Internet advertising will account for 52% of global advertising expenditure in 2021, exceeding the 50% mark for the first time, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, published on July 8. That’s up from the 47% of global adspend that internet advertising will account for this year, and 44% in 2018. However, the growth rate is […]
People around the world will spend an average of 800 hours using the mobile internet this year – that’s equivalent to 33 days without sleep or pause, according to Zenith’s Media Consumption Forecasts, published on June 10. By 2021 the total will rise to 930 hours, or 39 full days. This is the fifth edition of […]
TikTok, the world’s leading short-form video platform, is joining Internet Matters, a not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is to empower parents and carers to keep young people safe in the digital world. As part of the collaboration, Internet Matters and TikTok will work together to educate families about the importance of digital wellbeing and addressing common […]
We Are Social, the socially-led creative agency, in collaboration with Hootsuite, the world’s leader in social media management, released their Digital in 2019 report, examining social media and digital trends around the world. Delving into data from across more than 230 countries and territories, the 8th annual report finds 367m more people came online globally […]
Generally, it’s accepted that internet access originating from a Wi-Fi hot spot will be faster than a mobile broadband connection. Many of the most popular smartphones, like iPhones, automatically join the nearest known Wi-Fi network because of this belief. But according to a new study, this assumption isn’t true in many places around the world. […]
The UK’s four major mobile network providers splashed out £1.356bn between them on the first stage of an auction for 4G and 5G airwaves. EE, Three parent Hutchison, O2 parent Telefonica, and Vodafone all successfully picked up spectrum on offer – with Airspan Spectrum Holdings, a SoftBank-backed UK-based subsidiary of Airspan, the only party to […]
With the increasing penetration of smartphones, data becoming affordable and ever-growing availability of content, 80 percent of internet users across all age-groups in the country are accessing YouTube, according to Google India. The Google-owned company highlighted how YouTube is associated with India’s internet growth story at the “Brandcast 2018” event as it celebrated its 10th […]
Facebook has quietly launched its Express WiFi app on Google Play, and it’s now available for download in Indonesia and Kenya. The application gives users a way to purchase internet connection from participating businesses instead of paying for a more expensive and, in many places in developing nations, typically slow and spotty mobile connection. Facebook […]
Google Station is the company’s high-speed public Wi-Fi platform that first launched in India two years ago and later expanded to Indonesia. The free service is now available in Mexico City. The premise behind Station is to improve access to high bandwidth services in areas where internet data plans might not be affordable, and thus […]
Times Internet has released a study titled ‘The Changing Lingual Face of Digital India’, highlighting the rapid shift of digital users towards regional content consumption. With this study, Times Internet has successfully validated the rising trend of online content consumption across the eight most widely consumed regional languages in the country. To map the magnitude […]