This year is difficult to sum up with a single-storey method. Stories help, yes, but also the inscrulent and hard facts of numbers.
Of course, when we communicate about the numbers that reflect the year we have just gone through, it would be highly unlikely that we would not assume the shadow that COVID-19 has cast on almost every facet of our daily lives.
First, there are the highest figures, such as the increasing number of deaths and hospitalizations; second, the 15th consistent with the percentage of adults who say they have been fired or lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic, and 60 in line with the percentage of other people who have suffered a pay cut who earn even less than before the pandemic.
Believe it or not, there were positives for 2020, and not just for others who own Netflix or Zoom actions. However, if you invested early in the latter, I work smart!more than 10 million to three hundred million a year.
Meanwhile, Netflix maintained its position as the world’s largest video streaming platform through paid subscribers, and still controlled it to increase up to 23% to a total of 195. 15 million paid subscribers by the end of the third quarter of 2020. construction increased by 25% and 73% respectively in the first nine months of the year.
Other popular generation corporations in 2020 were virtual media player manufacturer Roku, which recorded a 57% increase in profits in the first nine months of 2020, and the Spotify music transmitter, which grew by 29% year-on-year for a total of 320 million. users. —This includes 144 million subscribers who have selected to transfer to a paid, ad-free Spotify subscription.
You can get an idea of how we feed on the arts and entertainment this year just by watching the recent release of Wonder Woman 1984. La film came to HBO Max and theaters the same day, December 25, and had the biggest box opening. Of the pandemic era, your bet for the weekend?He raised $16. 7 million. The biggest opening game of last year’s weekend?Avengers: end of the game, which grossed more than $357 million. Of course, it’s also the most paying film ever, but Wonder Woman 1984 didn’t even come close to the more than $103 million direct. predecessor in its first weekend in 2017.
However, the most recent key figure for HBO Max is that the service would have 12. 6 million accounts activated, and HBO would have a total of 38 million subscribers considering those paying for the cable channel. One imagines that many of those subscribers have seen or will see Wonder Woman 1984, as well as the large number of Warner Bros. films. obtaining deyets in Double Max and theaters (HBO did not offer express figures, but said almost part of its subscribers saw the superhero film starring Gal Gadot on the first day of its release).
Disney has also proven to be an unreserved fortune in 2020. When Disney introduced the service thirteen months ago, the company expected it to have between 60 and 90 million subscriptions until 2024. By December of this year, it had already achieved 86. 8 million. .
While Netflix has 195. 15 million subscribers, Amazon Prime has 150 million subscribers worldwide, only 26 million of them are Amazon Prime Video users (because Prime Video comes with Prime subscription for shipping and premium offers, it’s harder to know who’s watching the channel. )
As for what other people were watching, The Queen’s Gambit set the record for the most-watched limited screen series on Netflix with 62 million member accounts listening to the screen. It’s the most viewed screen of the year, Tiger King. The documentary series about an eccentric caretator of a large feline was viewed through 64 million member accounts in the first month of its release alone, according to Netflix.
But not everyone spent the year in front of the television. The publishing industry has had a smart year, as many have taken the time to reread or learn about vital topics. As the New York Times pointed out, even with much less. Other people who were going to paint this year, audiobooks still recorded a 17% increase in revenue for the year. Meanwhile, e-book sales, which had declined in recent years, increased by more than 16%, according to the American Publishers Association.
OverDrive, the world’s leading virtual reading platform for libraries and schools, reported that its Libby e-reading app has become very popular in the face of library closures. More than 356 million e-books were provided using the service in 2020, up to 32% last year. This represents more than 1. 2 million books borrowed according to the day and 13. 6 pounds borrowed according to the second. If they were physical books placed side by side, the 356 million pounds would cover approximately 34,000 miles, or a round. the world at the equator 1. 4 times.
Printed books have also noticed an increase in sales this year, by nearly 8 percent, according to NPD BookScan. So what are all those books we read? At the height of the Black Lives Matter protests, books about race and anti-racism were incredibly popular, such as How to Be Anti-Racist through Ibram X, Kendi and So You Want to Talk About Race through Ijeoma Oluo.
Politically themed books, such as Mary L’s book. Trump about his uncle, Too Much and Never Enough, who sold more than 1. 35 million copies in his first week, are also popular this year. However, the biggest trader of the year is Barack Obama’s. presidential memoir, A Promised Land, which has sold more than 3. 3 million copies in North America since its release last month; it has also been a great fortune abroad, reaching number one on the best distributors’ lists in the UK, Germany, France, Spain and Brazil, among other countries.
