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• About by: Anand Srinivasan

  August 21, 2007, 04:25

  'Tech Crunchies' is a website on the latest internet related statistics and surveys. Statistics covered here are all taken from some of the most credible names…

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  June 13, 2009, 17:10

  Privacy Policy for Techcrunchies.com The privacy of our visitors to Techcrunchies.com is important to us. At Techcrunchies.com, we recognize that…

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  September 13, 2009, 14:30

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  September 13, 2009, 14:45

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  November 29, 2009, 18:16

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• Contact Us by: Anand

  December 31, 2009, 18:03

  Tech Crunchies is based out of Chennai, India and has readers from across the world. We welcome feedback, queries and suggestions from our readers. Snail…

• Keep Visiting Tech Crunchies by: Anand Srinivasan

  June 21, 2010, 16:40

  Tech Crunchies offers readers an exciting database of statistics from the world of internet and technology. It is not only useful for marketers and students…

• Google+ Demographic Report - Gender Distribution by: Anand Srinivasan

  July 14, 2011, 15:48

  <<Previous In a sample of close to 950,000 Google+ users, it is seen that over 73.70% of them happen to be male. The percentage of women on Google+ at…

• Google+ Demographic Report - Top Occupations Of Users by: Anand Srinivasan

  July 14, 2011, 15:59

  <<Previous Not surprisingly, the top occupation of users on Google+ is "Engineer" at just less than 25%. However, the actual nerd crowd is bigger than…

• Google+ Demographic Report - Top Cities by: Anand Srinivasan

  July 14, 2011, 16:06

  <<Previous Most tech ideas grow from the Silicon valley and Google+; despite the strong backing from the Mountain View based tech giant, is no…

• Google+ Demographic Report - Top Countries by: Anand Srinivasan

  July 14, 2011, 16:10

  <<Previous If you were looking for the usual suspects like Canada and United Kingdom in the top five, you may be in for a surprise. Indians, with…

• Google+ Demographic Report - World User Distribution by: Anand Srinivasan

  July 14, 2011, 16:15

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  • Need Your Opinion - Please Vote by: Anand

    September 21, 2009, 08:59

    TechCrunchies has always been a website that caters primarily to internet related statistics, and we have close to 780 posts till date on this topic. However,…

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  • How Twitter Can Help You Become a Media Darling? by: Anand

    September 30, 2009, 07:53

    What if you are a professor no student cares about or own a market research agency no client comes to? You can still become a media darling with the help of…

  • More Social Networking Means More Time Spent on Email? by: Anand

    September 29, 2009, 09:10

    A new study by Nielsen into the consumption patterns of internet users of social media and email has 'proved' that the heaviest consumers of social media are…

  • Bull Whip Effect on Website Activity, Ad Spending and Valuations by: Anand

    September 26, 2009, 08:21

    Bullwhip effect is a term used in Supply Chain systems to describe the forecasting error that occurs as you move upstream in the supply chain cycle. A classic…

  • 5 things to do when your site gets a bad review by: Anand

    October 18, 2007, 12:46

    Suppose this: You have just invested a few thousand dollars and built your own niche social network website. And you frantically write to the influential…

• Apple  (51)
  • World's Largest Phone Manufacturers By Units Sold by: Anand Srinivasan

    October 29, 2010, 17:25

    The mobile phone segment is very competitive with every quarter bringing some sort of a surprise. Back in May this year, I had written about an IDC report that…

  • Number Of Smartphones Sold Per Day - iPhone Vs. Android Vs. Nokia by: Anand Srinivasan

    September 14, 2010, 13:16

    Apple and Google have been fighting a lot over numbers of late. Steve Jobs had recently mocked Google's claims of activating over 200,000 devices everyday by…

  • Apple Revenue Breakdown From iPhone, iPad, Mac & iPod by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 21, 2010, 14:20

    Apple has reported extremely impressive results for the last quarter. The most critical pointer is that the company's revenue is no longer dependent on just…

  • Apple Revenue Share From App Store by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 24, 2010, 07:59

    From the outset, the numbers are pretty evident - The app developer stands to earn 70% of the price of an app and Apple earns 30%. But Steve Jobs has also…

  • Income Level Distribution Of iPhone Users by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 9, 2010, 07:23

    Don't accuse me of stereotyping people, but isn't it a generic observation that older people are less technological savvy than the younger lot - and that the…

  • iPhone OS Geographic Distribution Worldwide by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 27, 2010, 06:49

    AdMob has published its latest list where it has looked into the distribution of iPhone devices worldwide. The study reiterates what we already know - that the…

  • Total Number Of iPad Apps By Category by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 1, 2010, 11:09

    The iPad was launched on April 3rd and since then over 600,000 iPads have been sold. Distimo has also noted that there are over 200,000 apps on the App Store…

  • How Many iPhones Have Been Sold To Date by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 22, 2010, 08:00

    Apple just released their latest quarterly earnings report and we had already written, the company has clocked its highest earnings in a non-holiday quarter.…

  • Apple Revenues By Product by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Apple Revenues By Geography by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Largest Apple Markets In USA by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 17, 2010, 04:09

    Apple, based out of Cupertino, California has always been popular in the region. A recent study conducted by Experian Simmons confirms this report. According…

  • Cost To Manufacture iPad by: Anand

    January 30, 2010, 10:03

    The entry model of the Apple iPad has been tagged at a price of 9. How much does it cost to make an entry level iPad? Here is a Bill of Material analysis…

  • Quarterly Break-down Of iPhone Sales by: Anand

    January 26, 2010, 07:14

    The iPhone was launched in mid-2007. Nearly ten quarters have passed since then. How many iPhones did Apple sell through each of these quarters? Here is a…

  • Apple Share Of Worldwide Mobile Web by: Anand

    January 9, 2010, 05:35

    The iPhone is no doubt a major contributor to the web content consumption via mobile phones. In a study conducted by Quantcast, the region with highest…

  • iPhone User Distribution Worldwide by: Gowri Naveen

    December 21, 2009, 05:26

    Where do most iPhone users come from? AdMob's latest report says half the users are just from the US. And that's by far the only country which has user…

  • Fastest Growing iPhone Markets by: Anand

    December 21, 2009, 04:58

    In a recent report released by AdMob, the company studied the number of ad requests sent by iPhones in different parts of the world from January to November of…

  • Apple Website Traffic Statistics by: Kasthuri VN

    December 15, 2009, 05:23

    While it is not an internet property by itself, Apple is still among the top ten internet portals in the US. Most of this could come from users looking to…

  • Cost of iPhone Components by: Gowri Naveen

    December 10, 2009, 05:47

    What is the cost price of an iPhone? GigaOm has a fantastic presentation that outlines the cost of every component inside the iPhone which brings the total…

  • Most Popular iPhone Apps in China by: Anand

    November 19, 2009, 04:17

    The iPhone sales have not picked up enough in China with only 30,000 sold so far. However, the apps have started to move off the shelves and no surprise a…

  • Apple Mac Ownership in American Households by: Anand

    October 6, 2009, 05:55

    Most American households that own a Mac also own a Windows PC. A study into this suggests a probability that in most households, Apple is probably the second…

  • How Much Money Does Apple Make From App Store? by: Anand

    September 26, 2009, 16:50

    Apple apparently makes millions, though that is still a small percentage of their overall revenues. Apple charges 30% on the sale of every iPhone app. Close to…

  • Apple - Split of Revenues From Various Businesses by: Anand

    September 9, 2009, 09:46

    How much Apple make from its different businesses - Mac, iPhones, iPods, iTunes,etc? Here is the estimated split in its margins for 2009: iPhone : 15% Macs :…

  • Interesting Facts About Apple's App Store by: Anand

    August 22, 2009, 09:09

    It's tough job to be on the panel of reviewers who review each of the several thousands of iPhone apps being submitted to Apple every day. Here are some…

  • Forecast of iPhone Yearly Sales by: Anand

    August 19, 2009, 09:13

    Assuming market shares to remain flat, which is not very likely, Apple could expect to sell around 11 million handsets a year by 2011. This comes from 10.3…

  • Most Popular Camera Phones by: Anand

    August 18, 2009, 08:21

    An iPhone only has a 2MP camera. But that doesn't make it any lesser and is seemingly the most popular camera phone (by a huge margin) among the photography…

  • Are iPhones and iPods Kid Friendly? by: Anand

    August 14, 2009, 09:12

    You might guess the answer to be in a whopping affirmative since the survey can only be conducted among iPhone owners, those who are anyway madly in love with…

  • Interesting Facts About iPhone in China by: Anand

    August 14, 2009, 08:22

    Here are some interesting facts about the upcoming launch of iPhone in China: Exclusive distributor : China Unicom Number of iPhones purchased : 5 million (@…

  • How do iPhone Users Discover New Apps? by: Anand

    August 13, 2009, 07:58

    There are 65,000 iphone apps currently available on the app store. How can a human possibly surf through them all and download the best apps? Here is how…

  • iPhone and iPod Touch Distribution by Region by: Anand

    July 24, 2009, 15:26

    It was no secret that iPhone and iPod touch were more popular in US than anywhere else. A testament to the fact is here with the new Admob report on iPhone and…

  • Malfunction Rate of Smartphones : iPhone vs. Blackberry vs. Treo by: Anand

    June 28, 2009, 08:50

    iPhones are seemingly less prone to malfunction than a blackberry or a Treo. Here is the malfunction rate observed after the first 22 months of use: iPhone :…

  • Age Demographics of iPhone Users by: Anand

    June 15, 2009, 13:04

    iPhone users are older than you might think. More than half of the iPhone users are above the age of 35. Here is the percent-wise distribution of iPhone users…

  • Most Popular Free Apps for iPhone by: Anand

    April 11, 2009, 15:12

    Here is a list of the most downloaded free apps on iPhone: 1. Facebook 2. Google Earth 3. Pandora Radio 4. Tap Tap Revenge 5. Shazam 6. Pac Man Lite 7.…

  • Worldwide Smartphone Market Share in 2008 by: Anand

    March 13, 2009, 15:17

    iPhone sales grew 245%, RIM's Blackberry sales grew 96% and HTC grew 58%. In the end of it, here is the market share of the different companies at the end of…

  • Most Popular iPhone Apps Categories by: Anand

    March 6, 2009, 15:00

    If you try to buy every app in the iPhone AppStore, it shall cost you ,442.69. This is because there are over 25000 iPhone applications on store right now.…

  • How Many iPhone Apps Downloaded Till Date? by: Anand

    January 21, 2009, 14:10

    Over 300 million iPhone apps have been downloaded in the last three months. Here is the number of apps been downloaded by the iPhone users in the past three…

  • How iPhone Fared in Indian Market by: Anand

    November 14, 2008, 17:59

    Here are some numbers to analyze how Apple performed with their iPhone in India: Number of mobile phones sold in a year in India : 120 million Number of Smart…

  • Network Provider for iPhones in Different Countries by: Anand

    March 31, 2008, 18:31

    Here is the list of the carrier that iPhone comes locked with in each of the countries it is sold or shall be sold. US - AT&T Germany - T Mobile UK -…

  • What Percent of America Newly Owned an iPod Last Quarter? by: Anand

    February 29, 2008, 19:07

    40 percent of iPod sales in the fourth quarter of 2007 were from first time buyers. That is 40 percent of 22.1 million iPods that were sold in this time…

  • Sales Target for iPhone in 2008 by: Anand

    February 28, 2008, 15:30

    Apple COO has made a sales forecast of 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008. Mr.Cook says with the progress till now, the company is on the right track to…

  • Worldwide Distribution of Unlocked iPhones by: Anand

    January 30, 2008, 17:05

    Apple has an agreement with AT&T to sell iPhones enabled with only the latter's network. However unlocking the iPhone is not that uncommon, if not…

  • iTunes vs. Zune by: Anand

    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…

  • Residual Impact of iPhones and iPods on Apple's Revenue by: Anand

    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…

  • DRM-free Music: Apple vs. Amazon by: Anand

    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…

  • Rent Videos through iTunes by: Anand

    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.

  • How many iPhones sold till now? by: Anand

    December 22, 2007, 10:24

    Apple's target : 10 million iPhones to be sold by end of 2008 No. of days to sell the first million iPhones : 74 Expected number of sales by end of 2007 : 5…

  • iPhone popularity US vs. Europe by: Anand

    December 6, 2007, 14:23

    USA beats Europe hands down when it comes to iPhone sales. Apple had sold 270,000 units of iPhones in the first week of sales in US. But, the sales in Europe…

  • New plans for iPhone international travelers by: Anand

    November 3, 2007, 06:29

    Current plan charges

    .0195 per kilobyte of data processed. In the new plan, AT&T offers 50MB of data per month to browse, check email. The charge for…

  • How to get read-write access for your iPhone filesystem? by: Anand

    November 1, 2007, 20:51

    Use AppSnapp. It's a web based script that installs Installer.app that shall enable you to catalog and install other third party applications on your iPhone.…

  • Should I buy iPhones from Canada? by: Anand

    October 29, 2007, 06:53

    Get if from US, if possible. Deal you get in Canada (December 7, 2007 onward) Selling price                    9 CAD (0 USD) Network     …

  • Why are iPhones locked? by: Anand

    October 29, 2007, 06:41

    Because of the profit Apple stands to make by maintaining the exclusivity of the deal with AT&T Amount AT&T pays per iPhone connection in one…

  • Is there a restriction on iPhone purchase? by: Anand

    October 27, 2007, 20:46

    Yes. Apple has recently announced this. Here on, you may only purchase iPhones on credit card (No cash). Also, you may purchase not more than two units. So,…

• Blogs  (25)
  • Number Of Bloggers In The US by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 23, 2010, 07:44

    Acording to a recent study by Sysomos, close to 30% of all bloggers worldwide are from the United States. While the study did not elaborate on the number of…

  • Bloggers Demographics By Location, Age And Gender by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 9, 2010, 07:09

    Sysomos has released its latest study on blogger demographics. To do this, the firm looked into more than 100 million blogs. According to their report, USA…

  • Tumblr - Interesting Statistics by: Anand

    March 16, 2010, 04:16

    Tumblr is one of most popular microblogging platform which may not have the same buzz about it as a Twitter or Facebook, but definitely quite popular; if the…

  • Blogging Among Teenagers And Adults by: Anand

    February 5, 2010, 05:41

    Blogging among teenagers is no longer a fad and lesser teens blog today compared to 2-3 years back. However, 30+ year olds are still waking up to the concept…

  • Corporate Blogging : Frequency Of Updates by: Anand

    January 2, 2010, 05:25

    How frequent should a corporate blog be updated? While there is no thumb rule to go by, Technorati's study on blogging shows the following update frequency…

  • How Bloggers Make Money by: Gowri Naveen

    January 2, 2010, 05:14

    The past decade has seen a lot of people make money publishing online content on their blogs. So, how do these bloggers make money? Technorati's study on the…

  • New Media Usage Among Bloggers by: Anand

    January 1, 2010, 04:40

    Is blogging mainstream yet? While we might tend to believe it that way, considering the several thousands of blogs that exist today, it apparently is not.…

  • Statistics on Active Bloggers and Blog Readers by: Anand

    October 21, 2009, 04:19

    Statistics can be so confusing, especially when it comes from different sources. It was only a few days back when I wrote about 9% of all bloggers doing it…

  • How Many Full-Time Bloggers in All? by: Anand

    October 17, 2009, 06:36

    According to a new report by Technorati, close to 9% of all bloggers are self-employed/full-timers and a majority of the bloggers are merely hobbyists who do…

  • Online Ad Spending on Podcasts by: Anand

    September 10, 2009, 10:00

    Are podcasts still to say? Though they have not taken the world by storm as it was predicted to be, they are still growing and that is very important. Here are…

  • Number of Professional Bloggers in USA by: Anand

    April 22, 2009, 17:14

    Blogging is catching up as a profession in the United States, matching up to the attorneys in number. Here are a few numbers to chew Number of bloggers in the…

  • How Many Podcast Listeners in USA by: Anand

    March 3, 2009, 14:50

    Podcast has been slowly and steadily getting mainstream in the USA, and the number of podcast listeners as percentage of internet users has been growing. Here…

  • Credibility of Blogs As Information Source by: Anand

    December 16, 2008, 18:27

    How trustworthy are blogs perceived? An exhaustive global survey provides a dismal picture of blogs as a trustworthy news medium. Here are the percent…

  • Are Blogs Influential? by: Anand

    November 11, 2008, 16:38

    How influential are blogs in helping the reader make a purchasing decision? Here is the percent of American bloggers who accepted to have been influenced to…

  • US Female Participation in the Blogosphere by: Anand

    May 19, 2008, 12:55

    More than one third of American women participated actively or passively in the blogosphere: Participate in the Blogosphere : 36.2% Read and/or post comments…

  • Blog Readership Statisics by: Anand

    May 16, 2008, 06:18

    Any not-so-internet savvy friend would wonder if people actually visit blogs and read them. However, with increase in the number of blogs, the readership is…

  • American Market for Podcast Advertising by: Anand

    May 1, 2008, 21:25

    Podcast advertising is growing much more than expected. A projection of the advertising spending on podcasts in the American market for 2007 - 2012. 2007 -…

  • Do Blogs Influence Public Perception About A Company? by: Anand

    April 5, 2008, 07:19

    Blogs do not influence a great deal, but it has already started to be seen as a credible source of information by elite consumers as a source of information…

  • Do Political Blogs Have a Following? by: Anand

    March 12, 2008, 18:57

    Do blogs that discuss politics have a loyal following among the American population? Seemingly, it does not. In a recent survey on the popularity of Political…

  • Corporate Blogging Among B2B Marketers by: Anand

    February 8, 2008, 18:14

    A majority of B2B marketers have still not taken to corporate blogging. 33% feel they are open to this medium but were still experimenting with the medium. 5%…

  • Growth of US Podcast Audience by: Anand

    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…

  • Popularity of Blogging in Russia by: Anand

    January 30, 2008, 17:53

    Blogging as an internet activity is growing phenomenally in Russia. In the past year alone, the number of Russian blogs multiplied over 2.6 times. There are…

  • Teenagers Online Social Content Creation by: Anand

    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%…

  • Top 25 Web celebrities for 2007 by: Anand

    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.…

  • Popularity of blogging platform LiveJournal in Russia by: Anand

    December 3, 2007, 06:22

    Current number of LiveJournal accounts: 14 million Esimated monthly audience of LiveJournal worldwide: 18 million unique visitors Share of Russian audience :…

• browsers  (25)
  • Web Browser Market Share - September 2010 by: Anand Srinivasan

    October 8, 2010, 13:35

    What's your favorite browser? I changed from Firefox to Chrome over a year back and it looks like there were several people like me. The latest report from…

  • Internet Browser Market Share 2010 by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 4, 2010, 07:08

    Janco Associates have published a white paper that elaborates on the latest browser market share (based on usage in April 2010).  The firm writes, "Based on…

  • Opera Mini On iPhone - Interesting Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 28, 2010, 08:19

    Opera has released its customary 'State of the Mobile Web' report and this is the first report since the Opera Mini app for iPhone was approved by Apple few…

  • Firefox Worldwide Market Share And Number Of Users by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 1, 2010, 04:17

    Mozilla Firefox has been the browser that has been able to take on the dominance of Internet Explorer most effectively. In its most recent metrics report,…

  • Social Networks Access Via Mobile Browsers by: Anand

    March 5, 2010, 05:34

    In the past one year, the number of users accessing Facebook from their smartphone mobile browser has jumped 112%. The corresponding number for Twitter is…

  • Firefox Growth Rate Worldwide by: Anand

    January 9, 2010, 05:24

    Firefox has continued to grow over the past year. You might remember that back in August, Firefox 3.5 garnered a 4.5% market share among web browsers within…

  • Opera-Mini Usage Growth Region-wise by: Kasthuri VN

    December 23, 2009, 05:45

    We had earlier seen the top 10 countries for Opera Mini in terms of usage. Now, here is how the mobile web browser is growing in the various parts of the…

  • Most Popular Browser in Germany by: Kasthuri VN

    December 3, 2009, 05:17

    This news made me happy - Firefox has overtaken IE as the most used web browser in Germany. Right now, the lead is marginal and so it is still so much possible…

  • Opera Mini Mobile Browser Usage Statistics by: Kasthuri VN

    November 27, 2009, 05:47

    Opera Mini is no doubt still one of the most popular browsers on the mobile phones. So how has the usage been growing? A in-house report released earlier this…

  • Mobile Browser Market Share Worldwide by: Anand

    November 23, 2009, 06:59

    How long before Android overtakes the iPhone? At least quite some time, if we are to go by what StatCounter statistics say. According the market share recorded…

  • Growth and Usage Statistics of Opera Mini Mobile Browser by: Anand

    September 25, 2009, 09:49

    Opera claims the mini browser as the most popular mobile browser in the world. While that is debatable, here are some stats released by the company on their…

  • Firefox Add-ons Adoption And Usage by: Anand

    August 27, 2009, 08:57

    The core strength of Firefox has been the implementation of add-ons to your browser. So, how many users have installed Firefox add-ons on their system? Average…

  • Year-on-Year Growth of Opera Mini Mobile Browser by: Anand

    August 26, 2009, 08:52

    Opera mini's usage has considerably grown through the vacation season possibly because more people are on the move. This does not mean they have not grown…

  • Browser Market Share Statistics (July 2009) by: Anand

    August 17, 2009, 08:20

    Firefox 3.5 launched just a month and a half back, now has a 4.54% market share. This simply means that the earlier versions of Firefox suffered a slight…

  • Most Popular Mobile Browser (2008 - 2009) by: Anand

    June 10, 2009, 14:48

    Since iPhone launched, it has very swiftly taken to the top ranks and lags behind the most popular Opera by only a small margin. Here are nine mobile browsers…

  • Are You Using the Latest Version of Your Browser by: Anand

    July 12, 2008, 12:28

    New versions of browsers are often the most secure. The readiness of the users to update to the latest versions of the browsers that they use, is however very…

  • What is Download Day 2008 by: Anand

    June 2, 2008, 18:30

    Download Day 2008 is a marketing initiative by Mozilla to set a world record downloads of Firefox 3 when it is launched this year. People who pledge to help…

  • Firefox Reaches 500 Million Downloads by: Anand

    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…

  • Firefox Popularity in Europe by: Anand

    January 31, 2008, 07:11

    Firefox usage is leaping ahead in Europe. In the beginning of 2007, Firefox had a 7.3 percent market share in Europe. In one year's time, this has increased to…

  • Most Popular Browser in Businesses by: Anand

    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…

  • Netscape Navigator dead? by: Anand

    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…

  • What does Mozilla do apart from Firefox? by: Anand

    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…

  • Which is the most popular browser? by: Anand

    December 5, 2007, 17:47

    The recent report from NetApplications on the popularity of browsers by usage throws the following percentage share of the different browsers in the market: I…

  • How many Mozilla users? by: Anand

    December 4, 2007, 11:34

    New study based on pings to Mozilla server estimates that the number of Firefox users is around 49 million. Studies in July had estimated the number of be…

  • How much does Mozilla Firefox earn? by: Anand

    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.…

• Business Marketing Strategies  (10)
  • Will Facebook overtake Orkut in India? by: Anand

    October 12, 2007, 16:00

    It has been three years since social networking started off in this part of the world, and for almost the entire period it has been Orkut that has been the…

