A day on the internet (graphic)

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Source: Sadly no individual sources quoted (some people!), but the graphic comes from OnlineEducation.net, December 2009

The average American DVD-watching household has 114 DVDs

"The average DVD household has 114 DVDs in its collection.
The average video game collection has 48 titles.
In the average DVD and video game households there is unwrapped product:
26% of the surveyed DVD households own some unopened DVDs.
11% of the surveyed video game households own some unopened games."
Source: A joint study commissioned by the Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA) and the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) and conducted by The NPD Group, reported by DVD Intelligence, 29th October 2008

Declared stats on Facebook UK advertising

"I guarantee CPMs [cost per thousand impressions] on our home page are three or four times those of Yahoo’s. On click-through, the engagement levels we’re getting are 10-15 times that. Not 10% more, 10-15 times Yahoo’s click-through rates. This is where we’re selling to P&G and those big brands.
The other side of our business is performance: those little square boxes, ASUs [Ad Space Units], that appear everywhere except the home page. 80% of our inventory is driven through a self-service auction model. We’re on 50bn of them a month in the UK. That’s scale. And big brands are saying they’re getting more volume and lower cost than Google on Facebook right now."
Source: Blake Chandlee, Facebook EMEA Commercial Director (& ex of Yahoo Europe), interviewed by the NMA, 10th December 2009

More than 60 million people use Facebook Connect each month

"More than 80,000 websites and devices (including iPhone and Xbox) have implemented Facebook Connect since it launched in December 2008, says Beard. And more than 60 million Facebook users use Facebook Connect each month. And it’s not just a lot of small sites using the product. Two-thirds of comScore’s US Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have implemented Facebook Connect."
Source: Ethan Beard of Facebook, speaking at LeWeb, as reported by TechCrunch, 9th December 2009

For every 100 copies of a physical book Amazon sell, they sell 48 for the Kindle, where available

"For every 100 copies of a physical book we sell, where we have the Kindle edition, we will sell 48 copies of the Kindle edition. It won’t be too long before we’re selling more electronic books than we are physical books. It’s astonishing."
Source: Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Interviewed by the New York Times, 2nd December 2009
Another stat from the same source:
"When we launched Kindle two years ago, it was 90,000 titles, and today it’s more than 350,000. We’re adding thousands of titles every week. Our vision is every book ever printed in every language, all available within 60 seconds."

More than 2 million vinyl records were sold in the US in 2009

Make no mistake, vinyl is still niche, though it has now grown beyond its initial small footprint of deejays, die-hard collectors and other aficionados. According to the latest data from Nielsen Soundscan, wax has already set a sales record in 2009 - at least for the 90s and 2000s. Specifically, US-based sales recently crossed into the two millions, beating a 2008-year total of 1.9 million.
Part of that is coming from the retro-cool of it all, though other factors - including spacious artwork, lyrics, and lots of tangible satisfaction - are also playing a role. Actually, that is great for niche retailers, and instructive for artists. Outside of that, the payoff remains limited - in perspective, year-to-date album sales are now past 320 million, also according to Soundscan.
Source: Nielsen Soundscan, reported by DigitalMusicNews, 3rd December 2009

Only 39,000 of Susan Boyle's 701,000 first week US sales came from iTunes

"You've had a good week, Susan Boyle. The 'Britain's Got Talent' star sold an astounding 701,000 copies of her debut album, 'I Dreamed a Dream,' in the U.S., giving her the best first week sales of 2009 and the best-selling debut album by any woman since SoundScan began tracking in 1991.
It's also the biggest debut album by any artist since Snoop Dogg's 'Doggystyle' in 1993.
Her record label, Columbia, said Wednesday that 'Dream' has moved a whopping 3 million copies around the world in its opening week.
Also amazing is the way people purchased the album. Although digital sales have grown for years -- with iTunes being the main beneficiary -- consumers headed back to the record store for Boyle's debut.
Columbia chairman Steve Barnett told the New York Times that only about 39,000 of Ms. Boyle's total in the United States were sold through iTunes. Consumers could also purchase the album on shopping network QVC."
Source: Data from Columbia, reported by Popeater, 2nd December 2009