🔫 Fortnite is Taking Over
#Fortnite, the free-to-play multiplayer game particularly popular among young players and professional athletes, just reached another milestone. Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite, announced this week that its blockbuster title now has more than 200 million registered users. That’s up from just 45 million in January 2018, meaning that the global hype surrounding the game has attracted more than 150 million new players over the past 11 months.
Last month, Epic Games raised $1.25 billion from a group of investors in a deal valuing Epic at $15 billion. If Fortnite can keep the momentum going into 2019, the company’s valuation could be propelled even higher.
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#Fortnite, the free-to-play multiplayer game particularly popular among young players and professional athletes, just reached another milestone. Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite, announced this week that its blockbuster title now has more than 200 million registered users. That’s up from just 45 million in January 2018, meaning that the global hype surrounding the game has attracted more than 150 million new players over the past 11 months.
Last month, Epic Games raised $1.25 billion from a group of investors in a deal valuing Epic at $15 billion. If Fortnite can keep the momentum going into 2019, the company’s valuation could be propelled even higher.
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❓ Have you played Fortnite during last seven days?
🎄 Best Christmas ads of 2018
Iceland beats John Lewis for social buzz (but not YouTube views).
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Iceland beats John Lewis for social buzz (but not YouTube views).
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🔈 Most Common Smart Speaker Usage
People are doing plenty of things with voice commands on their #SmartSpeakers, but shopping isn’t really one of them. Only about a quarter to a third of U.S. smart speaker owners have ever purchased something using voice. Very few do so on a regular basis. An Information article this summer said just 2 percent of #Alexa owners had made a purchase via Alexa in 2018.
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❓ Do you own a Smart Speaker, like Apple HomePod, Google Home, Amazon Echo, etc?
People are doing plenty of things with voice commands on their #SmartSpeakers, but shopping isn’t really one of them. Only about a quarter to a third of U.S. smart speaker owners have ever purchased something using voice. Very few do so on a regular basis. An Information article this summer said just 2 percent of #Alexa owners had made a purchase via Alexa in 2018.
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❓ Do you own a Smart Speaker, like Apple HomePod, Google Home, Amazon Echo, etc?
🏆 TV at the Top
#TV continues to rank 1st as Americans' preferred platform for getting #news!
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❓ Which of the following would you say you prefer for getting news?
#TV continues to rank 1st as Americans' preferred platform for getting #news!
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❓ Which of the following would you say you prefer for getting news?
📺 YouTube Is A Very Important Source of How-To Videos
#YouTube is the primary destination for videos online. The platform has grown in overall popularity in recent years. Pew’s report indicates that roughly 2 in 3 adults (68%) use YouTube as of Q2, up from fewer than half (48%) at the beginning of 2016.
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#YouTube is the primary destination for videos online. The platform has grown in overall popularity in recent years. Pew’s report indicates that roughly 2 in 3 adults (68%) use YouTube as of Q2, up from fewer than half (48%) at the beginning of 2016.
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📱 Latest Device Trends
- Digital consumers now own an average of 3.2 devices.
- 55% now use smart home entertainment products.
- 40% used mobile voice search last month.
- Smartphones are deemed the most important device, with 67% saying so.
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- Digital consumers now own an average of 3.2 devices.
- 55% now use smart home entertainment products.
- 40% used mobile voice search last month.
- Smartphones are deemed the most important device, with 67% saying so.
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🎮 Best-Selling Game Consoles Return From the Dead
Exactly 24 years after its launch on December 3, 1994, #Sony is bringing back one of the most popular video game consoles of all time: the original #PlayStation. In a move that feels partly like a deserved celebration of an iconic device and partly like jumping on the #Nintendo Classic bandwagon, Sony announced the PlayStation Classic earlier this year for a launch on December 3.
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Exactly 24 years after its launch on December 3, 1994, #Sony is bringing back one of the most popular video game consoles of all time: the original #PlayStation. In a move that feels partly like a deserved celebration of an iconic device and partly like jumping on the #Nintendo Classic bandwagon, Sony announced the PlayStation Classic earlier this year for a launch on December 3.
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🛍 The Top 5 Most Popular Categories Purchased Online
A majority of online consumers around the world claim to buy entertainment (61%) and service (56%) categories more often online than in-store. And while fewer (38%) say they buy durables such as fashion, IT/mobile and electronics more often online, that still outweighs the share (22%) that buy them more in-store, according to a Nielsen study.
