyped by a Chinese girl. She knew a bit of English and this chap did not know anything in…
October 22, 2006, 09:38
Ever since I started blogging, I have noticed that many people have taken to the concept of ‘blogrolling’. If you have not come across this previously, let me…
October 22, 2006, 08:52
Do you make money from your blog or website? Or atleast do you have them simply to make money? Don’t revert the question to me as I have no answer, but it is…
October 21, 2006, 11:59
I was kind of surprised when I logged into Orkut today. It was not just the new pleasant looking logo of orkut on the left. There seemed to be much more…in…
October 20, 2006, 18:43
If you had already visited my website previously, you will notice this new bookmarks that I have added at the end of every post in their individual links.…
October 20, 2006, 16:59
I had recently blogged about why podcasting is not for everybody and how podcasting can actually backfire on non-native English speakers.But I recently came…
October 17, 2006, 18:26
We will never share, sell, or rent your personal information with anyone without your advance permission. How often have you come across this line. If you ask…
October 17, 2006, 14:37
Googlebombs are of late proving to be the biggest of SEO headaches. When it first started, it was primarily meant for fun, and even I remember how I was amazed…
October 16, 2006, 21:21
I have been a long time user of Digg. This is the reason that I primarily started my ‘interesting’ category of blogs on Digg stories. But then, of late, I have…
October 15, 2006, 20:37
Google probably sees a major potential for its products in the educational industry. It is probably for this reason that it is now inviting ideas from people…
October 15, 2006, 19:38
There is an easy and short way to send the internet pages you are viewing to your Gmail account or blog it or even amazingly SMS it. For this you have somthing…
October 14, 2006, 13:59
I was recently searching for tips related to adding traffic to my blog. Here, I came across a blogpost regarding how to hack( or rather crack ) a Clickbank…
October 13, 2006, 17:54
Over the past eight years, Google has simply transformed our lives. It first came up with a way to actually see what are the websites that exist on internet…
October 13, 2006, 17:25
Ok..I will give you a website. But, I warn you..DO NOT OPEN THE LINK. I came across this one on Orkut. Some Pakistani guy had posted this on a community…
October 13, 2006, 13:44
Imagine how it is when you lose your bandwidth to over 64 million visitors, who simply came to your website ‘by mistake’…Well, this is what exactly happened…
October 12, 2006, 23:42
A codeline search in Google has resulted in a list of over 20100 email ids, all of coders who, usually make it a practice to put it in the source code.This is…
October 12, 2006, 23:02
Ajax is at work, yet again. You can download this AJAX application to constantly view which stories are making to the front page on Digg. This also gives you a…
October 12, 2006, 22:07
Got a forward of a video from my friend. Shall upload it soon on You Tube..In it, David Berlind from ZDNet talks about how internet is moving ahead with what…
October 11, 2006, 22:14
I am posting it so that you can avert something that my friend caught up with today. Today, as he opened his Yahoo messenger, he had a message from his friend.…
October 11, 2006, 14:17
I recently was involved in an online debate with a podcaster about the merits and demerits of having a podcast for your website publicity. The Podcaster was…
October 9, 2006, 22:00
Blogger provides an option at the top of all blogspot pages where you can click and visit a random page each time you click. Blogger does this in order to…
October 9, 2006, 21:30
Let me kick off my first post with something about myself. Well, I am not a newbie blogger. I already maintain the blog on Digg Stories. And I have been…
October 9, 2006, 21:30
Have you used Google Music trends? It is a wonderful way to make your favorite album on top of charts. If you have opted in for Music trends, Google then reads…
March 27, 2010, 05:10
China, Romania and United States make up for more than two-thirds of malware-laden spam emails sent in March. According to a report by Symantec’s MessageLabs…
March 26, 2010, 04:06
Have you ever opened a spam email? According to a study by Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, people not only click on spam, but are also likely to forward…
February 16, 2010, 02:36
China and USA are among the countries with the most number of zombie computers. So where do all spam actually originate from? Here are the top ten spam…
February 16, 2010, 02:30
China has taken over from United States as the country that has the most number of hacked computers – machines that are made to act like zombies to send out…
January 20, 2010, 04:11
Enterprise customers in Asia-Pacific are soon realizing the importance of security on their infrastructure and the sale of security software is expected to…
January 13, 2010, 04:28
Pharma related spams are apparently the ones with the highest spam conversion ratio as a recent report by Commtouch Labs shows that over 80% of all spam mails…
December 14, 2009, 05:12
The number of reported cases of hacking and phishing of .com and .in sites hosted in India seem to be on the rise. Here are some pointers on the growing trend…
December 9, 2009, 05:18
USA used to be the Spam capital of the world, until recently. A recent CISCO report has now relegated it to the second position. More spams originated from…
November 9, 2009, 04:06
A recent study was made by AVComparitives to study the performance of more than 16 popular anti-virus software in removing malware and leftovers. The software…
October 27, 2009, 04:03
Internet based attacks on the US Federal websites are on the rise and that mandates a corresponding rise in security spendings. As a result, the spending on…
October 13, 2009, 06:18
The percent of spam mails containing malware has been on the rise. According to the latest “State of Spam” report, here are a few key pointers 86% of all…
October 3, 2009, 06:49
The number of phishing websites is again on the rise and is highest since April 2007 when there were 55,653 phishing websites in the world. There 37,165…
October 2, 2009, 06:49
Botnets account for close to 87.9% of all spam sent. The biggest of the botnets are Rustock and Maazben. Maazben Originated in May Constituted 0.5% of all…
October 1, 2009, 06:03
United States is among the top ten malware affected countries in the world, accordi