Did You Know?

Terabytes

• The human brain could hold between 1-10 terabytes
• Using an average of 5 terabytes per brain it would take 1 million human brains to hold the internet
• The internet holds around 5 million terabytes of data

Social and entertainment

• Facebook serves 260 billion page views per month
• 6 million per minute
• 37.4 trillion page views per year
• YouTube serves 2 billion videos per day
• Every minute 35hours of video is uploaded to youTube
• Facebook serves 2.5 billion of videos per day
• Every second 28,258 people watch porn (497 being you, yes YOU Pete)
• Social networking sites harbour 84% more women
• 256 million websites
• 153 million blogs

Internet user’s world wide

• Asia 738,257,230
• Europe 418,029,796
• Africa 67,371,700
• Australia 20,970,490
• Latin American & Caribbean 179,031,479
• North America 252,908,000
• Estimated 2.10 billion world wide

E-mail

• 1.4 email users worldwide – 81% are spam
• 247 billion emails sent per day
• 200 billion are spam
• In 1980 online gamers gave spam its term taking it from the 1970s Monty Pythons sketch ‘Spam Vikings’ as in ‘boring’

General

• Internet holds 1 trillion pages of content
• That’s 150 pages per person alive
• The most popular search engine is internet explorer, despite fierce competition from firefox and chrome
• The first ever web cam was created in 1990 in Cambridge University by science students. They had it streaming from a view of the coffee maker to avoid unnecessary trips to an empty pot
• Amazon has yahoo to thank for its popularity. Before Google, Yahoo listed its search results alphabetically making Amazon top banana

Marketing and Advertising

• 97% of consumers now use online media when researching products and services
• 65% of consumers say the web has an huge impact on the decision making when buying products
• 85% of the world buy online
• 90% believe online has the best offers
• People who buy products marketed through email spend 138% more than people who do not receive email marketing offers
• 83% of marketers choose e-mail its advertising medium
• 54% of organisations have increased the email marketing budgets during 2011
• By the end of 2014 Australia e-commerce market place alone, will increase to $18 billion

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