Not everything has to be boring when working with statistics. A joke is always welcome. Specially if it is the best joke in the world. Searching for stats, I found some figures about jokes at the Laugh Labmebeli. Take a look there to find out about the jokes research done worldwide by Professor Richard Wiseman.
Looking around the Google Labs, Google’s technology playground, I found the Google Trends link. Its a fantastic website to see what the world is searching for. This is another free tool for doing Internet market research.
Internet World Stats has released the figure of 1,407,724,920 as the estimated number of Internet users for March 31, 2008. This corresponds to a global Internet penetration rate of 21.1% based on the current mid-2008 world population estimate (see post below).
Total world population for mid-year 2008 is now estimated at 6,676,120,288 million people. This figure is based on Internet World Stats research, based on the U.S. Census Bureau and World-Gazetteer figures. This number represents an increase of 69,148,629 people in one year, since mid-year 2007. The Internet World Stats website has been updated for 2008 population data and this will evidently affect all the Internet penetration rate estimates.
Global advertising expenditure in Internet continues to grow and increase its share, compared by medium with newspapers, magazines, television, radio, cinema, and outdoor advertising. According to a forecast by media research firm Zenithoptimedia, world Internet advertising expenditure will grow from 28.8 million US dollars in 2006 to 66.9 million US dollars in 2010. This represents a 233% increase. For additional details, visit All About Market Research.
Internet World Stats is collecting data for updating the 2008 first quarter (Q1) statistics. Up to this moment total Internet world count is 1,327,810,468 users, with a global Penetration Rate of 20.1%. This figure will surely go up as numbers from other countries are gathered in the following weeks.
Six years ago, on March 25, 2002, Internet World Stats began publishing the worldwide Internet usage statistics. It started as a hobby, but today it is a full time job for me. In those six years I have seen a lot of websites come and go in this field of market research. To celebrate the anniversary, you can look at a video showing what people thought about the Internet back in 1995. Another nice thing to do on this anniversary is to go to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and see how the IWS website looked back in 2002. If you are curious and look around, you will find lots of old Internet statistics not available in other places. Enjoy.
In our daily study of the Internet International Markets, we find interesting information sources. In line with our open way of thinking, we like to freely share these information sources with our blog readers and website visitors. Political management and progress on the way to democracy and a market economy are measurable and comparable worldwide. The Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI) is an international ranking of 125 developing and transition countries, published every two years. It sheds light upon the political and economic status of each country as well as upon the political management performance by the relevant actors. Detailed country reports provide information on the underlying factors of assessment for each country examined… »
Academia is a very rich source of information and knowledge referring to market research. Many articles, papers and studies are freely available from academia (colleges and universities). The following link features several academic information sources.
Following are the Compete statistics for February 2008 for the 20 top social web sites:
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