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Mais de um em quatro utilizadores de redes sociais deixou de usar alguma rede social nos últimos 12 meses, ou seja, 27 por cento do total dos utilizadores. Os resultados constam do estudo "Os Portugueses e as Redes Sociais", do grupo Marktest.

O número sobe para 31 por cento aos analisarmos a faixa etária dos jovens entre os 15 e os 24 anos, o grupo demográfico mais aberto à mudança.

UK TV viewers are not as focused as they once were on the gogglebox, according to new research from BT (British Telecom), which suggested almost eight in 10 (78%) now perform other activities while watching the tube.

Forty-seven percent of respondents checked email, 37% shopped and 36% used social media. Multiscreening is very much a common activity in the UK now, and those with a smart device or laptop are more likely to veer toward a second screen during ad breaks.

While the proliferation of smartphones and tablets has undoubtedly spurred viewers to multitask during TV time, July 2013 polling by Deloitte found that the preferred device to use while watching TV was neither the smartphone nor the tablet, but the laptop.

Facebook’s algorithm uses a number of factors to establish which posts should be shown to users. Previously called EdgeRank, the algorithm now has more than 1,000 contributing factors, but it still focuses on three main influences: affinity, weight, and Time.

Affinity is defined by a user’s relationship with the person or page that created the specific Facebook object — essentially how much the user interacts with that person or page.

Time, the last major factor, takes into account how recent the action occurred, which, in Facebook vernacular, is called time decay.

Despite the hoopla, wearable gadgets like wristwatches for checking your text messages or eyeglasses that capture video are unlikely to make a splash with consumers anytime soon, given the clumsy designs, high prices and technological constraints of many of the current offerings.That is the conclusion drawn by many industry executives and analysts who trolled the vast exhibition halls of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.Most of the wearable products on display at the industry's premier showcase looked like awkward attempts to shoehorn technology into new forms without an original or compelling benefit for the wearer, skeptics say.

"For wearables to finally match up with the hype, (they have) to be a true solution, where it isn't about the technology - it's about what the technology enables you to do, something you couldn't do before,"

The wearables mania gripping the industry is in part a response to slowing smartphone and tablet markets. After growing 39 percent in 2013, global smartphone shipments are forecast to expand by just 18 percent annually through 2017, with prices steadily falling, according to market research firm IDC. Tablet shipments are seen up 22 percent this year, compared with 54 percent in 2013.

According to the many advertising leaders we surveyed, connected devices and wearable technology--or, more broadly, the Internet of things--are top of mind for 2014. But where the last decade of digital experimentation has generally made technology front and center of an experience, the feeling is that the general relationship with technology has now matured to a point where it doesn’t need to be the star of the show. Instead, people are predicting a more seamless integration of technology into brand’s efforts. Or, as Scott Prindle, partner/chief digital officer, Made Movement puts it: “I think we'll see interesting opportunities to use technology to save us from technology.”

We'll see a trend towards ambient intelligence where our devices learn about our individual habits and interests, anticipate the kinds of information we're looking for, and surface it at the right time and in the right place. Our technology will be doing more work for us in the background, helping to free up the time that we're currently spending staring at screens.

It's better to try to invent the future rather than predict it.

Primetime will be all the time, every hour, every day, as time spent on digital networks, especially mobile, continues to surge.

As the first truly global technology, a marketer's online strategy is now — or should be — synonymous with their mobile strategy.

While great work will be seen on many screens, brands will be discovered first on mobile in 2014.

In Norway, the leading country in the region, 63.5% of the population will use a mobile phone to access the internet at least once per month in 2014. With Denmark and Sweden a few points behind, and Italy lagging other countries with an expected 42.7% of the population using the mobile internet via phone, Western Europe will average 48.2% mobile phone internet penetration this year.

Western Europe’s mobile phone internet user base is expected to undergo steady growth, primarily driven by smartphone adoption. Between 2013 and 2017, the penetration rate of mobile phone internet users among mobile phone users will rise from 49.0% to 77.8%.