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❓ Have you purchased anything online during last 30 days?
A majority of online consumers around the world claim to buy entertainment (61%) and service (56%) categories more often online than in-store. And while fewer (38%) say they buy durables such as fashion, IT/mobile and electronics more often online, that still outweighs the share (22%) that buy them more in-store, according to a Nielsen study.
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❓ Have you purchased anything online during last 30 days?
🎥 Netflix's Record-Breaking November
Streaming giant #Netflix set a new record for monthly consumer spending in its mobile app during November, grossing an estimated $86.6 million worldwide on the App Store and Google Play according to Sensor Tower Store Intelligence data. This figure was 77% higher than the $49 million Sensor Tower estimated the app grossed in November 2017 and 2.3% greater than the $84.7 million users users spent in July of this year, its previous best month for revenue. All told, the app has now grossed more than $1.58 billion globally since it began monetizing in September 2015.
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❓ Have you watched anything on Netflix in the last 30 days?
Streaming giant #Netflix set a new record for monthly consumer spending in its mobile app during November, grossing an estimated $86.6 million worldwide on the App Store and Google Play according to Sensor Tower Store Intelligence data. This figure was 77% higher than the $49 million Sensor Tower estimated the app grossed in November 2017 and 2.3% greater than the $84.7 million users users spent in July of this year, its previous best month for revenue. All told, the app has now grossed more than $1.58 billion globally since it began monetizing in September 2015.
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❓ Have you watched anything on Netflix in the last 30 days?
📺 Netflix's 2019 Problem
Although Netflix had a record-breaking November, it's problems can be record-breaking as well. Following #Netflix’s lead, nearly every major video company is moving into the streaming media business. And that means also moving their content off Netflix and onto their own services.
Disney — along with its soon-to-be purchased Fox — is launching its streaming service, Disney+, next year and pulling its content, including Pixar and Marvel films, from Netflix. The combined AT&T/Time Warner, which has licensed its popular TV series “Friends” to Netflix, may also pull its movies and TV shows from Netflix when its own streaming service gets off the ground at the end of 2019.
That potential loss is part of the reason Netflix has ratcheted up its original content spending lately, and is expected to spend $12 billion to $13 billion on content in 2018 — most of which will go toward original content.
As of October, original content made up 8 percent of content, measured in hours, on Netflix, according to Ampere.
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Although Netflix had a record-breaking November, it's problems can be record-breaking as well. Following #Netflix’s lead, nearly every major video company is moving into the streaming media business. And that means also moving their content off Netflix and onto their own services.
Disney — along with its soon-to-be purchased Fox — is launching its streaming service, Disney+, next year and pulling its content, including Pixar and Marvel films, from Netflix. The combined AT&T/Time Warner, which has licensed its popular TV series “Friends” to Netflix, may also pull its movies and TV shows from Netflix when its own streaming service gets off the ground at the end of 2019.
That potential loss is part of the reason Netflix has ratcheted up its original content spending lately, and is expected to spend $12 billion to $13 billion on content in 2018 — most of which will go toward original content.
As of October, original content made up 8 percent of content, measured in hours, on Netflix, according to Ampere.
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📈 TikTok Reached a New High in November
#TikTok from Bytedance reached its highest ranking yet last month at No. 2 for overall global downloads behind only #WhatsApp. It had ranked No. 3 in October.
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#TikTok from Bytedance reached its highest ranking yet last month at No. 2 for overall global downloads behind only #WhatsApp. It had ranked No. 3 in October.
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🎞 Video Get More Interactions than Images
The more followers an #Instagram business page has, the more likely it is to include video in its mix of post types, according to a study from Quintly. As part of its report, Quintly analyzed more than 8.9 million posts during the Q1-Q3 2018 period from more than 44,400 profiles ranging in size from 0-1k followers to more than 10 million followers.
The analysis yielded an interesting benchmark: the vast majority (72.6%) of posts from these various pages were Image posts. In fact, posts were more than 4 times as likely to be Images as Videos (16.7% share), and almost 7 times more likely to be Images as Carousel posts (10.7% share).
