Telemtrics released data showing that print media can generated online leads.
The company looked at leads driven by Yellow Page ads – the print version. 44% of the leads were URL visits while 56% were calls – so half of the people that used the Yellow Book to find a source then went online. In other [...]
Nielse released its three screens report from it’s Nielsen’s Anywhere Anytime Media Measurement initiative for the first quarter of 2009. You can download it here.
Viewing time across all three screens was up. This indicates not simply more consumption, but more multi-viewing – watching two screens at once such using a laptop while watching TV. Other [...]
Some interesting results from a study by MTV Networks International as reported by MarketingCharts
1. Television is most effective medium for introducing young people to brands and helping to shape decision purchases. One in four young people (12-24) say they first learn about brands or products from TV and 60% say TV play a role in [...]
A year long Video Consumer Mapping study, for the Nielsen funded Council for Research Excellence (CRE) and conducted by Ball State University’s Center for Media Design (CMD) and Sequent Partners, took a look at how people consumed media by watching their behavior. The study focused on how consumers are exposed to all media, providing a [...]
There’s plenty of buzz around “Hulu vs. Cable TV” (just search for that phrase), but does consumer behavior back it up? So far, the numbers say no.
The Hulu vs. Cable argument centers on traffic and videos watched. But important number is the minutes spent per video – are people spending the time to watch [...]
Pew recently published a study on the profile of Twitter users (see the report here). There they looked at news reading habits. There were two key takeaways for professionals looking how the media landscape is evolving (not, as I often point out, eliminating properties).
First, 65% of all Internet users are still reading print papers. [...]
I recently gave a presentation to a group of entrepreneurs on how to figure out the jungle that is the faster evolving media ecosystem. The first part of the presentation pulls together some interesting statistics that shows what people do (a lot of TV) and don’t do (the larger population is not that engaged in [...]
Probably. And it’s not 1950. We’re talking about Connected TVs.
According to Parks Associates, 33% of US households with broadband are interested in connected set top boxes. Later this year, awareness and interest may continue growing as connected TVs, no set top box needed, are launched (connect the TV to the router and start using those [...]
We received our beta invitation to the Google Ad Planner and quickly gave it a test run. Our first impression? Intuitive, fast and easy. Once again, Google shows that while they are an engineering and advertising driven company, they know how to design and interface that keeps us productive (not frustrated). That leads to a [...]
We’ve been testing Compete.com’s new pro search analytics. Among the more interesting functions is the ability to see the top search words for behavioral interests. We took a look at family interest and were surprised at the results. While they may not represent all family interests, as the topics lean toward online activities for children, [...]
