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Motorola Xoom sales figures
The Motorola Xoom Android tablet launched to great reviews, winning the prestigious best in show at CES 2011, standing out among a host of tablets. But how many have they actually sold? According to an estimate from Deutsche Bank it was only 100k by April. Compare that to 300k iPads on its first weekend of … Continue reading
Global Smartphone sales statistics
A new report from Gartner showed a 19% growth overall in all mobile handset sales, but what about Smartphones? With Smartphones increasingly becoming the default phone in the major economies, it’s no surprise to see sales increase by 85% year-on-year, but this could have been even higher according to Gartner: manufacturers announced a number of … Continue reading
Global mobile phone sales statistics
In the latest of a series of posts covering elusive statistics on mobile phone market share, we have good data from Gartner on global device sales in Q1 2011. The big number: 424.85 million mobile devices sold in Q1 2011 versus 359.61m in Q1 2010, a modest 19% increase overall compared to the real growth … Continue reading
How to get better analytics on WordPress.com
WordPress.com is a wonderful free tool, if you can put up with their ads appearing on your content. The analytics, however, are very basic and soon prove a source of frustration if you get any kind of decent traffic levels. You can of course upgrade to self-hosted WordPress and install any number of analytics tools … Continue reading
Stewart Lee social media parody
As a reminder that you should never take yourself or indeed social media too seriously (please note, consultants), Stewart Lee provides this great spoof of a presentation I’m sure many of you will have sat through and a number will have given… Just a shame that WordPress.com prevents me from embedding the video or you … Continue reading
Android vs Apple Smartphone market share statistics
Reliable market share statistics are often hard to come by. Do you mean share of new phones, share of unit sales, share of actual handsets owned, Smartphones, feature phones or all phones and everything in between. And then this quarter, the year as a whole or indeed this month? No wonder it’s confusing. This week … Continue reading
Smartphone market share
It’s not surprise to learn that Smartphone market share has grown rapidly over the past year. In the developed and in a growing number of parts of the developing world, the Smartphone is becoming the default device with a mobile phone contract. But which vendor has the biggest market share and whose share has been … Continue reading
Facebook advertising market share statistics
If you were under any illusions about Facebook’s market share, then try this statistic for size. According to comScore, Facebook accounts for close to a third of US ad display impressions. It was 15.6% in Q1 20101, then 25.9% in Q4 and is still growing, now to 31.2% of the world’s biggest advertising market. Indeed … Continue reading
Rebecca Black Friday meme breaks records
Rebecca Black’s infamously bad ‘Friday’ song and accompanying video is surely the highest traffic meme on YouTube. Take a look at the stats at the time at writing: 128 million, yes million, views 351k likes, but a whopping 2.5 million dislikes, the most dislikes of any YouTube video (beating Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’) 2.81 million comments. … Continue reading
