Media usage per Nielsen data. The most interesting finding on the usage side is that users in lower-income households spend more time with every device that they use than high-income households. This is true not just of traditional devices, but of newer ones as well. Source: http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/reports/2015/the-total-audience-report-q3-2015.html
From the video description: Facebook just announced 8 billion video views per day. This number is made out of lies, cheating and worst of all: theft. All of this is wildly known but the media giant Facebook is pretending everything is fine, while damaging independent creators in the process. How does this work? Hank Greens… Read More »
From a post by Statista’s Felix Richter, this chart shows Facebook’s revenue growth since the first quarter of 2012. Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/2496/facebook-revenue-by-segment/
From the video description: Today, the word “meme” is typically used to describe a funny photo with text that gets passed around online. But Richard Dawkins coined the term years before the World Wide Web even existed. Dawkins in a distinguished evolutionary biologist and writer. He has authored several books, the most recent being “Brief… Read More »
Facebook Instant Articles, a feature presenting the full content of news stories for mobile users, launched officially on May 12, 2015. Launch partners included Woven Digital, BuzzFeed, the New York Times, National Geographic, The Atlantic’, NBC News, The Guardian, BBC News, Bild, and Spiegel Online. In late March 2016, Facebook announced that native ads and… Read More »
For many publishers, advertising is the easiest and most promising way to generate revenue online. For the readers however, online ads are mostly annoying: not only do they distract the attention away from the actual editorial content, but, as it turns out, they also take a heavy toll on mobile readers’ data consumption. According to… Read More »
Former CBS co-worker Maria Perez is going on a RV road trip adventure with her father, creating a podcast and documentary film along the way. From her promotional site: Experience… For a retiree and a millennial, it’s a loaded word. After over 50 years of hard labor and starting his life over multiple times and… Read More »
According to a recent report from PageFair and Adobe, the use of ad blocking software has increased dramatically in recent years and is set to cost publishers over $20 billion in 2015. Approximately 198 million people across the globe use ad blocking software, according to the report, a 41 percent increase over the previous year.… Read More »
From the video description: Adrian Holovaty: “With the benefit of hindsight, here are a bunch of things I’ve regretted about doing, and not doing, in helping develop Django. Learn from my mistakes!”
Video series by Rusty Ward teams up with FW: Thinking to look at the future of AI and robots. Also see: http://metromemetics.net/share-fw-thinking-robots-will-save-us-all-video/ From the video description: Open Letter by Future of Life Institute http://futureoflife.org/misc/open_letter Scientists Warn of AI’s Dangers -LiveScience http://www.livescience.com/49419-artificial-intelligence-dangers-letter.html History of A.I. -LiveScience http://www.livescience.com/49419-artificial-intelligence-dangers-letter.html Thanks to Dr. Wolfgang Fink for allowing me to… Read More »