Monday, February 06, 2006
Super Growth Spurt
byBlogs
There is a new report that has just been released. Technorati, the blog search engine, now keeps tab on over 27 million blogs. There are 60 times as many blogs as there were three years ago. At the present rate of growth, they will double every 5.5 months.
Most of these blogs are not written by professional writers or journalists. Only a few of these will gather a large audience. But, when there are 75,000 new blogs added each and every day (about one per second), they will have an effect on how and where people spend their time online. It is now estimated 25 percent of the Web content output daily is consumer-generated media (CGM) with blogs playing a major role. This is long past a fad and well into a major trend reshaping our information society.
iTunes
Apple’s online iTunes store growth has soared 241 percent in the last year. It had over 20 million unique visitors in December. Many experts predict continued rapid growth as music and video downloads accelerate. The Web has enabled the Age of The Consumer. People will get their entertainment needs met through a variety of channels and sources. People want to control their music-listening, TV-watching and news-reading. There are more and more options for them to do just that. The iTunes store is one example of a source that is enabling consumer demand and benefitting greatly in the process. Companies that will suffer in this change are those that fight the tide.
World Internet Audience
The world Internet population is now over 1.08 billion! The total world population is about 6.5 billion. There is still plenty of room for the Web to grow. The Internet is projected to increase about 12 million new users per month reaching a total world online population of 1.8 billion by 2010.
