According to the Yankee Group, 7% of Internet users chose not to access the internet from home, despite owning PCs. The primary reason, given by 72% of respondents, for not having internet access in households with incomes of less than $25,000 per year was that access is too expensive. Other reasons included already having access… Continue reading Internet Use At Work Favoured Over Home, Says Yankee Group
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The majority of US children aged seven or younger would pick the internet over television if they were forced to choose only one medium to keep, according to a survey conducted by AdAge magazine. Just over half – 54% – of kids would choose the Net over other media, rising to 73% for so-called ‘tweenagers’… Continue reading US Kids Would Keep The Internet Over TV, Finds Survey
Online retail websites were used by almost 33 million Europeans in December, with figures from Jupiter MMXI showing that the audiences for these sites are growing faster than the overall European internet population. Christmas shopping saw 9 million unique visitors from the UK use online retail sites in December, whilst Germany topped the usage with… Continue reading Europeans’ Use Of Retail Sites Jumped 40% In December
Jupiter Media Metrix today released the final instalment of its weekly Holiday 2001 E-Commerce Series which revealed that, on average, 51.3 million users visited online shopping sites during the holiday period (w/e 25.11.01 – w/e 23.12.01). This was up 50% on the comparable period in 2000 and 95% on 1999. “With the holiday-buying season behind… Continue reading Online Holiday Shopping Up 50% On Last Year, Says Jupiter
Recruitment advertising revenue represented 26.1% of the £1.8bn spent on classified ads in the regional press during 2000 (Advertising Association Yearbook). With over 50% of UK residents now in the online habit (Office of National Statistics), increasing numbers of online recruitment sites are poised to claim a cut of this revenue. Several of the UK’s… Continue reading Recruitment Websites Will Cut Into Classified Revenues
More than two thirds of the population have never visited any of the Government’s 3,000 websites, according to new research from IT consultancy firm, Hedra. The study shows that fewer than 3% of UK adults regularly use Government websites to access public services, despite the fact that nearly two thirds of the population now have… Continue reading UK Government Sites Fail To Captivate
2001 was MediaTel’s twentieth year in the media business, but there are no signs that we have stopped growing yet. The year began with the industry getting to know online accounts database NewBizMoves, which launched at the end of 2000 and has gathered strength and subscribers as this year has progressed.Springtime saw another product added… Continue reading MediaTel In 2001- A Review Of The Year
By 2005, US online advertising will be worth $18.8 billion, according to a GartnerG2 report released this month. This 2005 figure represents a 138% growth on the $7.9 billion of 2001. Gartner says that while advertising growth remains flat or receding in television, radio and print, online advertising revenue is set to grow considerably, but… Continue reading US Online Advertising To More Than Double By 2005
New research by Statistical Research has found that a relationship of parallel growth occurs in households with the internet, computers and television. Rather than increasing spending on one to the detriment of others, the 2001 Ownership Report, part of The Home Technology MonitorÂ, reveals that households with multiple PCs or internet access are more likely… Continue reading PC Households Spend More On Home Entertainment
Jupiter Media Metrix today released the third instalment of its Online Shopping Index, which revealed that visitors to a sample of around 500 shopping sited increased 50% compared with the same week last year, rising from 34.9 million to 52.4 million unique visitors. The index was up 1% against the previous week, when 51.7 million… Continue reading Jupiter Reports Record High In US Online Shopping
