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Is Age More A Factor Than Gender In Social Media Habits?

Facebook alone enjoys broad adoption across age groups and genders, reports Netpop research. As MarketingProfs described the findings, “Other social media sites do not have such ubiquitous appeal." Using women as an example, Facebook's penetration is about 90% among socially-networked adult Americans, and about 92% for networked women aged 18-34; and 35+. But YouTube is far mo  [...]

TV Dominates Americans' 8.7 Hours of Daily Video Time

The average American spends an average of 8.7 hours each day consuming video media, and younger Baby Boomers (ages 45-54) watch the largest amount, 9.5 hours, according to recent collaborative research on video-viewing habits in the US, writes MarketingCharts. The large-scale Video Consumer Mapping study, which was conducted on  [...]

Digital Divide Thins: Half of Americans 'Frequent' the 'Net

Americans' frequent use of the internet nearly doubled in the past five years: 48% of adults -- many in groups that were historically less frequent users -- now report that using the 'net over an one hour per day, compared with 26% in 2002, according to results from a recent Gallup Poll,   [...]

YourCity.MD Boasts Biggest Geo-Targeted Online Ad Network in US

Medical and information network YourCity.MD has set up its own geo-targeted online ad network -- what it's calling the largest such network in the US -- spanning 450 cities. The ad network reaches 215 million online users with an annual spend of $200 billion in out-of-pocket healthcare costs. Per its Q3 2007 US Interactive Marketer Online Survey, Forrester Research observed  [...]

21% of Heads of Household Don't Use Email, Internet

One-fifth of all heads of US households have never used email -- and about 18 percent of US households (that is, 20 million) don't have internet access, according to an annual phone survey of US households by Parks Associates, MarketingChart reports (  [...]

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Top 10 Boomer Myths: Separating Fact from Fiction

Preconceived notions about Baby Boomers abound, but many are mere myth, according to the third Quarterly Boomer Report from AARP Services and Focalyst, titled "How Well Do You Know Boomers? Counting Down the Top 10 Boomer Myths,"   [...]

Online Video in High Demand - In-Stream Ads Not So Much

72 percent of online respondents to a Burst Media survey said they view online video, with men more likely than women to say so - 76.6 percent versus 67.7 percent. In each age segment, most said they watch online videos, including 58.6 percent of those 65+, MarketingCharts writes.   [...]

Baby Boomers Not So Unhealthy, After All

Contradicting studies that call Boomers less healthy than the generations preceding them, a study by ThirdAge Inc. and JWT BOOM finds 87 percent of Baby Boomers and aging mid-lifers ("ThirdAgers") are in "good to excellent" health,   [...]

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40MM Green Boomers Seek Environmentally Friendly Brands

Socially conscious attitudes are a driving force behind how boomers shop and the brands they choose to buy, according to the second Boomer Quarterly Report from AARP Services, Inc. and Focalyst,   [...]

Grandparents Spend Billions on Their Grandchildren

Grandparents in the US spend billions of dollars on their grandchildren per year -- nearly $1700 on average on every new grandchild, for example -- according to a study unveiled during last week's Meet the Grandparents Marketing Forum in New York, writes MarketingCharts  [...]

Generational Index, Holiday Gift-Giving Study: Americans Watching Wallets

Most Americans plan to cut back or freeze holiday spending, though many will give homemade presents and make charitable donations, according to the GfK Roper Consulting annual holiday shopping outlook and new index that measures generational attitudes, writes MarketingCharts. On average, Americans will spend $  [...]

Targeting Parent-Nurturing Boomers, Caring.com Launches

With research finding that US seniors would sooner die than be scuttled into nursing homes, a new site targeting adults caring for elderly parents launched this week. Called caring.com, founder Andy Cohen got the idea after going back and forth between San Francisco and Chicago to take care of his ailing mother. C  [...]

Baby Boomers Increasingly Embrace Mobile Technology

While younger consumers remain at the forefront of mobile technology adoption, Baby Boomers are also embracing mobile - and their behavior is surprisingly similar to younger users', according to a new study from InsightExpress, writes MarketingCharts. About 80 percent of al  [...]

JWT: US Users Seriously Addicted to Internet, Cell Phones

Cell phones and the internet have become an essential part of the daily lives of Americans. When asked how long they would feel OK without online access, 15 percent say one day or less, 21 percent say a couple of days, and 19 percent say a few days. Only one out of five claim they could last a week, writes MarketingCharts. That's   [...]

Boomer, Mature Travelers Rely on WOM; Have Money, Little Brand Loyalty

Boomers and matures (ages 60+) rely on various sources of travel information - e.g., TV, travel agents, radio, outdoor ads, print and the internet - but they rely most on word-of-mouth recommendations, according to a survey of 30,000 consumers age 42+ by Focalyst, a joint venture of AARP Services and Kantar,   [...]

Nine in 10 Women Find Health Haven Online

The internet - rather than healthcare professionals - is by far US households' main source for healthcare information, and women more frequently than men seek such information online, according to a recent Burst Media survey, reports MarketingCharts. Burst surveyed some 3,700 web users 18 years and older on how they research hea  [...]

Boomer Media Consumption: Less TV, Newspapers; More PC, Cell Phones

Traditional radio remains important to Baby Boomers, who nevertheless display a remarkable ability to adopt new media into their lives. This is according to a recently released Bridge Ratings study of the media habits of Baby Boomers - those born between 1946 and 1964 -   [...]

Four in 10 Americans Read Blogs, One-Third Click on Ads

Nearly 4 out of 10 Americans having visited a blog, and 8 of 10 now knowing what a blog is, according to a recent Synovate/MarketingDaily study, reports MarketingCharts. Moreover, "8 percent of Americans currently have their own blog," sa  [...]

50 Million Adults Play Casual Video Games to Bond with Children, Grandchildren

Nearly a third (31 percent) of adults surveyed indicated they had children or grandchildren under 18 who played family-friendly "casual" computer/video games - puzzle, word and simple action games - in their home. The news comes via PopCap Games, which conducted the largest survey of players of casual computer/video games ever, MarketingCharts   [...]

U.S. Singles: The New Nuclear Family

America's 89.6 million singles head over half of their households - 50.3 percent, per the 2006 U.S. Census. They also love media and engage in socializing that rewards marketers who realistically depict the unmarried lifestyle, according to a recent report More racially diverse than the overall population, singles are younger, too - 57 percent are less than 45 years old, and four in ten are younger than 35, acc  [...]