The Magic Number 41

We had written recently about how 20k downloads a day is fast becoming the new benchmark for how well an app is doing in the consumer marketplace. We spotte this today:

“With one in two in the United States now owning a smartphone (was 40 percent of mobile subscribers in 2011), app downloads are on the rise, too.

Compared to last year, the average smartphone consumer in the U.S. now has 41 apps on their home screen, a 28 percent increase from 32 apps in last year, according to a Nielsen study released this morning.”

Statistics Source: idownloadblog

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Which Image Site Gets A Billion Pageviews A Day?

Well, we would never have guessed this one. One reason: we never knew this was so big. We spotted this today:

“Imgur gets one billion image views per day, up 1,200 percent from a year ago. A typical visitor looks at 11 pages per session.
Imgur (pronounced “imager”) was started by Alan Schaaf when he was an Ohio University undergrad. It’s not a photography site. The images it hosts are a mix of photos that have been manipulated in Photoshop, drawings, screenshots and memes.

The only time Imgur has ever been in the red, Schaaf said, was the $7 he paid for its domain. Since then the site has cost all sorts of money, but it has stayed ahead through advertising, donations and pro accounts, and keeps itself running with the help of EdgeCast’s content delivery network.”

Statistics Source: AllThingsD

How do we digest this number? Well, many people might be digesting this number right now, images are huge – this could easily be the next Instagram.

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Gogobot Stats: Is Social Travel The Missing Piece?

We had spotted Instagram stats and Foursquare stats. We spotted this today:

“Today, Gogobot is announcing that it has now surpassed the 1 million registered user mark. According to the company’s own data, a new member is signing up for service every 15 seconds. Overall, Gogobot now has 65 times as many members as just a year ago and its users have now shared over 5 million places on the service.”

Statistics Source: TC

Social travel could very well be the missing piece, particularly with so many people with smartphones all around us.

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Howcast Reaches 1 Billion Views

Content, generally, is king. We spotted this today:

“Howcast has another big announcement, too. The reference content site has reached one billion total views.

Having a wide variety of videos no doubt increases the site’s page view number. “Everything we do is inherently niche,” Cofounder and CEO Jason Liebman told Mashable.

There are some videos that have become super popular, like videos teaching people how to ‘Dougie’ or decorate a cake, which he said typically get a lot of views. Also helping: the site produces 1,000 videos per month and has a video library featuring around 15,000 ‘how to’ videos.”

Statistics Source: Mashable

How do we digest this number? Well, let us look at the king of them all, YouTube.

” In January 2012, YouTube stated that the figure had increased to four billion videos streamed per day.[16]”

Statistics Source: Wikipedia

Wrong comparison !

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What Is The Population of The Bay Area?

This is a question we had in our mind for quite some time – we keep calling it the heart of the tech world, silicon valley etc – how many people are there in the Bay Area, anyways? We spotted this today:

“Today, the Bay Area has about 7 million residents. In a free housing market, the population of the San Francisco Bay Area would have been growing rapidly over the last two decades. For example, between 1900 and 1920, the growth of the auto industry helped the population of the Detroit metro area nearly triple, from 540,000 people to 1.4 million people. If the San Francisco Bay Area had grown that fast since 1990, it would have about 16 million people today.”

Statistics Source: Forbes

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NYC Taxi Cab Touch Screen Payment: Tips Went Up By $144,146,165

Once in a while we spot some amazing stat that makes you think for a couple of minutes about how effective something – some process, system, scheme – has been. We spotted this today:

“In 2007, NYC forced cab drivers to begin taking credit cards, which involved installing a touch screen system for payment.

During payment, the user is presented with three default buttons for tipping: 20%, 25%, and 30%. When cabs were cash only, the average tip was roughly 10%. After the introduction of this system, the tip percentage jumped to 22%.

Those three buttons resulted in $144,146,165 of additional tips. Per year. Those are some very valuable buttons.”

Statistics Source: Unwieldy

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Vacation Stats: American Households To Spend About $1,200 Per Person on Summer Vacations

We had spotted some interesting stats on the amount spent on coffee and the amount spent on lunch – we spotted this today:

“American households expect to spend about $1,200 per person on summer vacations, according to a just released American Express survey.
Assuming a median household income of roughly $50,000 a year and an average household size of two to three people, that translates to an estimate of 5% to 7% of income going toward vacations.”

Statistics Source: CNN Money

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Vehicle Sales Statistics: 80 Million Cars and Trucks To Be Sold This Year

We had spotted some interesting stats on the total number of cars in the US – we spotted this today:

“In a world of large numbers, try wrapping your head around these digits: This year, the world is expected to set a new record with the sale of 80 million cars and trucks.

Let me put that into perspective:

- Annual sales: 80 million

- Daily sales: 219,178

- Sales per hour: 9,132

- Sales per minute: 152
”

Statistics Source: CNBC

152 units per minute. wow.

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10% Of All Web Traffic Comes From Mobile Devices

We had spotted mobile internet stats and mcommerce stats before. We spotted this today:

“In the U.S., 7.96% of all Web traffic comes from mobile devices, according to data from StatCounter. That includes smartphones, tablets, and other connected hardware, such as laptops with mobile broadband access. StatCounter’s data shows that mobile Web use is increasing quickly, especially in developing regions where mobile phones vastly outnumber desktop computers.
For example, the percentage of mobile Web traffic in Asia climbed from 6.1% to 17.84% between 2010 and 2012, an increase of 192%. The percentage of mobile Web traffic in Africa climbed from 5.81% to 14.85% between 2010 and 2012, an increase of 156%. Every region saw increased mobile traffic, with South America falling in last place with 2.86%.”

Statistics Source: InformationWeek

We had also spotted some patent statistics related to this, proving that mobile is in a lot of ways, the future.

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Why Stock Prices Will Fall 33.4 Percent In 2013

The Bush Era tax cuts will expire. We spotted this today:

“After year-end, under current law, the top dividend tax rate will rise to 43.4% from 15%. That’s not only because the temporary low 15% rate granted under the 2001 Bush tax cuts will revert to the prior rate of 39.6%. In addition, a provision of ObamaCare slaps a 3.8% surtax on all forms of investment income, including dividends—the resulting total is 43.4%.

So on Jan. 1, an investor won’t keep $8.50 of that dividend—he’ll pay a 43.4% tax and keep only $5.66. Suddenly, a stock that yielded him 8.5% now yields only 5.66%.

If 8.5% was the after-tax yield that investors demanded in order to allocate their capital to that particular company, then 5.66% will not be sufficient. That company’s stock price will have to fall until it once again offers an 8.5% after-tax yield.

Precisely, the stock price has to fall by the percentage difference between $8.50 and $5.66. It will therefore fall to $66.60 from $100—that’s 33.4%. And it’s also a good first approximation of how much the overall stock market will fall when dividend taxes rise to 43.4% from 15%.”

Statistics Source: WSJ

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