Draw Something has lost 2m daily players since it's peak

"Draw Something, an app that Zynga essentially bought for about $200 million, is in trouble.
It's gone from having more than 14 million players daily to around 12 million, according to AppData.
To try and reverse that, Zynga is today releasing a big update for the game that will give it a bunch of new features that fans have been craving."

Source:  BusinessInsider, 18th April 2012

AOL Instant Messenger lost 64% of its users in 2011

"Before there was Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest, there was AOL Instant Messenger.
In fact, you could argue Facebook was conceived on AIM.
My how times have changed.
Between January 2011 and January 2012, AOL Instant Messenger usage – on AIM.com and in the AIM app – declined 64%, from 12 million users to just 4 million."

Source:  Business Insider, 3rd April 2012

Newspaper print advertising revenue fell by 9.2% in the US in 2011

"The Newspaper Association of America has posted its final tally of newspaper advertising statistics for 2011, and as expected, it is not a pretty picture.
Total advertising revenue was down 7.3 percent, a percentage point worse than in 2010. Print advertising was off 9.2 percent year-to-year.
Digital advertising revenue, after a comparatively weak fourth quarter, grew 6.8 percent for the year.
So the industry posted total ad revenues of $23.9 billion, a decline of $1.9 billion from the previous year. NAA does not have current numbers on circulation revenue and is only starting to assemble data on revenue from such activities as contract printing, events, or social media assistance to businesses.
Figure that those add roughly $10 billion, making newspapers a $34 billion industry. Google alone, by contrast, recorded revenues of $37.9 billion for 2011.
In updating numbers released previously for the first three quarters, NAA identified two shifts occurring late in the year."

Source:  Poynter, 15th March 2012

Mobile operators lost an estimated $14bn in 2011 due to consumers using messaging through other channels

"Mobile operators worldwide lost USD13.9bn in lucrative messaging revenues last year, as consumers increasingly contact their friends through social networks on their phones, according to new research by Ovum. The loss widened 59.7% year on year from the USD8.7bn drop that beset operators in 2010, as mobile social networking continues to grow in popularity. The stats highlight the pressure facing mobile operators as consumers increasingly opt for data-hungry smartphones with greater functionality, reducing the need for traditional services such as messaging. As a result, Ovum forecasts that revenue growth for mobile services will slow to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of just 1.9% between 2011 and 2016, when it will hit USD1,047bn globally.
Ovum’s research is likely to exacerbate concerns that mobile data revenues will not be enough to offset the decline in traditional revenue streams. The research firm predicts that mobile data revenues will grow at a CAGR of 7.2% between 2011 and 2016 to hit USD419bn, though the total still comprises less than half of overall mobile revenues from mobile services that Ovum forecasts for 2016."

Source:  StrategyEye, 22nd February 2012

Note:  'Estimate' is putting it politely...  Very notional numbers, but interesting all the same.

Nike's TV & press advertising budgets in the US have fallen, while marketing spend has risen

"Just try to recall the last couple of Nike commercials you saw on television. Don't be surprised when you can't. Nike's spending on TV and print advertising in the U.S. has dropped by 40% in just three years, even as its total marketing budget has steadily climbed upward to hit a record $2.4 billion last year. "There's barely any media advertising these days for Nike," says Brian Collins, a brand consultant and longtime Madison Avenue creative executive."

Source:  Fortune, 13th February 2012

Netflix lost over 800,000 subscribers in Q3 2011

"Netflix ended the third quarter of 2011 with just 23.8 million total subscribers — 810,000 fewer subscribers that the previous quarter, the company revealed today in its latest earnings report.
So, where did those lost subscribers go? Most of the losses are attributedto the company raising subscription rates by 60 percent on its DVD-by-mail service. The low numbers are also reflective of Netflix’s unpopular decision to split its DVD-by-mail business into a separate company called Qwikster — a move that Netflix later canceled after receiving backlash from its customer base."

Source:  VentureBeat, 24th October 2011

Digital downloads account for nearly 30% of UK album sales

"British music fans are increasingly opting to buy their albums as digital downloads, but overall sales declined in the third quarter.
The music industry continued to suffer from the decline in sales of physical formats such as CDs, according to figures from the Official Charts Company for the three months to September, and the total market was down 11.4% year on year to 21.8m units sold.
Digital downloads accounted for 28.2% of all UK albums sold in the third quarter, up 24.2% on the previous year, to reach 6.1m.
Sales of physical albums, including CD and vinyl, were down 20.5% year on year to 15.5m units."

Source:  Data from the BPI, reported in The Guardian, 3rd October 2011

US DVD & Blu-ray sales fell 18% Y-o-Y in H1 2011

"According to details just released by the studio-backed Digital Entertainment Group (DEG), DVDs and Blu-ray discs dropped an elephantine 18.3 percent during the first half of this year.  Overall, first-half physical sales reached $3.9 billion.
That is the total for 'packaged goods,' though Blu-rays actually inched upward 10 percent.  Which means, DVDs are positively hemorrhaging as consumers increasingly shift towards Netflix, VOD, and kiosk rentals.  In fact, this is the first period in which newer formats outsold physical formats, an inflection point with an extremely bittersweet asterisk."

