Our Mobile Planet by Google: Detailed mobile behavior statistics covering 40 countries. Create custom mobile reports and download to CSV and PNG. Download the full USA report (PDF) here.
Display advertising: Facebook ($1.73B) number 1, Google close behind ($1.71B). Display Ads revenue forecast to double in the next two years. This doesn’t include SEM where Google dominates.
Apple has 75% of the smartphone market’s profit share on 39% of the revenue.
“Every second, one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube”
Cute animated visualizations by YouTube. Technologies: HTML5, Swiffy
The internet of 2011 in numbers - a comprehensive set of stats by Royal Pingdom
Mobile browser stats - Dec 2011
Brad Frost: “Moral of the story, don’t ignore Opera on mobile like you do on desktop”
- 5.9 billion – The estimated number of mobile subscriptions worldwide in 2011.
- 13% – The smartphone share of all mobile handsets in use worldwide.
- 78% – The percentage of worldwide mobile data traffic that is consumed by smartphones.
- 1.6 billion – Number of mobile devices sold to end users in 2010, an increase of almost 32% compared to the year before.
- 19% – The percentage of worldwide mobile devices sold that were smartphones.
- 472 million – Number of smartphones estimated to be sold worldwide in 2011.
- 982 million – Estimated number of smartphones to be sold in 2015.
- 80% – The share of devices accessing mobile websites that have a touchscreen.
- 50 million – The number of people worldwide who have a mobile phone but that do not have electricity at home. In other words, mobile access has further reach than electricity.
(via Royal Pingdom)
"The average US consumer is never more than 3 feet away from their phone. The average smart phone user checks their phone 40 times a day."
- Stephanie Tilenius, Google’s VP of Commerce, cited in The End of Bricks and Mortar Retail As We Know It
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Telco Android market share in USA (August 2011)
Verizon drops from 51% in March to 41% in August following iPhone4 launch.
