- Daily video views on Facebook during the third quarter of 2014: 1 billion
- Daily video views on Facebook during the third quarter of 2015: 8 billion
- Percentage of users that mute pre-roll video ads: 81
- Number of images shared daily on Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat (combined) in 2014: 2 billion
- Number of images shared daily on those platforms in 2016: 3 billion
- Percentage of world’s largest book publishers with revenue decline in 2015: 74
- The only purely trade publisher among the world’s top ten: Penguin Random House
- Revenue decline in 2015 of world’s largest publisher, Pearson: 6.32%
Sources: Picture This: Exploring the Internet of Visuals; The World’s 52 Largest Book Publishers, 2016
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Today Show, Wired, The Guardian, Fox News, and BBC. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition (The University of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom text by many writing and publishing degree programs. She reaches thousands through speaking engagements and workshops at diverse venues worldwide, including NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Book Fair, and numerous MFA programs.