Source:  Data from DEG, reported by Digital Music News, 7th August 2011

Home entertainment spending in the US fell by 10% Y-o-Y in Q1 2011

"Consumer purchases of newly released DVDs fell precipitously in the first three months of the year -- declines that were not made up by gains in sales of Blu-ray discs or emerging streaming services.
Digital Entertainment Group reported Monday that overall spending on home entertainment fell to $4.2 billion, down 9.8% from the same period a year earlier. Hardest hit were new-movie purchases, which fell 19% for the first quarter compared with a year ago, when four major blockbuster films were released on DVD and Blu-ray disc.
Physical and digital sales amounted to $2.2 billion for the period, off markedly from $2.7 billion a year ago. Blu-ray disc purchases were up 10% from a year ago, but these sales were not enough to make up for falling DVD sales.
The movie-rental market -- which includes not only traditional chain stores, but also streaming services such as Netflix Inc. and kiosk services such as Redbox -- made modest gains for the quarter. Total consumer spending on home movie rentals rose 2.5% to nearly $2 billion. Big gains in physical and digital subscription services offset declines at retail stores."

Source:  Data from the Digital Entertainment Group, reported by the Los Angeles Times, 2nd May 2011

Global recorded music sales fell by almost $1.5bn in 2010

"Global recorded music sales fell by almost $1.5bn (£930m) last year as digital piracy continued to take its toll on the industry, with the UK losing its mantle as the third-largest music market after "physical" sales of CDs collapsed by almost a fifth.
Global recorded music revenues fell 8.4% last year, about $1.45bn, to $15.9bn according to the annual Recording Industry in Numbers report by international music industry body the IFPI.
Overall physical sales, the term used in the industry for sales of products such as CDs, fell by 14.2% year on year to $10.4bn.
Digital revenues grew by 5.3% year on year to $4.6bn to account for 29% of all recorded music revenues. However, the rate of digital revenue growth has halved year on year as the industry continues to struggle with piracy and winning consumers over to legal download models.
The world's two largest markets, the US and Japan, took a hammering last year accounting for 57% of the total global decline in trade revenues. In 2009 the two countries accounted for 80% of the global decline.
In the US overall sales fell by 10% with physical sales down 20% to just over $2bn and digital sales stagnating with 1.2% growth to $2bn. Japan saw an overall market decline of 8.3% with the report noting that "rapidly rising online is threatening the development of the digital market"."
Source:  Data from IFPI, reported by The Guardian, 28th March 2011

Ten years ago the average American spent three times as much on recorded music as they do today

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"10 years ago the average American spent almost 3 times as much on recorded music products as they do today.
26 years ago they spent almost twice as much as they do today."

Source:  The REAL Death Of The Music Industry, Business Insider, 18th February 2011

Just 1,215 albums sold more than 10,000 copies in the US in 2010

"At New Music Seminar in LA on Tuesday, another stunning stat surfaced.  Last year, just 1,215 albums sold more than 10,000 units in the US.   Here's what the last three years looked like, according to the presented figures:    
- Albums selling more than 10,000 units in 2010: 1,215
- Albums selling more than 10,000 units in 2009: 1,319
- Albums selling more than 10,000 units in 2008: 1,515"

Source:  Data revealed at New Music Seminar in LA on 15th February 2010, reported by DigitalMusicNews, 15th February 2010

Digital accounts for nearly 25% of all radio listening in the UK

"Hopes for digital radio switchover in the next five years suffered a blow today as the growth in popularity of digital audio broadcasting (DAB) radio went into reverse.
Digital accounted for 24.8% of all radio listening in the three months to 19 September, marginally up on the 24.6% share of listening in the previous three months, according to official Rajar figures published today.
But DAB radio, the likely broadcast replacement for analogue AM and FM in the digital-only age, saw its share of listening drop, to 15.3% from 15.8% in the second quarter of 2010.
Far from listeners switching off their analogue radio sets, the popularity of AM and FM continued to grow, with a 67.6% share, up from 67% in the previous quarter and 66.1% a year ago."
Source:  Rajar report for the quarter to September 2010, reported by The Guardian, 28th October 2010

Just over 2,000 albums sold more than 5,000 copies in the US in 2009

"Albums that sold at least one copy in 2009: 98,000
Albums selling more than 10,000 units in 2009: 1,319
Albums selling more than 10,000 units in 2008: 1,515
Albums selling more than 250,000 units in 2009: 85
Albums selling more than 250,000 units in 2001: 214
Albums selling more than 5,000 units in 2009: 2,058
Albums selling under than 1,000 units in their first year of release: 92,601
Number of albums selling less than 100 copies in 2009: 81,000"
Source:  Data from Nielsen Soundscan quoted by Tommy Silverman and Eric Garland at the New Music Seminar, July 2010, reported by DigitalMusicNews, 21st July 2010

