Vinyl Is About to Become a Billion-Dollar Industry

The Financial Times reported this week that vinyl is poised to become a billion-dollar industry in 2017. Citing research from amorphous multinational Deloite, they wrote that vinyl, "is expected to generate between $800m and $900m in revenue in 2017," putting it on the cusp of a billion-dollar year for the first time since the 1980s.
"Vinyl should account for almost a fifth of the sales of physical music products in 2017," they wrote, "and around 7 per cent of the $15bn that the global music industry is expected to take."

https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/vinyl-is-about-to-become-a-billion-dollar-industry

100 Instagram statistics of 2016 showing how social media visual content can be easily turned into money

2016-06-21

http://vafromeurope.com/100-instagram-statistics-of-2016-showing-how-social-media-visual-content-can-be-easily-turned-into-money/

Indian shoppers turn to overseas e-commerce

Despite the growing success of domestic e-commerce platforms, a new PayPal and Ipsos study finds that Indian shoppers are also spending heavily through overseas e-commerce sites, Quartz reports.
In fact, Indian shoppers spent more than $8.7 billion on international e-commerce sites in 2016, a 6.7% increase compared with 2015, the report found.
That amount is still less than the $31 billion domestic e-commerce market, but it shows that Indian shoppers are regularly turning to overseas sites for certain shopping needs.

 http://www.businessinsider.com/indian-shoppers-turn-to-overseas-e-commerce-2017-1?r=US&IR=T&IR=T
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App Annie: Worldwide app downloads grew 15% and revenue soared 40% in 2016

Downloads, revenue, and time spent in apps all grew by double digits during 2016, according to a report by market researcher App Annie.

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Time spent in apps grew more than 20 percent to nearly 900 billion hours in 2016, according to the year-end report.

The platform owners paid out nearly $89 billion in revenues to publishers from in-app ads and app store revenue, up 40 percent from the year before. That means apps generated $127 billion in revenues overall, as platform owners take about 30 percent of the revenue.

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Gaming also had a huge year, as gaming still accounts for 75 percent of overall revenue for apps on iOS and 90 percent of revenue on Google Play.

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The top five apps by revenue were Spotify, Line, Netflix, Tinder, and HBO Now.

http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/17/app-annie-worldwide-app-downloads-grew-15-and-revenue-soared-40-in-2016/

 

 

End of the boom? ‘Explosive shopping’ by Chinese tourists in Japan may be on the wane

Per capita spending by mainland tourists in Japan is down almost 19 per cent, as luxury items become more available in China.

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The heady days of Chinese travellers arriving in a shopping district in one of Japan’s major cities and stripping the shelves of the nearest stores appear to be over.

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The extravagant spending habits of cash-rich mainland Chinese in Japan was even given its own expression, “bakugai”, meaning “explosive shopping”.

But while visitor numbers continue to climb, hitting 24.04 million in 2016, up 22 per cent from the previous year and surpassing the 20 million mark for the first time.
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And while mainland Chinese remain the biggest spenders, splashing out an average of 227,821 yen (HK$15,500) per person during their stay, that figure was also down 18.9 per cent from a year earlier.
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2062513/end-boom-explosive-shopping-chinese-tourists-japan-may-be-wane

 

Lägre tillväxt i år för svensk näthandel

E-handeln fortsätter att öka men tillväxten ser ut att minska. Siffrorna är inne för 2016 och intäkterna ökar förstås i vanlig ordning. Totalt ökade svensk e-handel sin försäljning med 13 procent. Detta kan jämföras med 2015 då ökningen endast låg på 8 procent, jämfört med året innan. Allt enligt färska siffror ifrån Ehandel.se Analytics som mäter runt 300 nätbutikers försäljning direkt via deras egen transaktionsdata.

http://www.ehandel.se/Lagre-tillvaxt-i-ar-for-svensk-nathandel,9427.html

http://analytics.ehandel.se/ 

 

For image app PhotoGrid, a picture is worth 300 million downloads

Over two billion images are shared every day across every corner of the web. 

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PhotoGrid, the most popular photo editing app on the market with over 300 million downloads around the world and 15 million daily photo edits, is taking advantage of the photomania. Sophisticated users and image-savvy marketers know that the quality of those social media images matters.
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The company behind PhotoGrid, leading mobile utility and lifestyle app developer Cheetah Mobile, has recognized the power of image-driven communication to create communities.

http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/13/for-image-app-photogrid-a-picture-is-worth-300-million-downloads/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.roidapp.photogrid&hl=sv