The team analyzed data on loudness, pitch and timbre from just under half a million tracks spanning 55 years, finding the average volume of recordings has increased in that time -- said to be the doing of record labels so songs stand out amongst other radio noise.
With sellers now listing 2 million items per week from their smartphones on eBay and the quarter spanning the holiday season, we expect the gross merchandise volume and the number of active users to continue the strong growth from the third quarter.