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Leveraging a new clipping service called Amplify, BitBriefs.com brings you trends, statistics, news, links and perspective on the latest secondary research around topics such as in-game advertising, mobile phone marketing, email marketing, search engine marketing, online media usage, and traditional media marketing.

Number of U.S. TV Households Climbs by One Million

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For the 2010-2011 broadcast season, Nielsen estimates the total number of TV households in the U.S. will climb to 115.9 million, an increase of one million homes from last year. Nielsen also estimates an increase of more than two million persons age two and older (P2+) in U.S. TV households, for a total of 294,650,000 people.

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Time-Shifting on the Rise

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2 in 3 Viewers Time-shift TV

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Almost two-thirds of US consumers (62%) have watched time-shifted primetime TV series through technologies that include VOD, DVR and the internet, according to the “TVPulse” survey from cable provider Comcast.

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Television and Online Combined Found Two Times More Effective Than Television Alone

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Two Screens are Better than One
Turns out two media are better than one in moving consumers from awareness to action. In a Nielsen  study of direct-to-consumer drug advertising, exposure on TV and online was more than twice as likely to prompt patients to ask their physician about the drug than Internet alone.

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The study also found that premium in-stream video ads which aired as part of a full-length TV episode online generated significantly higher levels of ad recall and brand recognition than other Internet video, display or standard TV ads.

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TV Combined with Online Provides Greater Influence Over TV Alone - Nielsen

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Cross-media-fusion

Two Screens are Better than One
Turns out two media are better than one in moving consumers from awareness to action. In a Nielsen  study of direct-to-consumer drug advertising, exposure on TV and online was more than twice as likely to prompt patients to ask their physician about the drug than TV alone.

The study also found that premium in-stream video ads which aired as part of a full-length TV episode online generated significantly higher levels of ad recall and brand recognition than other Internet video, display or standard TV ads.

Read more at blog.nielsen.com
 

Forrester: 80% of Americans Would Abandon News Websites If They Charged

def of “paywall” - A feature of a website that only allows access to certain pages or data to paid up subscribers

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Will these paywalls, however carefully crafted, persuade people to pay for something they are used to getting free? A barrage of surveys suggests it will be difficult. A poll by Harris Interactive for paidContent:UK, a website owned the Guardian, finds that three-quarters of Britons say they would switch to an alternative free news source if their favourite website began charging. In November 2009 Forrester, a consultancy, found that 80% of Americans would abandon news websites if they charged. Plenty of news outlets, from the BBC to CNN, seem likely to continue providing free online news, and there will be plenty of aggregator websites to sift their offerings.

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Newspaper Revenue Down 28%, Online Down 17%

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Total newspaper advertising revenue dove 28% in Q309 compared with the same quarter in 2008, falling from $10.1 billion to about $6.4 billion, according to the most recent figures released by the Newspaper Association of America (NAA).

Print was not the only area to see revenue plunge, according to the data.  Online revenues fell 17%, from $750 million in the same quarter last year to $623 million this year.

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Media Consumption & Perceived Credibility

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  • Television: 31.1% (down from 34.7% a year ago)
  • Daily newspaper: 19.4% (down from 23.5%)
  • Radio: 19.4% (up from 16.5%)
  • Online: 14.6% (up from 12.7%)
  • Weekly community papers: 4.4% (down from 5.1 %)
  • Free shopper newspapers: 2.9% (up from 2.2%)
  • Magazines: 2.1% (up from 1.6%)

Other survey findings:

  • College grads are more likely to trust online news (giving online a 6.3 rating vs. the 5.7 rating by the general population), and are less likely to trust TV news (giving TV a 6.1 rating vs. the 6.5 rating by the general population).
  • Respondents with annual household incomes of $100K and above trust online sources considerably more than the general population (giving online a 6.5 rating, compared with the 5.7 rating by the general population).
  • Higher-income respondents also view daily newspapers as more credible (6.8 vs. the 6.3 overall rating).
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    24% of Newspapers Severely Behind the Times

    Amplifyd from www.businessinsider.com

    The American Press Institute asked 2,400 newspaper executives if their papers “provide access to stories or information such as sports scores, headlines, stock quotes, etc.,” via Twitter, Facebook, Email alerts, Mobile/PDA, YouTube, Kindle, Flickr, e-readers, etc., and told them to “check all that apply.”

    As the chart below shows, a whopping 24% of all respondents answered “None at this time.” Bizarre.

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    Do You Agree or Disagree That Social Media Will…

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    Online Display as Effective as TV

    The firms mentioned below are ComScore and dunnhumbyUSA.

    Amplifyd from www.adotas.com

    During 12 weeks, the two firms found that online ad campaigns with an average reach of 40 percent of their target audience led to a 9 percent increase in retail sales of the brands advertised.

    “These early results confirm the ability of online advertising to successfully build retail sales of CPG brands on par with the impact of television advertising,” said Gian Fulgoni, executive chairman of comScore.

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