In a new survey, 40% of people now use screen time tracking functionality, either on their phones or via an app – despite Apple confirming this week that it has been removing some screen time tracking apps from the App Store because of security concerns. The study also revealed that the average screen time in […]
Weibo usage will grow to 340.1 million people in China this year, accounting for 24.6% of China’s population, according to eMarketer. The social networking app, which is referred to as China’s Twitter, will grow by more than 17% in 2018. This growth will continue over the next couple of years with Weibo users expected to […]
Thirty-nine percent of smartphone users in the UK – the equivalent of 17 million people – believe they use their smartphone too much, according to the latest research from Deloitte. Generation Z smartphone users (16-24 years-old) are particularly concerned about their usage habits, with 61% (4.3m young people) believing they use their device too much. Deloitte’s […]
78 per cent of people in the UK now own smartphones, as the number of mobile calls they make falls for the first time with people turning to platforms like WhatsApp and Messenger more than ever. Despite mobile usage continuing to increase, the always-on nature of Brits means they are turning away from making calls […]
Usage of Facebook Live reached record levels on New Year’s Eve 2016, and New Year’s Eve 2017 provided yet more evidence of how mainstream live-streaming via social networks has become. Facebook product manager Erin Connolly and engineering manager Kunal Modi announced in a Facebook Media blog post that more than 10 million people live-streamed via Facebook Live Sunday, up 47 percent from the previous […]
Average monthly mobile data usage in Europe will be 2.4GB per SIM card in 2017, largely due to big disparities among different European countries, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. By the end of 2017, GlobalData expects the most data-intensive country to be Finland, with 13.3GB per SIM per month on average, […]
It’s starting to look more and more likely we’ll someday tell our grandchildren bedtime stories about the strange boxes in our homes on which we watched videos. That’s because — and this really shouldn’t come as a surprise — Gen Z, which native advertising software firm Sharethrough defines as the generation born after 1995, likes […]