News tagged Media Consumption
TV Today, TV Tomorrow, TV Forever – Just Not on a TV
July 8th, 2011It’s that fun time of the year- and we are not joking- that we take a deep dive in the media consumption habits of consumers. In looking at data from Nielsen it is very clear that understanding the rapid change in TV Timeshift is critical in FY12 planning.
Almost 100M Watch Timeshifted TV
The number of US Timeshifted TV viewers grew at a much faster year-over-year rate than the number of traditional in-home TV viewers. Timeshifted TV reached about 97.9 million monthly US viewers in Q2 2010, up about 18% from Q2 2009. While in-home TV reached 286.6 US million monthly US viewers in Q2 2010, this was only up less than 1% from Q2 2009.
Time Spent Watching Timeshifted TV Grows 18%
Time spent watching Timeshifted TV also increased about 18% between Q2 2009 and Q2 2010, growing from eight hours and two minutes to nine hours and 27 minutes. In the same period, time spent watching in-home TV dropped 0.2%, from 143 hours and 51 minutes to 143 hours and 37 minutes.
In addition, time spent watching DVR playback grew 1.1% year-over-year, from 24 hours and 11 minutes to 24 hours and 27 minutes.
65-plus Watch Most Traditional TV
Looking at TV viewing patterns by age, adults 65 and up watched the most traditional TV during Q2 2010, an average of 196 hours and 21 minutes. Meanwhile, adults 25-34 averaged the most shifted TV viewing (12 hours and 52 minutes) and DVR playback (29 hours and 29 minutes).
Teens 12-17 spent the least amount of time watching all three forms of TV.
Women 50-64 Represent Largest Share of TV Audience
By gender, women made up 54% of the TV audience in Q2 2010. By age, the largest share of the TV audience was composed of 50-64-year-olds (24%), with teens 12-17 constituting the smallest share (6%). Females spent more time than males on average per month watching TV in all age brackets except 2-17, where males spent an average of 106 hours and 43 minutes and females spent an average of 105 hours and 30 minutes.
African Americans Watch Most Overall TV, Asian Americans Least
Examining TV viewing habits during Q2 2010 by race, overall African Americans spent the most time per month watching TV (199 hours and six minutes) and Asian-Americans spent the least (92 hours and six minutes). However, non-Hispanic Caucasians spent the most time per month watching Timeshifted TV (10 hours and 36 minutes) and Hispanics spent the least (five hours and 57 minutes). Non-Hispanic Caucasians also spent the most monthly time watching DVR playback (25 hours and 31 minutes), while Asian-Americans spent the least (19 hours and 22 minutes).
Hispanic Americans Have Highest Satellite Install Rate
Looking at TV delivery systems, Hispanic Americans have the highest rate of satellite TV systems (34.9%) and broadcast only TV systems (14.3%) installed, while Asian-Americans have the highest install rate of wired cable TV systems (66%).
HDTV Viewing Lags Ownership
Although 56% of US households now have at least one HDTV, only 13% of total day viewing on cable and 19% of viewing on broadcast television is “true HD” viewing.
Despite relatively high levels of consumer HDTV adoption, less than 20% of total US TV viewing consists of HD content. Nielsen analysis indicates reasons for this disconnect include the fact that more than four in 10 US households still do not own an HDTV and/or lack HDTV service, even most HDTV homes have at least one standard set, and about 20% of viewing on HD sets is via non-HD feeds.
Consumers See Their Smartphones…as, Well, Smart n’ Stuff.
June 10th, 2011With mobile marketing becoming an ever increasing part of the marketing mix, we were pleased to see the rapid growth of the Smartphone market. In late 2010, consumers accessing browsers via their smartphones surpassed those of non-smartphone users.
In August 2010, 75.6 million mobile subscribers ages 13 and older used downloaded applications, with Smartphone users representing 60.4%, up 38.5% from 43.6% in August 2009. For the same period, 80.8 million mobile subscribers used their browser, with smartphone subscribers comprising 55.5%, up 34% from 41.4% a year ago.
Making this rapid growth more impressive is the fact that Smartphones still make up less than a quarter of the U.S. mobile market, according to ComScore.
Women and Youth Key to Smartphone Growth
In August 2010, males accounted for 56% of Smartphone subscribers who used downloaded applications or browsers. Females, however, are narrowing the gap with the remaining 44%, representing a 14.3% increase compared to 38.5% in the corresponding August 2009 period.
Among the various age segments, 13-to-17-year-olds are exhibiting the strongest growth in using downloaded apps or browsers, up 25.4% from 5.5% to 6.9% of the audience. Persons aged 18-24 are also accelerating adopters of app/browser usage, representing 16.7 percent of the audience, a 3.7% increase from 16.1% a year ago.
And What Are People Using Their Smartphone For: Search, Weather, Maps, SocNets Weather, maps and social networking represented the top content categories accessed through downloaded applications in August 2010, used by more than one-third of US smartphone subscribers. Social networking applications were used by 30%, while search and news applications were used by 18%.
Search was the most popular category accessed through browsers, reaching 54% of the Smartphone audience. 43% of Smartphone subscribers accessed social networking sites via browser, followed by news (40%), weather (36%) and sports information (32%).
#1 Applications: Games…but You Already Knew That.
Games are the most-downloaded mobile applications among both smartphone and feature phone users, according to different mobile app data from Nielsen. Games continue to be the most popular category by far, with 61% of smartphone owners and 52% of feature phone owners reporting downloading a games app in the past 30 days in August 2010. Weather apps are the next most popular category, downloaded by 55% of smartphone users and 39% of feature phone users.