Interesting Internet Trends

Mobile usage: US adults are spending more time online, clocking 5.9 hours pre day in 2017 versus 5.6 in 2016.

Mobile ads: People ares shifting their time to mobile faster than ad dollars are following, creating $7 billion mobile ad opportunity, though platforms are increasingy responsible for providing safe content to host ads.

Voice: With speech recognition hitting 95% accuracy and the sales explosion of amazon echo which went from 10 milion to over 30 million sold in total by end of 2017.

Daily usage: Revenue gains for services like facebook are tightly coupled with daily user growth, showing how profitable it is to become a regular habit.

E-commerce: Ecommerce growth quickens as now 13% of all retail purchases happen online and parcel shipments are rising swiftly.

Amazon: More people start product searches on amazon than search engines.

Subscription services: They're seeing massive adoption with Netflix up 25% the New York Times up 43%, Spotify up 48%.

Education: Employess seek retraining and education from youtube and online courses to keep up with new job requirements and pay off skyroketting student loan debt.