"I Gotta Feeling" by the Black Eyed Peas is the best selling digital song of all time

"Hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas song I Gotta Feeling is the best-selling digital song of all time, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The track spent 14 weeks at the top of the US music chart and sold 5.56 million digital downloads.
The song beat Flo Rida's Low, which had previously held the record having sold 5.53 million since March 2008."
Source: Nielsen Soundscan, reported by BBC News, 5th May 2010

28% of Europeans who gave money to the Haiti disaster appeal gave through mobile phones

"Following the Haitian Earthquake, it was widely reported that Mobile had played an important role in raising the required money for the relief efforts. This MMA study puts some solid numbers behind these reports, showing that in Europe that 21.4% of donors made their pledges via SMS and 7% by visiting a charitable website from their mobile device.
This means that a total of 28.4% of those who gave money to the Haitian appeal did so via their mobile device, which shows how important a medium mobile has become in order to allow people to help victims and charities.
The figures vary slightly from country to country, with French people emerging as the most likely to use their mobile device for charitable donations with 30% of all donors choosing to do so via SMS. Germany came second with 26% of all donors using SMS as their medium of choice to donate to the appeal. "
Source: Data from MMA, reported by Mobi AD News, 3rd May 2010

The demographics of twitter users in the US

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Source: Twitter Usage in America: 2010, Edison Research, 29th April 2010

94% of UK households have digital TV; 44% have digital TV recorders

"93.9% of households now had digital television - which meant viewers had a greater choice of channels - and almost half (44%) now had digital TV recorders."
Source: the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb), reported by BBC News, 4th May 2010

British TV viewers watch an average of 4 hours 18 minutes a day

"TV viewers in the UK are watching more than four hours of programmes every day, the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb) has said.
It said figures from January to March 2010 showed people watched, on average, four hours and 18 minutes daily, up from three hours, 56 minutes in 2009.
Two-thirds of those hours were spent watching commercial channels, it said.
Commercial TV marketing body Thinkbox said the rise was partly down to cash-strapped Britons staying at home."
Source: the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (Barb), reported by BBC News, 4th May 2010

Blackberry is the joint 4th largest mobile phone manufacterer in the world

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"Smartphones drove a rebound in the overall mobile handset market in the first quarter of 2010, as BlackBerry maker Research In Motion broke into the top five of cell phone makers for the first time.
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 21.7 percent in the first quarter of 2010, compared to a decline of 16.6 percent during the first quarter of 2009 when the global economy was in recession, according to market research firm IDC. Growth was fueled mainly by the economic recovery and sales of smartphones, IDC said. In total, cell phone makers shipped 294.9 million units in the first quarter of 2010 compared to 242.4 million units in the first quarter of 2009."
Source: Data from IDC, reported by CNET, 30th April 2010

It took 28 days to sell the first million iPads

"Apple® today announced that it sold its one millionth iPad™ on Friday, just 28 days after its introduction on April 3. iPad users have already downloaded over 12 million apps from the App Store and over 1.5 million ebooks from the new iBookstore.
“One million iPads in 28 days—that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Demand continues to exceed supply and we’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.”
Source: Apple press release, 3rd May 2010