Category: Society

  • The video wave rolls on worldwide

    In countries around the world, it’s no longer the TV set in the home that’s the primary way people consume video. According to new research from market researcher Nielsen, just published, how people consume audio-visual content today embraces many different…

  • Valuable insights for marketers if they listen

    The results of a survey on how people use Twitter published yesterday adds confirmation in my mind that those who think Twitter is just another marketing channel don’t really understand people’s behaviours. The survey Twitter and the Consumer-Marketer Dynamic, conducted…

  • The huge potential of India

    Swedish internet monitoring and analytics firm Royal Pingdom posted some great metrics today on which countries are the largest in terms of internet users and speculates on what the future might hold. While the primary chart in Royal Pingdom’s post…

  • Facebook is not the only game in town

    With the news confirmed that Facebook membership now exceeds 500 million people worldwide – that’s nearly 10 percent of the world’s total population – it’s a worthy reminder to note that, never mind its size or seeming monolithic ubiquity, there…

  • A cost analysis of the BP disaster

    The tragedy of the BP oil spill and consequent ecological disaster along the Gulf of Mexico coast of the United States still isn’t over, so anyone writing an account of the event can only capture part of the full story.…