This is another official update to the original “Shift Happens” video. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology, and was developed in partnership with The Economist.

Some of the highlights:

• Well over 1,000,000 books are published worldwide every year
• A Google Book Search scanner can digitize over 1,000 pages per hour
• Americans have access to
  • 1,000,000,000,000 web pages
  • 65,000 iPhone apps
  • 10,500 radio stations
  • 5,500 magazines
  • 200+ cable TV networks
• There are 240,000,000 TVs in the US (2,000,000 are in bathrooms)
• Newspaper circulation is down 7m over the past 25 years but in the last 5 years unique readers of online newspapers are up 30m
• 47% of broadcast viewers say they’d pay for ad-less programming
• More video content was uploaded to YouTube in the last 2 months than if ABC, NBC and CBS had been airing new content 24/7/364 since 1948
• 40m people have been Rick-Rolled
• 95% of all songs downloaded last year weren’t paid for
• Wikipedia was launched in 2001 and now has over 13m articles in 200 different languages
• Ang Chuang Yang of Singapore typed a Guinness Book of Records-approved 160-character text on his mobile in 41.52 seconds (that’s about 4 characters a second)
• The average American teen sends 2,272 SMS messages a month
• Nokia manufactures 13 mobile phones a second
• 90% of the 200 billion emails sent every day are spam

For more information, or to join the conversation, please visit http://mediaconvergence.economist.com/ and http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/.

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