Today’s Top Headline: 111 Million Americans Go on the Web for Daily News
Whether browsing the news headlines about international news, U.S. politics, or the latest tech gadgets, 111 million Americans visited news websites in September 2013. That’s more than half of the Americans (54%) who were active on the Web, and each visitor to news sites spent an average of 1...
Where Web Surfers Go Streaming: Top Online Video Destinations in September 2013
Consumers have seemingly endless ways to spend their time surfing the Web, but watching video is a top indulgence. In September, 148 million Americans spent time watching online video. Whether watching short-form video streams or feature-length films, Americans spent an average of 6.5 hours of the...
The Perfect Game Plan
Football and wings go hand-in-hand, and for Buffalo Wild Wings it’s one of the busiest times of the year. So the 2012 season, Buffalo Wild Wings saw football as the perfect opportunity to implement a cross-device advertising campaign to capture more consumer time and drive in-store traffic.
Ring the Bells: More Smartphones in Students’ Hands Ahead of Back-to-School Season
As summer vacations drew to a close and as students headed back to school, more than one out of nine mobile subscribers replaced or upgraded their handsets (11%) during Q3 2013, and nearly fourth-fifths chose smartphones. For those keeping track of the U.S. smartphone market, the Q3 increase brings...
Guiding Light: Latinas Turn to Digital for Purchase Decisions
As consumers, U.S. Latinas are readily using digital platforms to steer their decision-making—both online and off—according to a recent report by Nielsen. Eight out of 10 Latinas are using online information to make decisions about buying products on the Web, three-fourths are using it to make...
The Full Twitter TV Picture Revealed
Over the past two years, the growth in Twitter activity around TV shows has been nothing short of remarkable. Tweets about live TV and the number of Twitter authors talking about TV programming are both increasing in double-digit fashion, steadily broadening the landscape at a record pace. And with...
What’s Next: Getting Started with Mobile—What Marketers Need to Know
Mobile is a new medium, and many of the measures that brand marketers use to guide their investments aren’t present or mature yet in mobile. This makes mobile a different animal altogether, which means it’s critical that marketers resist the temptation to simply measure what’s easy to measure.
Reaching Consumers Online: The New “Norm”al for Digital Ads
There’s no doubt that online advertising has seen tremendous growth in recent years, but advertisers and publishers alike are still unsure if their campaigns are successfully reaching their desired audiences. A new benchmark study from Nielsen provides much-needed context into online advertising...
“Binging” is the New Viewing for Over-The-Top Streamers
New streaming devices and services make it easy for consumers to watch as much as they want whenever they want. And according to Nielsen’s 2013 Over-the-Top Video Analysis, viewers are streaming video at a breakneck pace—demonstrating incredible binge appetites for programming available anytime...
Smartphone Switch: Three-Fourths of Recent Acquirers Chose Smartphones
Between June and August, 15 percent of smartphone owners said they recently acquired their handset (within the last three months), bringing smartphone penetration up to 64 percent of mobile phone owners in the U.S. And among recent acquirers, 80 percent percent chose smartphones as their mobile...