  • iPhone: 9 to 9 - Where Apple goofed up by: Anand

    September 7, 2007, 18:44

    When Apple announced yesterday that they are dropping the price of their iPhone 8GB from 9 to 9, you would expect jubilation all around. One thing that…

  • Celebrity advertising - No, this is different! by: Anand

    March 21, 2007, 22:02

    We all know how brands are made or broken with celebrity advertising. But of late, Yahoo and Google have chosen the new way to use celebrities as a way to…

  • 'Google Bombing' for the right reasons by: Anand

    March 10, 2007, 18:56

    Google Bombs are always thought of as part of technology humor; something to simply show why George Bush is a 'Miserable Failure' or to do other similar…

  • IM through Ads by: Anand

    March 6, 2007, 15:01

    I recently came across an Adsense ad on John Tp's blog. Here is a screenshot of the same. The advertiser in this case was John Chow, a technology blogger.It is…

  • Marketing Internet companies in different geographies by: Anand

    February 21, 2007, 19:54

    Companies which establish a global presence usually take marketing locally; the very reason why Pepsi makes such a cry about 'blue' in India (where the local…

  • YouTube Monetization plan - Loopholes and Ways to combat by: Anand

    February 2, 2007, 15:01

    This week, YouTube founder Chad Hurley had set up a storm by announcing that YouTube is planning to share its revenue with its users. This has, over the week,…

  • NOFOLLOW: Business sense of manipulation by: Anand

    January 30, 2007, 17:48

    Earlier during January, Wikipedia announced that all external links on its websites shall be hyperlinked with a NOFOLLOW tag in order to put a curb on…

  • Implications of changes in the Adsense ToS by: Anand

    January 24, 2007, 20:50

    This week, Jennifer Slegg, author of the blog on Contextual advertising, JenSense announced after her conversation with Brian Axe, the Senior Product Manager…

  • Age of Google: Branding an alternative Search Engine by: Anand

    January 23, 2007, 19:38

    In a book titled '101 Best Dotcoms' published in 2000, I found an interesting line from the author which went like this: 'Amongst your favorite search engines…

• Business Model Analysis  (29)
  • Freemium : Most Popular Premium Services On Free Websites by: Anand

    January 16, 2010, 05:27

    The Freemium business model has been one of the popular ways to make money from websites. Offering the basic service for free brings loads of new users to the…

  • Nexus One vs. iPhone vs. Droid vs. myTouch : First Week Sales by: Anand

    January 13, 2010, 10:04

    Much like the box office, the number of handsets sold in the first week of launch of the handsets very well give us a picture of things to come. Flurry, the…

  • Consumer Willingness To Pay For Online Content by: Anand

    January 7, 2010, 05:11

    Ever since Rupert Murdoch stirred up the debate on letting people pay to access his company's online content, people have been discussing the viability of such…

  • Cloud Computing Growth Forecast by: Kasthuri VN

    January 1, 2010, 05:25

    Cloud computing is being touted as the future of the web. Everything from your Word documents to pictures, music has been moving to the cloud. In Google Apps,…

  • Newspaper Online Revenues by: Anand

    November 24, 2009, 05:07

    Things are not looking great for the newspaper industry. Revenues have been falling both online and in print and looks like News Corp was right in taking a…

  • Most Preferred Means of Payment To Read Paid-News Service by: Anand

    September 22, 2009, 08:45

    Only 5% of the people might be ready to pay to read news online. However, a majority of them would be willing to rather pay a yearly subscription once than…

  • Subscriber Readiness To Pay For Online News Content by: Anand

    September 21, 2009, 07:31

    If your favorite news website (if it were not WSJ) decides to charge money in turn for your access to their news, will you continue to stick to the same…

  • Ecommerce, Advertising - What works best for a Casual Games site? by: Anand

    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…

  • What does the 6 million loss means for eBay? by: Anand

    October 20, 2007, 21:39

    This is only the second time eBay is posting a loss. But the loss has been huge this quarter: 6 million. The loss is seen as a hangover of eBay's purchase…

  • Is Web 3.0 Web-mobile? by: Anand

    October 5, 2007, 22:15

    Sometime back, I had written about how Google and Nokia are trying to penetrate the mobile web market. Back then, I had speculated that Google was trying to…

  • LinkedIn getting wary of the FB virus? by: Anand

    September 27, 2007, 19:56

    Facebook has been the most talked about social network in recent times. Be it for the latest Facebook app or the rumors of acquisition, the blogosphere loves…

  • Did Robert Scoble forget Nokia? by: Anand

    August 31, 2007, 20:38

    Duncan Riley caused a mass heart-attack of the Techcrunch audience this week when he reported Robert Scoble's prediction that Mahalo, Techmeme and Facebook are…

  • Now get rewarded for Spamming! by: Anand

    August 28, 2007, 11:48

    The blogosphere is now speculating a new form of ad network that Google is coming up with. This is after a series of patents have been filed by Google in that…

  • Youtube video ads - Where Google is going wrong by: Anand

    August 23, 2007, 15:38

    Yesterday, Google announced that they shall now be placing ads inside the Youtube videos. Here are a few significant points with regard to this announcement: Ad…

  • Three reasons why Yahoo should not partner with Google - An advertiser's perspective by: Anand

    August 10, 2007, 20:05

    If you cannot face an enemy, become his ally. That's exactly what Yahoo is trying to do. If the recent rumours are to be believed, Yahoo might give up its paid…

  • Google "Smartads" on Mobiles? by: Anand

    August 2, 2007, 18:52

    Last week, Nokia announced that they were acquiring the multimedia sharing website Twango. Twango is a website where you may share all the pictures, videos,…

  • Is Wikipedia a vulnerable tool for propoganda? by: Anand

    July 28, 2007, 14:44

    Wikipedia is the most celebrated example for success in Search Engine Optimization. There are hundreds of thousands of keywords that get a link to Wikipedia on…

  • Del.icio.us - Is Yahoo getting anything out of this? by: Anand

    July 11, 2007, 14:30

    It is one and a half years since Yahoo acquired Del.icio.us, the online bookmarking service. Any acquisition goes with a long term business strategy. At most…

  • What if Google buys PayPerPost? by: Anand

    May 24, 2007, 17:20

    Google has been on a buying spree over the past few months. Just weeks after announcing the purchase of DoubleClick, the online advertising network, this week,…

  • Ad Network consolidation by: Anand

    May 1, 2007, 10:53

    This April, Google announced their acquisition of Doubleclick. This was for a whopping .1 billion dollars. This has signalled the first step towards online…

  • Web History - the story inside out by: Anand

    April 21, 2007, 19:31

    Every business has a 'Statement of Purpose' from two points - the Marketing view point and the Operation view point. The Marketing purpose is to look out for…

  • David Vs. Goliath - Does it hold true? by: Anand

    April 6, 2007, 19:56

    Google recently launched MyMaps, which allows you to create custom maps with your own placemarks. This has sort of made websites such as Wikimapia and other…

  • Widget Networking - the next in-thing? by: Anand

    March 15, 2007, 16:47

    MyBlogLog has had a fair share of criticism in recent times. It was accused of revealing Google Adsense information that was hereto confidential under the…

  • Next: Google Ads for your Video Games! by: Anand

    February 16, 2007, 18:48

    TechCrunch recently announced that Google has made a million acquisition of AdScape Media. Adscape is a San Francisco based company that is credited with…

  • 'Most Valuable Sites' for the Web 2.0 era by: Anand

    February 13, 2007, 20:36

    Web 2.0 has been around for more than two years now. Around June of 2006, two Israeli programmers got together to create a website in their sparetime that will…

  • Yahoo makes a BrickHouse opposite Google's Labs! by: Anand

    February 10, 2007, 13:45

    This week, Yahoo announced the launch of its new super-product called Pipes. Pipes is not just a great product in terms of innovation, but it is also that…

  • Yahoo's Panama model - For good or bad? by: Anand

    February 6, 2007, 17:46

    In a significant move in the advertising segment of the Search Engine industry, Yahoo has announced that it is now completely doing away with the bid-to-positio…

  • Offline Businesses Online: Comparison of different Business models by: Anand

    January 28, 2007, 07:17

    It makes a lot of sense for small businesses to enter online. The extremely cheap setup cost, coupled with a wordwide audience and a 24X7 open shop makes it an…

  • Next Generation Image Search technology by: Anand

    January 22, 2007, 15:12

    What is the next generation image search going to be like? StockPhotoTalk, in an article on a similar topic hints at image search engines like YotoPhoto and…

• Communication  (46)
  • Number Of Emails Sent Per Day 40 Years Since It Was First Sent by: Anand Srinivasan

    October 9, 2011, 09:25

    Forty years back, in October 1971, the first email was sent. The email was sent between two computers separated by a distance of 1 meter and presumably…

  • Number Of Users On Hotmail Vs. Gmail Vs. Yahoo Mail by: Anand Srinivasan

    November 13, 2010, 11:26

    There has been a lot of talk about Facebook launching their own email service next week. The buzz is already so high that the new "Facebook Mail" is touted to…

  • Average Number Of Text Messages In A Day - Adults Vs. Teens by: Anand Srinivasan

    September 20, 2010, 13:09

    In any discussion about the growth and usage of text messaging, it is always the teenage population that dominate the discussions. However, according to a…

  • Email Marketing : Email Open Rate Vs. Click Through Rate by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 20, 2010, 12:46

    Is email as a marketing medium losing its sheen? For quite some time, email marketing has been one of the cheapest and most effective medium to catch up with…

  • Mobile VoIP Growth Forecast by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 5, 2010, 12:47

    In February of this year, I had written about the growth of mobile data by application and had noted that mobile VoIP and IM applications had grown by 47% over…

  • Global Spam Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 29, 2010, 06:18

    Symantec has announced its latest MessageLabs report for April 2010 that looks into the proliferation of spam in the various geographies. There are some…

  • Average Teenage Text Messaging Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 23, 2010, 14:32

    It has been a long established fact that text messaging is the most popular medium of communication among teenagers. This is primarily because it is always-on,…

  • Study On Email Subscription Management  by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 29, 2010, 05:28

    Offering an easy way out for unwilling subscribers to email newsletters is considered good business manners. Yet, a lot many companies fail to simplify the…

  • Dutch Mobile Market Statistics by: Anand

    March 13, 2010, 06:09

    TelecomPaper released their latest report on the wireless market in Netherlands. According to the report while growth rate has slowed down since a year…

  • Number of Emails Sent Worldwide by: Anand

    March 2, 2010, 05:08

    Here is a video compiled by Jess3 from various sources that give an interesting perspective of the state of the web today. According to its sources (Radicati…

  • US Mobile Network Operators Market Share by: Anand

    February 20, 2010, 04:00

    Verizon is undoubtedly the leader among the mobile network operators. Thanks to the prolific growth of smartphones including the iPhone, AT&T comes second.…

  • GSM Mobile Market Share In India by: Anand

    February 15, 2010, 04:31

    The Cellular Operators Association Of India (COAI) has just released their January 2010 list for the number of GSM subscribers across the various cell phone…

  • Global Email Delivery Rates - By Region And ISP by: Anand

    February 5, 2010, 05:07

    A study of the number of instances permissioned commercial mails failing to reach the inbox of the recipients was studied by Return Path.  Here are some…

  • Skype International Phone Traffic Volume by: Anand

    January 20, 2010, 05:26

    International calling minutes is increasing. But the growth of traffic over conventional carriers is slowing down while VoIP, especially Skype is picking up.…

  • Text Messaging Volumes in USA by: Kasthuri VN

    December 20, 2009, 07:37

    If you need any evidence to see how much text messaging has proliferated in the past few years, you just need to see this statistic. Of course, this is also a…

  • Volume of SMS Sent in Japan (And Asia Pacific) by: Anand

    November 26, 2009, 05:43

    The Asia Pacific and Japan region has one of the most voracious users of text messages as is evident in the numbers here. The numbers are provided in Gartner's…

  • Online Radio vs. Traditional Radio - Revenue Estimates by: Anand

    November 4, 2009, 03:51

    Online radio is still a minuscule part of the entire radio industry, but it has been seeing a slow and steady growth over the past few years. Today, online…

  • Categorization of Emails Received Based on Spam,Offers,Personal and Business by: Anand

    September 26, 2009, 09:02

    We all receive spam. However, it forms the major portion of an American's inbox, much more than the inbox of people from anywhere else. Here is how the email…

  • Most Popular Tools For Personal Online Communication by: Anand

    September 26, 2009, 08:51

    Email is still king when it comes to communicating online. Social networks, still far far behind. Here are the numbers for North Ameica, Europe and Asia…

  • Email Service Providers Most Conducive For Email Marketing Campaigns by: Anand

    September 8, 2009, 09:45

    If you are an email marketer, you will realize that it is not just about how big your database is, but how well your targets respond. You might probably not…

  • Skype Usage Facts You Didn't Know by: Anand

    September 2, 2009, 09:06

    Some really interesting tidbits of information about Skype: Volume of free Skype-to-Skype talk time in 2008 : 65.5 billion minutes (43.4 billion in 2007) Volu…

  • Text Messaging in Philippines by: Anand

    August 26, 2009, 08:33

    How big is mobile phone text messaging in Philippines? Pudding Media managing director, Emmanuel Allix, calls Philippines the number 1 SMS country in the…

  • Largest Email Service in USA by: Anand

    August 15, 2009, 06:24

    Things have changed since 2008. Gmail seemed to have caught up with AOL and overtaken it to become the third largest email service provider in USA. Here are…

  • Largest Email Service Providers In USA by: Anand

    July 31, 2009, 15:04

    Surprise Surprise if you were to guess Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail as the top three. There is an entrant in the top five you might have not given much thought…

  • Top Email Services in 2008 by: Anand

    January 19, 2009, 14:21

    Google launched Gmail four years back, and they continue to be the fourth largest email provider. However, they have had the fastest growth rate in 2008…

  • Number of Telephone and Internet Users in China by: Anand

    December 22, 2008, 18:40

    China is approaching the One Billion mark in the number of telephone subscribers. As of October end, Total number of telephone users : 979 million Number of…

  • Preferred Means of Communication Among Teenagers by: Anand

    December 15, 2008, 13:11

    Ironically, all means that were taken up for the survey are the modern digital forms. Here are the percent popularity of the different methods of communication…

  • RSS Feeds Adoption Rate in Different Countries by: Anand

    May 30, 2008, 19:57

    Have you subscribed to an RSS feed? A recent survey found that the 34% of the respondents had subscribed to at least one RSS feed. This is more than double of…

  • Email Archiving Market by: Anand

    March 23, 2008, 07:20

    There are two basic divisions on which the email archiving market is studied : The on-premise and the hosted email archiving solutions. In 2007, the combined…

  • 2008 North American Web Conferencing Company of the Year by: Anand

    January 24, 2008, 12:19

    Frost and Sullivan has announced that Citrix Online is the 2008 North American Web Conferencing company of the year. The Frost & Sullivan award recognized…

  • Most Requested Mobile Service by: Anand

    January 21, 2008, 06:26

    If speed and quality weren't an issue, Email is the most requested mobile service according to a new study. The different preferences were 1. Email 33% 2.…

  • Does Email Marketing Give Sufficient Returns by: Anand

    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…

  • Spending on Email Marketing by: Anand

    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.

  • Highest Perpetration of Spam by: Anand

    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…

  • Gmail Vs. Yahoo Mail Vs. Hotmail Vs. AOL by: Anand

    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.…

  • Are ecards still popular? by: Anand

    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…

  • What does Mozilla do apart from Firefox? by: Anand

    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…

  • How many iPhones sold till now? by: Anand

    December 22, 2007, 10:24

    Apple's target : 10 million iPhones to be sold by end of 2008 No. of days to sell the first million iPhones : 74 Expected number of sales by end of 2007 : 5…

  • Popular Form of Online Communication for Adult users by: Anand

    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…

  • Corporate Business Email usage by: Anand

    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…

  • Top 10 Email Spam Lists for 2007 by: Anand

    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…

  • How big is email advertising? by: Anand

    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…

  • Fastest Growing Internet Communications Service by: Anand

    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,…

  • Which is the biggest email service? by: Anand

    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…

  • Global market for mobile messaging by: Anand

    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…

  • Do I email or chat on IM? by: Anand

    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…

• Demographics  (100)
  • Age Distribution Of Internet Users In UK by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Government Websites Usage Demographics by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Male-Female Gender Ratio Of Blackberry Handset Owners by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Average Age Distribution Across Social Network Websites by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Mobile Social Network Usage By Age by: Anand

    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…

  • Demographic Profile Of Social Gamers by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Usage Among African American Population by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Websites Among Senior Citizens by: Anand

    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…

  • E-Reader Demographics by: Anand

    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…

  • UK Internet Users Statistics by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • Male vs. Female Gender Distribution on Social Networks by: Anand

    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…

  • Senior Citizens vs. Baby Boomers On the Internet by: Kasthuri VN

    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%…

  • Countries With Largest Number of Twitter Users by: Anand

    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…

  • Comprehensive Demographics of American Twitter Users by: Anand

    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…

  • iPhone Usage Among Mothers And Children by: Anand

    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…

  • Representation of Women in Silicon Valley IT Jobs by: Anand

    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…

  • Average Time Spent on Social Networking Sites Among 18-24 Year Olds by: Anand

    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…

  • LinkedIn Users Distribution Across Countries by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Usage Among American College Students by: Anand

    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%…

  • Age Demographics of Facebook vs. MySpace by: Anand

    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…

  • American Facebook Users Age Demographics by: Anand

    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…

  • Age Distribution of Mobile Internet Users in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Male-Female Gender Ratio of American Mobile Internet Users by: Anand

    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…

  • Male-Female Gender Ratio on Major Social Networks by: Anand

    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…

  • State of Internet in Mexico by: Anand

    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…

  • Age-Gender Demographics of Facebook Users in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Peak Internet Traffic in USA vs. Europe - Characteristics by: Anand

    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…

  • How Active Are Indian Internet Users? by: Anand

    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…

  • Why Women Use Social Networks? by: Anand

    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…

  • How Many Internet Users in UK? by: Anand

    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…

  • Cities With the Largest Twitter Population by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of Facebook Usage Among Senior Citizens by: Anand

    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…

  • Popularity of Orkut in India by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Classifieds Usage By Age by: Anand

    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-…

  • Internet Growth Among Mexican Population by: Anand

    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…

  • American Teenage Population with Access to Internet by: Anand

    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…

  • Distribution of Affluent Internet Users By Age by: Anand

    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…

  • Reach of Social Networks among Internet Users in Asia Pacific by: Anand

    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…

  • Reach of Social Networks Among Internet Users in Europe by: Anand

    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…

  • Males Vs. Females - Internet Users in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • African American Internet Population in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Gender Distribution Among Internet Users in UK by: Anand

    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…

  • UK Internet and Mobile Internet Demographics by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Penetration of American Baby Boomer Population by: Anand

    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…

  • Income Levels of MySpace and Facebook Users by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Growth of Internet Usage Among Indian Users by: Anand

    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…

  • Which is the Best Ad-Format for your User? by: Anand

    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…

  • American Bloggers Demographics by: Anand

    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%

  • Internet Access Among Senior American Citizens by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Demographics for USA by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Internet Access Among Different Races in America by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Penetration in India by: Anand

    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…

  • Comparative Estimates of US Adult Female Internet Users by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Usage Among American Senior Citizens by: Anand

    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…

  • Study of NRI Activities Online by: Anand

    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…

  • Population of Affluent Baby Boomers Shopping Online by: Anand

    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%

  • Gender Distribution of UK Internet Population by: Anand

    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…

  • Gender Distribution of American Internet Population by: Anand

    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…

  • Population of Online US Adult Female With Children by: Anand

    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…

  • Whites,the Most Avid Bloggers by: Anand

    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…

  • Top 10 Websites in Canada by: Anand

    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.…

  • Demographic Profile of Google and Yahoo Search Users by: Anand

    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…

  • Distribution of Orkut Users in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Penetration in Russia by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of ECommerce in India by: Anand

    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…

  • Is Localization of Website Content Good? by: Anand

    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…

  • Top 10 Websites in Canada by: Anand

    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.…

  • World's Largest Internet Market by Users by: Anand

    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…

  • Asian American Internet Usage Figures by: Anand

    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…

  • Popularity of Video Sharing Among Young Adults by: Anand

    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…

  • Hispanics' Tolerance to Email Marketing by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Finance Website by: Anand

    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 -…

  • Market Share of Operating Systems by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Usage in Public Libraries by: Anand

    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…

  • Japanese Online ad spend by: Anand

    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…

  • Video Gaming in India by: Anand

    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

  • Internet and Cellphone Usage of American Population by: Anand

    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-…

  • Mobile Internet Population in Japan by: Anand

    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…

  • US Presidential Hopefuls Campaign on the Internet by: Anand

    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…

  • Yahoo vs. Google in Japan by: Anand

    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…

  • How to Improve Efficacy of Public Service Announcements? by: Anand

    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%…

  • Top Yahoo subsites in 2007 by: Anand

    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…

  • What's most popular at Amazon this season? by: Anand

    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…

  • Watching TV Online vs. Real TV vs. Print media by: Anand

    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…

  • Ask.com Growth Rate by: Anand

    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…

  • Country With The Best Broadband Connectivity by: Anand

    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…

  • Google traffic growth in 2007 by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Popular Form of Online Communication for Adult users by: Anand

    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…

  • Fastest growing websites in France by: Anand

    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…

  • Are internet users getting old in UK? by: Anand

    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…

  • How many users prefer Internet to TV for watching videos? by: Anand

    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…

  • Teenagers Online Social Content Creation by: Anand

    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%…

  • Corporate Business Email usage by: Anand

    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…

  • Ad spending: Europe vs. USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Do you need a multi-lingual website? by: Anand

    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…

  • Demographics of the Searchers by: Anand

    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…

  • How long do people surf internet at work? by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Consumer Packaged Goods websites by: Anand

    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 -…

  • Do green policies pay for online retailers? by: Anand

    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…

  • Baby boomers Internet usage stats by: Anand

    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…

• Ecommerce  (67)
  • Retail eCommerce Spending In USA by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 23, 2010, 16:35

    How much spending goes online when you take away the travel bookings part? According to a study conducted by Comscore, the growth of retail eCommerce spending…

  • Top Travel Sites In India by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Virtual Goods Purchase - Top Source Websites by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Number Of iTunes Users Vs. Nokia Music Store Users In Europe by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Retail e-Commerce Sales In Western Europe by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • US Mobile eCommerce Revenue Estimates by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Mobile Shopping Popularity By Age Of Shoppers by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • eCommerce Third Party Service Providers by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Online Commerce vs. Retail Store : Sales Breakdown by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • ECommerce Fraud : Estimated Online Revenue Loss by: Anand

    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…

  • eCommerce Growth Categories In China by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Retailers Consumer Complaints With BBB by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Debit Card Usage Statistics by: Anand

    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…

  • Mobile Internet Shopping Growth Forecast by: Anand

    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…

  • Number Of Books Purchased On Kindle by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth Of eBay In India by: Anand

    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…

  • Share Of eCommerce In Overall Turnover Among European Enterprises by: Anand

    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…

  • Factors Influencing Online Purchases by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Growing eCommerce Categories by: Anand

    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…

  • Largest eCommerce Hub in India by: Anand

    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…

  • China eCommerce Statistics by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • Thanksgiving : US Online Retail Traffic Market Share by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Black Friday Online eCommerce Spending by: Anand

    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…

  • State of eCommerce in India by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Social Marketing For eCommerce by: Anand

    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…

  • eCommerce in Europe by: Anand

    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…

  • Free Shipping on E-Commerce Websites by: Anand

    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…

  • Popularity of Online Banking - 1 in 4 Customers Bank Online by: Anand

    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.…

  • Average Delay In Making An Online Purchase by: Anand

    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…

  • Do Security Seals on eCommerce Websites Help? by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Online Retail-Apparek Sites in France by: Anand

    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…

  • Popular Consumables Purchased Via Mobile Phones by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of Mobile Payment Service Worldwide by: Anand

    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…

  • Stats on The Mobile Music Industry by: Anand

    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…

  • What Percent of UK Internet Users Buy Online? by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of E-Commerce in Germany by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Most Popular Retail E-Commerce Categories in US by: Anand

    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…

  • Mobile Banking Growth Prediction for Five Years by: Anand

    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…

  • Kijiji Vs. Craigslist Traffic by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Preferred Form of Online Payment by: Anand

    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…

  • Average Annual Online Spending By UK Buyers by: Anand

    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…

  • Do You Buy From Spam? by: Anand

    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…

  • B2C E-Commerce Sales in India by: Anand

    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 :…

  • US Retail E-Commerce CAGR by: Anand

    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…

  • American Online Retail Projections for 2012 by: Anand

    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…

  • Gifts For Your Valentine Purchased Online? by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Travel Market Growth in Asia-Pacific by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of ECommerce in India by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of Retail ECommerce Worldwide by: Anand

    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…

  • How Big is Netflix? by: Anand

    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…

  • Top 10 Gaining Categories for US Market in December by: Anand

    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…

  • Christmas Shopping in UK and France by: Anand

    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…

  • 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…

  • B2C E-Commerce in Asia-Pacific by: Anand

    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…

  • How Big is the Chinese Video Sharing market by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of B2B Online Advertising in US by: Anand

    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…

  • How rampant is IP violation? by: Anand

    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…

  • Residual Impact of iPhones and iPods on Apple's Revenue by: Anand

    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…

  • DRM-free Music: Apple vs. Amazon by: Anand

    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…

  • Rent Videos through iTunes by: Anand

    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.