Estimated newspaper circulation declines by market 2007-9

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Source: OECD calculations based on data of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, in page 15 of The Evolution of News and the Internet, OECD March 2010
A slightly updated (June 2010) copy of the report is here

The Guardian's national newspaper division lost £37.8m in 2009-2010

"Guardian Media Group’s pre-tax losses increased 77 per cent to £171m in the year to the end of March.
Operating loss at Guardian News & Media, the division which publishes The Guardian and The Observer, increased to £37.8m.
Detailing its full-year results today, GMG attributed its increased pre-tax losses to an impairment charge against its investment in Emap, totalling £96.5m, and a further impairment of £63.9m on GMG Radio.
GMG has also written £47m off its books following the sale of its regional media division to Trinity Mirror.
Turnover at GMG fell to £476.2m from £543.4m it made in the same period the previous year, while its combined cash and investment fund stood firm at £260.8m, just down on the previous year where the pot was £267.7m.
GNM’s losses were a slight increase on the £33.7m lost the previous year despite cost savings of £26.2m over the period. Revenue at GNM fell by £32.6m in the 12 months to 28 March, while statutory operating losses before exceptional items at GNM were £37.8m, only a slight drop on the previous year's figure of £33.7m."
Source: UK Press Gazette, 10th June 2010
Earlier - 36.8m lost in 2008-09

Sony sold 12m floppy discs in 2009, down from 47m in 2002

"The 3.5-inch floppy was a ubiquitous and necessary component for storing and transferring files between personal computers for nearly three decades. Sony pioneered the 3.5-inch floppy disk in 1981, eventually replacing the 5.25-inch floppy disk that had previously been the popular storage format.
However, as the size of files and programs grew, the floppy disk was pushed aside by inexpensive and larger-format storage medium. Thanks to the creation of storage methods such as CDs, DVDs, Zip, and USB drives, Sony saw its Japanese sales of floppies decline from a record 47 million disks in fiscal 2002 to 12 million in fiscal 2009."
Source: Mainichi Daily Newspaper, reported in CNET, 25th April 2010

Video game sales across the US, Japan & the UK fell by 8% Y-o-Y in 2009

"Video game software sales across the world's three largest markets--the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom--fell 8 percent in 2009, according to a joint report issued Wednesday by a consortium of industry analyst firms. The UK led the way with a 14 percent plunge.
[...]
According to the Top Global Markets report, video game software sales in the U.S., Japan and the UK totaled 379.3 million units in 2009. Japan had the smallest decline, with software sales just 2 percent lower overall than 2008, though console game sales were down 5 percent. In the U.S., software sales were down 7 percent."
Source:The annual Top Global Markets report, by The NPD Group, GfK Chart-Track, and Enterbrain, reported by CNET News 3rd February 2010

The Guardian's national newspaper division lost £36.8m in 2008-9

"Guardian Media Group today reported major losses of almost £90m as it complained that its national newspapers and websites were operating in the "toughest trading conditions seen for many years". The group's regional newspapers suffered plunging profits while the radio business made a significant loss.
In its annual report for 2008-2009, GMG, which publishes The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, reported a pre-tax loss of £89.8m, compared with a profit last year of £306.4m, on turnover which was down to £405.4m compared with £502.1m.
Guardian News & Media, the group's national newspaper division, reported an increase in operating losses to £36.8m, compared to £26.4m in 2008, on a reduced turnover of £253.6m compared with £261.9m."
Source: Official Guardian accounts, reported by The Independent, 31st July 2009
The figure of £36.8m loss equates to £100,800 per day.

US gaming retail sales revenues fell 8% Y-o-Y in 2009

"According to leading market research company, The NPD Group, U.S. retail sales of video games, which includes portable and console hardware, software and accessories, generated revenues of close to $19.66 billion, an 8 percent decline over the $21.4 billion generated in 2008.
Retail sales in the PC game software industry also experienced declines, with revenues down 23 percent, generating $538 million in 2009. The total console, portable and PC game software industry generated $10.5 billion, an 11 percent decline vs. the $11.7 billion generated in 2008.
“December sales broke all industry records and underscores the incredible value consumers find in computer and video games even in a down economy,” said Michael D. Gallagher, president and CEO of the Entertainment Software Association, the trade group which represents U.S. computer and video game publishers. “This is a very strong way to transition into 2010. I anticipate these solid sales numbers to continue upward through 2010 with a pipeline full of highly-anticipated titles.”
Aside from portable hardware which experienced a 6 percent increase in revenue in 2009, all video game categories experienced declines, with the largest decline coming from console hardware (-13 percent). Console software and portable software both experienced declines of 10 percent, while video game accessories experienced a 1 percent decline."
Source: Press release from NPD, 14th January 2010