Are you one of the 73 million mobile video viewers?

What are your favorite types of videos to watch on your smart phone? Besides Rippln videos of course!!"

What do your friends watch?

What were the statistics or Mobile usage for 2012 ?

1.1 billion – Number of global smartphone subscribers.
6.7 billion – Number of mobile subscriptions.
5 billion – Number of mobile phone users.
5.3 billion – Number of mobile handsets.
1.3 billion – Number of smartphones in use worldwide by end of 2012.
465 million – Number of Android smartphones sold in 2012, a 66% market share.
31% – Percentage of the U.S. Internet population that used a tablet or e-reader.
13% – Mobile share of global Internet traffic.
5 billion – Number of mobile broadband subscriptions.
1.3 exabytes – Estimated global mobile data traffic per month in 2012.
59% – Share of global mobile data traffic that was video.
500 megabytes – Amount of monthly data traffic consumed by the average smartphone.
504 kbps – The average mobile network connection speed globally (all handsets).
1,820 kbps – The average mobile network connection speed globally (smartphones).

14 million – Number of Vimeo users.
200 petabytes – Amount of video played on Vimeo during 2012.
150,648,303 – Number of unique visitors for video to Google Sites, the number one video property (September).
1 billion – PSY’s Gangnam Style video became the first online video to reach 1 billion views (currently just over 1.1 billion) and it achieved it in just 5 months.
2.7 billion – Number of views of videos uploaded to YouTube tagged Obama or Romney during the 2012 U.S. election cycle
2.5 million – Number of hours of news-related video that was uploaded to YouTube.
8 million – The number of concurrent viewers of the lifestream of Felix Baumgartner’s jump from the edge of space, the most ever on YouTube.
4 billion – Number of hours of video we watched on YouTube per month.
60 million – Number of global viewers monthly on Ustream.
16.8 million – Number of total viewers in a 24 hour period for a video on Ustream, the most ever.
181.7 million – Number of total unique viewers of online video in the U.S. during December.

Courtesy of : http://royal.pingdom.com/2013/01/16/internet-2012-in-numbers/