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Paid subscriptions have doubled to four million in past year
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/30/hulu-plus/
Hulu’s future ownership may be in question, but the video streaming site is apparently doing fairly brisk business on the paid subscription front. During an advertiser event this morning, the site announced that it has managed to double its Hulu Plus accounts in the past year, up to four million. The site’s revenue also hit a record for the first quarter of the year, though Hulu’s not giving out any numbers. As with rivals Netflix and Amazon, the company’s making a big bet on original programming, with a number of exclusive series, including the animated The Awesomes and western Quick Draw.
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Source: Hulu Blog
Top 100 brands see huge growth in Google+ and YouTube in 2012
Source: http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/62071-top-100-brands-see-huge-growth-in-google-and-youtube-in-2012
In the past year, we’ve seen three quarters of the top 100 brands establish active profiles on Google+ and their customers have followers. These brands now have 20.9 million fans which is a growth of 9400% since December 2011 when only 222,000 followed them collectively.
But this growth isn’t that widespread across the hundred. In fact, the top ten brands on Google+ account for four out of five followers (78% of the total top 100 fans) which is 16.3 million followers. Four out of ten of these are big automotive brands including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan and Porsche, who are definitely taking advantage of the visual nature of Google+ (click on the image to the left to enlarge).
In the last year, there’s also been a marked improvement of Google+ pages showing in – surprise, surprise – Google search results from 0% to 20% in 2012. Obviously the marked improvement in followers and results have been due to major brand adoption and 25% of the top 100 integrating Google+ into their home page.
Youtube on the other hand, is continuing to grow into the brand space, slowly shedding itself of the rapid association with cat videos. 87% of the top brands have their own YouTube channel and collectively the top 100 have had over 3.15 billion views of their videos.
As you can see in the chart above, Red Bull, Google and Apple lead other brands in terms of subscribers and as YouTube makes the move to paid subscriptions, we’re sure to see even more broadcasters and brands follow.
Are you surprised by the numbers? What do you see happening with Google+ and YouTube and big brands in the coming year?
Mobile Accounts For Over 60 Percent Of Pandora’s Ad Revenues
Source: https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/welcome
Mobile continues to drive Pandora’s ad business.
Mobile ad revenues for its fiscal third quarter were $66 million, up from an estimated $53 million a quarter prior. Mobile accounted for 62 percent of total ad revenues, compared to 59 percent in the second quarter.
Overall mobile revenues, including subscriptions, increased $15 million in the quarter to $74 million.
Pandora is a prime example of how mobile is transforming what were once Web-based companies. With 77 percent of usage now coming from mobile— not to mention a majority of revenues— Pandora is essentially a mobile company.
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The Reason Why Publishers Started Putting Their Magazines on the iPad
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5801045/the-reason-why-publishers-started-putting-their-magazines-on-the-ipad
When Apple announced their digital subscription rules and locked down the iPad, publishers weren’t exactly rushing to bring their subscriptions over. And then all of a sudden Conde Nast, Hearst, and Time Inc brought their magazines to the iPad. What changed?
According to Forbes, the biggest hurdle for publishers wasn’t the 30% cut that Apple was going to take away from them, but rather the lack of information on the subscribers. They were worried that because users get to ‘opt in’ to giving up their personal information that nobody would do it. They were wrong. In fact, 50% of subscribers have been giving publishers their information.
Having that sort of basic subscriber info is necessary for publishers to do business. Now that they find Apple’s terms workable, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see more and more magazines come over to the iPad with agreeable deals. Which is a very good thing for people like me who prefer to read (and kill my eyes) on a screen. [Forbes]
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