The average American Apple household has 4 Apple devices

"Frequent mobile video users will more than triple over the next five years
Nearly 50% of 18 to 24 year old smartphone/tablet owners frequently social network about TV programs currently being viewed
86% of smartphone/tablet users will view video on their mobile devices
Nearly 60% of smartphone/tablet owners will also be viewing OTT (over-the-top) video at home
The average Apple household will have four Apple devices, while the average Google Android household will have at least two Android devices"

Source:  Research by In-Stat, reported in a press release, 30th August 2011

Britain's top tourist attractions get 5 times as many checkins on Facebook as on Foursquare

"The data, which uses all the check-ins at UK attractions since November last year, found that check-ins on Facebook to the top 50 UK attractions totalled 955,437, while check-ins on Foursquare reached 176,724.
Betapond, the agency that developed the Love UK Top 50 Places app, said the data showed that Facebook was by far the check-in method of choice for the mainstream web audience.
The data is taken from a campaign VisitBritain launched in November last year to find the top UK attraction, based on location-based check-ins (nma.co.uk 8 November 2011). The aim for the tourist board was to add a competitive element, encouraging attractions to promote check-ins to its visitors. Over the period of the campaign the Love UK page has gained over 450,000 Likes and helped to accumulate over 1m check-ins at the top 50 UK attractions.
The top UK attraction is currently The O2 stadium with 72,817 Facebook check-ins and 7764 check-ins on Foursquare."

Source:  NMA, 31st August 2011

The demographics of American Tablet & eReader users

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Source:  Data from Nielsen, reported in their blog, 25th August 2011

Beyonce's pregnancy news created a record of 8,868 tweets per second during the 2011 VMA Awards

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Source:  Tweet from Twitter Global PR, 29th August 2011

Wordpress powers nearly 150,000 of the world's top million websites

"This has been an exciting year for WordPress. We’ve grown to power 14.7% of the top million websites in the world, up from 8.5%, and the latest data show 22 out of every 100 new active domains in the US are running WordPress."

Source:  Blog post by Wordpress, 19th August 2011

Pandora posted a loss of $1.8m in Q2 2011

"The Oakland firm reported a 117% increase in revenue from a year earlier to $67 million as advertising and subscription sales grew.
The company, however, continued to lose money, posting a $1.8-million loss, or a loss of 4 cents a share, for the quarter that ended July 31 compared with a $1.6-million profit, or 4 cents, a year earlier.
Adjusting for stock compensation costs for its executives and other special expenses, Pandora posted $3.3 million in net income, compared with $2.6 million a year earlier. Analysts had expected Pandora to break even for the quarter on $61 million in revenue."
Source:  LA Times, 25th August 2011

Google's +1 button gets 4bn impressions a day

"In June we launched the +1 button for websites, making it easier to recommend content across the web. In July, the +1 button crossed 2 billion daily views, and we also made it a lot faster. Today the +1 button appears on more than a million sites, with over 4 billion daily views, and we're extremely excited about this momentum."
Source:  Google blog, 24th August 2011