  • What's most popular at Amazon this season? by: Anand

    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…

  • Web Customers most satisfied with Retail Firms by: Anand

    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…

  • Revenue loss from Phishing - 2007 by: Anand

    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

  • Do green policies pay for online retailers? by: Anand

    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…

  • Size of the Local Online Advertising market by: Anand

    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…

  • How much is spent on the Holiday season? by: Anand

    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…

  • What to buy for the holiday season? by: Anand

    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…

• Enterprise  (7)
  • IT Spending In 2010 by: Anand

    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…

  • Need For Real Time Collaboration A La Google Wave by: Anand

    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…

  • Information Management on Facebook Servers by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Web 2.0 Tools Among Enterprises by: Anand

    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…

  • Use of Cloud Services in Businesses by: Anand

    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…

  • Business Usage of Web 2.0 Technology by: Anand

    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.…

  • Acceptance of Windows Server 2008 Among Businesses by: Anand

    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…

• Financial  (32)
  • Employee Worth Estimates - Companies With Top Cash per Employee by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 30, 2010, 12:15

    If the total worth of a company was to be divided among every employee, how much each person receive? With an amazingly huge cash in its coffers, it is no…

  • AT&T Revenue Split-Up By Business by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Apple Revenues By Product by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Apple Revenues By Geography by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Twitter Revenues Estimates by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Revenue Per Unique Visitor Of Major Portals by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • US Ebook Market Growth by: Anand

    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…

  • ARPU Of American Wireless Operators by: Anand

    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…

  • Fastest Growing Wireless Operators By Revenue by: Anand

    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.…

  • ARPU On Data And Voice For US Wireless Carriers by: Anand

    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,…

  • Apple iTunes Store Revenue by: Anand

    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…

  • Estimated Share Of Profit Among Mobile Phone Manufacturers by: Anand

    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…

  • Google's Share Of Revenue From United States by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Revenue In China by: Anand

    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…

  • Revenues From Digital Music : Forecast by: Anand

    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…

  • Facebook vs. LinkedIn vs. Twitter Estimated Valuation and Revenues by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Monster Career Ad Network Performance by: Anand

    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…

  • PC Shipments Forecast For 2009-2010 by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • 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…

  • SaaS Model : Revenue and Growth Forecast by: Anand

    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…

  • Mobile Paid Apps Revenue Estimates by: Anand

    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…

  • Paid Social Networking Website Revenues Projection by: Anand

    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…

  • Transaction Volumes on Paypal by: Anand

    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…

  • Number of Registered Users on Skype by: Anand

    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…

  • Apple Q4 2009 Sales Report by: Anand

    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…

  • How Much Money Does NewEgg.com Make? by: Anand

    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…

  • Market Share of Popular Finance/Investment Websites by: Anand

    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.…

  • How Big Is SurveyMonkey? by: Anand

    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…

  • Details of Skype Sale by: Anand

    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…

  • Yahoo - Maktoob Acquisition Details by: Anand

    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…

  • China Mobile Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Facebook-Friendfeed Deal Details by: Anand

    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…

• Gadgets  (55)
  • World's Largest Phone Manufacturers By Units Sold by: Anand Srinivasan

    October 29, 2010, 17:25

    The mobile phone segment is very competitive with every quarter bringing some sort of a surprise. Back in May this year, I had written about an IDC report that…

  • Number Of Smartphones Sold Per Day - iPhone Vs. Android Vs. Nokia by: Anand Srinivasan

    September 14, 2010, 13:16

    Apple and Google have been fighting a lot over numbers of late. Steve Jobs had recently mocked Google's claims of activating over 200,000 devices everyday by…

  • Most Popular Laptops Among Students (USA) by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 10, 2010, 16:32

    Students are increasingly being lured towards Macbooks, a recent study by Student Monitor has showed. In their recent report, the Ridgewood, NJ based research…

  • Smartphone Share : Men Vs. Women by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 10, 2010, 16:30

    Men or Women - Who do you think own a majority share in smartphone ownership? Not being chauvinistic, but I found the results from this study entirely along…

  • US Tablet PC Sales Forecast by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 18, 2010, 06:48

    Till a day before the iPad hit the stores, people asked if this was a form factor consumers will really need. To this date, iPad remains one of the few devices…

  • Tablet PC Sales Forecast Worldwide by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Global Semiconductor Chip Sale Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    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.…

  • Mobile Phone Manufacturers Market Share And Ranking by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Japan Smartphone Market Share By Shipments by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • US Smartphone Ownership Penetration Forecast by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • E-Reader Brand Awareness by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Mobile Phone Penetration : Country Rankings by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Use Of Smartphone For Business Purposes by: Anand

    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…

  • Netbooks Sale And Revenue Statistics by: Anand

    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…

  • Cell Phone Radiation : Smartphones With Highest Radiation Levels by: Anand

    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…

  • Worldwide Touch-Screen Smartphone Market Share by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth Forecast For Wi-Fi Enabled Mobile Handsets by: Anand

    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…

  • Cell Phone Ownership Among Teenagers by: Anand

    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%…

  • Most Popular Android Smartphones by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Desired Features On A Smartphone by: Anand

    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…

  • Cell Phone Ownership Among Children by: Anand

    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…

  • Smartphone Ownership Growth in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Tablet Growth Forecast by: Anand

    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…

  • Total Contractual Cost Of Smartphones by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • Mobile Phone Market Share In USA by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Android Platform Versions - Most Popular by: Anand

    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…

  • Gadget Ownership Among American Internet Users by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Mac vs. PC Average Retail Selling Price by: Anand

    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…

  • Mac vs. PC US Retail Revenue Share by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Malfunction Rate of Laptops by Manufacturer by: Anand

    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…

  • Smartphone Market Leaders - 2009 Through 2014 by: Anand

    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…

  • Number of Smartphones Sold Worldwide in Q3 2009 by: Anand

    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…

  • Size of China's Cell Phone Gray Market by: Anand

    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…

  • Touchscreen Phone Growth and Market Share by: Anand

    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…

  • Multiple Handset Ownership Among US and Canada Users by: Anand

    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…

  • E-Readers Market Share in US by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth and Fall of Marketshares of Mobile Handsets in Western Europe by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth in Popularity of Netbooks by: Anand

    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…

  • How Big is the E-Reader Market? by: Anand

    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…

  • Price of Zune HD by: Anand

    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…

  • Worldwide Mobile Phone Shipment in 2009 - Top 5 Ranking by Handset Manufacturer by: Anand

    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…

  • Ranking of Vendors for Computer Sales in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Five Smartphones Globally by: Anand

    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.…

  • Sale of Digital Music Vs. Music CDs by: Anand

    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…

  • Semiconductor Chips Sales Projection for 2009 by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Gadgets For Christmas in Europe by: Anand

    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…

  • Microsoft Zune vs. Apple iPod by: Anand

    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…

  • PC Market for Dell in China by: Anand

    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…

  • How much data do Google servers process everyday? by: Anand

    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!!!

  • PC World Top 25 Most Innovative Products for 2007 by: Anand

    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.…

  • How to Improve Efficacy of Public Service Announcements? by: Anand

    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%…

  • What's most popular at Amazon this season? by: Anand

    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…

  • Broadband market in Europe by: Anand

    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…

  • What is a green computer? by: Anand

    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…

  • Acer's market share in Hardware market by: Anand

    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…

• Gaming  (54)
  • American States With Highest Number Of Facebook Gamers by: Anand Srinivasan

    November 22, 2010, 08:45

    Where do the most number of gamers on Facebook come from in the United States? A study conducted by AdParlor looked into data gathered from hundreds of…

  • US Mobile Gaming Revenues Forecast by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 18, 2010, 16:35

    With mobile phones getting smarter by the day, the number of people who access gaming applications on their mobile phone is definitely on the rise. Consequently…

  • Social Gaming Revenue Estimate And Forecast by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 29, 2010, 11:56

    Social gaming has been become amazingly popular over the past year and a half with the launch of games such as Farmville and Mafia Wars on Facebook. It is not…

  • Average Number Of Games On Smartphone by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 7, 2010, 16:13

    How many games do you have on your smartphone, if you have one? This is not entirely surprising, but a study by Compete found that iPhone users are pretty…

  • US Video Game Revenues By Platform by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Top Gaming Countries By Average Revenue Per Gamer by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Game Console Failure Rate : XBox 360 Vs. PS3 Vs. Wii by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Smartphone Mobile Gaming Market Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Broadband Connected Gaming Console Stats by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Largest Social Game Developers On Facebook by: Anand Srinivasan

    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 -…

  • China Online Game Market by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • US Video Game Market Share By Revenue by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • MMO Games Revenue By Country by: Anand

    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…

  • PC Gaming Software Revenue Statistics by: Anand

    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…

  • Global Video Game Market Growth by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Used Online Gaming Platform by: Anand

    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…

  • Virtual Goods Spending Behavior On Social Games by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Social Networks For Playing Games by: Anand

    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…

  • Demographic Profile Of Social Gamers by: Anand

    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…

  • Number Of Users On Second Life by: Anand

    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…

  • Mobile Gaming In UK by: Anand

    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…

  • Video Gaming Among Adult Population by: Anand

    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…

  • Gaming Among Children In USA by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Computer Gaming Among Females by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • Online Gambling In Germany by: Anand

    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…

  • China Online Gaming Industry Revenue Projections by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Ten Games Websites in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Mobile Gaming Industry - Growth Forecast and Drivers by: Anand

    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…

  • Biggest Social Gaming Applications By Number of Users by: Anand

    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…

  • How Many Nintendo Wii Consoles Sold Till Now? by: Anand

    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…

  • Number of Games Available On Portable Gaming Platforms by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Visited Gaming Websites in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • US Gamers Owning More Than One Video Game Console by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Online Gaming Sites in Japan by: Anand

    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…

  • What Does An Average Gamer Look Like? by: Anand

    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…

  • Worldwide Revenue From Virtual Goods - Projection by: Anand

    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…

  • Effect of Recession on Gaming Industry by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular MMORPG (Online role playing games) By Time Spent Per Week by: Anand

    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…

  • PlayStation Network Member Base Vs. Xbox Live Subscriber Base by: Anand

    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…

  • Overview of the Online Gaming Sector by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of Gaming Industry in US by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of Gaming Market in Germany by: Anand

    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…

  • Projected Mobile Gaming Revenues in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific by: Anand

    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…

  • Projection of American In-Game Advertising Spending by: Anand

    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…

  • Sale Figures of Gaming Consoles in Japan by: Anand

    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 -…

  • Is Ad-Supported Free Casual Games Better Than Paid Games? by: Anand

    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…

  • Eight Most Upcoming Games for 2008 by: Anand

    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…

  • How Many Play World of Warcraft by: Anand

    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…

  • Video Gaming in India by: Anand

    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

  • Which firms have a presence in Virtual Worlds? by: Anand

    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) …

  • How to Improve Efficacy of Public Service Announcements? by: Anand

    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%…

  • What's most popular at Amazon this season? by: Anand

    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…

  • What to buy for the holiday season? by: Anand

    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…

  • Ecommerce, Advertising - What works best for a Casual Games site? by: Anand

    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…

• Google  (49)
  • Google Plus - User Demographics : Gender, Occupation, Cities & Countries by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 14, 2011, 16:32

    It has barely been weeks since Google launched their new social network - the Google+. Despite its earlier failures at getting their social strategy right,…

  • How Big Is The Internet? by: Anand Srinivasan

    November 18, 2010, 10:38

    Google has an overwhelming presence on the internet and it is very unlikely that any of us remains untouched by their service yet. Even if you do not use their…

  • Number Of Smartphones Sold Per Day - iPhone Vs. Android Vs. Nokia by: Anand Srinivasan

    September 14, 2010, 13:16

    Apple and Google have been fighting a lot over numbers of late. Steve Jobs had recently mocked Google's claims of activating over 200,000 devices everyday by…

  • Biggest Advertisers On Google by: Anand Srinivasan

    September 6, 2010, 16:59

    British Petroleum deals with products that really don't need to be advertised on Google. At least that used to be the thinking of the marketing team at the…

  • Search Engine Market Share : Web Vs. Mobile by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 30, 2010, 11:42

    It's a no-brainer to say that Google leads the way by a huge margin in the search engine rankings. But considering that the mobile internet took off relatively…

  • Income Level Distribution Of Android Users by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 9, 2010, 07:39

    Close to 40% of iPhone users earn more than 0K a year in the US. While this may sound impressive, it also needs to be noted that the iPhone users are, on an…

  • Worldwide Android OS Geographic Distribution  by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Most Searched Keywords On Google by: Anand Srinivasan

    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'…

  • Google Government Data Removal Request Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Average Number Of Search Engine Queries Per Month by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Google Profit And Revenues Timeline by: Anand

    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…

  • Website Clickthrough By Search Engine Results Page by: Anand

    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…

  • Google Quarterly Revenues From Online Advertising by: Anand

    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…

  • Publishers Share Of Adsense Ad Clicks by: Anand

    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…

  • Cost of Nexus One Components by: Anand

    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.…

  • Average Length of Google Search Keywords by: Anand

    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…

  • Google Dominance in Brazil vs. India - Category Based Comparison by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Ten Global Markets For Google by: Anand

    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…

  • How Many Internet Searches in a Month? by: Anand

    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…

  • Five Most Important Factors for Search Engine Optimization by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Ten Search Engines in USA (July 2009) by: Anand

    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…

  • Mobile Search Engine Market Share by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Google Services by: Anand

    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…

  • Bandwidth Consumption of Google in the US by: Anand

    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…

  • How Many Searches Are Made Every Month by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Popularity of Youtube Videos in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • How Many URLs Are Indexed on Google by: Anand

    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…

  • Search Engines Usability Study by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Twenty Googled Health Conditions by: Anand

    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.…

  • Growth Rate of Paid Clicks on Google by: Anand

    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…

  • Google's Performance on Social Networks by: Anand

    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…

  • Are Search Engines Trust-Worthy? by: Anand

    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…

  • How much data do Google servers process everyday? by: Anand

    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!!!

  • Yahoo vs. Google in Japan by: Anand

    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…

  • Gmail Vs. Yahoo Mail Vs. Hotmail Vs. AOL by: Anand

    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.…

  • Google traffic growth in 2007 by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Is Advertising Gambling sites legal? by: Anand

    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…

  • Ego-surfing : Growing like crazy by: Anand

    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.…

  • Demographics of the Searchers by: Anand

    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…

  • 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…

  • Search Engine market shares for the American market by: Anand

    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%)

  • Which is the biggest email service? by: Anand

    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…

  • Is Google transparent and accountable? by: Anand

    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…

  • What is Android? by: Anand

    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…

  • How much does Mozilla Firefox earn? by: Anand

    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.…

  • What is the size limit for video uploads on YouTube? by: Anand

    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,…

  • Is Google Operating System for real? by: Anand

    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…

  • How fast is Google stock growing? by: Anand

    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…

  • What is OpenSocial? by: Anand

    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…

• internet  (196)
  • How Big Is The Internet? by: Anand Srinivasan

    November 18, 2010, 10:38

    Google has an overwhelming presence on the internet and it is very unlikely that any of us remains untouched by their service yet. Even if you do not use their…

  • Internet User Distribution Across Countries by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 6, 2010, 16:34

    What percent of the world's total internet users come from USA? or China, Japan or India for that matter? According to reports from Cisco, China and USA alone…

  • Worldwide Distribution Of High Speed Internet Connection (> 5Mbps) by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 27, 2010, 12:40

    Akamai has released its latest report detailing the state of internet broadband across the world. Not surprisingly, south east asia, especially Japan and South…

  • Average Website Traffic Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 7, 2010, 16:50

    If you own a website, you may well be convinced of the plain fact that your website cannot hide itself from Google. There are so many products like Adsense,…

  • Number Of Internet Users In Brazil by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 1, 2010, 08:29

    A recent report published by ComScore shows that internet users in Brazil - those who are less than 15 years old - constitute as much as 12% of the total…

  • Average Number Of Words In Search Query by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 29, 2010, 07:14

    In October last year, Hitwise had published a report that suggested that the maximum number of search engine queries were one-worded. And as it looked obvious…

  • Fastest Internet Speed In The World by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Time Spent On Social Networking Sites And Other Website Categories In UK by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Internet Usage In Mexico Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • The Most Popular Instant Messaging Service by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Free Skype-To-Skype Call Volume Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Most Visited Websites At Work by: Anand Srinivasan

    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.…

  • Largest Print Media Websites In USA by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Number Of Unique IP Addresses In The World by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Online Radio Audience Growth In USA by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Number of Internet Users In USA by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Most Searched Brands In The US by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • US Online Travel Booking Market by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Data Portability Via Third Party Login Marketshare by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Statistics On Cybersquatting Cases  by: Anand Srinivasan

    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.…

  • Online Dating Industry Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Google News vs. Facebook : Return Visitor Rate by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • World Internet Penetration By Geographic Region by: Anand

    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…

  • Online News Readers Who Click On Ads by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Online Properties For Local Shoppers by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Country-Code TLD (ccTLD) By Number of Registered Domains by: Anand

    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…

  • Sports Website Engagement Levels Among Indian Internet Users by: Anand

    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.…

  • Average American Internet Usage Time by: Anand

    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…

  • US Internet Penetration By Age by: Anand

    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,…

  • Worldwide Internet Users Growth by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Penetration In South Africa by: Anand

    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…

  • Search Engine Market Worldwide by: Anand

    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…

  • Total Number Of Domain Names by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Usage By Tweens by: Anand

    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…

  • Time Spent Online By Stay-At-Home Mums by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Penetration Among Rural And Suburban Americans by: Anand

    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…

  • Fastest Growing Industries 2000-2009 by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Importance of Page Load Time To Website Visitor by: Anand

    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…

  • Average Time Spent Online Statistics by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • Most Popular News Websites in India by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Radio Popularity in UK by: Anand

    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…

  • Content Theft From Online Newspapers by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • How Long Are Search Key Terms by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • Portugal Internet Penetration and Usage by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • Websites Referring Traffic To Newspaper Sites by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Online Brands by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Users Growth In Asia Pacific by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Internet Properties By Total Time Spent by: Anand

    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…

  • IPv4 vs. IPv6 - Why A Migration To IPv6 Is Necessary by: Anand

    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…

  • Wireless Internet Browsing Over Smartphones by: Anand

    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…

  • Facebook Usage - A Perspective by: Anand

    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…

  • Largest Online News Websites Globally by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Coupons Usage Among US Internet Users By Income by: Anand

    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…

  • American Internet Usage Statistics by: Anand

    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.…

  • Most Popular Online Activiites in Hong Kong by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth in Email vs. Social Network Usage by: Anand

    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…

  • Change in Online Ad Clicking Behavior by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Valuable Source Of Website Traffic by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Ways To Discover Content by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Penetration in Canada Statistics by: Anand

    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…

  • State of Internet in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Websites For Breaking News by: Anand

    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…

  • Market Share of Online Trading Websites by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Automotive Websites by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular URL Shortening Services on Twitter by: Anand

    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…

  • Popularity of MySpace in Online Videos Market by: Anand

    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.…

  • How Big Is Youtube in Online Videos Market? by: Anand

    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.…

  • Most Popular TV Websites on the Internet by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Visited Mobile Phone Websites in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Community Based Organization Websites by: Anand

    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…

  • Time's Most Useful Websites of 2009 by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Portal Homepage in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Mobile Internet Websites in United Kingdom by: Anand

    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.…

  • Most Popular Mobile Websites in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Mobile Internet Websites in India by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular TLD (Top Level Domain) Category by: Anand

    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…

  • Total Number of Internet Domain Names - Q2 2009 by: Anand

    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…

  • Importance of Internet to Professional Practice of Physicians by: Anand

    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…

  • How Frequent Do Users Tweet Or Check Updates? by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Newspaper Readership in USA Statistics by: Anand

    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.…

  • European Countries With Highest Internet Usage by: Anand

    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…

  • Average Time Spent on Popular Websites by: Anand

    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…

  • Average Time Spent on Websites Based on Site-Category by: Anand

    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…

  • Mobile Ad Engagement Among Indian Internet Users by: Anand

    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…

  • Number of Twitter Users in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Study of Internet Engagement Levels Based on Device Used by: Anand

    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,…

  • Most Popular Way To Watch TV Online by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth In Viewership of Online TV by: Anand

    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…

  • TinyURL vs. Bit.ly Traffic Statistics by: Anand

    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…

  • Digg.com Traffic Growth Statistics by: Anand

    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…

  • Use of Blackberry For Internet Access by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of Wikia In Terms Of Unique Visitors by: Anand

    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.…

  • How Fast is Mobile Video Market Growing? by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of Yelp vs. CitySearch by: Anand

    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%…

  • American Cities With Most Number of Public Wi-Fi Hotspots by: Anand

    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…

  • What Was The First Domain Name To Be Registered? by: Anand

    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…

  • Five Most Popular Youtube Videos Of All Time by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Dangerous Celebrity Search Terms by: Anand

    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…

  • USA Mobile Internet Users Estimate by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Blocked Web Categories At Offices by: Anand

    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…

  • Largest Job Search Engines in US By Pageviews by: Anand

    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…

  • US Household Drop in Offline Activities by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Newspaper Readership Among US Internet Users by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Used Websites in India by: Anand

