Apple has made a huge splash with the iPad tablet, essentially creating a new mass market segment of portable consumer electronic devices. Competitors were compelled to respond, with Samsung introducing the Galaxy Tab, Motorola the Xoom and, most recently, RIM…
The number of TV households in the US fell to 114.7 million looking forward to 2012 from 115.9 million in 2011, a percentage decline of 1.03%, according to The Nielsen Company’s 2012 Advance/Preliminary TV Household Universe Estimate. The 2012 preliminary…
Americans watched a lot more online video this January as compared to last, according to the latest figures from The Nielsen Company. Online video viewing from PCs, Macs and laptops shot up 45% year-to-year though the number of unique viewers…
Many businesses and industry sectors rightly malign the impact of winters storms. TV broadcasters and the TV industry aren’t among them, however. The storm of January 10-13 “didn’t just deposit record-breaking amounts of snow and ice across the country,” according…
Video consoles have increasingly been viewed by industry analysts, as well as those who manufacture them, as an “all-around” home infotainment device and gateway to the digitally networked home of the near future. That and the onset of the holiday…
U.S. television reached “more people over more platforms” in Q2 this year, according to The Nielsen Company. Americans continue to watch a lot of TV–an average of more than 143 hours per month–but their “rate of consumption is essentially flat”…
The growing popularity and penetration of handheld and portable multimedia devices, be it the iPad, Kindle, Nook, iPhone or numerous Android handsets, pose fundamental challenges for telecompetitors, device manufacturers, application developers, media companies and advertisers, all set against a backdrop…
The novelty and unique experience of 3D movies has spurred interest in the technology, but content producers, equipment manufacturers and retailers need to resolve several issues before widespread consumer adoption of 3DTV ensues. This according to a new report from…
African- and Hispanic-Americans talk and text the most, women talk on their cellphones more than men, teens, by far, text more than any other group, and residents of the South talk more on their cellphones than people in other regions…
Contrary to the fears of many, the advent of OTT and mobile video is not cannibalizing conventional TV viewing – that is if you believe Nielsen’s latest research. Americans continue to watch more TV, a trend being fueled by several…
According to Nielsen, the average Facebook user spends 7 hours per month on the social networking site. At least that was the case in January 2010. By Nielsen’s measure, Facebook blows away all other marquee web properties in terms of…
Nielsen Mobile just released a whitepaper, predicting that one in five U.S. households will be wireless only by the end of 2008. According to Nielsen, at the end of 2007, 16.4% of U.S. households were wireless only. Additionally, a Q4…
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