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Demographics: Wealthier Men Outpace Women In Online Shopping

Never mind the perception that men dislike shopping. They spend plenty online, reports USA Today. According to digital performance company iProspect, 19 million affluent American men are online, the majority of them shopping, and about half of them spend $4,000+ per year. Leading the growth trend? Luxury items, particularly clothing and accessories. Affluent men pref  [...]

Black Consumer Market: Huge, Largely Untapped, Won Through Fair Representation

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Reach Travelers on Smart Phones: They Expect It

Hotels, airlines, and online travel agencies take note: if you do not have iOS and Android apps already, or a web presence optimized for those devices, a segment of travelers is passing you over. Fully 51% of smart phone owners get their travel information on those devices. The data comes from   [...]

Pew Research: 20% of Americans Aren't Online, Don't See Your Ads

A bit of a surprise late Friday. The Pew Internet Project released its findings, that one in five U.S. adults simply is not on the Internet. So there is a “digital desert,” where senior citizens, Spanish speakers and low-income families reside, blind to search, social ads and streaming media.   [...]

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Industry Buzz & News: 6/22/10

Demographics: What do women want in online ads. Social Media: Twitter outages leave most marketers unfazed. Fans flock to entertainment brands in Facebook's new 'like' era. Mint   [...]

SocNet Seniors? Yes for Facebook; Twitter, Not So Much

Seniors have a significant presence on Facebook with women in this age category up more than 175% since fall 2008 and men up almost 138%, according to the Pew Research Center and eMarketer. Varsity, which focuses on senior marketing research, points to AARP.org's year-old social networking platform - which now has 350,000 users in 1,700 groups - as additional proof that seniors have become an important social network constituency. Twitter, though,   [...]

Industry Buzz & News: 03/05/10

Measurement & Analytics: Why metrics are killing creativity in advertising. Campaigns & Creatives: FarmVille Ad helps Bing zoom past Google on Facebook. Ad Targeting: Facebook   [...]

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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 02/16/10

Ad Platforms: Former Havas digital chief wants to simpli.fi ad targeting of online searchers. Online video gets an ad exchange. Search: Google maint  [...]

Nintendo Courts Seniors with Supersize DSi

Nintendo is releasing a new model of its DSi portable game system with design features that will appeal to seniors – a rapidly growing gaming constituency. The screen size for the DSi XL will be twice the current iteration's, but at the same resolution. It'll also sport better viewing angles, bigger buttons and a larger stylus and come in more moderate shades of Natural White, Deep Brown and Wine Red. The device will launch in Japan on November 21 as DSi JJ, and in North America and Euro  [...]

Mobile Search in W. Europe to Hit 2.3B Euros by '13

Mobile search ad revenues in Western Europe will grow from €39 million in 2008 to €2.3 billion in 2013, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 125.4%, according to a report from BIA's The Kelsey Group (via MarketingCharts).   [...]

Obama Solicits Texts to 'See What's Happening' in Africa

Prior to his Friday trip to Ghana, President Barack Obama has received thousands of text messages about Africa -- messages of both support and criticism, says the White House. The texts were sent after the Administration set up country-specific SMS codes to which inhabitants of Africa were invited to send messages. The codes include: • Ghana - 1731 • Nigeria - 32969 • South Africa - 31958 • Kenya - 5683 Acc  [...]

Twitter Hits Right Notes for Music Industry

Twitter users are more engaged with music - both online and offline - than non-tweeting counterparts. They also are more likely to spend money on downloaded music, according to research from The NPD Group. Findings from the firm's latest music acquisition study suggest Twitter, if approached appropriately by marketers, has the potential to spread the word about new music and  [...]

2/3 of Households Play Computer or Video Games

68% of American households play computer or video games, a three-percent increase over 2008. This indicates growth of entertainment software across all demographics, according to a study from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). Study findings, detailed in the ESA's "Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry 2009  [...]

Men Favored for Follows on Twitter

Though recent studies have documented women's dominance on Facebook, MySpace and other popular social media, a new Harvard Business School study reveals that men may actually be the driving force on Twitter, MarketingCharts reports.   [...]

Email, IM, SMS Use Vary By Country; Spam Universal

North Americans and Europeans are much more likely to use email as their primary form of communication than those in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, where instant messaging is more popular, according to a oglobal email study from Epsilon. The   [...]

78% of Gen Y is 'Meh' About Twitter; They Also Retweet Less

Despite the fact that 99% of Generation Y consumers (ages 18-24) report having an active profile on at least one online social networking site, only 22% of this same age group say they currently use Twitter, according to a study from the Participatory Marketing Network (PMN).   [...]

Middle-Agers Help Hulu Grow 490%

Though YouTube continues to rank as the #1 video web brand in the US, with 5.5 billion total streams in April, Hulu ranks #2 as it continues on a steep growth trajectory, increasing 490% in total streams year-over-year (YoY), from 63.2 million in April 2008 to 373.3 million in April 2009, according to data from Nielsen Online. This makes Hulu the fastest growi  [...]

'Power Moms' Comprise 20% of Online Population

Power Moms - women between the ages of 25 and 54 with at least one child and who participate regularly in online activities - represent 19.2% of the active internet population in the US, wielding a record level of online influence that continues to grow, according to (pdf) a report from Nielsen Online. The report provides behavioral data about various groups of moms as we  [...]

Men Want Faster Downloads; Women Favor Usability

Men and women want websites to be easy to use overall, but men say fast downloading is their second-most-desired feature, while women value easy navigation and accessibility over speed, according to a recent web usability study from Southern Illinois University, announced by   [...]