A survey conducted in 2021 among eBay consumer-to-consumer (C2C) sellers revealed that apparel and tech are eBay's most popular re-commerce categories. Among respondents, ** percent said they sold pre-owned goods in the apparel and tech categories.
According to data on the number of album shipments in the United States in 2024, a total of 32.9 million CD albums and 16.8 million digital album downloads were shipped. Nonetheless, these figures are both down from the 2017 shipment numbers, when the CD shipments and digital album download shipments amounted to 87.7 million and 66.4 million respectively.
Roughly 50 percent of respondents to a survey conducted in 2020 stated that they make last minute travel bookings more often during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This was due to uncertainties in terms of travel planning. 12 percent of respondents strongly agreed with this statement.
According to the most recently available data, Spiegel & Gray, based in New York City, was the fastest growing independent book publisher in the United States based on sales growth with an increase of 136 percent between 2022 and 2024. The only other indie publisher to see sales growth of 80 percent or more during that time period was Oakland-based Collective Book Studio.
This statistic shows the results of a survey on checking work messages and emails by workers in the United States while on holiday in 2018. According to the study published by Ipsos, ** percent of the respondents strongly agreed that they never check work messages and emails while on holiday.
The revenue generated by Upwork worldwide increased steadily between 2016 and 2020. In 2021, the freelancing platform Upwork recorded a significant increase in turnover of approximately 125 million U.S. dollars. In 2023, this figure increased to almost 690 million U.S. dollars.
We asked U.S. consumers about "Most used messenger by brand" and found that ******************** takes the top spot, while ******* is at the other end of the ranking.These results are based on a representative online survey conducted in 2025 among 13,689 consumers in the United States.
LINE Music generated an app revenue of more than *** million U.S. dollars in Japan in 2024, which made it the leading music app in this regard. It was followed by Amazon Music and YouTube Music.
As of June 2025, ***** percent of the traffic on the international web portal Yandex.com was generated in Russia. The United States was the second country to generate traffic to this address, accounting for **** of the website traffic, followed by the United Kingdom with ***** percent, and only then by Indonesia, with **** percent. However, the original and Russian-language set domain Yandex.ru has a higher share of traffic from its country of origin.
In January 2023, it was estimated that Discord had approximately *** million monthly active users (MAU), up by ***** percent compared to the *** million users registered as of September 2021. In 2020, the year in which Discord started onboarding new users eager to communicate due to the disruptions caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, Discord counted an estimated 100 million MAU. Discord's monthly active users were reported to grow by ** million between 2020 and 2021, while estimates for 2022 and 2023 appear to show a slowing growth trend. Discord, which was launched in 2015, is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) platform and social media where users can create thematic or regional-based groups, called servers.
In 2024, Spotify alone concentrated **** percent of all subscriptions to music streaming services in Mexico. Amazon Music and YouTube followed, with market shares of *** and *** percent, respectively. Music streaming more popular than radio in MexicoRegional data points to a comparatively higher interest in online music among Mexicans than in the other countries in Latin America. Mexico ranks second in the region when it comes to daily time spent with music streaming services. On the other hand, broadcast radio listening time in Mexico is much lower compared to other countries in Latin America. For the most part, Mexican listeners turn to digital sources of music, including paid and free streaming, downloads, music videos, and online radio. Traditional and physical methods of music consumption in Mexico, such as CDs, vinyl, or analog radio are much less popular. It therefore comes as no surprise that the share of households in Mexico with a radio device is constantly declining while consumers are switching to online sources of music.
In September 2022, Amazon Music was the leading music app based on revenues generated from iPhone devices in Great Britain, with close to *** thousand U.S dollars in revenues. YouTube Music followed with over *** thousand U.S. dollars. Mobile app SoundCloud ranked third with approximately ***** thousand U.S. dollars in revenues.
In 2022, third-party vendors accounted for approximately ** percent of Amazon Prime Day sales, down from **** percent in 2015. Prime Day was created in 2015 to celebrate Amazon's 20th birthday, and shoppers need to be members of Amazon Prime to take advantage of the sales.
According to a survey of users in the United States carried out in March 2024, approximately ** percent of creators who reported live streaming their own content online were doing so a few times per week. Additionally, ** percent of respondents reported creating live content daily. Respondents who reported live streaming content once a month were approximately *** percent, while ** percent reported doing so less often.
According to a survey of internet users conducted in the United States between February and June, 2024, 14 percent of Black Americans reported having ever used Reddit. Asian Americans appeared to be more likely than both Black and white Americans to have ever used the social media and community forum, with 36 percent of users in the demographic reporting to have used the popular forum and social media.
Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere RPG has shattered crowdfunding records, becoming the highest-funded gaming project on Kickstarter as of January 2025 with over 15 million U.S. dollars raised. This milestone underscores the growing popularity and financial potential of tabletop gaming projects on crowdfunding platforms. Frosthaven and Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5 followed closely behind, each surpassing the 12 million U.S. dollars mark. Tabletop gaming's crowdfunding success The success of Brandon Sanderson's project is part of a larger trend in tabletop gaming crowdfunding. In 2021, tabletop games on Kickstarter reached a peak funding of 270 million U.S. dollars. While there was a slight decrease in 2022, the amount remained substantial at 236.4 million U.S. dollars, indicating sustained interest in this category. The rise of these projects demonstrates the power of crowdfunding in bringing innovative gaming concepts to life. Diverse gaming projects find support While tabletop games dominate the top-funded list, other gaming categories have also found success on Kickstarter. In the mobile gaming sector, Fluyo: A language learning game like no other raised approximately 1.27 million U.S. dollars, showcasing the platform's ability to support diverse gaming concepts.
As of September 2023, personal TikTok accounts tended to generate more views than business accounts. The average number of views for personal TikTok accounts was approximately ******. In comparison, business accounts generated on average ****** video views in the examined period.
In 2023, the prevailing product category purchased on social media in the United States was apparel. As indicated by a survey, 25.6 percent of users reported this category as their primary choice for making purchases on social networks. Following closely were beauty products and home goods, with 19.4 percent and 13.5 percent of respondents favoring these respective categories.
In the fourth quarter of 2024, Amazon was the leading podcast advertiser in the United States. Its podcast ad spending for the quarter stood at **** million U.S. dollars, while that of Activision amounted to **** million. The total 2024 podcast ad spend in the U.S. was estimated at **** billion U.S. dollars. Podcast ad spending in the U.S. is expected to continue to grow, with expenditures projected to surpass *** billion dollars by 2026. Podcast advertising is growing up Podcast ad spending in the U.S. was forecast to grow by more than ***** percent in 2025. The leading industry category in podcast advertising was arts, entertainment, and media, followed by financial services. When it came to the top genres in podcast ad spending, 2022 witnessed an important shift. For the first time in five years, news was surpassed by sports, comedy, and society and culture as the leading content categories for podcast ad spend.
The number of Amazon Video subscribers in Eastern European countries is forecast to significantly increase in the years to come. Compared with *** million users in 2021, the subscriber count was expected to reach over **** million by 2027.
A survey conducted in 2021 among eBay consumer-to-consumer (C2C) sellers revealed that apparel and tech are eBay's most popular re-commerce categories. Among respondents, ** percent said they sold pre-owned goods in the apparel and tech categories.