One in four US adult internet users has uploaded a video online, according to the Online Video 2013 report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. One in five has posted a video that they created themselves. The top-watched categories are Comedy, Educational and How-to videos, followed by Music. Forty one per cent of […]
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‘Readers with more mobile devices stay subscribed longer’
A couple of interesting notes in Sarah Marshall’s journalism.co.uk coverage of the 2013 Mobile Media Strategies conference in London. She quotes Chris Duncan, customer sales director at News UK, which owns The Sun and The Times. He said: 67 per cent of sales completed on mobile devices, with a 50:50 split between those signing up […]
We’re loving video on our phones: NZ mobile use in 2013
Some catch-up reading on mobile and tablet use in New Zealand in 2013. Mobile devices now account for more than a third of TVNZ’s Ondemand service video streams | StopPress Mobile devices now account for more than a third of TVNZ’s Ondemand service video streams and are a key part of the growth in video […]
“The screen will shape our environment in the 21st century”
I missed Wilson Miner’s talk at Webstock so I was pleased to come across this version of his talk online. There are some lovely insights here about change – and how profoundly the world our readers and customers inhabit is changing right now. Wilson Miner – When We Build from Build on Vimeo. What’s your time to […]
‘I hate phone numbers’
This Verge post about the shelf life of phone numbers resonates with me. A recommended read. I hate phone numbers. They’re a relic of an outmoded system that both wireless and wireline carriers use to keep people trapped on their services — a false technological prison built of nothing but laziness and hostility to consumers. In […]
Iqbal Quadir on poverty, mobile phones and bottom-up development
Iqbal Quadir talks about Grameen Phone