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Transcript for YouTube Video “Did You Know: Best of Shift Happens,” December 2009

[Fast-paced, modern instrumental music]

Years to reach 50 million users:

Radio – 38 years. [Image of a 1960s radio]

TV – 13 years [Image of a 1960s television]

Internet – 4 years [Image of Internet Explorer logo]

iPod – 3 years. [Image of an iPod]

Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months. Iimage of Facebook logo]

iPod application downloads hit 1 billion in 9 months. [Image of application download icon]

If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 4th largest.

1. China

2. India

3. United States

4. Facebook

5. Indonesia

6. Brazil

7. Pakistan

8. Bangladesh

Twitter played an unprecedented role in sharing information during the 2009 Iranian presidential elections. [Image showing Iranian flag overlaid with multiple Twitter logos]

We no longer search for the news, the news finds us…

In the near future we will no longer search for products and services they will find us via social media. [Image of a web site browser search bar]

Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web.

What happens in Vegas stays on Facebook [image of Facebook logo], Twitter [image of Twitter logo], myspace [image of myspace logo], YouTube [image of YouTube logo].

There are 100 million ACTIVE users on YouTube [image of YouTube logo].

Users have their own ‘channels’ to which others can subscribe. [Images of four YouTube channels.]

Americans have access to:

1 trillion web pages [cartoon graphic of a computer monitor]

65,000 iPhone apps [cartoon graphic of a mobile phone]

10,500 radio stations [cartoon graphic of a transistor radio]

5,500 magazines [cartoon graphic of a magazine cover]

200+ cable TV networks [cartoon graphic of a cable TV converter box]

There are 240 million TVs in the U.S. [Images of multiple TV screens]

More video was uploaded to YouTube [image of YouTube logo] in the last two months than if ABC [image of ABC logo], NBC [image of NBC logo] and CBS [image of CBS logo] had been airing new content 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year since 1948 when ABC started broadcasting.

ABC [image of ABC logo], NBC [image of NBC logo] and CBS [image of CBS logo] collectively have 10 million unique visitors every month.

These businesses have been around for a combined 200 years.

250 million unique visitors visit myspace [image of myspace logo], YouTube [image of YouTube logo] and Facebook [image of Facebook logo] every month.

None of these sites existed 6 years ago.

95% of all songs downloaded last year weren’t paid for. [image of pirate ship]

Wikipedia launched in 2001. It now features over 13 million articles in more than 200 languages. [Cartoon graphic of Wikipedia page]

Cisco’s Nexus 7000 data switch could move all of Wikipedia in .001 seconds! [Arrow showing movement from Wikipedia logo through an image of a Cisco Nexus 7000 machine]

Does it affect you?

A 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students outperformed those receiving face-to-face instruction. [Scrambled text on computer screen changes to words]

1 in 6 higher education students are enrolled in online curriculum. [Scrambled text on computer screen changes to words]

Pop Quiz.

How many text messages does the average American teen send each month? [image of mobile phone]

584?

1,150?

1,612?

Nope.

2,272.

Above average: Brady James of Los Angeles, California sent 217,541 text messages in March 2009.

Right now, 93% of US adults own a cell phone. [Pie chart showing 93%]

The mobile device will be the world’s primary connection tool to the Internet in 2020. [Image of five upraised hands holding mobile phones]

“The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousands times more powerful and about a hundred thousand times smaller than the one computer at MIT in 1965. So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.” – Ray Kurzweil [Cartoon image of tall building, followed by image of man followed by image of magnifying glass that moves to bring blood cell into focus]

So what does it all mean?

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