    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.…

  • Internet Usage in Indian Households by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Malaysian Websites by: Anand

    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.…

  • Most Popular Website by Usage Time by: Anand

    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…

  • Broadband Internet Access in European Households by: Anand

    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…

  • World's Most Popular Websites (By Unique Visitors) by: Anand

    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…

  • Web 2.0 Awareness Among Indian Teenagers by: Anand

    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…

  • How Fast is Internet Growing? by: Anand

    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…

  • State of Internet in India by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Site Categories Among Singapore Internet Users by: Anand

    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…

  • Countries With Maximum Number of Internet Users by: Anand

    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.…

  • Growth Rate of Internet by: Anand

    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…

  • Time Spent on Internet - User Engagement on Facebook Vs. Google by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Most Popular Top-Level-Domains (TLD) by: Anand

    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…

  • Penetration of Mobile Internet in Africa by: Anand

    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…

  • Percent of American Internet Population Viewing Online Videos by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Access among American Kids and Teenagers by: Anand

    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…

  • How to Define an Internet Addict? by: Anand

    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…

  • Popularity of Mobile Internet in China by: Anand

    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…

  • What If Internet Is No Longer Free? by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Usage in France by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Penetration of the Top 10 Countries by: Anand

    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…

  • UK Free-to-view Online TV Revenues by: Anand

    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…

  • How Chinese View the Internet Censorship by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Websites in Japan by: Anand

    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…

  • World Internet Population for First Quarter 2008 by: Anand

    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.…

  • Country With The Most Web Users by: Anand

    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…

  • What Percentage of Internet Traffic is Video? by: Anand

    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…

  • Fastest Growing Websites in UK for February 2008 by: Anand

    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…

  • Worldwide Distribution of Internet Users by: Anand

    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…

  • What American Kids Do Online? by: Anand

    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 -…

  • Top 10 Websites for US College Students by: Anand

    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.…

  • Online Buyer Penetration in Europe by: Anand

    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%

  • How Many Internet Users In All? by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Penetration and Growth in UK by: Anand

    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…

  • How Many Websites Totally On the Worldwide Web? by: Anand

    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.…

  • What Does Your Kid Do Online? by: Anand

    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%…

  • How does Free Online Radio Last.FM Work? by: Anand

    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…

  • Illegal Online Movie Downloads from College Campuses by: Anand

    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…

  • Is Localization of Website Content Good? by: Anand

    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…

  • Women's Best Friend in Medical Advice by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Penetration in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Are Search Engines Trust-Worthy? by: Anand

    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…

  • World's Largest Internet Market by Users by: Anand

    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…

  • Asian American Internet Usage Figures by: Anand

    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…

  • Is Mobile Internet Penetrating Well Enough? by: Anand

    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…

  • Researching Health and Beauty Tips Online by: Anand

    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…

  • Top 10 Websites by Page Views by: Anand

    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.…

  • Most Popular Finance Website by: Anand

    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 -…

  • Slowest and Inaccessible Websites by: Anand

    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 -…

  • Internet Usage in Public Libraries by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet and Cellphone Usage of American Population by: Anand

    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-…

  • Mobile Internet Population in Japan by: Anand

    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…

  • Are Online Coupons popular over Newspaper Coupons by: Anand

    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…

  • US Presidential Hopefuls Campaign on the Internet by: Anand

    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…

  • Yahoo vs. Google in Japan by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Yahoo subsites in 2007 by: Anand

    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…

  • What's most popular at Amazon this season? by: Anand

    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…

  • Gmail Vs. Yahoo Mail Vs. Hotmail Vs. AOL by: Anand

    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.…

  • Watching TV Online vs. Real TV vs. Print media by: Anand

    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…

  • Ask.com Growth Rate by: Anand

    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…

  • Country With The Best Broadband Connectivity by: Anand

    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…

  • Are ecards still popular? by: Anand

    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…

  • How Digg and Reddit fared in 2007 by: Anand

    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…

  • How AOL Netscape social voting system fared by: Anand

    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…

  • How does internet censorship works? by: Anand

    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…

  • What does Mozilla do apart from Firefox? by: Anand

    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…

  • Web Customers most satisfied with Retail Firms by: Anand

    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…

  • Fastest growing websites in France by: Anand

    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…

  • Online advertising spending in Germany by: Anand

    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…

  • Is Advertising Gambling sites legal? by: Anand

    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…

  • Are internet users getting old in UK? by: Anand

    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…

  • How many users prefer Internet to TV for watching videos? by: Anand

    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…

  • Top 25 Web celebrities for 2007 by: Anand

    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.…

  • Ad spending: Europe vs. USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Do you need a multi-lingual website? by: Anand

    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…

  • 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

  • Ego-surfing : Growing like crazy by: Anand

    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.…

  • Demographics of the Searchers by: Anand

    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…

  • How long do people surf internet at work? by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Consumer Packaged Goods websites by: Anand

    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 -…

  • Broadband market in Europe by: Anand

    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…

  • Do employees waste time online at work? by: Anand

    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…

  • Baby boomers Internet usage stats by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet usage stats in India by: Anand

    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:…

  • Internet usage stats in Europe by: Anand

    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…

  • Ad spend: Internet Vs. Radio Vs. Magazine by: Anand

    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…

  • US Presidential candidates' popularity on the web by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Internet penetration in South East Asia by: Anand

    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…

  • Gay and Lesbian Internet population in US by: Anand

    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…

  • Population of online Hispanic Americans by: Anand

    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…

  • Are there casual games online? by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet penetration in Russia by: Anand

    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      …

• ISP  (47)
  • Share Of World Broadband Subscribers By Region by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 9, 2010, 16:19

    We are inching towards the 500 million broadband subscribers mark. The latest report from market research firm Point Topic shows that by the end of the first…

  • International Bandwidth Usage Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Average Cost Of Broadband  by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • US Cities With Fastest Internet Speed by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Countries With Highest Technology Productivity by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Number of Broadband Subscribers Worldwide by: Anand

    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…

  • Countries With Highest Average Broadband Speed by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Penetration in American Households by: Anand

    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…

  • World Broadband Rankings By Usage by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • US Broadband Subscribers Growth by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Broadband Stimulus Grants : Demand And Supply by: Anand

    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…

  • Broadband Penetration In European Households by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • Dial-Up Internet Households in US by: Anand

    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…

  • Impact of iPhone on Network Data Consumption by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Average Household Broadband Data Consumption by: Anand

    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…

  • Latest Market Share of Web Servers On Internet by: Anand

    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 …

  • Market Shares of Various Broadband Technologies by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of Home Networks in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Countries With Most Number of Public Wi-Fi Hotspots by: Anand

    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.…

  • How Would You Use In-Flight Wi-Fi Broadband? by: Anand

    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…

  • States with the Slowest Internet Speeds in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • States with Fastest Broadband Internet Speed in USA by: Anand

    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,…

  • Wi-Fi Connectivity and Usage Study by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Comcast Broadband Internet Connectivity Performance by: Anand

    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…

  • Email Non-Delivery - Ranking by Email Service Provider by: Anand

    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…

  • Broadband Growth And Geographical Distribution Forecast by: Anand

    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…

  • 3G - Mobile Broadband Growth Projections by: Anand

    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…

  • Broadband Penetration in Argentina by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Ten Wired Cities in USA by: Anand

    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.…

  • Growth of Broadband Connectivity Worldwide by: Anand

    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…

  • Countries With Maximum Number of Fibre Broadband Connections by: Anand

    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…

  • Which Country Has the Largest Number of Broadband Lines by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Penetration and Broadband Access in France by: Anand

    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…

  • Household Penetration of Top Ten Broadband Nations by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Broadband Speeds by US Providers by: Anand

    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…

  • Worldwide Penetration of IPTV, VOIP and Broadband by: Anand

    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 -…

  • Household Broadband Deployment: Europe vs. USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Penetration in New Zealand by: Anand

    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…

  • Broadband Connectivity in Ireland by: Anand

    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…

  • How Many People Affected By Undersea Internet Cable Cut? by: Anand

    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…

  • Broadband Internet Connectivity in UK by: Anand

    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…

  • Countries making Best Use of Network Connectivity by: Anand

    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…

  • Frequency of American Home Internet Usage by: Anand

    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…

  • Country With The Best Broadband Connectivity by: Anand

    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…

  • Broadband market in Europe by: Anand

    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…

  • DSL market in US by: Anand

    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…

  • Earthlink third-quarter earnings. LOSS by: Anand

    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…

• Microsoft  (17)
  • Windows OS Edition : 32-Bit Vs. 64-Bit by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 12, 2010, 16:35

    The 64-bit editions of Windows Operating system have been made available to OEMs and computer buyers for over five years. However, up until now, the 32-but…

  • Search Engine Market Share Of Bing by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Microsoft Impact On Washington Economy by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Operating System Market Share by: Anand

    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…

  • Microsoft Revenue From Windows Sale by: Anand

    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…

  • How Big Is Windows Live Hotmail by: Anand

    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…

  • Razorfish Acquisition Details by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Share of Operating Systems by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Online Ads Growth for Microsoft by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Finance Website by: Anand

    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 -…

  • Market Share of Operating Systems by: Anand

    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…

  • iTunes vs. Zune by: Anand

    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…

  • Gmail Vs. Yahoo Mail Vs. Hotmail Vs. AOL by: Anand

    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.…

  • Is Advertising Gambling sites legal? by: Anand

    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…

  • Search Engine market shares for the American market by: Anand

    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%)

  • Did Microsoft overvalue Facebook at billion by: Anand

    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…

  • Microsoft revenue for the first quarter by: Anand

    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…

• Milestones  (40)
  • List Of Oldest Domain Names (.COM) by: Anand

    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…

  • Facebook User Registrations Timeline by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • How Many Tweets Have Been Served Till Date? by: Anand

    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…

  • How Many Articles in English Wikipedia? by: Anand

    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. …

  • How Many Users Does LinkedIn Have? by: Anand

    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…

  • Netflix DVD Shipping by: Anand

    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…

  • Popularity of Online Banking in UK by: Anand

    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…

  • Largest Hard Drives Manufacturer by: Anand

    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…

  • How Many Articles Exist on Wikipedia? by: Anand

    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,…

  • 2007 Ad-Revenue Gains/Losses Among Media Companies by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet Market for Auto Insurance Policies by: Anand

    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…

  • Firefox Reaches 500 Million Downloads by: Anand

    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…

  • How Big is Netflix? by: Anand

    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…

  • How Many Play World of Warcraft by: Anand

    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…

  • Political Web Ad Spending in 2008 by: Anand

    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…

  • Top 10 Websites in Canada by: Anand

    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.…

  • Top 10 Gaining Categories for US Market in December by: Anand

    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…

  • Userbase of Jango social jukebox by: Anand

    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…

  • Highest Perpetration of Spam by: Anand

    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…

  • Christmas Shopping in UK and France by: Anand

    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…

  • Top 10 Websites by Page Views by: Anand

    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.…

  • PC World Top 25 Most Innovative Products for 2007 by: Anand

    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.…

  • Netscape Navigator dead? by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Yahoo subsites in 2007 by: Anand

    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…

  • What's most popular at Amazon this season? by: Anand

    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…

  • Ask.com Growth Rate by: Anand

    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…

  • Country With The Best Broadband Connectivity by: Anand

    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…

  • Facebook vs. MySpace by: Anand

    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…

  • How Digg and Reddit fared in 2007 by: Anand

    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…

  • How AOL Netscape social voting system fared by: Anand

    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…

  • Google traffic growth in 2007 by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Web Customers most satisfied with Retail Firms by: Anand

    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…

  • Fastest growing websites in France by: Anand

    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…

  • Revenue loss from Phishing - 2007 by: Anand

    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

  • Top 10 Email Spam Lists for 2007 by: Anand

    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…

  • Ad spending: Europe vs. USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Fastest Growing Internet Communications Service by: Anand

    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,…

  • Subscriber numbers for leading news portals by: Anand

    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…

  • How much is spent on the Holiday season? by: Anand

    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…

  • Download figures for P2P site MiniNova by: Anand

    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…

• Miscellaneous  (104)
  • World Mobile Market:By Subscribers, Data Revenue & Service Revenue by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • US Cities With Highest Number Of GPS Searches by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular News Topics Online by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Torrent And P2P File-Sharing Websites by: Anand

    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…

  • Digital Music Download Statistics In Germany by: Anand

    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…

  • Indian IT Services Market Growth by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • Mobile Coupon Growth in North America by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Consumer Willingness To Pay For Online News by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Promotional Offers For Online Travel Websites by: Anand

    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…

  • US Mobile Phone Penetration Statistics by: Anand

    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…

  • Correlation Between Email Address and Credit Score by: Anand

    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…

  • Nokia 'Comes With Music' Active Users Statistics by: Anand

    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.…

  • Multiple Mobile Connection Among Indian Population by: Anand

    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…

  • Average Tweet Frequency Among Twitter Users by: Anand

    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…

  • Distribution of Ad Spending Based on Medium by: Anand

    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.…

  • Most Popular Online Video Properties in Canada by: Anand

    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…

  • Biggest Challenges With Web Analytics Usage In Companies by: Anand

    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…

  • Worth of White Spaces With Wireless Broadband on TV Airwaves by: Anand

    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…

  • Twitter Usage While Driving,In Class, or During Religious Service by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Websites to Buy/Sell/Rent Cars in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Travel Related Topics on the Internet by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Important Website Parameters for Mobile Internet Users by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Social Bookmarking Tools by: Anand

    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…

  • Employer Candidate Screening via Social Networks by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Government Websites in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Hulu Vs. Pay TV Viewership Comparison by: Anand

    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…

  • Influence of Twitter on Movies' Box Office Performance by: Anand

    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…

  • ROI of SEO vs. SEM by: Anand

    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…

  • Email/Mobile Coupon Market in US by: Anand

    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…

  • MySpace Music Growth Statistics by: Anand

    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…

  • Fastest URL Shortening/Redirecting Services by: Anand

    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…

  • US Newspaper Ad Revenues Estimation by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Most Effective Ways to Search Jobs by: Anand

    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…

  • Ringtone Sales Contribution to Mobile Music Market Revenues by: Anand

    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.…

  • What Percent of Tweets Are Spam/Conversations/Promotional? by: Anand

    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…

  • URL Shortening Services Market Share by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Names on Facebook by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Online Newspapers in Germany by: Anand

    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.…

  • American Movies Box Office Revenue Statistics by: Anand

    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…

  • Market Share of Different URL Shortening Services by: Anand

    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…

  • Most User Friendly Website in India by: Anand

    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…

  • Recession Effect On Number Of Jobs Posted Online by: Anand

    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…

  • Contribution of Search Engines to Online Travel Portal Traffic by: Anand

    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…

  • Google Vs. Yahoo - Search Engine Market Share in UK by: Anand

    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…

  • How Many SMS Sent on New Year's Day? by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Trusted Technology Companies in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Widely Read Online Newspaper in UK by: Anand

    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.…

  • What Percent of Mother's Day Shopping is Online? by: Anand

    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 -…

  • Top Ten Canadian Website Companies for March 2008 by: Anand

    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.…

  • Interesting Facts About LinkedIn Users by: Anand

    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…

  • Market Share of Web Servers Based On Active Sites by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Perceived Impact of American Recession on Consumer Tech Spending by: Anand

    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…

  • American Venture Capitalist Investments on Web 2.0 Companies in 2007 by: Anand

    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…

  • Top 5 Videos on Youtube by: Anand

    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 …

  • Europeans Spend on Technology and Their Technology Handicap by: Anand

    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…

  • Share of Digital Music Among Music Sales by: Anand

    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…

  • How Much Have Social Network Servers Failed in 2008 by: Anand

    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…

  • Electronic Prescriptions to Save US Billion in Ten Years by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of Health-Related Websites on the Internet by: Anand

    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…

  • Hottest Dating Site in the Valentine Week by: Anand

    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…

  • Presence of Online Pharma Marketing Opportunity by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of Open Source Usage in Workplaces by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of US Podcast Audience by: Anand

    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…

  • Are You Looking for an European Job? by: Anand

    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 …

  • Readership of American Newspaper Websites by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Facebook Applications by: Anand

    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.…

  • How does Free Online Radio Last.FM Work? by: Anand

    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…

  • Illegal Online Movie Downloads from College Campuses by: Anand

    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…

  • Women's Best Friend in Medical Advice by: Anand

    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…

  • Industry Owning the Maximum Online Ad Inventory by: Anand

    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…

  • Ideal Web Page Design? by: Anand

    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…

  • Researching Health and Beauty Tips Online by: Anand

    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…

  • Top 10 Gaining Categories for US Market in December by: Anand

    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…

  • 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…

  • Slowest and Inaccessible Websites by: Anand

    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 -…

  • Most Popular Browser in Businesses by: Anand

    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…

  • How Big is the Chinese Video Sharing market by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of Traffic to Video Sharing Websites by: Anand

    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…

  • Market Share of Operating Systems by: Anand

    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…

  • PC World Top 25 Most Innovative Products for 2007 by: Anand

    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.…

  • How rampant is IP violation? by: Anand

    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…

  • Are Online Coupons popular over Newspaper Coupons by: Anand

    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…

  • DRM-free Music: Apple vs. Amazon by: Anand

    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…

  • US Presidential Hopefuls Campaign on the Internet by: Anand

    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…

  • How to Improve Efficacy of Public Service Announcements? by: Anand

    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%…

  • Are ecards still popular? by: Anand

    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…

  • How does internet censorship works? by: Anand

    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…

  • What does Mozilla do apart from Firefox? by: Anand

    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…

  • Web Customers most satisfied with Retail Firms by: Anand

    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…

  • Fastest growing websites in France by: Anand

    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…

  • Is Advertising Gambling sites legal? by: Anand

    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…

  • Are internet users getting old in UK? by: Anand

    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…

  • Top 25 Web celebrities for 2007 by: Anand

    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.…

  • Do you need a multi-lingual website? by: Anand

    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…

  • 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

  • Ego-surfing : Growing like crazy by: Anand

    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.…

  • How long do people surf internet at work? by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Consumer Packaged Goods websites by: Anand

    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 -…

  • 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…

  • Do green policies pay for online retailers? by: Anand

    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…

  • Search Engine market shares for the American market by: Anand

    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%)

  • Subscriber numbers for leading news portals by: Anand

    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…

  • How much is spent online for US Presidential elections? by: Anand

    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…

  • Is photoshop available online? by: Anand

    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,…

• Online Marketing  (169)
  • Most Popular Online Marketing Channels Among Corporates by: Anand Srinivasan

    November 4, 2010, 11:26

    Despite all the buzz around "new media", the tried and tested forms of online marketing still remain the most popular channels to reach the consumers. A recent…

  • AOL Quarterly Revenue Breakdown From Advertising by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 4, 2010, 16:33

    AOL has been attempting a transition to content-based business model and while it has definitely helped the company find a focus area for the future, the…

  • Display Ads Conversion Rate For Automotive Ads by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 20, 2010, 12:55

    The mobile ad market has been growing at a quick pace. According to a report by eMarketer, the mobile advertising market is poised to reach 3 million. A…

  • Most Common Ad Banner Sizes by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 30, 2010, 08:19

    Comscore has published an interesting study that looks into the ad banner sizes and formats. According to the report, the ad creatives are horizontal banners…

  • Increasing Email Newsletter Click-Through Rate (CTR) by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 24, 2010, 07:36

    Popular email marketing solutions provider, GetResponse, has published results from a recent study where the firm concludes that including social media links…

  • Emerging Lead Generation Channels by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Display Ads : Top Online Advertisers In USA by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Technology Companies Ad Spending Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Largest Video Ad Networks In USA by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Portals Average Ad Revenue Per Unique Visitor  by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • US Internet Advertising Revenue By Ad-Format by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Marketing Strategies In Digital Marketing Campaigns by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Customer Conversion Rate By Ad Format by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Average CPM On Display Ads By Ad Segment by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Largest Website Publisher Categories For Image-Based Advertising by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO) : Average Marketing Spend by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Primary Social Media Marketing Service Providers by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Ad Malware : Most Unsafe Online Ad Networks by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • ROI On Online Direct Marketing by: Anand

    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…

  • Email Marketing Segmentation Techniques by: Anand

    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…

  • Average Annual Compensation For Email Marketers by: Anand

    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…

  • Ad Spending: Traditional Media vs. Online Media by: Anand

    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,…

  • Behaviorally Targeted Advertising Growth Forecast by: Anand

    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…

  • Social Network Ad Spending US vs. Non-US by: Anand

    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…

  • Global Online Ad Spending Per User Statistics by: Anand

    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…

  • Average CTR For Pre-Roll Online Video Ads by: Anand

    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…

  • Largest Web Publishers In USA For Display Ads by: Anand

    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…

  • Average Cost Per Lead By Industry by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Important Online Marketing Technique by: Anand

    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…

  • Consumer Response To Internet Ads In UK by: Anand

    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…

  • Average Click Fraud Rate by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Real Estate Advertising Statistics by: Anand

    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…

  • Largest Ad Networks In US by: Anand

    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…

  • Eye Tracking Study For Internet Ads by: Anand

    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'.…

  • Effectiveness Of Spam Mails by: Anand

    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…

  • Display Advertising Rates : CPM Vs. RPM by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Email Marketing : Click Through Rate and Volumes by: Anand

    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…

  • Marketing Spending On Branded Content/Advertainment Online by: Anand

    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…

  • Social Network Content Sharing Conversion Rate by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Ad Spending On MySpace For 2009-2010 by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Display Advertising Market in India by: Gowri Naveen

    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.…

  • Most Popular Online Targeting Strategies Among Marketers by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • Largest Online Local Advertising Companies 2009 by: Anand

    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…

  • Ad-Clicker Population Among Internet Users by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Video Advertising Spending by: Anand

    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…

  • Ad CTR By Browser And Operating System by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • Best Performing Adsense Banner Size by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • Geo-Targeted Online Advertising Growth Projection by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • Luxury Brands Online Ad Spending by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Video Ad CPM Rate by: Anand

    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…

  • CPM Rates Across Verticals by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Email Marketing - Reason People Unsubscribe From List by: Kasthuri VN

    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…

  • Online Marketing Among SMB - Evolution by: Anand

    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…

  • PPC Advertising For Affiliate Website Promotion by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Ad Spending on Automotive Sector by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Heavy Image-Based Online Advertisers By Industry by: Anand

    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…

  • Popular Online Marketing Strategies for 2009 by: Anand

    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…

  • Best Online Ad Format by CTR Among Rich Media Ads by: Anand

    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…

  • Leading Publishers of Online Display Ads by Content Categories by: Anand

    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…

  • Share of Online Advertising in Western Europe (By Country) by: Anand

    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…

  • Why Marketers Should Go With Online Advertising by: Anand

    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…

  • Effectiveness of Display Advertising by: Anand

    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…

  • UK: Ad Spend on Internet vs. TV by: Anand

    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…

  • User Readiness To Online Tracking And Tailored Ad Serving by: Anand

    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…

  • Social Network Ad Spending Year-on-Year Growth by: Anand

    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,…

  • Worldwide Online Advertising Spending Growth by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Used Community Tools Among Online Retailers by: Anand

    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…

  • Affiliate Marketing on Social Networks by: Anand

    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…

  • US Affiliate Marketing Spending Projections by: Anand

    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…

  • Integration of Social Media and Email Among Retail Marketers by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth in Online Social Network Ad Spend by Industry by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Preferred Social Network For Advertising - By Industry by: Anand

