by Pivot
Tag: Smartphone
Game Consoles Forecast: Household Penetration Below 50% by 2019
Internet gaming consoles have been the most common connected entertainment device for years now, but their presence in U.S. broadband households will drop below 50% by 2019, according to a game consoles forecast from Parks…
Smartphone Penetration Reaches 80%; Mobile Subscriber Satisfaction is Low, Accenture Finds
Smartphone penetration has reached 80% and usage continues to rise across the U.S. and 27 other countries around the world yet mobile subscriber satisfaction is sufficiently low enough to significantly impact churn, according to Accenture.…
Survey Finds Willingness to Share Smart Home Data
Rapid growth in the number of connected devices – more specifically Internet of Things (IoT) devices installed in smart homes – has people concerned about the personal data and security risks those devices pose. But…
Report: Millennials’ Video Calling on the Rise with 52% Making Smartphone Video Calls
Millennials’ video calling habits are trending upward, with more than half of young adult Millennials now making video calls via their smartphones, according to the market research from The NPD Group. Fifty-two percent of Millennials…
Study: Teens Prefer Email Vs. Social Media Marketing
Teens prefer email vs. social media marketing, according to new research from Oxford, U.K.-based Adestra, which specializes in the development of enterprise digital marketing solutions. The findings are surprising, considering that teens and young adult…
NPD Finds Strong Interest in Smart Home Voice Control
U.S. Internet users are increasingly turning to smartphones and voice command applications in order to control and otherwise make use of smart home devices and apps, according to the latest market research from The NPD…
Smartphone Streaming Survey: 81% of Smartphone Users Stream Video
Eight in 10 U.S. smartphone users (81%) stream video on their mobile devices, according to a smartphone streaming survey from NPD. Leading the pack are young users age 25 and under, who spend twice as…
Ooyala: Mobile Comprises 46% of Online Video Viewership
Mobile phones and tablets now account for nearly half (46%) of all online video viewership worldwide, having increased from 34% to 46% from 4Q 2014 to 4Q 2015, according to Ooyala’s Q4 2015 Global Video…
comScore: U.S. Smartphone Penetration Nears 80 Percent
Nearly 200 million people across the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in January, a 79.1% U.S. smartphone penetration rate, according to comScore’s latest MobiLens and Mobile Metrix. Apple’s smartphones continued to be…
Smartphone Voice Assistant Survey: Satisfaction Nears 50%
Use of smartphone conversational voice assistants, such as Apple’s Siri and OK Google appears to have reached a tipping point in 2015, according to smartphone voice assistant survey from MindMeld. Over half of voice assistant…
Mobile Payment Preferences: Heaviest Users Are in Gen Z, Says GfK
Young, Gen Z adults ages 18-24 are twice as likely to use mobile payments than the U.S. population as a whole, according to a new study about mobile payment preferences from GfK. Mobile payments account…
Research Finds Half of Used Smartphones Have Personal Data
Thinking of selling your used smartphone? Think twice before doing so, and take steps to ensure that all your personal data has been erased. Having purchased 20 used smartphones – five each in Barcelona, Berlin,…