However, the finding that 1 in 6 posts are Videos masks some intriguing differences by profile size. When sorting the results on post type distribution by page size, the analysis found a near-linear correlation between size and likelihood of using Videos. In other words, the larger the follower number, the more likely the page to use videos as part of the post mix, and the less likely to use Images.
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The more followers an #Instagram business page has, the more likely it is to include video in its mix of post types, according to a study from Quintly. As part of its report, Quintly analyzed more than 8.9 million posts during the Q1-Q3 2018 period from more than 44,400 profiles ranging in size from 0-1k followers to more than 10 million followers.
The analysis yielded an interesting benchmark: the vast majority (72.6%) of posts from these various pages were Image posts. In fact, posts were more than 4 times as likely to be Images as Videos (16.7% share), and almost 7 times more likely to be Images as Carousel posts (10.7% share).
However, the finding that 1 in 6 posts are Videos masks some intriguing differences by profile size. When sorting the results on post type distribution by page size, the analysis found a near-linear correlation between size and likelihood of using Videos. In other words, the larger the follower number, the more likely the page to use videos as part of the post mix, and the less likely to use Images.
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📱 Fastest Mobile Internet
Norway🇳🇴 had the fastest mobile #internet download speed, coming in at 67.17 megabits per second (Mbps). Iceland🇮🇸 came in a close second with 67.05 Mbps. The United States 🇺🇸 came in a distant 43rd with an average download speed of 30.49 Mbps. To stream #Netflix in Ultra HQ quality, a person needs access to 25 Mbps.
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Norway🇳🇴 had the fastest mobile #internet download speed, coming in at 67.17 megabits per second (Mbps). Iceland🇮🇸 came in a close second with 67.05 Mbps. The United States 🇺🇸 came in a distant 43rd with an average download speed of 30.49 Mbps. To stream #Netflix in Ultra HQ quality, a person needs access to 25 Mbps.
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🗣 Word of Mouth & Product Discovery
Older generations are typically more inclined to use WOM for brand discovery, with over a third of 45-54 (34%, Index 1.09) and 55-64 year olds (38%, Index 1.21) citing this as a main source for finding out about new brands and products.
For both baby boomers and Gen Xers, WOM recommendations places third as a brand discovery source behind ads seen on TV and search engines. It drops down to fourth for millennials, and sixth for Gen Z, but this still places it just ahead of recommendations on social media for both these younger generations.
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Older generations are typically more inclined to use WOM for brand discovery, with over a third of 45-54 (34%, Index 1.09) and 55-64 year olds (38%, Index 1.21) citing this as a main source for finding out about new brands and products.
For both baby boomers and Gen Xers, WOM recommendations places third as a brand discovery source behind ads seen on TV and search engines. It drops down to fourth for millennials, and sixth for Gen Z, but this still places it just ahead of recommendations on social media for both these younger generations.
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🚕 Lyft has eaten into Uber’s U.S. market share
#Uber controls the majority of U.S. ride-hailing but #Lyft is growing twice as fast. And both plan to go public in early 2019.
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#Uber controls the majority of U.S. ride-hailing but #Lyft is growing twice as fast. And both plan to go public in early 2019.
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📱 2018's Highest Grossing iPhone Apps
#Netflix was by far the highest grossing #iPhone and #iPad app in 2018, bringing in 790 million dollars. Tencent’s video streaming app was the second highest earning iOS app, grossing 490 million dollars. Netflix blew the other top ten apps out of the water, racking up 62 percent more revenue than second-place iOS app,Tencent.
While Netflix outperformed #Tencent, video streaming and sharing applications did well overall, dominating the top ten list. Seven out of the ten highest grossing iOS apps were video streaming or sharing applications. Notably, half of the apps were owned by Chinese companies like #Baidu, Tencent, and #Alibaba.
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#Netflix was by far the highest grossing #iPhone and #iPad app in 2018, bringing in 790 million dollars. Tencent’s video streaming app was the second highest earning iOS app, grossing 490 million dollars. Netflix blew the other top ten apps out of the water, racking up 62 percent more revenue than second-place iOS app,Tencent.
While Netflix outperformed #Tencent, video streaming and sharing applications did well overall, dominating the top ten list. Seven out of the ten highest grossing iOS apps were video streaming or sharing applications. Notably, half of the apps were owned by Chinese companies like #Baidu, Tencent, and #Alibaba.
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