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Super Bowl Ad Stats: Top Advertisers, All-Time Best Ads
Super Bowl XLVI is only days away—and so is the debut of those iconic ads that run during the big game. Learn which industries led the way in ad spending ...
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Social Media, Gaming, Email Top Online Destinations
Social networks and blogs now reach 80% of online adults in the US and together account for nearly one-quarter (22.5%) of the time Americans spend online, according to a report ...
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Women, Older Adults Now Own Most E-Readers
After being embraced early on by young adult men in the US, e-readers have become increasingly popular among women and older adults, according to a new report by Nielsen. Though ...
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Android Stats: Apps Twice as Popular as Mobile Web
Android owners in the US spent an average of 56 minutes per day interacting with the Web and apps via their phones in June 2011 and of that time, two-thirds ...
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Smartphones Now Majority of New Cellphone Purchases
More than one-half (55%) of US consumers who purchased a new handset in the three-month period ended May 2011 bought a smartphone instead of a feature phone, up from the ...
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Content Fuels Social Media Interaction
Content is the fuel of social interaction on the Web: Nearly one-quarter (23%) of all social media messages and one-half (47%) of industry-specific social messages contain links to content, according ...
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As Android Surges, Smartphone Market Heats Up
Google's Android mobile operating system (OS) is rapidly gaining market share in the US—particularly among new smartphone buyers—though it hasn't overtaken Apple's iOS, according to a report from The Nielsen ...
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Adoption of New Media Formats Soaring
Consumer adoption of new media formats has increased at double- and triple-digit rates in the past two years, as technologies such as high-definition TV, digital video recorders, and the Internet ...
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More TVs Than People per Home, Drama Rules Primetime
Americans now have on average 2.93 TV sets per household, up from 2.86 in 2009—the largest year-over-year increase since 2006, according to Nielsen's latest Television Audience Report. Although the US ...
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Blending Social Media, Ads: ROI Alchemy
Homepage ads on Facebook that have social media context—that is, they include the names of users' friends who are already fans of the brand—are 4.0 times more likely than those ...
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Direct Response Ads Up 18% Since 2007
Though ad spending has softened in many sectors, the direct response ad—or infomercial—has registered 18% growth in total ad units since 2007 and now comprises 14% of all US TV ...
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Location-Based Digital Video Ads Reach 237 Million
Ten leading location-based digital video networks delivered a total of 237 million video ads per month to consumers age 18+ during the last four months of 2009, according to The ...
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Shoppers Making Fewer Trips, Spending Less
The recession continues to ravage retailers: The downward trend of fewer shopping trips by consumers hit a new low in February 2010 with a 4% year-over-year decline in monthly all-outlet ...
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Carrier App Stores Strong, but Apple Leads
Despite the buzz around application stores tied to specific mobile devices such as the iPhone and the BlackBerry, carrier app stores are alive and well in the US: one-half (50%) ...
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Social Network Monthly Use: 5.5 Hours
Web audiences across 10 countries spent an average of 5.5 hours on social networking sites in February 2010, up from more than 2 hours in February 2009, but about half ...
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Ad Spending Share by Medium, December 2009
Cable and Network television together accounted for nearly 44% of ad spending share in December 2009 , according to recently released data from the Nielsen Company. Television's share, when including ...
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Multicultural CPG Market: $520B by 2050
By 2050, more than one-half of the US population will be non-white—African-American, Asian, or Hispanic—representing both a historic cultural shift and huge economic opportunity. The multicultural business opportunity for brands ...
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US Ad Spending Down 9% in 2009
Advertisers spent an estimated $117 billion on US media in 2009, down 9% from the previous year—and continuing a trend of six consecutive quarters of negative growth in the ad ...
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Consumers Would Pay for Some Web Content
Most consumers (85%) want free online content––and nearly eight in ten (79%) say they would stop using a website that introduced charges, presuming they could find the same information at ...
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10.3B Jan. Searches; Super Bowl Viewers Online
An estimated 10.3 billion online searches were conducted in the US in January, and Google Search accounted for 6.8 billion of them, or 66.3%, according to Nielsen. Yahoo Search, Bing, ...