    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…

  • US Mobile Ad Spending Forecast 2009 - 2013 by: Anand

    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…

  • Biggest Image Advertisers Online Based on Vertical by: Anand

    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…

  • Biggest Financial Services Advertisers Online by: Anand

    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.…

  • Online Marketing Tactics That Will See Increase in Spending in 2010 by: Anand

    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…

  • Best Social Networking Tools For Marketers by: Anand

    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…

  • Share of Internet Advertising In Total Advertising Spending by: Anand

    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…

  • Average Ad Clickthrough Rate on Mobiles Based on Operating System by: Anand

    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%…

  • Best Time To Reach Target Audience via Social Media by: Anand

    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…

  • US Mobile Advertising Revenues Forecast by: Anand

    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…

  • Small Businesses Online Advertisement Spending Growth by: Anand

    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…

  • Distribution of Online Ads Among Social Networks by: Anand

    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…

  • Search Vs. Display - Ad Format Comparison in UK by: Anand

    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…

  • Time Spent on Online Ads by Ad Format by: Anand

    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…

  • Time Spent on Online Ads by Category by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Effective Ad-Format Banner Sizes by: Anand

    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 180x150 2. Half…

  • Effectiveness of Twitter Marketing by: Anand

    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…

  • Largest Mobile Ad Networks By Unique Visitors by: Anand

    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…

  • Average Ad Spending on Online Videos in USA by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Platforms for Online Marketing by: Anand

    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…

  • Ad Click Through Rate (CTR) By Search Engine by: Anand

    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…

  • American Word-of-Mouth Marketing Spending by: Anand

    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…

  • American Mobile Advertising Spending Projection by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Advertising Growth in Canada by: Anand

    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…

  • Word of Mouth on Internet by: Anand

    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…

  • Percent of Advertising Budget Spent on Ad Networks by: Anand

    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…

  • Ad CPM Rates for Online Video Advertising by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Receptive Online Ad Format? by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Popular Online Tools For Business Marketing by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Newspaper Advertising Spending by: Anand

    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…

  • Average Banner Click Through Rate? by: Anand

    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…

  • Search Engine Ad Spending Projection by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Impact of Recession on UK Online Advertising Spending by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Ad Budgets of John McCain Vs. Barack Obama by: Anand

    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…

  • Top American Online Display Advertising Publishers by: Anand

    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.…

  • American Ad Spending on Online Social Networks by: Anand

    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…

  • Which Mobile Advertising Platform Is the Best? by: Anand

    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…

  • Share of Online Advertising in Total Ad Budget by: Anand

    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%

  • Growth of Online Advertising in China by: Anand

    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…

  • Trend of Ad Spending on Social Networks by: Anand

    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…

  • Top 10 Internet Advertisers by Media Value by: Anand

    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…

  • American Pharma Spending Online by: Anand

    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…

  • Social, Word of Mouth Marketers by: Anand

    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%

  • Top 15 Ad Networks for March by: Anand

    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.…

  • Spending on Online Video Advertising by: Anand

    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…

  • American Ad Server Market Share for January 2008 by: Anand

    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…

  • North American Market for Search Engine Marketing (SEM) by: Anand

    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…

  • Countries With Most Click Fraud by: Anand

    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…

  • Growing Influence of New Media For Advertisers by: Anand

    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…

  • Who Clicks On My Ads? by: Anand

    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…

  • Is Ad-Supported Free Casual Games Better Than Paid Games? by: Anand

    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…

  • Latest Share of Google in Total Search Engine Ad Market by: Anand

    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…

  • Online Ads Growth for Microsoft by: Anand

    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…

  • New Channels of Online Marketing for B2B and B2C Marketers by: Anand

    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…

  • How does Free Online Radio Last.FM Work? by: Anand

    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…

  • Political Web Ad Spending in 2008 by: Anand

    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…

  • Industry Owning the Maximum Online Ad Inventory by: Anand

    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…

  • Does Email Marketing Give Sufficient Returns by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of US Local Online Advertising by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth Of Display Ads in 2008 by: Anand

    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…

  • Spending on Email Marketing by: Anand

    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.

  • Hispanics' Tolerance to Email Marketing by: Anand

    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…

  • When Will Online Ad surpass TV Ad Spending in UK? by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of B2B Online Advertising in US by: Anand

    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…

  • Japanese Online ad spend by: Anand

    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…

  • Are Online Coupons popular over Newspaper Coupons by: Anand

    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…

  • US Presidential Hopefuls Campaign on the Internet by: Anand

    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…

  • Which firms have a presence in Virtual Worlds? by: Anand

    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) …

  • Watching TV Online vs. Real TV vs. Print media by: Anand

    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…

  • Facebook vs. MySpace by: Anand

    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…

  • Online advertising spending in Germany by: Anand

    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…

  • Ad spending: Europe vs. USA by: Anand

    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…

  • How big is email advertising? by: Anand

    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…

  • Will Online advertising market growth rate slow down? by: Anand

    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.…

  • Advertising on Social networks by: Anand

    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…

  • Size of the Local Online Advertising market by: Anand

    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…

  • How much is spent online for US Presidential elections? by: Anand

    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…

  • Ad spend: Internet Vs. Radio Vs. Magazine by: Anand

    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…

  • US Presidential candidates' popularity on the web by: Anand

    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 :…

  • Market of Behavioral targeting of online ads by: Anand

    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…

  • Ranking of Internet Advertisers by: Anand

    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…

  • AOL online advertising growth rate by: Anand

    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…

  • Advertising now available on Facebook Mobile by: Anand

    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…

  • AOL behavior-targeted ad set to reach 91% US online audience by: Anand

    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…

  • How much money does Adbrite make from Facebook by: Anand

    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…

  • How much do real estates advertise online? by: Anand

    October 29, 2007, 21:18

    Percentage Ad budget spent online (2007) 17% Percent Satisfied with advertising options…

  • Mobile Advertising  (12)
    • Average Ad CTR : iPhone Vs. iPad Vs. Android  by: Anand Srinivasan

      August 25, 2010, 16:43

      The internet is slowly getting mobile. Wired.com had an article recently that proclaimed that the web was dead and the future was in the mobile apps. So, given…

    • UK Mobile Advertising Market  by: Anand Srinivasan

      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%…

    • Smartphone OS Ad Requests Growth Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

      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…

    • BRIC Mobile Ad Spending Forecast by: Anand

      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…

    • Mobile Advertising Strategy For Smartphone Users by: Anand

      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…

    • Mobile Ad Campaign Targeting Methods And Cost by: Anand

      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…

    • Mobile Advertising vs. Online Advertising by: Anand

      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…

    • Largest Mobile Advertisers By Industry by: Anand

      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…

    • Biggest Mobile Ad Networks By Revenue by: Anand

      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…

    • Ad Click Through Rate (CTR) On Mobile OS by: Anand

      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…

    • Change in Mobile Ad Revenue Constituents by: Anand

      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…

    • Evolution of the Mobile Advertising Market by: Anand

      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…

• Product Analysis  (63)
  • How Big Is Wikipedia? by: Anand Srinivasan

    February 2, 2012, 17:12

    Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, has had a phenomenal few years. It is by far the world’s most popular online encyclopedia. Protecting an online profile is…

  • Netflix Subscribers Growth by: Anand

    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…

  • iPhone vs. Droid - Comprehensive Comparison by: Anand

    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…

  • Clicksor Pay-per-click: From an advertiser's perspective by: Anand

    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…

  • Is it the end of the road for FeedReaders in India? by: Anand

    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…

  • Embed Flickr slideshows on your blog by: Anand

    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…

  • Beautiful colors for your blog by: Anand

    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…

  • Watch TV Online while chatting with friends by: Anand

    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…

  • SMS Backup on your Yahoo mailbox by: Anand

    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.…

  • Elicit - Blog client software for enhanced content quality by: Anand

    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…

  • Create your own remixes by: Anand

    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…

  • Create your own Video surfing webpage by: Anand

    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…

  • Aggregate your Social Networks by: Anand

    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…

  • Previewing links: Snap Vs. Cooliris by: Anand

    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…

  • Good Mash-up tutorial by: Anand

    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…

  • Build your own map by: Anand

    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…

  • Encrypt your email for security by: Anand

    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…

  • Gmail feature to integrate all your emails by: Anand

    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…

  • Display RSS feeds as a Screensaver by: Anand

    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.…

  • Hide Windows from Boss - hot key from MrHyde by: Anand

    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…

  • One-click automatic social bookmarking by: Anand

    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…

  • Automated VOIP calls to your rescue by: Anand

    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.…

  • Online text summarizer by: Anand

    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.…

  • Face Recognition Software by: Anand

    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…

  • Increasing Search Engine traffic for your website by: Anand

    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…

  • Google moving to hardware? - a speculation by: Anand

    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…

  • How much is your blog worth by: Anand

    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…

  • How to download YouTube, Metacafe and Google Videos by: Anand

    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…

  • Look who's dancing! by: Anand

    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…

  • Zamzar - Free file conversion by: Anand

    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.…

  • Don't make Gazzag a SPAM machine by: Anand

    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,…

  • Utube sues YouTube by: Anand

    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…

  • Animated characters for your website by: Anand

    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…

  • Google's double game by: Anand

    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…

  • Microsoft Expression Web designer by: Anand

    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…

  • New way to buy links by: Anand

    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…

  • Free Skype Minicards by: Anand

    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…

  • Editing your CSS templates by: Anand

    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…

  • Inserting Adsense ads inside blog posts by: Anand

    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…

  • Getting indexed in Google - the shortest way by: Anand

    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…

  • Multi-lingual Chatting made easier by: Anand

    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…

  • Blogroll - For traffic, Not for Search Engine ranking by: Anand

    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…

  • Nothing is for passion on the internet by: Anand

    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…

  • Invitation only Orkut opens up by: Anand

    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…

  • Providing a bookmarking link for Blogger by: Anand

    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.…

  • Wannabe Music bands get the going interesting with Podcasting by: Anand

    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…

  • Find who is spamming you by: Anand

    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…

  • Googlebomb and SEO by: Anand

    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…

  • Digg Vs. Reddit Vs. Del.icio.us by: Anand

    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…

  • Google for education by: Anand

    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…

  • Google Toolbar's 'Send to' option by: Anand

    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…

  • Hacking e-books. Tips to prevent theft by: Anand

    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…

  • What next for Google by: Anand

    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…

  • I got a Spyware! by: Anand

    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…

  • Utube loses its tube to Youtube by: Anand

    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…

  • Have this :20100 email ids of coders by: Anand

    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…

  • Application to view Digg by: Anand

    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…

  • Mashups - How internet grows from here.. by: Anand

    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…

  • Want to make money!?? - Virus by: Anand

    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.…

  • Podcasting for non-native English speakers by: Anand

    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…

  • Visit a random website or webpage by: Anand

    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…

  • Categories for Blogger by: Anand

    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…

  • Google Music Trends - Make your vote count! by: Anand

    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…

• Security  (47)
  • Spam Producing Statistics - Countries With Maximum Zombie Computers by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 9, 2010, 17:01

    Zombie computers are those machines that are hacked by spammers with the help of computer virus so that they may be used as a host to send out thousands of…

  • Email Based Malware Attacks Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Why Users Click On Spam Mails? by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Top Spam Producing Countries by: Anand

    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…

  • Countries With The Most Number Of Hacked Computers by: Anand

    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…

  • Security Software Sales In Asia Pacific by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Common Spam Mail Categories by: Anand

    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…

  • Websites Defacement In India - Hacking And Phishing Statistics by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Where Do Most Spams Originate From? by: Gowri Naveen

    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…

  • Best Anti-Virus Software To Remove Malware by: Anand

    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…

  • US Government Spending on Cyber Security by: Anand

    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…

  • Increase in Percentage of Malware Containing Spam by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of Phishing Websites by: Anand

    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…

  • Biggest Source of Botnet Spams by: Anand

    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…

  • Most Common Malware in the US by: Anand

    October 1, 2009, 06:03

    United States is among the top ten malware affected countries in the world, according to a recent study. Here are the most common malware in the US along with…

  • Malware Infection Rate Worldwide by: Anand

    October 1, 2009, 05:58

    Taiwan and China are among countries with the highest percent of malware infected PCs in the world. In a 29 country tracking done by a security firm, here are…

  • Least Spammed States in the USA by: Anand

    September 25, 2009, 08:48

    If you live in Idaho and bugged with all this spam, you can probably think of moving to the US territory, Puerto Rico. This is the least spammed place in the…

  • Most Spammed States in the United States by: Anand

    September 25, 2009, 08:44

    An unenviable top ten list of the states that receive the most spam in all of United States is led by Idaho, where close to 93.8% of all email received is…

  • Spam On User-Generated Web 2.0 Content Websites by: Anand

    September 17, 2009, 07:18

    Spammers are not hiding themselves in the crowd of forum posters and web 2.0 kind user generated content websites are one of the most popular targets. Here are…

  • Customer Readiness To Cookie-Based Computer Profiling For Online Security by: Anand

    September 16, 2009, 08:03

    Are you ready to let trusted online vendors profile your computer with cookies and other kinds of software in order to provide you with better security? A…

  • What's Your Password? by: Anand

    September 4, 2009, 08:10

    A good percentage of you would have answered the question if I were there face to face. Such is the slack way people handle passwords. A study in Britain…

  • Most Risky Malware Software - August 2009 by: Anand

    September 1, 2009, 08:27

    Conficker, the popular malware that affects Windows operating system is back to being the most popular malware - affecting close to 43% of systems in August.…

  • Dirtiest Websites of 2009 by: Anand

    August 21, 2009, 08:48

    Norton has compiled a list of hundred 'dirtiest' websites that have the most dreaded viruses, malware, browser exploits and other security risks. Here are…

  • Most Active Malware And Countries They Spread From by: Anand

    August 13, 2009, 08:49

    Malwares continue to remain a serious security threat to internet users. 83% of the global malware that spread in 2009 were Trojans. The downadup worm alone…

  • Threat Of Malware in Symbian Smartphones by: Anand

    August 13, 2009, 08:39

    A majority of smartphones are not equipped with anti-malware applications. That makes it easier for mobile malware to sneak into smartphones and pose a…

  • List of Countries Where Most Spam Originate From by: Anand

    July 21, 2009, 17:40

    Where do all these spam mails originate from? You would be wrong if you guessed Nigeria. Here are the top four countries in the order of being the source of…

  • Most Spammed Countries in the World by: Anand

    May 2, 2009, 11:14

    The worldwide spam levels have risen above the 85% level for the first time since 2007 because of an image spam originating in China. Here is the list of the…

  • Worldwide Click Fraud Statistics in Q4 2008 by: Anand

    January 29, 2009, 15:02

    Click fraud (False clicking on internet ads to increase click throughs) has grown consistently in the past year. Click fraud in Q4 2007 was 16.6% Overall…

  • Increase in Number of Phishing Attacks by: Anand

    June 4, 2008, 12:14

    There has been a spurt in the number of Phishing messages sent in the past few months. The second half of 2007 saw a 5 percent increase in the number of…

  • Prevalence of Corporate Email Snooping by: Anand

    May 22, 2008, 19:34

    The practice of corporates snooping on their employees' outbound emails as well as surveying newer modes of communication like blogs and message boards is…

  • Increase in Infected Web Pages On the Web by: Anand

    April 24, 2008, 19:14

    In 2007, approximately 5000 infected web pages were detected on an average in a day. This quarter, this number has soared to around 15,000 per day. That is one…

  • How Big is Spam Mail? by: Anand

    April 19, 2008, 10:31

    For the first three months of 2008, 92.3 percent of all email sent globally was spam! In this time period, 23,300 web pages related to spam were created every…

  • How Many Viruses in All? by: Anand

    April 13, 2008, 06:45

    Symantec has recently detected the One Millionth Malware (Virus, Trojans, Worms...). The second half of 2007 saw Symantec identify 499,811 new forms of malware…

  • Losses Due to Internet Crime by: Anand

    April 12, 2008, 13:57

    The Internet Crime Center is a collaboration between FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center of US. According to them, 207,000 complaints have been…

  • Top Ten Malware for March 2008 by: Anand

    April 2, 2008, 17:50

    According to the BitDefender lab, Trojan Peed has the highest occurence over the past month, occuring more than 50 percent of the times. The top ten list…

  • Penetration of Corporate Web Security by: Anand

    March 13, 2008, 08:07

    Corporate web security might be a highly critical industry, but it still is in its infancy and has a lot of potential to grow. As of date, only 14 percent of…

  • Increase in Security Spend This Year by: Anand

    March 12, 2008, 18:49

    A recent research of 2000 professionals in 10 countries by Cisco has revealed that almost 62 percent of the companies are planning to increase their security…

  • How Much Does Your Company Monitor Your Online Activity? by: Anand

    March 3, 2008, 17:11

    Your company may be monitoring into your activities much more than you might be assuming. 62 percent of managers who fired their employees over email issues…

  • Where Do Most Spams Come From? by: Anand

    February 12, 2008, 17:15

    Last week, Symantec announced that most spams come from Europe. But a news release by Sophos claims that Asia is where most spams originate from. According to…

  • How Many Web Pages Attacked Per Day? by: Anand

    February 7, 2008, 16:40

    A web page is attacked every 14 seconds. This makes the average number of attacks on websites to 6000 per day. 80 percent of these attacks are by hackers who…

  • Where Do Most Spams Come From? by: Anand

    February 7, 2008, 06:27

    While a random guesser would say Nigeria is where most spams come from, Symantec says Europe is where most Spams originate. For the third month in a row, spams…

  • Largest Single Source of Spam by: Anand

    February 3, 2008, 16:13

    Storm worm botnet had accounted for 21 percent of all spam in September 2007. Since then, the new Mega-D Botnet has been steadily increasing in numbers and…

  • Spambot that affected New Year Holiday the most by: Anand

    January 4, 2008, 20:17

    Storm Botnet has almost tripled its size this holiday season from Christmas to New year owing to innumerable people assuming the spam bots to be genuine…

  • Corporate Business Email usage by: Anand

    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…

  • Revenue loss from Phishing - 2007 by: Anand

    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

  • Top 10 Email Spam Lists for 2007 by: Anand

    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…

  • Which is the most common malware? by: Anand

    December 6, 2007, 18:11

    Trojans. According to the recent report by PandaLabs, the percent infections caused by each of the different malwares are: Trojans (25%) Adware (23%) Worms…

• Social Media  (182)
  • Google Plus - User Demographics : Gender, Occupation, Cities & Countries by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 14, 2011, 16:32

    It has barely been weeks since Google launched their new social network - the Google+. Despite its earlier failures at getting their social strategy right,…

  • Most Accessed Social Network From Mobile Phones by: Anand Srinivasan

    November 10, 2010, 12:52

    A couple of years back, people "networked" with friends on Facebook and "updated their status" over Twitter. At least, that was the original idea that Twitter…

  • Time Spent On Social Networks - Countries With The Heaviest Social Networkers by: Anand Srinivasan

    November 6, 2010, 17:43

    United States has the largest number of users on Facebook - the world's largest social network. Yet, the US is not even in the top 10 list when it comes to the…

  • User Demographics Of Location Sharing Services by: Anand Srinivasan

    November 5, 2010, 11:42

    Over the past one year, location sharing services have proliferated quite a bit - at least in parts of United States and Europe. Services such as FourSquare…

  • Twitter Engagement Study - How Retweets Happen by: Anand Srinivasan

    October 7, 2010, 12:46

    An important part of social media marketing is the way marketers exploit the retweeting functionality on Twitter. This is because marketing campaigns over…

  • Most Visited Social Networks In India by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 27, 2010, 17:03

    It has been quite a while since I wrote about the social networking space in India. Last time I wrote about this was with respect to the December 2008 numbers…

  • Social Media Ad Spending - US Vs. Non-US by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 16, 2010, 16:35

    Ad spending on social networks is on the rise and as it is in other segments of the digital media, US leads the pack when it comes to advertiser adoption.…

  • Facebook Vs. Twitter - Average Time Spent Per User by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 3, 2010, 16:29

    Now where does the average internet users hang out on the world wide web? If personal experience is anything to go by , it may not be difficult for a good…

  • Best Social Media Websites For Job Recruitment by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 6, 2010, 16:45

    An increasing number of human resources professionals are making use of social media websites to recruit new people to their organization. According to a…

  • Twitter Market Share By Country & Region by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 5, 2010, 12:27

    Twitter has for long been dominated by North Americans. For instance, in March 2010, USA contributed to 30% of tweets worldwide. However, the number of tweets…

  • Most Liked Facebook Pages By Category by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 29, 2010, 07:33

    Even though a lot of companies have taken up to social media, the metrics needed to measure the success of a social media campaign still isn't largely clear.…

  • Twitter Site Ranking By Country by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 28, 2010, 17:10

    Twitter is now the 12th most popular site on the web. This is remarkable for a site that has failed to show consistent growth over the past few months. Also,…

  • Most Popular Location Based Services by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 29, 2010, 07:04

    In some parts of the world, location based services like Foursquare and Gowalla are the rage. It is yet to catch on in other areas, but there are encouraging…

  • Top Countries On LinkedIn by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 27, 2010, 07:46

    LinkedIn may not be the most glamorous social network - It does not have 500 million users like Facebook. But nevertheless, being a business focused networking…

  • Most Subscribed Youtube Channels by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 19, 2010, 06:17

    Youtube is five years old and over 2 billion online videos are being watched on the site every single day. It is then no wonder that the most subscribed people…

  • Youtube Usage Statistics And Interesting Facts by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 17, 2010, 06:23

    YouTube has completed an important milestone - it has completed five years of existence. That's 3.5 years since the company was acquired by Google and has…

  • Reciprocal Followers On Twitter by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 15, 2010, 07:45

    Twitter, technically cannot be called a social network despite the several million @replies and followers that exist. That is because it is not necessary to…

  • Twitter Users With Most Followers by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 13, 2010, 08:10

    There is no doubt that celebrities on Twitter have been one reason why the service has actually taken off so well. Last week, one of India's biggest sporting…

  • Online Video Viewing Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 28, 2010, 07:05

    eMarketer has published a fairly comprehensive statistics relating to online video viewership statistics for the American market. According to the study, this…

  • Best Social Media Tools For Business by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 24, 2010, 06:36

    It goes without saying that Twitter and Facebook are among the most popular social media tools for businesses. A survey of marketing professionals by Social…

  • How Big Is Twitter? by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 15, 2010, 04:36

    Twitter has continued to generate a lot of buzz and third parties have tried to measure its growth in terms of users and postings. The company has now revealed…

  • Twitter International Traffic Growth by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 9, 2010, 04:21

    For quite a while now, it is being noted that growth of Twitter inside the US has been peaking. Despite this, the trend is still picking up in many parts of…

  • Social Network Penetration Across Countries (Asia-Pacific) by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 7, 2010, 03:50

    The internet is largely becoming the platform for people to keep in touch with their friends and family and this is now no longer a new phenomenon. However,…

  • Social Sharing : Most Popular Social Networks by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 6, 2010, 05:32

    See that 'Share on Twitter and Facebook' button at the top of this article? Most websites and blogs have it these days and it is becoming an attractive way to…

  • Twitter Monthly Growth Rate by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 30, 2010, 05:25

