Key stories, statistics and examples from the world of digital media, April - June 2011.
Complied by Dan Calladine, Head of Media Futures, Aegis Media.
dan.calladine[AT]aemedia.com
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3. The Next Generation is…
- Technology transforming
media
- Content accessible anywhere
- People in control
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4. Next
Generation
People
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5. Hearing loss among American teens has Next
Generation
People
doubled since 1985
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6. The demographics of British ’Mummy Next
Generation
People
Bloggers’’
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7. More Swedes under 35 listen to Spotify
Next
Generation
People
than commercial radio
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8. There are 7.5m Facebook users under the age of
Next
Generation
People
13 in the US
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10. Nearly 25% of all phones sold around the world in
Next
Generation
Mobile
Q1 were smartphones
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11. More than a quarter of US homes rely entirely on Next
Generation
Mobile
mobile
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12. Over 20m iPhones and 9m iPads were sold in Q3
Next
Generation
Mobile
2011
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13. Apple sells only 7% of all mobile phones, but Next
Generation
Mobile
makes 57% of all mobile phone profits
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Mobile data use is soaring in the UK
Generation
Mobile
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15. Paypal processes $10m a day in mobile Next
Generation
Mobile
transactions
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16. Text messaging raised £15m for Red Nose Next
Generation
Mobile
Day
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17. Next
Fiat’s Street Evo app reads traffic signs
Generation
Mobile
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Britain’s first NFC enabled posters
Generation
Mobile
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19. Aurasma makes video come to your phone from Next
Generation
Mobile
still pictures
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20. Next
Generation
Content
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21. eBooks are now outselling paperbacks in
Next
Generation
Content
America
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22. Lady Gaga launched her new album in Next
Generation
Content
Farmville
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23. Three times more people watch music Next
Generation
Content
videos on YouTube than download music
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24. Toronto is Trending gives a real time
Next
Generation
Content
picture of the city
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25. The Escape – a very sophisticated game for
Next
Generation
Content
Intel
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26. Next
Magnum’s Pleasure Hunt
Generation
Content
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27. Pulp People – all the Pulp covers on YouTube
Next
Generation
Content
in one place
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28. Next
Games for Cats
Generation
Content
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29. Doggleganger – find a dog that looks like
Next
Generation
Content
you
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30. Whopper Lust – stare at a Whopper on TV for Next
Generation
Content
30 minutes to win prizes
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31. Splitscreen: A Love Story filmed Next
Generation
Content
entirely on two Nokia N8 phones
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32. Next
Generation
Technology
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33. The Bank of England is now using search Next
Generation
Technology
data as an input to their modelling
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34. Stolen Camera Finder
Next
Generation
Technology
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35. Next
Generation
Content
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36. Over 10m people joined Google+ in the first
Next
Generation
Social Media
two weeks
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37. Chinese social network Tencent saw Q1 profits
Next
Generation
Social Media
rise to nearly $1bn
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38. One third of all items posted to Facebook are Next
Generation
Social Media
from mobile devices
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39. Factors that influence engagement with
Next
Generation
Social Media
Facebook wall posts
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40. One Facebook ‘Like’ for a retailer leads to an Next
Generation
Social Media
average of 20 more site visits
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41. Next
Twitter users post 200m tweets a day
Generation
Social Media
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42. Ben & Jerry use people’s unused twitter Next
Generation
Social Media
characters to promote charity
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43. Next
Generation
Content
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44. Next
Generation
The ten most #winning tweets Effectiveness
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45. A Facebook campaign to find blood by blood
Next
Generation
Effectiveness
group in Israel saves lives
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46. Angry Birds is downloaded over a million
Next
Generation
Effectiveness
times a day
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47. Instagram has over 5m users – but just 4
Next
Generation
Effectiveness
employees
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