Posts from — February 2008

In USA, Digital Music now accounts of nearly 30 percent of the total sales in the music industry. In Europe, this share is around 20 percent. Sales from Digital music is estimated to have reached $2.9 billion by the end of 2007. This is about 40 percent of the figures for 2006. The revenues of 2007 come from the legal downloads of nearly 1.7 billion music tracks.

40 percent of iPod sales in the fourth quarter of 2007 were from first time buyers. That is 40 percent of 22.1 million iPods that were sold in this time period. This roughly translates to 3 percent of America buying iPod for actually the first time just in the single quarter.  Since the total sales was 22.1 million, this translates to 7 percent of America buying an iPod just in the last quarter of 2007.

A look into the sales figures for consoles in Japan for the month of February:

Nintendo Wii – 331,627 consoles
Playstation 3 – 89,131 consoles
XBox 360 – 14,079 consoles

Among the best selling games for the month of February, the lead position is again held by Nintendo. Their direct productions Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Wii Fit sold 1.33 million and 309,311 copies respectively.

A study into the race of the bloggers reveals the following information:

69.7% of bloggers are White/Caucasian
12.2% of them are African Americans or Blacks
3.7% of the bloggers are Asian

The projected penetration in the use of the mobile social network users shows double digit growth figures in the coming 5 years.

The projected number of mobile social network users by 2010 : 300 millionl, approximately 7% of the total mobile phone users.
This number is predicted to grow steadily to 950 million by 2012. This shall approximately be over 18% of the total mobile phone population.

Apple COO has made a sales forecast of 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008. Mr.Cook says with the progress till now, the company is on the right track to reach that sales figure. iPhones are now available in USA, UK, Germany and France and the company has sold more than 4 million units till the end of last year.

It has only been two months into the new year. An early peek into the server downtimes at the various social networking websites:

Bebo – 12 hours 28 minutes
Windows Live Spaces – 7 hours 25 minutes
Friendster – 6 hours
Hi5 – 5 hours 5 minutes
Reunoin – 2 hours 55 minutes
LinkedIn – 4 hours
Classmates – 2 hours 5 minutes
Facebook – 1 hour 35 minutes
Orkut – 1 hour 10 minutes
Last.Fm – 1 hour 10 minutes
Xanga – 45 minutes
MySpace – 25 minutes
LiveJournal – 10 minutes
Yahoo 360 – 5 minutes

Google has beaten Microsoft in the race to the top of the Canada websites ratings. The top 10 websites are

1. Google
2. Microsoft
3. Yahoo
4. Facebook
5. eBay
6. Wikipedia
7. AOL
8. Yellow Pages Group
9. Amazon
10. Apple

For the seventh straight quarter, Facebook continues to be the hottest spot for American college goers. Here is the top 10 list:

Men
1. Facebook
2. ESPN
3. Youtube
4. Google
5. Collegehumor
6. Yahoo
7. Weather
8. Break
9. Digg
10. Wikipedia

Women
1. Facebook
2. Youtube
3. Google
4. Perez Hilton
5. CNN
6. MySpace
7. Yahoo
8. School’s site
9. AOL
10. PostSecret

The American retail ecommerce is growing at a 12 percent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR). The growth in value terms over the next few years shall be:

2007 – $136.4 billion
2012 – $240.2 billion