    Unlike most other websites, the success of Twitter cannot be measured by the number of uniques. Thanks to the third party Twitter clients. Then, the only way…

  • Average CPM On YouTube by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 25, 2010, 06:58

    Pre-roll videos and overlay ads are helping YouTube earn in double-digit CPM rates. This is according to a recent study conducted by TBI Research. According to…

  • Average Sessions Per Person On Social Networks by: Anand

    March 20, 2010, 05:24

    Facebook is not only the most populated social network on the planet, but also the most frequented. In a recent study, Nielsen looked into the social networking…

  • Hours Of Video Uploaded Per Minute On Youtube by: Anand

    March 19, 2010, 05:04

    Youtube just reached a milestone - The world's largest video sharing website now has over 1 day's worth of video being uploaded every single minute. But it has…

  • Social Network Downstream Traffic By Website Category by: Anand

    March 19, 2010, 04:10

    10% of traffic from MySpace is on Business/Law related websites. Only 12% of clicks from Digg is on tech related sites - These are some of the interesting…

  • Social Media Marketing To Hispanic American Population by: Anand

    March 15, 2010, 05:21

    Here are some stats: 18% of American Twitter users are Hispanics, 20% of bloggers in America are of Hispanic ethnicity and there will be close to 23 million…

  • How Social Media Helps In Online Marketing by: Anand

    March 13, 2010, 05:41

    What is it that marketers are looking for from social media like blogs, Twitter and Facebook while using these channels for their online marketing efforts? A…

  • User Activity On Multiple Social Networks By Gender by: Anand

    March 5, 2010, 04:20

    Men are more likely than women to be active on multiple social networks. A recent study by Liberty Mutual found that other than Facebook, most men were also…

  • Average Time Spent On Social Networks (By Country) by: Anand

    March 3, 2010, 05:35

    Time spent on social media websites has increased by 82% YoY thanks to the growing popularity of sites such as Twitter and Facebook. A study conducted by…

  • Social Media Adoption Among Fortune 100 Companies by: Anand

    February 27, 2010, 04:56

    The companies at the top of the Fortune list aren't necessarily getting their social media strategies right as a study has shown that the Fortune 100 companies…

  • Popularity Of Youtube Videos By Geography by: Anand

    February 26, 2010, 05:48

    Social media research firm Sysomos studied close to 2.5 million Youtube videos and who had uploaded and linked to it to arrive at an estimate of the distributio…

  • Most Viewed Youtube Video Categories by: Anand

    February 26, 2010, 04:34

    A lot many internet users are heading to Youtube to watch their favorite music videos. This is evident from the fact that nearly one-third of online videos…

  • Language Share On Twitter by: Anand

    February 25, 2010, 05:07

    Without doubt, English is the most common language for tweets. However, thanks to Twitter's slowdown in the US and it picking up fast in many other parts of…

  • Average Number Of Tweets Per Day by: Anand

    February 23, 2010, 05:42

    There has been a lot of debate of late over whether or not Twitter has stopped growing. Many of such debates base their argument based on third party sources.…

  • Social Media Engagement Trends by: Anand

    February 8, 2010, 05:53

    As more and more people share interesting content via Facebook and Twitter, we are observing increasing levels of off-site engagement. The engagement level…

  • Average Number Of Views On Youtube Videos by: Anand

    February 1, 2010, 05:19

    Nearly one third of online videos on Youtube has less than 100 views, and another quarter have between 100 and 500 views. Here is the breakdown of Youtube…

  • State Of Twitterverse by: Anand

    January 28, 2010, 05:40

    Twitter is no doubt a great tool to share thoughts and track trends. But how many users are active users of the service? A recent study by RJMetrics reveals…

  • Sharing Profile Information On Twitter by: Anand

    January 25, 2010, 06:08

    This may sound like a trivial bit, but can reveal how much comfortable people feel sharing their details like location and identity on Twitter. Hubspot…

  • Social Network Usage Among Public Sector Employees by: Anand

    January 19, 2010, 04:12

    Is the use of social networking tools as popular among Government employees as it is among those in the corporate sector? A study (PDF link) by Human Capital…

  • Twitter Usage Across The World by: Anand

    January 15, 2010, 04:31

    Growth of Twitter in USA has apparently plateaued. However, usage continues to grow in other parts of the world. In November 2009, US contributed over 57% of…

  • Most Popular User Generated Content Categories by: Anand

    January 13, 2010, 05:09

    Social media, it appears, has spread itself pretty pretty thin now. In a study (pdf link) of the most popular user generated content categories, nearly 42% of…

  • Successful Twitter Marketing Strategies For Businesses by: Gowri Naveen

    January 5, 2010, 05:39

    Twitter is soon replacing traditional communication channels as a liaison between a company and its consumers. It is also a great marketing platform. In a…

  • Newspapers on Twitter - Most Retweeted Newspaper Twitter Accounts by: Kasthuri VN

    December 30, 2009, 05:50

    It is no news that old media has constantly looked to new media for their own survival. And Twitter with all its hype about catering to real-time web is being…

  • Time Spent On Social Networks By Indians In Office Hours by: Anand

    December 28, 2009, 04:01

    Loss of productivity due to social networking seems to be a growing problem worldwide. In India too, companies have started worrying about this growing trend.…

  • Most Influential Twitter Users by: Anand

    December 22, 2009, 04:20

    INQ has released a new list of the most influential twitter users (or Twitterati as they call it). The list is based on parameters such as the number of…

  • Most Used Social Media Channels in 2009 by: Gowri Naveen

    December 2, 2009, 05:34

    Social media is not always social networking, as you might already know. While bulletin boards have existed since the days of web 1.0, their use in brand…

  • Facebook Fan Pages - Interesting Trivia by: Kasthuri VN

    November 30, 2009, 05:30

    If Facebook fan pages can define celebdom, there aren't too many. Firstly, here are the category-wise split up of the different Facebook fan pages Non-profit…

  • How To Measure Social Media ROI by: Anand

    November 25, 2009, 05:30

    One of the primary reason for marketing professionals not using social media as much as they should is because there is not enough tangible ways to measure the…

  • Top Video Sharing Websites by: Anand

    November 19, 2009, 05:23

    How do you define Facebook? Is it a social network or a photo sharing site or video sharing site or a bit of all of these? Recently we had seen the top video…

  • Online Video Consumption Demographics by: Anand

    November 5, 2009, 06:00

    To start with, no real surprises here when it comes to the the most popular platform. It goes without saying that Youtube is the most popular video platform. …

  • Best Way To Monetize Social Networks by: Anand

    November 2, 2009, 08:55

    With social networks like Facebook and Twitter being valued at billions of dollars, the new billion dollar question how can these sites actually expect to…

  • Unique Visitors Growth Rate At Popular Social Networks by: Anand

    October 14, 2009, 05:56

    Social networks have started to plateau. There is not enough growth happening; at least the growth (or decline) in Twitter does not justify its billion…

  • Photo Sharing Site Flickr's Growth Timeline by: Anand

    October 13, 2009, 06:33

    Flickr may not be as huge as it once was in the photo-sharing category; Facebook has been the leader in this for more than a year now. However, the site is…

  • Market Share of Top Five Social Networks in USA by: Anand

    October 10, 2009, 05:08

    Despite all the hype and hoopla around Twitter, it still tugged somewhere at the bottom with a measly market share. And for those who thought MySpace is dead,…

  • Most Popular Social Activities Online by: Anand

    October 1, 2009, 07:02

    Social networking may be popular, but still is not as popular as email. Like we had discussed a few days back, as social networking increases, email activity…

  • Online Behavior of Twitter Users vs. Other Social Networkers by: Anand

    September 29, 2009, 08:10

    Twitter users are more likely to be active to marketing promotions than the users of any other social networks. Here are some interesting stats to compare the…

  • Hospitals in Social Media by: Anand

    September 28, 2009, 08:34

    If you thought hospitals and social media were totally disjoint, think again. There has not been a huge foray into the social media (there is not too much of a…

  • Biggest Online Social Communities (By Share of Unique Visitors) by: Anand

    September 25, 2009, 12:10

    In discussing about social networks, we often tend to forget equally thriving forums and communities like Yahoo answers and Yahoo Groups(what's that - a social…

  • Youtube Market Share Against Other Video/Multimedia Competitors by: Anand

    September 25, 2009, 12:04

    Youtube is the most popular multimedia website around, and this is not news. What is news is that Youtube mobile has started carving its own niche in the…

  • Why Business Professionals Use Social Media by: Anand

    September 22, 2009, 09:31

    Close to 86% of the respondents in a survey had been found to be using social media for their business. Of them, a majority use the service for marketing…

  • Adoption of Twitter By Newspapers and TV Media by: Anand

    September 16, 2009, 08:25

    How well have the TV stations and newspapers adopted to the new form of communication via Twitter. A recent study of over 200 newspapers and TV stations WITH…

  • 5 Things About Women And Social Networking by: Anand

    September 9, 2009, 08:39

    Here are some nice insights into how much women are into social networking: 1. Top three online activities for women : Check emails, look for coupons, update…

  • Growth of Twitter in Australia by: Anand

    September 9, 2009, 08:28

    No real surprises that Twitter is growing in influence. Here are some parameters that will help understand how much the site has grown in influence in the past…

  • Growth of Facebook Mobile Site by: Anand

    September 4, 2009, 09:14

    Facebook Mobile could be a social network by itself cause the numbers are staggering! Number of users on Facebook mobile in December 2008 : 20 million Number…

  • Interesting Facts About Wikipedia Contributors by: Anand

    September 2, 2009, 08:39

    Here are some interesting facts about the Wikipedia contributors who are responsible for what the site is today: 69% of them became contributors to fix an…

  • Most Popular Social Media Websites in UK by: Anand

    September 2, 2009, 08:06

    MySpace is slowly fading. It will be as dead as a Netscape or a Dinosaur in some more time, but the news for now is Twitter just replaced MySpace in UK. Here…

  • Countries With Most Facebook Users in 2009 by: Anand

    August 28, 2009, 07:21

    Over 22% of Americans have an account on Facebook. That's huge by any standards. And naturally, they top the rankings for the countries with the most number of…

  • How Many Twitter Followers Do You Have? by: Anand

    August 28, 2009, 07:08

    I have 112 followers. Follow me here. Also, tell us how many followers you have in the comments. Here is the percent of Twitter users in the different follower…

  • Average Number of Tweets Per Day by: Anand

    August 28, 2009, 07:03

    How many tweets do you send per day? More than 85% of Twitter users send NONE. Here is how the numbers stack up: 0 tweets : 85.37% 1 tweet : 6.48% 2 tweets :…

  • What Your Boss Thinks of Facebook And Twitter? by: Anand

    August 26, 2009, 08:08

    Your boss is probably having mixed feelings about social media. In a study of senior executives about how social media is impacting their business, here are…

  • Ten Interesting Facts About Facebook by: Anand

    August 23, 2009, 18:10

    Bored on a Sunday, here is a video I made. All statistics are taken from here on Tech Crunchies.

  • Most Popular Social Networks to Promote Email Campaigns by: Anand

    August 19, 2009, 09:41

    Email marketing has a huge ROI and American online retailers make good use of it. But they are also hoping to make the email campaigns go viral with social…

  • Twitter : How Much of Tweets is Bot Generated? by: Anand

    August 17, 2009, 08:56

    Twitter looks like one mega bot-space. A lot many of twitter accounts are not handled by human beings but bots that are programmed to keep the account active…

  • Most Popular Social Networks Among Women by: Anand

    August 17, 2009, 08:06

    This is not a comprehensive list, but prepared by a survey among American women who are part of a female social network called Shesconnected. According to this…

  • Most Popular Social Network in Australia by: Anand

    August 14, 2009, 08:38

    In June 2009, 70% of Australian internet users visited a social network. Facebook has sprang up to the top from nowhere with a year-on-year growth of 95%. Here…

  • How Many Fortune 100 Companies on Twitter and Facebook? by: Anand

    August 14, 2009, 07:53

    Does Twitter bring more ROI than Facebook? Apparently so. In a study of the presence of Fortune 100 companies on social media, this was the observation…

  • Social Networks Usage Statistics Among Journalists by: Anand

    August 13, 2009, 08:44

    Social networks are indeed mainstream and journalists are as much enamored by it as are people from any other profession. Here are the social networks usage…

  • Most Popular Sites for Social Media Marketing by: Anand

    August 13, 2009, 08:07

    Social media marketing has gained terrific traction from the time it was first being seriously considered around 2006-2007. 67% of marketers today resort to…

  • Online Activities of American Female Social Network Users by: Anand

    August 13, 2009, 07:49

    What does a female do on a social network? Here is a study of her activities that could help marketers decide when to target a woman and how(ranked by percent…

  • What Do People Use Twitter For? by: Anand

    July 29, 2009, 15:14

    Everyone's on Twitter. But what are they actually doing there? This study tells something*: Keep in touch with friends : 41.6% Update Status : 29.1% Find News…

  • Most Popular Ways to Share Interesting Links by: Anand

    July 24, 2009, 15:51

    If you are reading this, don't forget to click on the "Share this on Facebook" link on this page because that is what most people would do. Sharing on Facebook…

  • Revenue Projections for Popular Social Networks by: Anand

    July 24, 2009, 15:35

    How much do social networks make? Here is a projection from Borrell Associates: MySpace : 0 million (26% from local advertisers) Hi5 : 0 million Flickr…

  • Brands With Maximum Engagement on Social Media by: Anand

    July 20, 2009, 14:52

    Brands use social media which include Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia to extract maximum mileage in promoting their brands. Here are the brands that make the…

  • Countries with Most Addicted Social Network Users by: Anand

    July 2, 2009, 14:22

    Russia is where the most addicted social networkers are. With an average hours per month spent on social network being 6.6,Russians spend close to double the…

  • What Links Do Twitter Users Click On? by: Anand

    June 25, 2009, 14:41

    What links are most popular among Twitterers and are clicked the most on the site? Here is the ranking of the downstream traffic from Twitter: 1. Entertainment…

  • Facebook vs. MySpace in USA by: Anand

    June 16, 2009, 15:16

    Facebook had overtaken MySpace internationally in June 2008. In a year from then, they have finally managed to oust MySpace on the home turf - USA. Here are…

  • Social Media Participation by Small Businesses in North America by: Anand

    June 6, 2009, 14:44

    More than 260,000 small and medium businesses in North America have been engaging in social media activities in order to grow their business. The most popular…

  • Female Participation in Social Media by: Anand

    June 6, 2009, 14:38

    The study of American female participation in social media was conducted on BlogHer, iVillage and Compass partners and the following results were seen: Female…

  • YouTube Revenue Estimates for 2008 and 2009 by: Anand

    April 22, 2009, 16:20

    How much money does Youtube make? Estimates by different agencies point to different numbers, but to put it in one word, they all claim Youtube is not…

  • Growth Rate of Facebook in Europe by: Anand

    April 15, 2009, 18:04

    Facebook is growing at a terrific pace; of the order of several hundred percent year-on-year in some countries of Europe. Here are the growth rate of Facebook…

  • Favorite Social Network Among UK Female Internet Users by: Anand

    April 8, 2009, 15:32

    Facebook has had a terrific growth in popularity among the British female internet users while MySpace has faced a dip among the same users in the period 2007…

  • Traffic Growth of URL Shortening Services by: Anand

    April 8, 2009, 15:04

    URL shortening services are growing in their popularity and utility after the advent of microblogging. Here is the growth rate of some of the more popular URL…

  • Facebook Video Upload Statistics by: Anand

    March 30, 2009, 13:20

    Facebook videos are not as popular as Youtube, but the numbers are staggering and growing real fast. Many of them are home videos and shot with webcams! Number…

  • Interesting Facts About Facebook by: Anand

    March 12, 2009, 13:40

    A major downfall of a majority of the social networks today is that they are not globally popular. Facebook is now vying to be that global Social network. Here…

  • Social Networks and Blogs Reach in Various Countries by: Anand

    March 10, 2009, 13:34

    In a study by Nielson over the use of "member communities" which is a mix of both social networks as well as blogs, the following is the reach among the…

  • Most Popular Social Network in Spain by: Anand

    February 25, 2009, 14:29

    No Facebook, no MySpace on top. Here is the list of the top ten social networks for Spanish visitors 1. Tuenti 2. Facebook 3. Fotolog 4. Hi5 5. Metroflog 6.…

  • Most Popular Social Network in India by: Anand

    February 20, 2009, 13:40

    Here is the list of the top ten social networks in India in terms of the number of unique visitors for December 2008: 1. Orkut : 12.8 million 2. Facebook : 4…

  • Distribution of American User Generated Content Creators Based on Content Type by: Anand

    February 20, 2009, 13:19

    User generated content is growing all the time. USA alone had 82.5 million user generated content creators in 2008. This number is projected to grow to 114.5…

  • Twitter User Age Demographics by: Anand

    February 13, 2009, 15:42

    Twitter users, as you might have guessed comprise of the young, urban and mobile generation. Here is the age-wise distribution of Twitter users: 18-24 :…

  • Usage of Facebook Mobile Applications by: Anand

    February 11, 2009, 13:52

    The top three mobile applications for Facebook are the ones for iPhones, Blackberry and the general mobile. 25 million people access Facebook from their mobile…

  • Growth of User Generated Content Contributors in USA by: Anand

    January 28, 2009, 15:01

    Web 2.0 is all about user generated content. Now, this phenomenon is likely to push more than half of the American internet users into contributing content…

  • Use of Social Networks and Online Videos by Doctors by: Anand

    January 27, 2009, 14:14

    From a recent survey, American doctors are found to be avid consumers of online videos and use social networks in their niche. 60 percent of US doctors have…

  • Website Traffic Growth to Twitter.com in 2008 by: Anand

    January 27, 2009, 13:53

    Twitter is now among the top 300 most popular websites thanks to its phenomenal growth rate in 2008. Twitter Alexa ranking in Jan 2008 : 2953 Twitter Alexa…

  • Popularity of Facebook vs. MySpace by: Anand

    January 24, 2009, 14:29

    In June 2008, Facebook equalled MySpace in the number of unique visitors. In just six months, here is how the popularity stands for the month of December: Uniq…

  • Projected Growth Of Mobile Social Network and Dating Websites by: Anand

    January 21, 2009, 14:53

    Mobile social networking revenue in 2008 : .1 billion Projected revenues from mobile social networking in 2013 : .3 billion Active users of mobile social…

  • How Fast Is Twitter Growing? by: Anand

    December 24, 2008, 19:09

    Number of Twitter users : 4-5 million Daily New Registrations : 5000-10000 Percent users who are unengaged : 30% Percent users with no photo : 38% Percent…

  • Most Popular Social Networks On Mobile by: Anand

    December 24, 2008, 18:43

    The list released by Opera lists Facebook above MySpace for the first time! The ranking is as follows: 1. Facebook 2. MySpace 3. Friendster 4. My Opera 5.…

  • How Much Money Does Digg.com Make? by: Anand

    December 21, 2008, 10:17

    Digg gets 22.6 million unique visitors every month. 2007 Revenues Revenues : .8 million Loss : .8 million 2008 Revenues (First three quarters) Revenues :…

  • American Online Ad Spending on Social Networks by: Anand

    December 11, 2008, 15:08

    The projections have been lowered due to the economic condition. The spending online by advertisers in terms of the websites: MYSPACE 2008 : 5 million 2009…

  • Reach of Social Networks Among Internet Users by: Anand

    December 3, 2008, 16:21

    Canada has the highest reach of social networks among its Internet population. Here is a list of the top ten countries and the percent reach: 1. Canada :…

  • Facebook Versus MySpace by: Anand

    November 15, 2008, 19:54

    Facebook is closing in on MySpace in gaining American audience. Facebook is now nearly two thirds the size of MySpace in terms of the number of uniques…

  • Popularity of Twitter Vs. Meebo by: Anand

    November 12, 2008, 18:54

    How many twitter messages (tweets) are posted as compared to personal IMs posted via Meebo? After two years and three months since Twitter launched, Twitter…

  • Growth of Facebook Mobile Site by: Anand

    November 12, 2008, 18:20

    Facebook, the popular social networking site was available for users on the go at m.facebook.com and for those with smartphones on x.facebook.com. At the…

  • How Old Is Delicious? by: Anand

    November 7, 2008, 18:02

    Delicious.com or Del.icio.us (as it was when started) is five years old. Here are few tidbits of information about the company: Originally Del.icio.us (now,…

  • Most Popular Photo Sharing Websites by: Anand

    October 18, 2008, 15:12

    No, it is neither Flickr nor Photobucket. Here is the rank of the top 3 photo sharing websites along with the number of photos uploaded on them. 1. Facebook :…

  • Most Popular Social Network in France by: Anand

    June 19, 2008, 13:33

    More than half of the French Internet audience (54%) had visited a social network in the last two months. And the leader of the social network pack is neither…

  • UK Spend on Social Network Marketing by: Anand

    May 31, 2008, 08:10

    There are over 11 million Britons on the online social networks today. This has surely not missed the eye of the advertisers who are now finding a great medium…

  • Social Networks Year-on-Year Traffic Growth Rate by: Anand

    May 21, 2008, 12:53

    As Facebook grows in user base, their year on year growth rate has started to stabilize. It is just over half of the YOY growth last April (98%). The month-on-m…

  • Market Share of YouTube by: Anand

    May 11, 2008, 08:04

    YouTube we know is the most popular video sharing site on the internet. It accounts for 96 percent of all videos watched from Google sites. The market share of…

  • Most Popular Online Communities in US by: Anand

    May 9, 2008, 09:15

    A large percentage of internet users in USA contribute to online communities. Here is a list of the most popular categories on which the Americans love to talk…

  • Online Social Networks Advertisement Spending in US by: Anand

    May 7, 2008, 20:14

    MySpace and Facebook have been the dominant destinations for advertisers looking for promote their products on American social networks. The spendings in 2007…

  • Social Networks Uptime for First Quarter 2008 by: Anand

    May 7, 2008, 20:02

    Here is the total uptime (in percent terms) experienced by the popular social networks for the period Jan 1 2008 to April 30 2008: Twitter : 98.72% Reunion :…

  • Social Networks With the Most Downtime by: Anand

    May 2, 2008, 21:52

    Some Social Networks have serious downtime periods during which users are not able to access the website. The Social network with the most downtime during the…

  • Social Networks Usage Amongst Children and Young Adults by: Anand

    May 1, 2008, 21:20

    Social networks are seemingly becoming a hit even amongst tweens and teens. Apparently girls have taken to social networking much more than boys. BOYS: 2006 -…

  • How Many User-Generated-Content Creators? by: Anand

    April 17, 2008, 18:45

    If you have used Orkut, MySpace, Facebook or blog or edit Wikipedia, then you are contributing to the User Generated Content on the internet. So, how many…

  • Top 10 Video Sites in UK by: Anand

    April 15, 2008, 18:29

    As is the norm in all parts of the world, Youtube claims the majority pie in the online video sharing rankings: 1. Youtube.com 2. Youtube UK 3. BBC iPlayer 4.…

  • Why People Participate in Social Networks? by: Anand

    April 5, 2008, 10:35

    Not surprising that the primary reason behind people(US Adult users) contributing to social networks is to feel part of the community! The percent people who…

  • Most Popular Language in Orkut Communities by: Anand

    March 25, 2008, 18:45

    Orkut's popularity in Brazil and India shows up in the communities as well: 1. Portuguese : 40,460,878 communities 2. English : 3,738,534 communities 3.…

