Thai User Numbers on Instagram and the Celebrities They Follow [INFOGRAPHIC]
bySteven MillwardSteven MillwardinAsia, Mobile, Social Media, Web
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology.We know that Thais love Instagram - and, for some reason, using the photo-sharing app to photograph Suvarnabhumi airport more than any other place - and now we have some stats to attach to its popularity. The Bangkok-based brand agency Zocialrank has made the pretty infographic you see below with the key stats: more than 150,000 local users on Instagram who have uploaded just over 11 million photos.Thai celebrities are a key part of ...
Survey Says Japan Seen as Most Creative Country, By Everyone Except Japan [Infographic]
byRick MartinRick MartininAsia, Creative
Adobe has released an interesting survey which takes a look at creativity across the globe. Its State of Create global benchmark study surveyed people in the US, the UK, Germany, France, and Japan and came up with a number of interesting findings on how people in some of the world’s largest economies view creativity. Among the most remarkable findings in this report is how the respondents around the world view creativity in Japan, and how this contrasts with how respondents in Japan see themselves.Among the total respondents, Japan ...
Facebook Adds 20 Million New Users Across Asia as Social Media Grows Apace [INFOGRAPHIC]
bySteven MillwardSteven MillwardinAsia, Social Media, Web
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology.A fresh snapshot of Asia’s social media landscape reveals which service dominates in each country - and it’s especially good news for Facebook, which has added more than 20 million users across Asia in the past six months.The infographic and its stats were put together by the Singapore-based branding and PR agency WeAreSocial. It points out that Facebook now has more than 192 million users across the 24 main Asian wired nations.The only countries ...
InMobi Sees iOS Falling in Hong Kong, Android Invading [INFOGRAPHIC]
bySteven MillwardSteven MillwardinAsia, Gadgets, Mobile, Web
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology.Mobile ad platform InMobi has been busy these past few days crunching ad impressions stats from across Asia, giving us insights into growing smartphone usage in various countries. Now it’s Hong Kong's turn, where mobile advertising grew 656 percent from Q4 2010 to the same period at the end of 2011. But the picture in Hong Kong is a bleak one for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), whose iOS presence in the Chinese SAR fell 16.1 percent; ...
InMobi Says Mobile Now Top Media Channel in Vietnam [INFOGRAPHIC]
byRick MartinRick MartininBusiness, E-commerce, Mobile
We have some interesting insights today about the Vietnam mobile market from mobile advertising network InMobi. The company says that the mobile advertising market in that country grew 121 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, as the company saw its ad impressions rocket to six billion, more than double its total from the previous year.InMobi says that of the more than six billion ad impressions it served in Q4 2011, 5.6 billion were on feature phones , and only 0.4 billion were on smartphones. For those of us ...
24% of Web Content is Now in Chinese, Will Soon Surpass English [Infographic]
bySteven MillwardSteven MillwardinAsia, Creative, Web
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology.A new infographic shows that Chinese will soon overtake English as the dominant language online. At the end of 2011, 27 percent of web content was in English, while 24 percent was in Chinese. Despite that, the graphic’s creators, the translation management platform Smartling, lament that the web is still too monolingual, with “56 percent of online content English-only.” It calls for a more multilingual approach to the web.We’ve taken the liberty of ...
Japan’s Social Gaming Market [Infographic]
byRick MartinRick MartininGaming, Mobile
It has been interesting for us to follow the growth of Japan’s social gaming market, particularly the bigger players like GREE and DeNA as they try to translate their domestic successes abroad. One of the most insightful voices about this space is Serkan Toto, who we tend to reference more than a few times here on Tech In Asia.Serkan just sent us a long a wonderful graphical overview of Japan’s social gaming space, created by Tokyo-based designer Francesco Romano. Appropriately, it’s designed with a fun game motif, which I ...
Play Monopoly with Chinese Internet Services
Have you ever wished learning about the Chinese internet was more like Monopoly? No? Well, neither has anyone else, but this still exists. Yup, it's "Mailmanopoly", a graphic designed by the folks at Mailman as linkbait a fun way to review China's top websites by category.As a rundown of China's top sites, it's pretty well done. There are so many sites that they had to squeeze multiple ones onto each property square, but all the big guys are there. It does seem to be a bit outdated, though. Amazon still ...
China’s Social Media and Web Landscape in 2012 [INFOGRAPHIC]
bySteven MillwardSteven MillwardinAsia, Social Media, Web
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology.Here’s a very handy cheat-sheet - created by CIC, the Chinese social business analysts - showing you the leading Chinese web services in each category alongside their western counterparts.The CIC ‘social media landscape’ for 2012 infographic has all bases covered, from local dating networks like Jiayuan (NASDAQ:DATE), social review sites like Dianping, and the most popular aggregator reading apps such as Zaker. Those are the popular equivalents to Match, Yelp, and Flipboard respectively.Of course, ...
Cloud Computing’s Role in Job Creation in Asia [Infographic]
byWillis WeeWillis WeeinBusiness
Thanks to cloud computing, doing an IT startup nowadays is way more affordable. And the benefits don’t end there. They are passed on. The more new businesses we have, the more jobs opportunities there are available to the larger population. And the more job opportunities we have, chances are, we’ll have a greater shot at happiness too.Microsoft released research conducted by IDC that shows exactly this trend. Cloud computing will create nearly 14 million new jobs by 2015 globally. Interestingly, the rising superpower nations, Indonesia, China and India, will account ...
Why Chinese Consumers Can’t Resist Movie Ticket Deals [INFOGRAPHIC]
bySteven MillwardSteven MillwardinAsia, Business, E-commerce
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology.When we looked at the most recent stats last month for the group-buy market in mainland China, we noticed some interesting phenomena, such as the top three sites - Meituan, 55Tuan, and Lashou - now look like an established hierarchy, and movie tickets were the hottest leisure deals.And now the source of those stats, the aggregator and deals analysts DaTaoTuan, has made an infographic showing why movie coupons are such an important differentiator for ...
Startups in Asia (Singapore) 2012 in an Infographic
byWillis WeeWillis WeeinStartups
We had a lot of requests from startups, as well as corporate and investor folks to produce some attendance statistics for our Startups in Asia 2012 (Singapore) conference. We already had that in mind, but it took some time to gather the data and make it look all pretty.Scroll down to check out some of the more interesting conference statistics in an infographic, ranging from participants to digital media conversations. If you’re interested, you can also head over here to read all the positive feedback we have gathered so far ...
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