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Snapchat Continues To 'Re-Accommodate' Other Socials As New Teen Favorite
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 8:58am | 348Read More...Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) remains the king of social media with its multiple properties that boast at least 1 billion users. But hiding behind that is a trend that may be of some concern for social media investors: Teens would rather not be on Facebook. According to Statista, teens as a whole loved...
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Amazon Gaining On Netflix In Original Content Investment
Monday, April 10, 2017 - 3:06pm | 512Read More...Both Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) seized the respect of the film industry this February by claiming their first Academy Awards. Having secured validation for their original content, the two companies are ramping up their offerings and increasing allocations to...
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Statistics Show Music Streaming Is Now Too Big To Fail...For The Music Industry
Sunday, April 9, 2017 - 11:07am | 429Read More...A new report from Statista suggests the music streaming business is now too big to fail. This assertion was made after the world’s largest music streaming service Spotify, secured a new multi-year licensing deal with the world’s largest record label, Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA)...
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'Trump Bump' Continues In Media In Spite Of Presidential Criticism
Friday, April 7, 2017 - 11:34am | 383Read More...President Donald Trump famously said that media publications such as New York Times Co (NYSE: NYT) are "failing," but the statistics say otherwise. In early February, NYT reported its digital subscriber base grew at its fastest pace since 2011. On Thursday, new data confirmed legacy media...
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Does Snapchat's Maturing User Base Mean Anything For Its Top Line?
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 - 8:23am | 523Read More..."Downtown" Josh Brown expressed disappointment with Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP)'s new Search feature last week. He argued that the ability for users to search for each other removes one of the main selling points of the platform for it young user base: the ability to not be found by their parents. While...
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50 Advertisers Boycott YouTube Advertising, And It Won't Mean More Than A 1% Dip In Google's Top Line
Saturday, April 1, 2017 - 8:45am | 707Read More...Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) shares have shed roughly 4 percent since the YouTube ad-boycott controversy erupted. Sell-side analysts for their part, raised red flags — lowering estimates, ratings and price targets — while there were others who saw it as a temporary...
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Britons Left With Voter's Remorse? Number Who Think Brexit Is Beneficial Continues To Decline
Thursday, March 30, 2017 - 10:25am | 551Read More...The U.K. has officially begun its divorce proceedings, with Prime Minister Theresa May officially notifying the European Council President Donald Tusk of the nation's intention to leave the union under Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty. The U.K. is set to begin negotiations with the other EU...
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Here's One Way The YouTube Ad Crisis Has Taken Its Toll On Alphabet
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 2:00pm | 385Read More...For the most part, Wall Street analysts are showing signs of concerns over Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s YouTube ad scandal but disagree on what impact this would have on the stock For instance, Brian Nowak of Morgan Stanley commented in a research report that the ad scandal is...
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New Data Show Why Smartphones May One Day Dethrone TV As The Supreme Screen
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 10:40am | 805Read More...Scoot over television; smartphones are vying for the media throne. TV, one of the mainstay entertainment avenues, is slowly on the way to being relegated to the backseat. This is quite a cultural shock for those of us raised around TVs, and religiously tuned into the family tube for entertainment...
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For Guinness Beer Owner Diageo, March Is The Money Month
Monday, March 20, 2017 - 11:07am | 314Read More...Few brands are more associated with St. Patrick's Day than Guinness beer, which needless to say, means that the beer's parent company Diageo plc (ADR) (NYSE: DEO) sees outsized benefits in March. According to Statista, the total number of pints of Guinness served on any given day across the world...
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How Much You'd Spend On Healthcare Under New GOP Plan, By Income
Sunday, March 19, 2017 - 10:04pm | 483Read More...The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, is on its way out and will be replaced with a House GOP bill called the American Health Care Act, which has been dubbed "Trumpcare," "Ryancare" and even "Obamacare Lite." While the final details have yet to be confirmed, Statista is speculating that the new...
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Should Coke And Pepsi Move Into The Hard Soda Biz?
Sunday, March 19, 2017 - 1:40pm | 915Read More...The Coca-Cola Co (NYSE: KO) and PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) may have to reinvent themselves soon if they are to survive and flourish, as the tide turns against soft drinks and toward hard soda. What Is Hard Soda? Hard soda is quite simply a carbonated drink containing alcohol. It is manufactured...
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How Facebook Is Laying Siege To Snapchat
Saturday, March 18, 2017 - 6:38pm | 373Read More...When Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP), the parent company of Snapchat, recently warned potential investors about its business facing “significant competition,” it shouldn’t have taken too many guesses for the market to determine who those competitors were. Most prominently, the biggest...
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When It Comes To Discovering New Tunes, AM/FM Radio Still Trumps Streaming Services
Saturday, March 18, 2017 - 5:52pm | 365Read More...This may come as a surprise, but AM/FM radio still reigns supreme for new music. Consumers have access to countless streaming music providers, some of which are offered free, but data compiled by Statista show for many Americans, the "dusty old radio in the corner of the kitchen beats their shiny...
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America's Trade Deficit Since 1992 In One Chart
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 - 12:14pm | 325Read More...President Donald Trump has a goal of reducing America's reliance on the import of foreign goods. By any measure, this won't be an easy task for the simple reason that the U.S. economy as a whole imports many more goods and services than it creates at home for export out of the country....
