  • Market Share for the Top 5 Questions-Answers Websites by: Anand

    March 23, 2008, 08:12

    The Q&A market have all along been dominated by Yahoo Answers though WikiAnswers have seemed to snatched a heavy chunk of market share over the past year…

  • Most Popular Online Video Sites by: Anand

    March 16, 2008, 18:55

    Youtube has put Google well ahead of the rest. The market share that the different companies are currently holding in the online videos market: Google -…

  • Annual Budget for Wikipedia by: Anand

    March 11, 2008, 18:17

    Wikipedia has around 300 million page views a day. To support this traffic, the annual budget for Wikipedia is .6 million. Wikipedia has 45000 contributors…

  • Top 10 Social Networks for February 2008 by: Anand

    March 8, 2008, 11:42

    Compete has released their list of the top 10 social networks for the month of February. MySpace still Number#1 1. MySpace 2. Facebook 3. Classmates 4.…

  • What Do Marketers Think about Social Media? by: Anand

    March 3, 2008, 18:01

    100 percent of the respondents opined that Social media marketing was definitely one of long term. 21.1 percent felt it should be used to monitor at the staff…

  • Falling Populariy of Facebook and Social Networks in UK by: Anand

    February 21, 2008, 17:52

    The top 3 social networks in UK as per the latest count by Nielson are 1. Facebook 2. MySpace 3. Bebo All three social networks experienced falling numbers in…

  • American Traffic Statistics For MySpace by: Anand

    February 12, 2008, 17:32

    MySpace had a surge in traffic in January for the American market. The key indicators to this were the following: Average time spent by user : 204 minutes (up…

  • How Many American Viewers Of Online Videos? by: Anand

    February 9, 2008, 09:25

    Americans watched over 10 billion videos online in December 2007 77.6 million viewers watched 3.2 billion videos on Youtube 40.5 million viewers watched 334…

  • Future of Dating Websites by: Anand

    February 6, 2008, 17:50

    With Social networking becoming such a hugely popular concept, you might tend to believe that dating and match making websites are in for a toss. However, 97…

  • How Much the Brits Trust the Online Social Network? by: Anand

    February 4, 2008, 17:19

    The social network that you form online is not after all equivalent to the one in real world. Four out of five Brits feel insecure in sharing their mobile…

  • How Much Money Does Facebook Make? by: Anand

    February 1, 2008, 07:14

    Facebook is still private, so the financial information is not officially released. However, founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed a few critical information…

  • Google's Performance on Social Networks by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Facebook Applications by: Anand

    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.…

  • User-Generated-Videos : US Viewership 2005 - 2008 by: Anand

    January 24, 2008, 12:11

    The views of UG Videos increased by over 70 percent in 2007 from 2006. The views numbers for the years from 2005 to 2008 are 2005 : 3.25 billion 2006 : 13.16…

  • How Many Online Videos Do Americans Watch in a Month? by: Anand

    January 18, 2008, 13:29

    For November 2007, Americans watched over 9.5 billion online videos. Of them, over 31.5 percent; that is 3 billion videos were watched on Google sites. Youtube…

  • Popularity of Video Sharing Among Young Adults by: Anand

    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…

  • Userbase of Jango social jukebox by: Anand

    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…

  • Is MySpace still popular? by: Anand

    January 15, 2008, 07:57

    Yes, it is but with reducing popularity. The annual page views fell 7 percent in 2007 compared to 2006. Page views also fell 9 percent in December 2007…

  • Slowest and Inaccessible Websites by: Anand

    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 -…

  • How Big is the Chinese Video Sharing market by: Anand

    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…

  • Growth of Traffic to Video Sharing Websites by: Anand

    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…

  • Which firms have a presence in Virtual Worlds? by: Anand

    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) …

  • Facebook vs. MySpace by: Anand

    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…

  • How Digg and Reddit fared in 2007 by: Anand

    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…

  • How AOL Netscape social voting system fared by: Anand

    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…

  • Popular Form of Online Communication for Adult users by: Anand

    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…

  • How many users prefer Internet to TV for watching videos? by: Anand

    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…

  • Teenagers Online Social Content Creation by: Anand

    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%…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • Advertising on Social networks by: Anand

    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…

  • Who visits Social networks the most? by: Anand

    November 11, 2007, 18:18

    According to the IBM 2007 Digital Consumer Study, over 45 percent respondents from USA visit Social networks while only 30 percent of them visit other websites…

  • Are Social networks blocked at all workplaces? by: Anand

    November 8, 2007, 08:40

    Should be around half of them, at least. Barracuda Networks surveyed 2400 customers. Percentage of customers who blocked Facebook and MySpace at office: 50.2 %

  • How much is Digg worth? by: Anand

    November 8, 2007, 08:36

    Digg is internet's most famous Social news site. Digg is recently rumored to be discussing a sale to a major media company. The site is said to be valued at…

  • How much do Best Buy's social video service cost? by: Anand

    October 31, 2007, 11:23

    This to-be launched service is partnered between Best Buy and Mydeo. It is an online service to upload home movies and videos. There are different plans…

  • Growth of Facebook since December 2006 by: Anand

    October 31, 2007, 11:02

    User base of Facebook in December 2006: 12 million User base of Facebook in October 2007: 47 million Number of applications developed by third-party developers:…

  • Is Flixter up for sale? by: Anand

    October 28, 2007, 13:09

    Possibly. So, what is Flixter? It is a social network revolving around movies. Why is it up for sale? Possibly because of declining traffic. Flixter's unique…

  • Facebook  (14)
    • American States With Highest Number Of Facebook Gamers by: Anand Srinivasan

      November 22, 2010, 08:45

      Where do the most number of gamers on Facebook come from in the United States? A study conducted by AdParlor looked into data gathered from hundreds of…

    • Most Visited Social Networks In India by: Anand Srinivasan

      August 27, 2010, 17:03

      It has been quite a while since I wrote about the social networking space in India. Last time I wrote about this was with respect to the December 2008 numbers…

    • Facebook In UK - Growth And Usage Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

      August 11, 2010, 16:15

      Like it is elsewhere, Facebook is the most popular social network and the second biggest website in the Blighty. However, the social network is facing a…

    • Geographic Distribution Of Facebook Users by: Anand Srinivasan

      July 22, 2010, 16:29

      Facebook has reached 500 million users - You learnt about this either on news, or from the newspapers (if you read one) or on one of your favorite blogs or…

    • Top 10 Brands On Facebook by: Anand Srinivasan

      May 24, 2010, 07:17

      FanPageList is a new site that is dedicated to showcasing the most popular fan pages on Facebook. And surprise, Facebook is the brand with most followers on…

    • Facebook Privacy Policy : Expansion Over The Years by: Anand Srinivasan

      May 15, 2010, 07:24

      There has been a lot of discussion over Facebook's controversial privacy policy. This has generated a huge debate and according to some, users have been…

    • Average Household Income Of Facebook Users : USA by: Anand Srinivasan

      April 12, 2010, 04:38

      Facebook, with its 400 million users represents a big chunk of internet users worldwide. Inside US, the website is the second most popular website just after…

    • Top Ten Countries On Facebook by: Anand Srinivasan

      March 23, 2010, 05:09

      There are over 400 million users on Facebook now and close to 70% of these users reside outside the United States. Facebook is the largest website in terms of…

    • Facebook Traffic Ranking By Country by: Anand Srinivasan

      March 22, 2010, 05:41

      Facebook recently surpassed Google search (only the search engine) in terms of traffic in USA. Though Google's cumulative pageviews would be way higher than…

    • Facebook Revenues For 2009 by: Anand

      March 4, 2010, 06:02

      How big is Facebook? With nearly 400 million members on board, the company is a pretty big subset of the internet. With such a massive audience, the revenues…

    • Number Of Facebook Users By Country by: Anand

      January 14, 2010, 05:07

      Facebook now has over 350 million users. With such a huge crowd, where are the people coming from? Here are the top countries whose people have been fueling…

    • Growth In Facebook Popularity Among College Students by: Anand

      December 18, 2009, 05:57

      It is no news that Facebook has been increasing in its popularity over the past few years, something that explains the terrific rise in the user base of the…

    • Facebook Racial Demographics in US by: Kasthuri VN

      December 17, 2009, 04:38

      Facebook does not ask for your race. But a recent study used the US Census data to predict the race of users from their surnames. For instance, a person with a…

    • Most Popular Facebook Applications by: Gowri Naveen

      December 4, 2009, 04:28

      There has been so many debates in the past whether Twitter can be a Facebook-killer. Here is a stat that makes all the discussion futile. Forget Facebook, the…

• Software and Apps  (52)
  • Smartphone Platform Market Share For Europe by: Anand Srinivasan

    September 27, 2010, 13:38

    Smartphone adoption is growing and so is the adoption of newer smartphone platforms like iOS and Android. Not surprisingly, older platforms like Symbian and…

  • Percentage Of Free Apps vs. Paid Apps By Mobile Platform by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 5, 2010, 12:08

    The last two years has seen a terrific rise in the number of app stores in the market. Today, almost all the mobile platform developers own their own mobile…

  • Mobile Map Application Usage Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 26, 2010, 08:01

    A new study by Comscore MobiLens shows that the use of mapping applications on mobile phones grew 44% in the year between April 2009 and April 2010. In just…

  • Fastest Growing Mobile App Categories by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 17, 2010, 08:16

    Smartphone usage - and consequently mobile app usage - are on the rise. According to a study by MobiLens, the number of mobile app users in the United States…

  • Most Popular Mobile Applications by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 3, 2010, 05:29

    Social networking is a huge phenomenon and the always-on connectivity offered by smartphones has only accelerated the trend. According to a recent study…

  • Android Platform Versions Market Share by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 1, 2010, 11:30

    Yesterday, Twitter announced an official client for Android devices. Too bad, it only worked on Android 2.1 devices. That means, only 27.3% of Android handsets…

  • Mobile Maps Users In Europe by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 17, 2010, 06:08

    According to a ComScore MobiLens survey, the number of mobile maps and direction users has increased by over 68% in the past one year across Europe. In…

  • Number Of iPad Apps By Category by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 8, 2010, 05:30

    Perhaps these are early days for the iPad and hence this study might not hold true for a long time and I hope to revisit this in a few more months. However,…

  • Mobile App Downloads Worldwide by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 8, 2010, 04:41

    In a study published earlier this year, Gartner predicted that the mobile apps to grow to a billion market globally by 2013. That was against a yearly…

  • Number Of New Apps In Android Marketplace : By Month by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 6, 2010, 05:48

    Google Android is regarded to be the closest rival to the iPhone OS and is seen as the platform that will eventually take on the mantle from the iPhone. The…

  • Smartphone User Spending On Mobile Apps by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 6, 2010, 05:12

    Mobile phone users have been graduating to smartphones majorly because of the third party apps that come with it. However, how many users actually choose to go…

  • App Revenue From Tablet Devices : Projection by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 31, 2010, 04:12

    The Apple iPad is launching this week and the hype surrounding the device is huge. The initial estimates point out to a sale of close to 6 million units by the…

  • Mobile App Store Market Share Based On Usage by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 26, 2010, 04:19

    As you may have guessed, Apple App Store enjoys the lead when it comes to app store usage. However, when the application marketplace is taken overall to…

  • Average Price Of Popular iPhone Apps By Region by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 23, 2010, 05:48

    Distimo, a Netherlands based market research firm has released its latest report that looks into the prices of popular paid applications worldwide. One of the…

  • Mobile App Stores : Growth In Numbers by: Anand

    March 18, 2010, 05:23

    The mobile application market is a mini-industry in itself with several thousand app developers now in the business of making and selling applications to…

  • iPhone App Developer Profile by: Anand

    March 16, 2010, 05:31

    Ever since the Apple App Store became a hit, hundreds and thousands of app developers have joined the ecosystem. But not all are core iPhone app developers. …

  • Global Smartphone App Market Users Forecast by: Anand

    March 6, 2010, 04:38

    The Apple App Store has come a long way since opening up for iPhone users in 2008. Since then, other marketplaces like Android's have also been fast playing…

  • Number Of Smartphone Users Downloading Paid-App by: Anand

    February 27, 2010, 05:45

    AdMob's recent study looks into the app purchasing habits of smartphone users. Apparently, around 1 paid app is downloaded per month on an average by smartphone…

  • Average Number Of App Downloads Per Month by: Anand

    February 27, 2010, 05:26

    How many apps does an average smartphone user download per month? A study from AdMob reveals that just over 1 app is actually purchased while half a dozen apps…

  • Cloud Based Mobile Applications Market by: Anand

    February 23, 2010, 04:00

    Cloud based mobile applications is a fledgling industry already set to take off - There are rumors of Apple introducing a cloud based iTunes and Google…

  • Number Of Apps On App Store By Category by: Anand

    February 13, 2010, 04:24

    The Apple App Store for iPhone apps has just hit another milestone. There are now over 150,000 applications overall. Games has always been a leader and now…

  • Mobile Apps Usage Frequency by: Anand

    February 13, 2010, 03:49

    How frequently do iPhone and Android users make use of the various apps they have installed? A recent study by Flurry provides the answers classified by app…

  • Most Popular Office Package Among German Users by: Anand

    February 2, 2010, 06:00

    Webmaster Pro Web analytics studied the most preferred Office package among more than one million internet users in Germany. Without doubt, Microsoft Office…

  • Most Popular Free Mobile Applications For Android by: Anand

    January 27, 2010, 06:35

    The Apple App Store might be the most popular mobile application marketplace currently. However, Android is expected to take the reigns over from Apple in a…

  • Mobile Application Stores : Downloads and Revenue by: Anand

    January 25, 2010, 06:02

    The iPhone has no doubt revolutionized the mobile phone industry and the app economy, spurred by the addition of thousands of new mobile apps everyday to the…

  • Most Preferred Application (App) Platform For Marketers by: Anand

    January 21, 2010, 06:15

    Facebook and iPhone are among the most obvious platforms that marketers could use to promote their third party apps among their target user base. A study by…

  • Mobile Augmented Reality Application Growth Estimate by: Anand

    January 8, 2010, 05:32

    Augmented reality apps have become pretty popular in the past one year. According to a recent report by Juniper, this is however just the beginning and there…

  • US Smartphone OS Market Share by: Kasthuri VN

    December 22, 2009, 05:39

    The iPhone has for the first time overtaken Windows Mobile in the number of handsets running its Operating system. Blackberry retains its top spot comfortably…

  • Mobile Gaming Applications - Top Smartphone Platforms by: Gowri Naveen

    December 7, 2009, 04:31

    Apple seems to be the lone player when it comes to users playing games on their smartphones. And this has not changed a bit in the past six months. Six months…

  • iPhone vs. Android : Internet, Apps And Video Consumption by: Anand

    November 21, 2009, 04:31

    With the launch of Motorola Droid, the competition between the iPhone and Android has heated up even further. So, how many people are actually using these…

  • iPhone vs. Android vs. Blackberry : App Price Comparison by: Anand

    October 28, 2009, 08:52

    The app price variation between Apple and Blackberry is understandable - iPhone app developers play on volumes while those on Blackberry play just on the…

  • Interesting Facts About LG App Store by: Anand

    October 14, 2009, 05:17

    Did you know an LG application store exists? It's been three months and if you want to know how many apps are there on the LG app store or other interesting…

  • Best Smartphone Platform to Surf Web? by: Anand

    October 13, 2009, 06:57

    Android is apparently better for surfing web than the iPhone. This was the result from a smartphone satisfaction survey based on operating system among US…

  • Gartner Mobile OS Market Share Forecast by: Anand

    October 8, 2009, 04:27

    Android today runs on less than 2% of all smartphones, a close to insignificant number. That could possibly change in the next 3-4 years according to a study…

  • Retention Rate of Mobile Apps By Category by: Anand

    September 28, 2009, 07:17

    Mobile apps seem to have a very little lifespan. In a study of over 1800 apps and 75 million customers based on category, none of the apps seemed to have a…

  • Most Frequently Used Mobile Apps By Category by: Anand

    September 28, 2009, 07:11

    Remember the earliest apps that made news on iPhone - like iFart and Lighter. They are no longer used anywhere. However, some apps are being used as frequently…

  • Most Popular Twitter Apps on the iPhone by: Anand

    September 23, 2009, 09:36

    The iTunes store does not really give a clue about the popularity of twitter apps. However,a list made from AppsFire, an apps sharing service shows the…

  • Growth Potential of The Mobile Applications Market by: Anand

    September 23, 2009, 08:51

    How big shall the mobile app market grow. In a new study, there is apparently a gold rush waiting to happen in the next five years and here are the expected…

  • Most Popular App Categories - Apple vs. Android in UK by: Anand

    September 23, 2009, 08:15

    The popularity of apps based on categories is more or less the same between Apple and Android mobile phone users. However, news apps are extremely popular…

  • Spain - Most Price Sensitive Mobile App Market by: Anand

    September 16, 2009, 08:40

    Well, this is not a worldwide study, and just included four big markets for mobile phone applications - USA, UK, Spain and Japan. While close to 48% of the…

  • Most Downloaded Apps on GetJar by: Anand

    September 16, 2009, 07:50

    GetJar is one of the most popular destinations for mobile phone users to look for apps on all kinds of operating system. According to report released by…

  • Apps Generating Most Revenues in Apple App Store by: Anand

    September 10, 2009, 10:19

    Which of the mobile apps are generating the most revenue for Apple? A new 'Top Grossing' list on iTunes lists the following apps among the top grossers: 1.…

  • How Big is the Android Market by: Anand

    September 8, 2009, 10:00

    Being open source helps. That is probably how Android has been able to grow at a rather healthy pace. Here is data from Androlib about the size of the Android…

  • Average Number Of Apps Per iPhone (And Other Interesting Facts) by: Anand

    September 7, 2009, 16:23

    Here are some really interesting pieces of information obtained from a survey of 1200 iPhone owners: Average number of apps per iPhone : 65 Average money…

  • Growth of Nokia Ovi Store by: Anand

    September 4, 2009, 08:44

    Nokia launched the Ovi store on May 26. In the three months that this has existed, here are the growth numbers: Total number of downloads : 10 million Number…

  • Size of the Paid App Market by: Anand

    August 28, 2009, 07:38

    How big is the paid mobile apps market? The study by Admob shows how much Apple has been raking in with these apps. Here are the estimates for these three…

  • Number of Paid Mobile Apps Downloaded Per Month by: Anand

    August 28, 2009, 06:50

    There are more people purchasing paid apps from iPhones(50%) than from Androids(19%). Maybe it is because Android users want it all free, or maybe it is yet to…

  • Most Popular Twitter Clients by: Anand

    August 21, 2009, 08:32

    You might be obsessively twittering away from TweetDeck since it's cool, but remember that a majorty - 65% are still out there on the Twitter website. Here is…

  • Growing Apps-Developer Market For Various Mobile OS Platform by: Anand

    August 20, 2009, 10:23

    'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' seems to be the mantra the mobile phone applications development industry is treading along with. 67% of apps…

  • How Many Apps and Games on Nokia Ovi Store? by: Anand

    August 20, 2009, 08:17

    After three months since the launch of the Nokia Ovi store, things are starting to look up. Now there is a moderately good collection of free and paid…

  • Growth of Smartphone Mobile App Downloads by: Anand

    August 13, 2009, 07:35

    Mobile phone applications is the next big thing, apparently. In a forecast by Frost and Sullivan, smartphone mobile application downloads are likely to soar in…

  • Web Analytics Usage in Swedish Internet Industry by: Anand

    August 12, 2009, 11:31

    A study of 400 Sweden based websites for usage of web analytics software by WASP, a Firefox plugin for web analytics profiling provides the following insights: …

• Yahoo  (13)
  • Community Engagement on Yahoo Portals by: Anand

    October 29, 2009, 04:27

    An interesting thing about many of the properties owned by Yahoo is the tiny social elements built around each of these that helps Yahoo make its users engage…

  • How Much Salary Does Yahoo CEO Draw? by: Anand

    September 9, 2009, 08:20

    Yahoo announced their new CEO in January this year; Carol Bartz. This was the salary offered to her: Cash Component : million per annum Stock Options : …

  • Monthly Search Volumes on Yahoo BOSS by: Anand

    August 19, 2009, 10:12

    Yahoo BOSS is an open search API from Yahoo that lets anyone create a search engine using the Yahoo algorithm. How big is it? Search volumes in April : 900…

  • Interesting 'Did You Knows' From Yahoo South East Asian Country Sites by: Anand

    July 27, 2009, 14:40

    Here are a few interesting 'did you know' facts shared by Yahoo at Ad Tech,Singapore: Did you know Filipino internet users are twice more likely to click on…

  • Most Popular Finance Website by: Anand

    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 -…

  • Yahoo vs. Google in Japan by: Anand

    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…

  • Top Yahoo subsites in 2007 by: Anand

    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…

  • Gmail Vs. Yahoo Mail Vs. Hotmail Vs. AOL by: Anand

    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.…

  • Is Advertising Gambling sites legal? by: Anand

    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…

  • Demographics of the Searchers by: Anand

    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…

  • Search Engine market shares for the American market by: Anand

    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%)

  • How is Yahoo Messenger faring against its competitors? by: Anand

    October 31, 2007, 11:15

    Yahoo Messenger is soon set to topple AOL's AIM as the leading IM service in the US AIM User base in US: 30.2 million Growth past year: 2% Yahoo Messenger Use…

  • Yahoo's operations in China - Through Alibaba by: Anand

    October 29, 2007, 21:01

    Yahoo owns 39% stake in local ecommerce site, Alibaba.com. The money invested was .4 billion. The value of the investment is now .4 billion. Alibaba has…

• Mobile Internet  (108)
  • Mobile Video Revenue Forecast From Subscription & Advertising by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 4, 2010, 17:00

    Till sometime back, nobody, even the great Google did not have a clue about effectively monetizing online video. The problem compounded with the advent of 3G…

  • USA Mobile Phone Ownership By Race/Ethnicity by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 12, 2010, 16:50

    Pew Internet & American Life Project has published a fresh study that looks into the mobile phone adoption and usage trends among Americans. The study has…

  • Wireless Broadband Internet Growth In Europe by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 6, 2010, 16:16

    Gothenberg, Sweden based Berg Institute has published a new report that looks into the wireless broadband internet growth via HSPA & LTE networks in Europe. …

  • Global Mobile TV Revenue Growth Estimate by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 28, 2010, 16:47

    A recent study published by ABI research claims that the revenues from mobile TV are set to accelerate from 2012. According to this study, the revenues this…

  • Mobile Ad Requests : Top US Cities by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 21, 2010, 12:19

    According to a new report by Millennial media, Android ad requests grew 77% month over month in April, while Apple saw an 8% decline and RIM saw a marginal 3%…

  • US Mobile Data Revenues Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 18, 2010, 03:10

    It is no news that the mobile data market has been growing exponentially in the past few years thanks to the explosive growth in the smartphone segment.…

  • Mobile Banking Penetration In USA by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 14, 2010, 07:23

    Mobile banking may not have picked up as fast as it should have. Issues of security and the fear of storing information on a device that you can be potentially…

  • iPad 3G Service Providers By Country by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 11, 2010, 06:59

    The iPad is launching nine more countries apart from USA starting May 28th. Pre-orders for the new Apple launch has already commenced. Unlike the American…

  • Mobile Coupons Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 24, 2010, 08:13

