5 facts about digital life – post #7
20Aug10

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.

Over 8 million tablet computers are expected to be sold in 2010. Source: The Economist

Facebook flashed more than 176 billion banner ads at users in the first three months of this year — more than any other site. Source: Time

Sales of music in the form of digital files grew by 9.2% to exceed a quarter of total sales during 2009. Source: The Economist

Five months after it was launched, users of Blippy – a Twitter-like service that broadcasts what people buy – share $1.5 million in transactions every week. Source: The Washington Post

The average YouTube user spends 15 minutes a day on the website, compared with 5 hours that the average TV viewer spends in front of the box. Source: The Economist

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About Me

Craig Wilson - the Media Hunter

Craig Wilson a leading social media and online marketing consultant with a passion for effective inbound marketing. He 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.