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On Facebook, A Wal-Mart Employee Is More Valuable Than A Goldman Sachs Employee

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-facebook-ads-2010-6

In the real world, using salary as a measure, a Goldman Sachs staffer is worth much more than a Wal-Mart employee. An average Goldman Sachs employee is paid a bonus of $500,000, while the average Wal-Mart employee salary is $20,000.

On Facebook, the opposite is true. In the eyes of an advertiser, a Wal-Mart employee is worth nearly twice as much as a Goldman employee, according to Facebook’s suggested advertising bid prices.

Kim-Mai Cutler at VentureBeat looked at Facebook’s suggested advertiser bid price on per category basis. What she found is pretty interesting.

As you can see in this chart, the most expensive company to target is Facebook. The next most expensive is Wal-Mart. Goldman and Bain employees are duking it out for the cheapest.

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Monday, July 5th, 2010 news 1 Comment

Only 40% Of Web Ads Use Adobe Flash (ADBE)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-display-advertising-creative-by-format-2010-6

When the iPad was first announced by Apple, ad people moaned that without Flash many websites would lose a valuable source of revenue.

Ian Schafer, CEO of marketing agency Deep Focus, wrote “ads are almost 100% rendered in Adobe‘s Flash.” Because Apple wouldn’t support Flash, it would be screwing web publishers.

Turns out that’s not exactly true. New data from comScore reveals that just 40% of ads on the web are based on Flash or Rich Media. Plain old images in the form of jpegs are just as popular. And those jpegs show up anywhere.

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Monday, July 5th, 2010 news No Comments

iPhone Owners Download Twice As Many Paid Apps As Android Owners (GOOG, AAPL)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-apps-iphone-ipod-android-2010-6

Apple iPhone owners are downloading almost twice as many paid applications as Google Android users, according to data from Google‘s mobile ad company AdMob. AdMob included this chart in its monthly mobile stats report.

AdMob doesn’t provide any explanation for this phenomenon, so here are our guesses:

iTunes has a smooth purchasing/payment process. Google’s marketplace might not be as good.
iTunes does a good job of highlighting popular paid apps. Android isn’t as good at that.
There are probably more paid apps on a relative basis for iPhone than Android.
The iPhone is positioned as a premium phone. Verizon offers some Android phones for free, same with T-Mobile. If you get your phone for free, you might be less willing to spend for applications. (Or be the type of users who buys paid apps.)

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Monday, July 5th, 2010 news No Comments

The Half-Life Of A YouTube Video Is 6 Days (GOOG)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-the-lifecycle-of-a-youtube-video-2010-5

A video on YouTube gets 50% of its views in the first 6 days it is on the site, according to data from analytics firm TubeMogul. After 20 days, a YouTube video has had 75% of its total views.

That’s a really short life span for YouTube videos, and it’s probably getting shorter. In 2008, it took 14 days for a video to get 50% of its views and 44 days to get 75% of its views.

Why? In the last two years, YouTube has improved its user interface, which helps videos get seen early on. Also, the world has gotten more adept at embedding and sharing videos in real-time via Twitter and Facebook. (And there’s probably more video to choose from.)

What’s this mean for publishers? For one thing, publishers should have advertising/monetization schemes ready to go for their videos right when they’re published, because the hits come early.

It also means companies should be actively uploading videos to YouTube, says David Burch, a rep at TubeMogul. He notes that major companies like the NBA have been good at getting clips on YouTube quickly. If they didn’t act fast, then they could miss an opportunity to get eyeballs.

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Friday, May 28th, 2010 news No Comments

Amazon Runs Away With Retailing Pt. II (AMZN)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-amazon-sales-vs-retail-2010-4

We’ve updated our chart demonstrating Amazon’s amazing retail growth.

When last we looked Amazon was running away with retail sales compared to competitors. Today, it’s sprinting away with it.

We used the first quarter of 2003 as our base, then took a look at the growth in sales from Amazon, E-Commerce, and offline retail sales.

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Thursday, April 15th, 2010 news No Comments

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