Transcript for Did You Know 4.0

Did You Know? 4.0 Fall 2009

A surge of new technologies and social media innovations is altering the media landscape

Convergence is everywhere. It's easier than ever to reach a large audience, but harder than ever to really connect with it

hese changes are affecting the way people behave. Are your ready for the future?

Well over 1,000,000 books are published worldwide every year

A Google Book Search scanner can digitize 1,000 pages every hour

Americans have access to 1,000,000,000,000 web pages

65,000 iPhone Apps, 10,500 radio stations

5,500 magazines, 200+ cable tv networks

There are 240,000,000 TVs in the U.S

2,000,000 are in bathrooms

When was the last time you read a newspaper in the loo?

Newspaper circulation is down 7 million over the last 25 years

But in the last 5 years, unique readers of online newspapers are up 30 million

This year, traditional advertising is in steep decline

Meanwhile, digital advertising is growing rapidly

47% of broadcast TV viewers say they'd pay for ad-less programming

More video was uploaded to YouTube in the last 2 months than if ABC / NBC / CBS

had been airing new content 24/7/365 since 1948 (which was when ABC started broadcasting)

10 million is the number of unique visitors ABC / NBC / CBS get every month, collectively

These businesses have been around for a combined 200 years

250 million is the number of unique visitors MySpace / YouTube / Facebook get every month, collectively

None of these sites existen 6 years ago.

You've been Rickroll'd, right?

So have about 40 million other people

95% of all songs downloaded last year weren't paid for

Wikipedia launched in 2001

It now features over 13 million articles in more than 200 languages.

Cisco's Nexus 7000 data switch could move all of Wikipedia in...

.001 seconds!

Makes the wifi at the local coffee shop seem really, really slow, huh?

Not Slow: Ang Chuang Yang of Singapore

He typed a Guinness Book of World Records-aproved 160 character text in his cell phone in 41.52 seconds

That's about 4 characters per second. OMG!

How many text messages does the American teen send each month?

Nope. 2,272

Above Average: Brady James of Los Angeles, California, sent 217, 541 text messages in March 2009

Nokia manufactures 13 cell phones every second. 1,898 since this video started

Right now, 93% of US adults own a cell phone

But 1/3 don't yet feel safe using it for purchases.

Unless we're talking about pizza

3 Million is the amount Dell claims to have earned via Twitter posts since 2007

In Februrary 2008, John McCain raised $11 millions for his US presidential bid

That same month, Barack Obama attended no campaign fundraisers

Instead, Obama leveraged online social networks to raise $55 million in those 29 days.

How are you using social networking sites?

Among larger U.S. companies, 17% have disciplined an employee for violating blog or message board policies.

I hate Ron, my big fat loser boss at BigCo. i'm looking 4 a new job.

ummm isn't he on your friends list?

See you in my office Monday, Ann >:-(

Twitter played an unprecedented role in sharing information during the 2009 Iranian presidential elections

All mentions of the disputed election were bumped from Twitter's trending topics list when news of Michael Jackson's death broke.

Jackson, swine flu and Barack Obama have been this year's top subjects for malware-distributing emails.

90% of the 200 billion emails sent every day are spam.

The mobile device will be the world's primary connection tool to the internet in 2020.

The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful

and about a hundred thousand times smaller (than the one computer at MIT in 1965)..

So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket

what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

Now that's convergence. And now you know