5 Facts about digital life – post #2
7May10

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.

At the end of 2008, there were 189 million mobile-broadband connections generating on average 175 megabytes of traffic per month. A year later the respective figures were 312 million and 273 megabytes – a growth of 158%. Source: The Economist

China has 400 million internet users compared with America’s 240 million and India’s 80 million. Source: The Economist

Around 20% of all online transactions now take place over so-called alternative payment systems – bypassing banks and credit cards. Source: The Future of Money Magazine

In America, the number of advertising pages in magazines dropped by 26% between 2008 and 2009. Source: The Economist

The average profitability of companies using the internet has increased by 2.7%. Source: BBC News

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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.