Author: Jefferson Graham / Source: USA TODAY
USA TODAY’s Jefferson Graham reviews the 2018 year in tech, which includes the most popular apps, binge-worthy TV shows and much more USA TODAY
December is just one week old, Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, so it’s that time again—rewind time.
For today’s #TalkingTech newsletter: the numbers and highlights edition.
Drum roll, please:
—How many products we ordered from Amazon this year as Prime members: Over 2 billion. And they arrived in a day or two.
—The No. 1 best-selling item on Amazon: the Fire TV Stick ($39.99) for streaming video. Which helps explain why TV ratings are going down.
—The most binge-watched shows on Amazon Prime: Jack Ryan, from the series of novels by Tom Clancy and Homecoming with Julia Roberts, based on the popular podcast. The cities that consumed the most Amazon Prime Video: Santa Clara, U.S.; Norderstedt, Germany; and Tokai, Japan.
—The most downloaded Apple iPhone app: YouTube. Sense a trend? We love to stream video.
—The No. 1 trending video of the year on YouTube: To Our Daughter, by Kylie Jenner of the Kardashian family, with 76 million views. This is when she announced her pregnancy to the world.
—Drake rules. The hip-hop musician was the most streamed artist of the year on Apple Music and Spotify, generating a record 1 billion streams in his first week for his Scorpion album on Apple, and 8 billion streams overall on Spotify.
And I remember when all you needed to get a “Gold” record was sales of 500,000 albums, or 1 million for “Platinum.”—Most talked about event on Facebook: International Women’s Day for the second year in a row, per the Social Network.
—The free smartphone apps of the year. Google picked Drops, to…
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