    Mobile coupons are still only a small percentage of the entire coupon segment yet they are among the most popular. According to a recent study by Borrel…

  • Internet Enabled Mobile Phone Ownership by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 16, 2010, 07:50

    Merkle Inc. has published a recent study on mobile web adoption and usage. According to this study, close to half of the mobile subscribers today own an…

  • US Mobile Internet Traffic : Smartphone vs. Feature Phone by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 31, 2010, 05:13

    This year, there will be an average data traffic of 8 petabytes on a monthly basis over mobile phones in the US. Of this, close to 79% is expected to happen…

  • Worldwide Smartphone OS Market Share - February 2010 by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 26, 2010, 05:36

    AdMob's monthly metrics report claims that website traffic from smartphones has increased 193% over the past one year. On a comparative scale, traffic from…

  • Mobile Broadband In USA by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 24, 2010, 05:19

    Mobile internet has been growing pretty fast and some networks are already onto 4G technology. A big chunk of growth has undoubtedly been in the US which is…

  • Mobile Internet Usage In Europe by: Anand

    March 10, 2010, 04:06

    There are close to 418 million internet users in Europe - a number that has grown 298% over the past decade. While the internet usage via mobile phones have…

  • Mobile Banking Users :Worldwide Distribution by: Anand

    March 9, 2010, 05:46

    According to a study by Conrad Lisco of the R/GA group, there will be close to 150 million mobile users worldwide who shall access banking services from their…

  • UK Mobile Internet Traffic Share Among Carriers by: Anand

    March 2, 2010, 04:21

    Mobile internet users in United Kingdom have been growing at a rate of 19.3% YoY and in terms of pageviews, there has been a 50.1% growth. So who are the…

  • Average Page Views Per User On Mobile Web by: Anand

    March 1, 2010, 12:45

    In its latest 'State of the Mobile Web' report, Opera offers an insight into the average pageviews viewed by mobile web users across different users. While the…

  • Average Monthly Smartphone Data Consumption by: Anand

    February 18, 2010, 04:12

    There has been a lot of strain on the wireless network ever since the smartphones came into existence. With increasing proliferation of such devices, the…

  • Social Networking On Mobile Phones by: Anand

    February 17, 2010, 05:15

    Mobile phones are much better social connectors than traditional desktops. 91% of mobile internet users in USA have used it for social networking compared to…

  • Growth In Mobile Data By Application by: Anand

    February 11, 2010, 05:53

    Mobile data traffic has been growing strong thanks to increased use of 'over the top' applications like Youtube and Skype. For instance, Youtube contributes to…

  • Global Mobile Data Traffic Growth Forecast by: Anand

    February 10, 2010, 05:11

    A recently released report from CISCO claims that the mobile data traffic will grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40% between 2009 and 2014. The…

  • Mobile Banking Transactions Among American Customers by: Anand

    February 10, 2010, 04:34

    The future of mobile commerce appears to be bright with strong hints of increasing comfort level with mobile banking among consumers. Here are some statistics…

  • Mobile Ticketing : Volume And Projected Growth by: Anand

    February 4, 2010, 04:11

    Delivering tickets via mobile phones is already prevalent across rail companies in UK and across several industries like retail and entertainment in countries…

  • Mobile Internet In United Kingdom by: Anand

    February 1, 2010, 05:30

    There has been a substantial increase in mobile internet consumption in UK in the past one year. Here are some numbers about how the mobile internet medium has…

  • Mobile Internet Users in India by: Anand

    January 11, 2010, 05:12

    Despite the terrific growth rate in adoption of mobile phones, mobile internet has not exactly taken off in India so far. A research report by IAMAI reveals…

  • Smartphone Spending Propensity by: Kasthuri VN

    January 7, 2010, 04:24

    Smartphones have no doubt catapulted mobile commerce. Smartphone users are now inclined to spend a lot more from their mobile phones than they were ready to in…

  • Wi-Fi Enabled Mobile Phone Usage by: Gowri Naveen

    January 4, 2010, 05:35

    With the advent of smartphones, the usage of Wi-Fi from mobile handsets have increased tremendously. A recent study by In-Stat reveals a few interesting points…

  • Mobile Media Usage Among Smartphone Users by: Anand

    December 29, 2009, 04:04

    How smartphones have changed user behavior. A study shows that iPhone and Android users have pretty similar mobile usage patterns. Users of both these phones…

  • Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales By Region by: Gowri Naveen

    December 16, 2009, 04:34

    Asia Pacific - India and China specifically have been driving the telecom market for quite some time now. Nearly 50% of all mobile phone sales has come from…

  • Internet Traffic From Mobile Phones by: Anand

    December 9, 2009, 05:04

    Smartphone proliferation is on the rise an so is the internet usage from these devices. As a result, there will be significant growth in the overall data…

  • Average Mobile Internet Sessions Per Month by: Anand

    December 4, 2009, 06:14

    How many times does the average mobile internet user logs in per month? Mobile Internet access is not growing by leaps and bounds as one might expect. Last…

  • Wi-Fi Mobile Phones As Percentage Of Total Mobile Handsets by: Gowri Naveen

    November 24, 2009, 05:54

    The mobile phones which are Wi-Fi enabled constitute only about 11.5%. But this is a gigantic leap from two years back when only 3.1% of the phones were Wi-Fi…

  • Consumer Mobile Applications of the Future by: Kasthuri VN

    November 19, 2009, 06:05

    What are the consumer mobile applications that will be the rage in the coming years? Gartner seems to have cracked the case and here are their top ten picks…

  • Mobile Social Networking Users As Percent of Mobile Internet Users by: Anand

    November 18, 2009, 05:17

    With social networking becoming so much intertwined with internet usage, and assuming that the mobile internet users form the more tech-savvy among internet…

  • Mobile Paid Search Advertiser Spending Statistics by: Anand

    November 3, 2009, 06:10

    The mobile search market is set to boom in the next few years with the revenue from search leaping up from close to 25% of all revenue to nearly 70%. No wonder…

  • How Many SMS Text Messages Sent in a Day in US? by: Anand

    October 8, 2009, 05:47

    We had written yesterday about SMS advertising to lose out to mobile search advertising in the next few years. But the volume of SMS might just keep growing in…

  • Handset Manufacturers Market Share in Russia by: Anand

    October 1, 2009, 06:30

    In Russia, like anywhere else Nokia still rules the roost in mobile handsets. At least it has not relinquished its top spot yet. Here are the latest market…

  • Smartphone Satisfaction Index - How Happy Are You About Your Phone? by: Anand

    September 30, 2009, 08:20

    Smartphone owners, especially iPhone owners are so vociferously in favor of their phone. In a study by market research firm, CFI Group, the question 'Do you…

  • Global Revenues From Mobile Data Ranked By Carriers by: Anand

    September 23, 2009, 09:12

    Mobile data accounts for 25% of all revenues from mobile services. In spite of Asia leading the pack in the number of subscribers, in terms of revenues, USA…

  • Biggest Telecom Carrier In The World by: Anand

    September 22, 2009, 09:06

    For quite sometime, China Mobile has been the biggest telecom carrier in the world. Today, it is reaching a milestone of being the first mobile carrier to gain…

  • Text Message Volume on VeriSign by: Anand

    September 19, 2009, 06:05

    VeriSign says text messaging has taken off in a real spectacular way in the first half of 2009 and their recent release regarding the SMS traffic proves their…

  • UK Network Carrier Market Share (Post Orange-TMobile Merger) by: Anand

    September 7, 2009, 16:30

    A merger between Deutsche Telekom owned T-Mobile and Orange is set to be announced in some time. In such a case, this will create the biggest network carrier…

  • Largest Network Carriers in UK by: Anand

    September 5, 2009, 08:39

    Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile is not in great shape and is looking for a buyer. They are the fourth largest carrier in the UK. Here are the top four and their…

  • Cell Phone Ownership Among Kids by: Anand

    August 31, 2009, 08:06

    Cell phone ownership has been steadily on the rise among American kids in the ages 12-17 years. In 2004, 45% of the kids surveyed owned a cell phone In 2006,…

  • Distribution of GSM Connections Worldwide by: Anand

    August 22, 2009, 08:44

    The world is inching towards reaching 4 billion GSM connections. A mammoth contribution to that comes from the emerging countries like India, China and the…

  • AT&T Wi-Fi Connections Growth Study by: Anand

    August 21, 2009, 08:14

    From the first quarter of 2008, the number of Wi-Fi connections has nearly multiplied by five times to date. Here are the number of connections handled by AT&T…

  • Sales Stats of Non-Smartphones in US by: Anand

    August 20, 2009, 09:29

    In spite of the proliferation of the smartphone market, the sale of non-smartphone still continues to remain strong. Here are a few interesting stats about the…

  • Year-on-year Growth Rate of Nokia, iPhone and Blackberry (Q2 2009) by: Anand

    August 19, 2009, 09:22

    Smartphones is the in-thing if the YoY growth rates for the second quarter of 2009 are anything to go by. Have a look at these staggering numbers for sale of…

  • BSNL 3G Service Usage Statistics by: Anand

    August 14, 2009, 09:03

    Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, a state owned telecom service provider in India rolled out 3G services first in February 2009. Here are the customer base…

  • Smartphone Operating System Market Share by: Anand

    August 13, 2009, 08:59

    With competition from Android to get hot in the next few months, it will be interesting to see who loses. Here is the market share of the different operating…

  • Volume of SMS Traffic in Thailand by: Anand

    August 12, 2009, 11:52

    AIS, DTAC and True Move are three of the most popular GSM based network providers in Thailand. Cumulatively, they account for 98% of the total Thai user…

  • Projected Region-wise Distribution of 3G Subscribers for 2013 by: Anand

    August 6, 2009, 13:38

    Today Japan is an undisputed leader in the 3G market with close to 50% more subscribers than United States and over three times the number of 3G subscribers in…

  • Motorola Second Quarter Performance (year-on-year) by: Anand

    July 31, 2009, 15:42

    Thanks to cost cutting, Motorola made a profit in the second quarter of 2009. Here are the snippets from its performance in the second quarter: Handsets…

  • Countries With Maximum Mobile Browser Usage by: Anand

    July 28, 2009, 14:45

    Mobile browser users have increased 143% and pages viewed have increased 224% year on year for the month of June 2009. Countries fueling this growth and hence…

  • Growth Projection Statistics for Mobile Marketing by: Anand

    July 9, 2009, 14:58

    Spend on mobile marketing is expected to nearly quadruple in the next five years according to a study by Forrester. Here are the projected marketing spend on…

  • Share of Countries in Wireless Subscribers Growth by: Anand

    June 13, 2009, 11:48

    India grew by the highest rate in the first quarter of 2009 (30%). The second was unmistakenably China. These two countries contribute close to half the number…

  • Mobile Advertising Revenue Projections For 2009 - 2011 by: Anand

    May 5, 2009, 13:41

    Mobile advertising revenues will grow 36 percent in 2009 thanks to the growth spurred by iPhones. Here is the revenues estimated to have been achieved in 2008…

  • Text Messaging Growth in USA in 2008 by: Anand

    April 3, 2009, 15:49

    Americans have been texting like crazy. The number of text messages sent grew nearly three times to a level of ten messages per day per mobile subscriber. Tota…

  • American States With Highest Percent of Mobile-Only Households by: Anand

    March 31, 2009, 15:19

    More and more households are dumping their landlines for only mobile phones. This was observed to be the highest in the Midwest and South USA. Here are the top…

  • Market Share of Skype in Long Distance Telephony by: Anand

    March 24, 2009, 13:20

    Skype is now the largest long distance phone company. Cross-border telephone traffic grew 12% in 2008. Worldwide Cross border traffic in minutes : 384…

  • Mobile Internet - Growth in Access Frequency by: Anand

    March 16, 2009, 15:02

    People are logging on to the mobile internet more frequently now than ever before. Here is the number of people logging on to the internet through their mobile…

  • WiFi Usage Across States in USA by: Anand

    February 12, 2009, 13:22

    The data provided may not be accurate but can give a rough indication of the Wifi usage spread across the different states in the United States, as reported by…

  • Industry Growth Rate of Downloaded Mobile Games by: Anand

    January 30, 2009, 17:31

    In November 2007, the number of games downloaded on to mobile phones stood at 7.22 million. In the past year, this number has grown by 17% to 8.463 million by…

  • Worldwide Mobile Phone Penetration 2006 - 2014 by: Anand

    January 21, 2009, 15:13

    Here is the worldwide mobile phone penetration (as a percent of population) projected up to 2014: 2006 : 30% 2007 : 34% 2008 : 39% 2009 : 42% 2010 : 45% 2011…

  • How Many Mobile Phones With Windows Mobile Platform? by: Anand

    January 10, 2009, 15:21

    Over the past one year, Microsoft has brought to market over 30 different mobile phones with the Windows Mobile platform. Overall there are more than 11 mobile…

  • Growth of MMS in Western Europe by: Anand

    January 5, 2009, 14:02

    Multimedia messaging is getting popular, slowly but steadily all over the world. Here is the percent increase in the number of mobile phone subscribers in EU-5…

  • Growth Of Mobile Social Networking by: Anand

    December 22, 2008, 18:30

    A report studying the growth of social networking through mobile phones will reach 800 million users by 2012. Here is the projected number of users through the…

  • Landline Vs. Cellphone in USA by: Anand

    December 19, 2008, 14:55

    It is a no brainer that landline telephones are losing popularity over cellphones. Here are a few crunchies: 17.5 percent of households now solely depend on…

  • Country With Heaviest Users of Mobile Phones by: Anand

    December 5, 2008, 14:20

    According to a report, citizens of the Republic of Ireland are the heaviest users of mobile phones. The average Irish spend around 179 minutes per month on…

  • Revenue Growth of MMS versus SMS by: Anand

    December 5, 2008, 13:35

    MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service ) is often regarded as a richer version of text messaging, yet poorer while it comes to the revenue generated. This is…

  • Response Rate Among Teenagers and Young Adults to Mobile Ads by: Anand

    December 3, 2008, 16:32

    Teenagers and young adults are seemingly very receptive to mobile ads. A research study reveals that 19 percent of teenagers in the age group 15-17 years and…

  • Mobile Video Viewers Statistics by: Anand

    November 15, 2008, 19:39

    4.4 percent of AT&T subscribers viewed mobile video in August 4.2 percent of Sprint subscribers viewed mobile video in August 2.4 percent of T-Mobile and…

  • What Is A Smartphone Used For? by: Anand

    November 10, 2008, 14:24

    Smartphones are getting cheaper by the day. 18.9% of the American consumers now own a Smartphone while 49.2 percent intend to buy one within the next two…

  • How Many SMS Sent Per Month in UK by: Anand

    November 3, 2008, 14:16

    6.5 Billion text messages are exchanged across UK every month. This is 60 million messages a DAY more than the figures last year. On a daily basis, Number of…

  • Growth of Mobile Market in Rural India by: Anand

    October 12, 2008, 19:03

    There are over 300 million mobile phones in India. 25 million new mobile phones were added from April to June 2008. Of this, 8 million were from villages. On…

  • Is Mobile Advertising Effective? by: Anand

    October 9, 2008, 19:02

    Mobile advertising offers an excellent recall, according to a recent survey by Nielsen. Here are a few numbers from the respondents: 23% (58 million US mobile…

  • SMS Revenue Growth in Europe by: Anand

    October 6, 2008, 18:19

    SMS has been the main revenue generator in Western Europe. However, the revenues are projected to fall in the coming years: SMS revenues in 2007: €16.42…

  • Growth of Mobile Location Based Service Users Worldwide by: Anand

    October 6, 2008, 18:01

    LBS (Location Based Service) are those services that use the knowledge of the users' location to serve him appropriate information like weather, nearby…

  • Top Countries Accessing Mobile Web by: Anand

    September 22, 2008, 11:54

    The list of top countries accessing mobile web via Bango are: UK : 19.35% US : 18.88% India : 10.82% South Africa : 8.82%' Indonesia : 4.08%

  • How Often Do You Send an SMS? by: Anand

    July 12, 2008, 12:38

    Text Messaging is popular, but only among the people who use it frequently. Here are the results of a recent survey in the US: Text message every week or even…

  • Mobile Search : Google vs. Yahoo by: Anand

    June 20, 2008, 11:14

    As in the internet world, Google is the leader of search in the mobile world as well. Google's share of mobile search : 61% Yahoo's share of mobile search :…

  • What Brazilians Use Mobile Phones For by: Anand

    June 20, 2008, 11:02

    Brazil has 140 million subscribers which is expected to grow to 176 million by 2012. The most popular activities on mobile among Brazilians are: Send and…

  • South Africa's Mobile Phone Penetration by: Anand

    May 28, 2008, 07:39

    The current mobile phone penetration in South Africa is 83 percent of the population. This makes it a very attractive medium for marketing and advertising. The…

  • New Subscribers Growth in India, China by: Anand

    May 25, 2008, 18:32

    Amidst an average annual growth rate of mobile subscribers of 22 percent, two thirds of growth came from developing countries. The number of new subscribers…

  • Most Popular Websites for Indian Mobile Users by: Anand

    May 20, 2008, 17:35

    Here is the top 10 list of the most popular websites visited by Indians on their mobile phones. No surprise, social networking tops the list: 1. www.orkut.com …

  • How Many SMSes Sent WorldWide? by: Anand

    May 20, 2008, 16:34

    Gartner predicts that 2.3 trillion text messages will be sent through the major world markets in 2008 (up from 1.9 trillion SMSes in 2007)! And the leader, as…

  • Prevalence of Mobile Text Spam by: Anand

    May 10, 2008, 20:05

    Emails aren't the only place where you are bombarded with spams. Text messages on mobiles are fast catching up: Number of SMSes Americans sent in December…

  • Growth Projections For Mobile Social Networks by: Anand

    May 6, 2008, 19:22

    Mobile phone penetration is growing and so is internet through mobiles. So can the mobile social networks stay behind? Here is a projection of their growth…

  • Growth of American Mobile Banking Users by: Anand

    April 20, 2008, 18:48

    The projected list of mobile banking users in the US from 2007 to 2012: 2007 : 1.1 million 2008 : 4.6 million 2009 : 10.4 million 2010 : 18.7 million 2011 :…

  • Projected Growth of Mobile Search Advertising by: Anand

    April 5, 2008, 07:31

    Mobile search advertising had a sluggish million market in 2007. But that seems to move up at terrific speed over the next few years. The projected…

  • Indian Cell Phone Penetration by: Anand

    March 19, 2008, 18:39

    Average number of subscribers added every month : 8 million Subscribers added in Feb '08 : 8.46 million Total number of mobile subscribers : 246 million In…

  • Projected Mobile Gaming Revenues in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific by: Anand

    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…

  • How Many Cellphones Were Sold in 2007? by: Anand

    March 1, 2008, 10:48

    A mind boggling 1.5 billion cell phones! That is 16% more than the 2006 sale figures of 990.9 million. 330 million mobile phones were sold in the last quarter…

  • Growth of Mobile Social Networks by: Anand

    February 28, 2008, 17:35

    The projected penetration in the use of the mobile social network users shows double digit growth figures in the coming 5 years. The projected number of…

  • Mobile Phone Growth in Japan by: Anand

    February 24, 2008, 18:35

    In January 2007, Japan recorded a milestone 100 million mobile phones. In another one year, by January 2008, this number had increased to 100.9 million mobile…

  • 3G Subscription Penetration Worldwide by: Anand

    February 22, 2008, 19:10

    3G technology was hyped up as the next big thing in mobile phones. However, it has failed to take off at least in UK. Less than 11 percent of the population in…

  • What Do People Do With Internet on Mobiles? by: Anand

    February 22, 2008, 19:00

    A study on the North American mobile phone market reveals that over 60 percent usage of mobile phone internet is on downloads. The break down of the different…

  • How Huge is the Business Phone Usage Bill? by: Anand

    February 19, 2008, 17:58

    Wireless service revenues are expected to continue rising steadily at 13 percent annually from 2007 to 2012. With this, the spending by Corporates on their…

  • Mobile Search Market Revenue Projection by: Anand

    February 14, 2008, 16:41

    Mobile phones now form a substantial part of search engines and the revenue projected to be made from this market is also expected to be huge. The revenue was…

  • Most Popular Smartphone in US by: Anand

    February 7, 2008, 06:46

    The market share of the top 3 smartphones in the American market are 1. RIM - 41% 2. iPhone - 28% 3. Palm - 9%

  • How Much the Brits Trust the Online Social Network? by: Anand

    February 4, 2008, 17:19

    The social network that you form online is not after all equivalent to the one in real world. Four out of five Brits feel insecure in sharing their mobile…

  • Worldwide Distribution of Unlocked iPhones by: Anand

    January 30, 2008, 17:05

    Apple has an agreement with AT&T to sell iPhones enabled with only the latter's network. However unlocking the iPhone is not that uncommon, if not…

  • Mobile Entertainment Market in 2011-2012 by: Anand

    January 27, 2008, 14:22

    Mobile entertainment was worth around billion in 2007. This is predicted to reach .8 billion by 2012. The individual mobile entertainment growth areas…

  • Most Requested Mobile Service by: Anand

    January 21, 2008, 06:26

    If speed and quality weren't an issue, Email is the most requested mobile service according to a new study. The different preferences were 1. Email 33% 2.…

  • Is Mobile Internet Penetrating Well Enough? by: Anand

    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…

  • Internet and Cellphone Usage of American Population by: Anand

    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-…

  • Residual Impact of iPhones and iPods on Apple's Revenue by: Anand

    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…

  • Mobile Internet Population in Japan by: Anand

    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…

• Wireless  (10)
  • World's Largest Phone Manufacturers By Units Sold by: Anand Srinivasan

    October 29, 2010, 17:25

    The mobile phone segment is very competitive with every quarter bringing some sort of a surprise. Back in May this year, I had written about an IDC report that…

  • Most Common Non-Voice Data Applications On Mobile Phone by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 15, 2010, 16:02

    Mobile phones, and I am speaking not just about smartphones, are increasingly being used to serve non-voice applications. Today, it is pretty commonplace to…

  • Number Of 3G Subscribers In India [Forecast] by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 11, 2010, 08:47

    The auctions for 3G licensing just got completed in India and several carriers are expected to begin roll-out of the services from later this year. Accordin…

  • Number Of Mobile Subscribers In Canada by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 10, 2010, 07:05

    eMarketer notes that the mobile phone penetration in Canada is close to 5 percentage points lesser than the penetration numbers in USA. That means, there are…

  • World's Largest Mobile Market : India Vs. China by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 24, 2010, 05:53

    According to a recent study by Informa Telecoms & Media, India is all set to overtake China with respect to mobile phone subscriptions by 2013. While the…

  • US Network Carriers With Highest Percentage Of Dropped Calls by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 11, 2010, 06:35

    Ever since the smartphone revolution took off with the launch of iPhone in 2007, the network carriers have had a torrid time in keeping their networks free…

  • US Mobile Phone Carriers Market Share by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 7, 2010, 03:40

    ComScore has published its latest metrics on the US mobile phone market. There has not been too many changes in rankings since we wrote about them for December…

  • AT&T Revenue Split-Up By Business by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…

  • Largest Telecom Operators In The World by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 16, 2010, 07:05

    Bharti Airtel, one of India's largest telecom operators who already operate in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well have now acquired the African assets of the…

  • World Mobile Market:By Subscribers, Data Revenue & Service Revenue by: Anand Srinivasan

    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…