The Future Of Digital 2014

If you’ve got time, it’s worth clicking through the 120-odd slides on the Future of Digital 2014 put together by Business Insider. Nothing particularly out of the ordinary but a good high-level overview of the trends.

Here’s a few highlights:-

• 3 out of 7 billion worldwide are now online
• Consumption of media is collapsing across TV, online, radio and print – and rising rapidly in mobile
• Money follows eyeballs – so it’s going mobile
• Wearables continue to grow – albeit not at a level that was previously hyped
• Cars are increasingly connected to the internet
• The average owner spends an hour a day on their smartphone (is that all?!)
• More than 25% of all internet traffic is mobile
• Global sales of tablets have hit a wall
• Apple are losing the war: Android run 85% of the smartphones and 65% of the tablets in the world
• Android is now more popular with developers than iOS
• Android will soon overtake iOS in app revenue
• The key digital media trends are: Mobile, Social, Video, Programmatic, Native
• PayPal powers $30 billion in mobile payments
• Google’s Chrome browser remains the most popular by far
• The Internet of Things will see 20 billion connected devices by 2020