1. 50
POWERFUL STATISTICS ABOUT TECH
MEGA TRENDS
AFFECTING EVERY BUSINESS
@ValaAfshar

2. MOBILE
The mega trend of 21st
century is empowerment
of people via connected
mobile devices.
Mary Meeker

3. People who use phones and
tablets to access the Internet
will outnumber those who
use a PC by 2015.
Mary Meeker

4. Over 200 million tablets
will be sold in 2013.
Enders Analysis

5. 29% of Americans say
their phone is the first
and last thing they
look at every day.
People are always
connected.
Qualcomm

6. At least 50% of consumers will use 2 or
more devices in their purchase process.
Sites must be mobile-friendly.
IBM

7. One half of all local
searches are conducted
on mobile.
People search while
on the move.
Microsoft

8. On average,
Americans spend
2.7 hours socializing
on mobile devices.
Fish where the
fish are.
Microsoft

9. 90% of mobile searches
lead to action, 50% lead
to a purchase.
CH
EAR
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Search Engine Land

10. $12.99
RCH
SEA
$9.99
80% of smartphone
owners use their device
in stores to shop.
Google – Mobile in-Store

11. 60% of mobile users expect
a website to load in less than
three seconds.
Gomez

12. Tablet adoption is expected to
jump from 51% to 58% within
the next 12 – 18 months.
IDG Enterprise

13. SOCIAL
Social media is about
sociology and psychology
more than technology.
@BrianSolis

14. 100 hours of video are
uploaded to YouTube
every minute.
Is your company
contributing?
YouTube

15. 85% of users say social networks
help them decide what to purchase.
IBM, Generation C Study

16. 93% of marketers are
using social media
for business.
Business Insider

17. YouTube reaches more US adults ages 18 – 34
than any cable network.
Nielsen

18. 70% of YouTube
traffic comes from
outside the US.
YouTube

19. The fastest growing age bracket on Twitter is
55 – 64 years old.
Pew Research

20. 2 new users join Facebook every second.
Pew Research

21. LinkedIn is 277% more effective
for lead generation than Facebook
and Twitter.
BRAND
TopDogSocialMedia

22. BRAND
62% of people
are more likely to
engage with brands
that integrate social
media content into
their owned properties.
Mass Relevance

23. The visual web is driving the rise of Pinterest
and Tumblr with growth rates of 88% and
74% respectively over the last 12 months.
Global Web Index

24. CLOUD
The personal cloud will
gradually replace the PC
as the location where
individuals keep their
personal content.
Gartner

25. NOW
HIRING
Cloud Will Generate 14 Million Jobs By 2015.
Forbes

26. 2007
3
hrs
B
1/3 IT budgets to be spent
on cloud computing in 2013.
CloudHyperMarket

27. 2007
3
hrs
Within the next two
years, over half of the
capital allocated to IT
budgets will be spent on
cloud computing.
2012
BUDGET
IDG

28. 131billion
Every week 140,000
hard drives crash in the
United States.
1
1
1
Mozy Online Backup

29. 131billion
$131 billion estimated global
cloud services market by the
end of 2013.
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Gartner
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30. 1
1
1
1
By 2015, 1 of every 7 dollars spent on packaged
software, server, and storage offerings will be
1 EXABITE
through the public cloud model.
IDC

31. Worldwide IT cloud spending will approach
100 billion
$
by 2016.
IDC

32. $
82% of companies
saved money when they
moved to the cloud.
CSC

33. 1
1
1
As of 2013, there is over 1 exabyte
of data in the cloud.
(that’s 1,073,741,824 GB)
1 EXABITE
NOW
Neowin

34. 1 EXABITE
90% of public sector
respondents and 78%
NOW
of private sector
HIRING
respondents admitted
data security was their
primary worry.
$
Cloud Industry Forum

35. BIG DATA
The real issue is making
sense of big data and
finding patterns in it that
help organizations make
better business decisions.
Gartner

36. ’
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68% of companies do not have
a stated Business Intelligence/
Analytics strategy.
IDC

37. SPENDING
GROWTH
15 out of 17 sectors in the United States
have more data stored per company than
the US Library of Congress.
McKinsey

38. IDC forecasts a 44-fold
increase in data volumes
between 2009 and 2020.
2009
2020
IDC

39. SPENDING
GROWTH
40% projected growth
in global data generated
per year vs. 5% growth
in global IT spending.
McKinsey

40. Big Data could save up to $450 billion
in healthcare spending.
$
Huffington Post

41. Facebook stores,
accesses, and analyzes
30+ petabytes of user
generated data.
2.5
BILLION
Wikibon

42. Decoding the human
genome originally took 10
years to process; now it can
be achieved in one week.
The Economist

43. YouTube’s content ID system scans
over 250 years of video every day.
2
BILL
GIGAB
N
O
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T
YouTube

44. 2.5 billion gigabytes
(2.5 exabytes) of data
are created every day.
That number doubles
every month.
2.5
BILLION
GIGABYTES
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IN
M
R
U
O
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N
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IBM

45. GIGABYTES
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D
IN
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YO
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T
A
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9-fold increase in digital information created
and shared over the last five years.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers

46. TM
APPS
Industry to reach tipping
point in next 12 – 18 months;
plans for corporate app
stores need to start today.
IDC

47. 73% of business apps
use pre-buying features
like product research, price
comparisons, inventory
checks and consumer
reviews, as opposed to
strictly purchasing.
Nielsen

48. ADS:
DOWNLOADS:
0
More than 1.5 million
apps are available in the
Apple App Store and
Google Play.
0
New Relic

49. 82 billion apps will
be downloaded
worldwide in 2013.
PortioResearch

50. Of the apps downloaded,
1 in 4 are abandoned after
the initial use.
People use apps that
enhance their lives.
$25,000,000,00
New Relic

51. Apps will generate $25 billion in revenue
in 2013.
$25,000,000,000
ABIResearch

52. $25,000,000,000
By 2018 more app
revenue will come
from tablets than
smartphones.
ABIResearch

53. More than half of those
who purchased as a
result of a marketing
message on their
smartphone did so on
the device itself.
BUY NOW
Mapdom

54. By 2017, 25% of
enterprises will have an
enterprise app store.
Gartner

55. 82% of mobile media
consumption time is
within apps and 18% is
from mobile browsers.
BUY NOW
Nielsen

56. 40% of marketers
are planning to
develop a mobile app
in the next year.
AerIcon

57. 50
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