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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  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 24th 2012

3 Steps to Tailoring a Virtual Goods Campaign to Young People

The bottom line for any successful virtual goods campaign is to really tell a story - and not merely use the campaign as a dressed up excuse to display a product, says Chris Davis, SVP at Gaia Online, a social community for people in their teens and 20s that has used virtual goods in campaigns for Disney's Alice in Wonderland movie and Toy Story 3 video game, to name a few recent examples. This holds true for campaigns aimed at a younger demographic -   [...]
Posted: Monday, June 28th 2010

Facebook, Twitter Grow More than 100%

The Facebook and Twitter social networking sites both experienced triple-digit growth in 2009, according to the comScore Digital Year in Review. Facebook surged to the number one position among social networks for the first time in May 2009 and continued its strong growth trajectory throughout the yea  [...]
Posted: Friday, February 12th 2010

Facebookers Donate to Haiti

More than one-third of Facebook users in the US, UK and Australia have donated money and/or goods to relief efforts aimed at the January 12, 2010 earthquake which struck Haiti, according to a joint survey conducted by Facebook and The Nielsen Company. Money Leads the Way Donations of money were by far the most popular type of aid  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 26th 2010

Middle-Aged Moms Swoon over New Moon

Adult women are responsible for a big portion of ticket sales for the recently released 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' film, which took in $140.7 million opening weekend and $42.5 million the following weekend. While "Twi-hard" teen girls were the expected and most obvious fan base, it is now clear that the vampire-meets-werewolf film has also drawn in their mothers, who are flocking to social media sites to discuss and promote the film as eagerly as their Millennial offspring. As an exampl  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 1st 2009

Millennials Highly Receptive to Permission-Based Email

Members of the Millennial generation around the world are more digitally connected and more willing to receive permission-based email messages than other segments of the population, but are at the same time more wary and concerned with security and privacy, according to the most recent 2009 Global Consumer Email Study from Epsilo  [...]
Posted: Friday, September 18th 2009

To Protect Economy, China Sets Limits on Virtual Currency

Online transactions with virtual currency in online gaming has become so widespread in China that the government fears it will affect the actual economy, The New York Times reports. The country is currently one of the world's largest markets for massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs) like World of Warcraft; tens of millions of youth are reportedly trading virtual goods for real money or  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 1st 2009

College Facebook Users Have Lower GPAs

College students who use Facebook spend less time studying and have lower grade-point averages (GPAs) than students who have not signed up for the popular social networking site, according to a study by researchers at Ohio State University. While the study of 219 OSU graduate and undergraduate students did not uncover a direct cause-and-effect link between Facebook use and lowe  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 9th 2009

CA Education Goes Digital as Governor Cuts Textbook Contracts

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced plans to save the state money by phasing out school textbooks and replacing them, little by little, with internet-based learning material. Last year, California spent $350 million on textbooks alone. The state presently faces a budget deficit of $24.3 billion. The Governor believes such a plan will help cut hundreds of millions of dollars in state-subsidized spending per yea  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 9th 2009

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).   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 3rd 2009

Online Ad Prefs Vary by Age; Discounts Appeal to All

Though younger internet users prefer entertaining online ads and older users want to see relevant and useful ads, consumers of all ages are interested in ads that promise freebies and discounts, according to (pdf) a survey by Lightspeed Research and the UK's Internet Advertising Bureau. Findings   [...]
Posted: Monday, March 23rd 2009

Emails Miss Mark for Most of Gen Y

Only 28% of those between ages 18 and 24 say the email they currently get from companies is relevant to them, but many in this age group would be more open to more innovative emails they have more control over, according to according to a study from the Participatory Marketing Network (PMN).   [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 12th 2009

Facebook Eclipses Google Referrals on Some Sites

For a handful of sites where users enjoy passing recreational time, Facebook refers more traffic than does search giant Google. Such sites include CafeMom, Evite, video site Tagged.com, Twitter, and gossip sites PerezHilton.com and Dlisted. Advertising Age called the trend "surprising," given that web users go to Google to work out "where to go next;" Facebook, in contrast, is more like an online space to loiter. The social network generates slightly over one-third of Google's unique visit  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 12th 2009

Social Networks, Blogs More Popular than Email

More than two-thirds (67%) of the global* online population visits social networks and blogs, and participation in these "member communities" is now the fourth most popular online category - behind search, portals, and PC software, but ahead of personal email use, according to research from Nielsen Online (  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 10th 2009

Social Networking: Community Enabler or Detriment?

The debate on the effects of social networking is building steam, with supporters praising its ability to bring people together -- and critics warning against obsessive use, the Globe and Mail reports. In 2008, more than one in three adult i  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 9th 2009

48% of Millennials Enlist on Brand/Fan Pages; Here's Why

84% of Millennial users notice ads on social networks, with a whopping 74% clicking infrequently on them, according to research from The Participatory Marketing Network and Pace University's Lubin School of Business' Interactive and Direct Marketing Lab. Even so, only 19% of surveyed Gen-Yers find social networking ads relevant; 36% claim they never to click on the ads. A corrobora  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 4th 2009

Newsflash: Old, Young Use 'Net Differently

American members of Generation X are most likely to bank, shop and look for health information online. Baby Boomers are as likely as Generation Y to make travel reservations online, and members of the Silent Generation are proficient with email and are gaining ground online, according to surveys from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 3rd 2009

Social Media Zeitgeist Takes Over Skittles.com

Late last week Skittles announced the relaunch of Skittles.com, which isn't so much a website as an app pointing visitors elsewhere online where Skittles material -- official or not -- is hosted. Visits to Skittles.com drive users to a search for "skittles" on Summize, a real-time search engine for Twitter.com. Floating above this material is a Skittles navigation bar: product links drive users to Wikipedia, and media links send them to either YouTube or  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 2nd 2009

1 in 10 Adults Has Microblogged -- on Twitter or Elsewhere

Over one in ten (11%) online adults in the US say they have used Twitter -- or a similar service –- to share updates about themselves or view updates about others. What's more, those who use Twitter have a greater affinity for mobile devices, according to new research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project (via MarketingCharts. The most recent Pew study on th  [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 19th 2009

MyNewPlace Launches Socnet Apartment Search API

Apartment/home rentals site MyNewPlace has added Facebook Connect functionality to its site, enabling users to get feedback on prospective home rentals by posting property information to their Facebook pages. "Most people want the opinion of friends, family and roommates before choosing a new place to live. Facebook's more than 150 millio  [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 19th 2009