Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for February 16, 2018
The Number of the Day columns published on Ballotpedia reflect the views of the author.
February 16, 2018: Ninety-four percent (94%) of IT professionals expect mobile security attacks to become more frequent, while 79 percent report increased difficulty securing devices.[1]
That’s one of the 12 surprising mobile technology statistics published by Mobile Business Insights.[2]
The report also notes that “for every eight minutes users spend on smartphones, seven of those minutes are spent in apps.”[3] And users spend an average of about five hours per day on their device.[4]
The generational impact of this change is highlighted by the fact that most 16- to 24-year-old smartphone users now spend as much time on their mobile device as on all other devices combined.[5]
Advertising money is following the trend in a big way. Mobile video ad spending is the fastest-growing ad format, up 142 percent in the second quarter of 2017.[3]
Read the full list here.
Other technology-related Numbers of the Day are listed below:
- 2.7 million cord-cutters dropped cable in first nine months of 2017 (January 5, 2018)
- 7 percent of Americans think it’s very likely their job will be replaced by automation (January 3, 2018)
- 21 million new jobs created by the robot revolution (November 21, 2017)
- 28 percent of American adults use same password for most or all online accounts (October 23, 2017)
- 40 percent of cloud computing market controlled by Amazon (October 17, 2017)
- 11.2 million farm jobs lost in U.S. during 20th century (September 12, 2017)
- 22,949 students will graduate from coding boot camps this year (September 5, 2017)
- $17.7 billion spent on video games in U.S. (August 25, 2017)
- 354 million downloads of top 10 Android apps in July (August 18, 2017)
- 86% of food service jobs at high risk of being automated by 2030 (August 2, 2017)
- 19 fatal airplane accidents in 2016; second-safest year ever (July 21, 2017)
- 49 hours of streaming video content watched in average OTT home in a month (July 13, 2017)
- 10 years ago today, the first iPhone was released—the most revolutionary product ever (June 29, 2017)
- 32,242,443 public interactions with police could be eliminated by self-driving cars (June 27, 2017)
- 51 million Netflix subscribers—surpasses cable for first time (June 21, 2017)
- 17.6 billion dollars of person-to-person payments handled by Venmo in 2016 (June 15, 2017)
- 19% of those switching banks joined an online or virtual bank (June 2, 2017)
- 50.8 percent of American homes do not have landlines (May 19, 2017)
- 9 apps used per day by smartphone users (May 18, 2017)
- 29.6 billion dollars spent annually on tax preparation fees and software (April 17, 2017)
- 20 percent of Americans buy groceries from online-only stores (April 12, 2017)
- 11.2 years: average age of U.S. cars, will slow adoption of driverless cars (April 11, 2017)
- $25 billion: annual spending to store paper records in the digital era (March 29, 2017)
Each weekday, Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.
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- February 12, 2018 – 296 billion dollar spending increase approved by Congress
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Footnotes
- ↑ Dimensional Research, "The Growing Threat of Mobile Device Security Breaches: A Global Survey of Security Professionals," April 2017
- ↑ Mobile Business Insights, "12 surprising mobile technology statistics enterprises can take into 2018," October 23, 2017
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Smaato, "Global Trends in Mobile Advertising, Q2 2017," accessed February 15, 2018
- ↑ Flurry Analytics Blog, "U.S. Consumers Time-Spent on Mobile Crosses 5 Hours a Day," accessed February 15, 2018
- ↑ GlobalWebIndex, "The Mobile Tipping Point is Happening Among 16-24s," August 11, 2017
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