Overall, news consumption ranks high on mobile devices. Over a third report getting news daily on the tablet and the smartphone, putting it on par with other activities such as email and playing games on tablets and behind only email on smartphones. The popularity of news remains strong across all demographic groups studied, but is […]
78% of adult internet users watch or download online videos, up from 69% in 2009 The percent of online adults who watch or download videos has continued to grow over the past four years, from 69% of adult internet users in 2009 to 78% today. That figure includes online adults who do at least one […]
The challenge for news organizations has been to meet the demands of both of these groups in the content and apps they develop. The survey also asked whether the tablet is mostly replacing news that consumers would have gotten elsewhere or is adding to the overall amount of news consumed. Again, one might expect the […]
For more information, contact: Amy Mitchell, Acting Director, Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, 202-419-3650 or Amy Jaick, The Economist Group Communications Manager at 212-641-9834 In Mobile News, Younger Users Largely Keep Pace with Older Age Groups; Men, College Educated are The Most Engaged News Consumers December 11, 2012–In the growing realm of […]
The analysis in this report is based on a survey conducted June 29-August 8, 2012 among a sample of 9,513 adults, 18 years of age or older. The survey was conducted by GfK Knowledge Networks (KN) among a random sample of households in their nationally representative online research panel. KN panel members are recruited through […]
Just as the range of mobile devices has multiplied, so too have the activities they can be used for. While men stand out for greater news consumption, women use mobile devices more for social networking on a daily basis. This stands out most on the smartphone. There, 53% of women use social networks daily compared […]
The data also contain some hints that mobile technology is possibly being embraced by minority populations as a news source for reading in ways that newspapers never were. While overall, blacks are somewhat less likely to own a tablet than are whites (14% vs. 22%), those who do are more likely to get news on […]
What does the growing expansion of mobile mean for news consumption overall? Are people who own mobile technology getting more news now that they have more ready access to it? Or are they merely replacing one platform with another? Here, the findings are as strong as in 2011, and in some cases even stronger, in […]
