While a solid 40% of Pandora’s consumers rate the service “Excellent”, a large component of Pandora’s users find the music flow or unfamiliar music quotient to be less comfortable compared to their experience listening to terrestrial radio streams.
Pandora has announced that it surpassed 40 million registered users earlier this month. That means the service had doubled its size in 2009. And it’s adding 600,000 new registered users a week now. Even more remarkable is that half of those new users are coming from mobile devices. And of those, the iPhone continues to lead the way with 10 million Pandora users of its own. That number has grown some 400% this year.
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Worldwide, a record $4.4 billion in box office revenues were reported to Boxscore, an 11.7% increase over last year and the second consecutive year of double-digit growth. Attendance of 73 million represents a 12.6% increase over 2008, an important trend for a sector of the business that is now considered the most important for the majority of artists.
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65% of pages have more than 100 fans
23% of pages have more than 1,000 fans
4% of pages have more than 10,000 fans
0.76% of pages have more than 100,000 fans
0.047% of pages have more than one million fans (297 in total).
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Here’s some interesting stats on social gaming and virtual goods. TechCrunch has a post about a company called Zynga (as of October 20th, 2009):
50 million daily active users as of yesterday (across Zynga games).
Farmville 20 million active users alone.
800,000 virtual tractors sold.
$830,00 worth of virtual special sweet potato seeds in Farmville in 2 weeks – half of that has gone to school children in Haiti.
Facebook accounted for 58.59 percent of all U.S. visits among a custom category of 155 social networking Web sites in September 2009
MySpace had the highest average time spent among the top five most visited social networking Web sites, with 25 minutes and 56 seconds
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