Not all e-book genres worldwide have thrived. NPD BookScan reported that sales in the category decreased by more than 40%. On the other hand, there is another example of how our behavior has been replaced with house orders: home e-books and gardening. have greater through more than 20%.
Of course, phones, particularly phone apps, have had a wonderful year. App Annie, a cell analytics and knowledge company, released a year-end report showing that iOS and Google Play Stores had been successful at $112 billion by 2020, 25% The report also showed that global downloads of mobile apps and games will reach 130 billion on the iTunes App Store and Google Play in 2020. Both app outlets grew by 10% year-on-year this year.
On Android, time spent building mobile apps increased by 25% compared to 2019, surpassing 3. 3 trillion hours by 2020. Globally, the professional programs category has noticed the most powerful expansion on Android phones this year, with 200% accumulation. TikTok, the maximum downloaded app of 2020, followed by Facebook, WhatsApp, Zoom and Instagram.
Buying groceries online has become a must for many. The retail business gained a huge upheaval online during the holidays, as other people have moved away from meetings and travel. An estimated 3 billion packages were shipped this holiday season, an accumulation of approximately 800 million packages compared to last year. Adobe reported that Christmas shoppers spent $10. 8 billion on Cyber Monday this year, 15. 1% more than in 2019, and setting a record for America’s largest online shopping day (Amazon has kept its sales secret for the year, or at least will remain so until fourth quarter totals arrive towards the end of January).
Perhaps the biggest indicator of how we spend the year what we are looking for online. Google Trends has compiled its main searches into a number of other categories. His main general studies 1) election results, 2) coronavirus, 3) Kobe Bryant, 4) Coronavirus update and 5) coronavirus symptoms The most sought after by others were, in order: Joe Biden, Kim Jong Un, Kamala Harris, Jacob Blake and Ryan Newman (who were also at the top of the list of most wanted athletes).
Some other revealing discoveries from Google were on your search list “How to make beauty”: 1) How to cut men’s hair at home, 2) How to splash hair, 3) How to dye hair at home, 4) How to wash your hair hands and 5) how to taste a strip of curtain.
The main studies on “how to donate to” Black Lives Matter; The most sought after film Parasite; The most wanted musician on Google, the co-star of this year’s Super Bowl halftime show Shakira; and the first 2 “where to buy” searches went to (in order) PS5 and toilet paper. The lyrics of the most requested songs were “WAP” through Cardi B, starring Megan Thee Stallion.
Perhaps studying “how to do. . . ” was the ultimate developer of what we were concerned about. Coffee, 4) How to make a mask with a bandana and 5) How to make a seamless mask. Then there are studies that ended with “. . . during the coronavirus, the popular highs were “the maximum productive movements to buy”, “meetings”, “the dentist”, “stop” and “hire positions”.
Speaking of dating, a slightly less clinical survey conducted through Basic Vodka among 2,000 American singles revealed that 55% had tried to have virtual pandemic appointments; more of the party reported having had less sex than before the pandemic; 3 out of 4 say they are sexually frustrated; and three out of five admitted to seeing virtual sex in the pandemic.
When other people didn’t connect to Google to cut their hair or stop at dating sites, they were probably on social media. Twitter is arguably the best way to get explicit, as well as stick to the latest news. In 2020, the “quarantine” “discussed 1. 6 million times and mentions of” home “higher at 143% compared to last year. BTS, the top number one musician tweeted in the US. For the fourth consecutive year; in fact, 4 of the 10 most sensitive artists on this list were the K-Pop bands. People were also interested in being informed or with old culinary advice, as conversations containing the term “recipes” increased by 41% compared to last year.
One of the saddest and most shocking stories of 2020 was the death of Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman. It was also popular with Twitter users, with 3 of the 10 tweets retweeted maximums in the move. In some other reason, the use of the hashtag #transrightsarehumanrights has been greater by 557%.
TikTok also caused a stir in 2020, especially among young people. For the first time, the company also revealed its number of users this year. It reported an 800% expansion from January 2018 to one hundred million active users per month in August. it has been downloaded approximately 2 billion times internationally and has about 50 million active users in the United States.
In a TikTok investigation in early December, the company announced Charli D’Amelio as its top productive “creator” with 104. 5 million subscribers, while the most popular viral video came here from Bella Poarch mimicking “M to the B” through Millie B, which gained over forty-five million likes.
Needless to say, while some of these facts relate to mild moments, as well as symptoms of social and non-public growth, presumably many other people would prefer to see many numbers above the decline in 2021, rather than continue. Increase, especially if that means we can all spend more time with other people.
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