5 facts about digital life – post #9
2Sep10

A series of short posts with the latest facts about our digital economy and lives. Use them for your presentations, blogs, homework or trivia nights.

37% of American homes have Digital Video Recorders. Source: The Economist

More than 8 million visits were made to news websites every minute, on the night Barack Obama won the US presidential election. On the first day of the 2010 Football World Cup, there were 12 million visits per minute. Source: BBC News

668,000 dotcom sites are registered every month. Source: BBC News

Apple recently announced that its App Store now offers 225,000 apps which collectively have been downloaded 5 billion times. Source: The Economist

The amount of reading people do, previously in decline because of television, has almost tripled since 1986, thanks to all the text on the internet. Source: The Economist

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About Me

Craig Wilson - the Media Hunter

Craig Wilson is managing director of Sticky, a digital agency based in Newcastle, Australia that has evolved to encompass:

1. Sticky Advertising
2. Get Sticky - Inbound Marketing
3. NLYZR - a website analytics and SEO service.
4. URBAN INSIDER - online magazine.

Media Hunter is a forum for exploring modern media, marketing and start-ups and how and these rapidly evolving areas affect the media, marketers and consumers.

Craig is a contributor to the collaborative series of world-wide marketing books The Age of Conversation 1, 2, 3. He contributes to Marketing Magazine and Digital Ministry and is often called on by media to comment on industry news. Craig is regularly invited to speak on media issues, especially social and digital media, at various events around Australia. He was a speaker / panelist at the 2009 and 2010 Australasian Media and Broadcasting Congress and has addressed conferences for some of Australia's leading organisations on topics ranging from Search Engine Optimisation, the changing media and marketing landscape and inbound marketing.