YouTube Creator Playbook Just Got Better for Publishers

How mobile app dependent are we? That's one of the questions that Apigee, the API company, wanted to find out when it surveyed 760 smartphone owners in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Germany.

Authoritative Content publishers know that licensed syndication through Newstex is an essential part of their content distribution strategies, so it's not surprising that nearly half of the top 10 blogs are syndicated by Newstex.

A study by the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) and Corbin Perception Group found that 72% of investor relations professionals do not use social media for their investor relations-related work.

During the month of October 2006 when WordPress was just starting out, 595,412 posts were published on blogs using the WordPress-hosted application at WordPress.com. Those 595,412 posts generated an impressive 25.6 million pages views during the same month.

Did you know that this week is National Newspaper Week? Don't worry---most people had no idea.Despite the fact that National Newspaper Week has nearly passed (it ends tomorrow), the majority of Americans probably have no idea that it even exists.

This week, the team at Automattic launched official statistics about the growth of WordPress.com during 2013, and the numbers are very impressive.

Today, 43% of Americans own a tablet such as an iPad or e-book reader device such as a Kindle. That percentage is up from 33% one year ago and from 6% in 2010.

Who said blogging is dead? In Corporate America, blogging is holding steady with nearly one in three Fortune 500 companies maintaining public facing corporate blogs (from the primary corporation) with current posts published.

In January of this year, I wrote an article for the Newstex blog about the five critical reasons publishers need a "mobile always" strategy. Today, the majority of digital content is consumed on mobile devices, and the majority of social media time is spent on mobile devices, too.