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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

Advertisers Get New Access to Seniors Via AARP Network

AARP is opening its ad network audience to all advertisers -- a strategy that has already been tested by such early adopters as Aetna, GNC, Harper Collins, JP Morgan Chase, Starwood Hotels, Wal-Mart and United Healthcare. The reason is that advertiser demand has grown greater than the publisher’s supply of inventory, Peter Zeuschner, northeastern advertising manager for AARP, tells ClickZ  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 24th 2011

What Women Say (and Other Insights from a Twitter Post)

Love, haha, cute, omg, yay, hahaha, happy, girl, hair, lol, hubby, mom, miss, feel, bed, today, baby, excited, ugh, hehe, husband, sleep, hate, tomorrow, yummy, school, tired, sigh, dress, birthday, fun, sooo, dinner, day, wait, totally, home, shopping, I’ll, aww, etsy, feeling, wanna, sad, chocolate, don’t, lovely. If a Twitter posts contains one or more of these words, the writer is most likely a woman, finds a study from researchers at the Mitre Corp. Http and Google. If those wo  [...]
Posted: Friday, July 29th 2011

Marketing Data Roundup: iPhone users are from Venus; Android users, from Mars

Following are findings from recent studies on marketing and advertising-related topics. For a more in-depth look at these subjects, visit our sister site, MarketingCharts.com. The Differences Between iPhone and Android Users Based on Digital Coupons Android users are manly-scented, pork-eating, bird lovers, while iPhone users are feminine-smelling, chicken-eating, fish owners. So says  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 1st 2010

Top Industry News for 8-31-10: Google acquires SocialDeck

Search: Google scoops up fifth company this month. How Google cost me $4 million - Ray Abood tells how a penalization by Google made its company stronger. Legal/Regulatory: Owner of location-based advertising patent   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 31st 2010

Top Industry News for 8-30-10: Google, AP reach agreement over content

Publishing: Google, AP reach licensing agreement. Social Media: Google buys Angstro, hires co-founder to build social networking service. Customer loyalty   [...]
Posted: Monday, August 30th 2010

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,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 25th 2010

One-Fifth of US Households Use Only Wireless Phones

More than one of every five US homes (22.7%) had no landline and only wireless phone service during the first half of 2009, an increase of 2.5 percentage points since the second half of 2008, according to preliminary results from the January - June 2009 National Health Interview Survey by the US Centers for Disease Control (  [...]
Posted: Monday, January 11th 2010

Internet Users Spend 13 Hours/Week Online

Adult internet users in the US - a group that has reached now 184 million or 80% - are now spending an average of 13 hours a week online, and half of adult internet users have purchased something online in the last month, according to the results from a recent poll from Harris Interactive. The Harris Poll found that over the years the average number of hours spent online has increased from seven hours in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, to between eight and nine hours in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 29th 2009

NanaBlogs Attracts Web Savvy Seniors

The NanaBlogs, a new online community for grandmothers who want to participate in social networking with other grandmothers as well as blog, is a testament to the growing numbers of seniors, or "matures" on the web. The idea for NanaBlogs, the brainchild of Teresa Bell Kindred, a retired high school history teacher, author and magazine columnist, came in part from one of Kindred's magazine columns e  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 15th 2009

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  [...]
Posted: Thursday, November 5th 2009

Video Gaming Up. Video Gaming Systems? Not So Much

The news that the nearly $12 billion video game market saw a 30% drop in gaming equipment resulting in the industry's first major decline since 2000 may be a cause for alarm. Or is it. The answer is yes -- and no. Despite a 45% drop over the same time last year, sales of Nintendo's Wii gaming platform still leads the category goin  [...]
Posted: Friday, August 14th 2009

Facebook Complexity Baffles Older Users

Facebook, which likes to pride itself on the fact that more than half of its users are between 30-55 years old, appears to to alienating this very age group, many of whom use the 'net mainly for emailing and sending forwards (e.g., jokes, pictures). With an active audience of 200-300 million users, Facebook has definitely become a household item. And the fastest growing demographic is t  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 8th 2009

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  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 30th 2009

Senior Execs' Home Tech Use Growing

Though 20% of senior executives say they only use technology because they have to at work, 55% consider themselves to be tech savvy. What's more, a growing number increasingly use and enjoy many forms of technology at home as well, according to a study by the Financial Times and Doremus, MarketingCharts repo  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 19th 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

Seniors Power 20% Rise in Career-Site Visits

The number of unique US visitors to career-development websites increased 20% year-over-year, rising from 41.5 in January 2008 to 49.7 million in January 2009. And it was fueled in part by a surge in visitors ages 65+, which are apparently still in the job market, according to data from Nielsen Online. CareerBuilder Network was the #1 online career development destina  [...]
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

Mature Adults Gravitate to Vibrant, Single-Image Ads

Mature consumers prefer single-image advertisements over ads with multi-image collages by a margin of 66% to 34%, and also gravitate to images that show products and lifestyles, according to a recent image-preference survey by Creating Results.   [...]
Posted: Friday, February 6th 2009

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,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 28th 2009

Hawaii Meds Association Pilots 'Net-Based Doctor Appointments

For a mere $10, Hawaiian residents with 'net access and a webcam or text chat will be able to "talk" directly to their doctors about medical problems. Beginning January 15th, a partnership between Hawaii Medical Service Association, the state’s Blue Cross-Blue Shield licensee, and web service American Well will allow the plan's 700,000 members to make 10-minute "face-to-face" appointments. (Uninsured patients must pay $45.) Because p  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 6th 2009

Mobile Texting Plays Leading Role in Love, Dating 2.0

40% of adult texters (aged 18-55) that are in a relationship or dating believe text messaging plays a significant or very significant role in their relationships. And nearly one-third say their wireless phone has saved them from a bad date, according to research from AT&T,   [...]
Posted: Friday, December 12th 2008

Half of Adults -- and Almost All Teens -- Play Video Games

Nearly all American teens (97%), and over half (53%) of adults over 18, say they play video games. About one in five adults (21%) plays video games every day or almost every day, adds research from the Pew Internet Project, MarketingCharts writes. Pew's Annual Gadgets Survey found that, independ  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 10th 2008

Breakdown of Cyber Monday Shoppers, Search Habits

With only four weeks separating Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, Cyber Monday One (December 1) and Cyber Monday Two (December 8) may command a greater share of online sales than they have in years past. This increases the importance of search marketing for retailers, according to Performics,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 2nd 2008

Black Friday vs. Cyber Monday Shopping Differs by Generation

Cyber Monday is gaining steam as a favorite holiday shopping day. 26% of respondents plan to shop on the Monday after Thanksgiving, up from 20% in 2007, according to a Maritz Poll, Retailer Daily reports  [...]
Posted: Monday, December 1st 2008