Podcasting continues to grow by leaps and bounds, with the total audience for podcasts increasing by 58% in under two years.
The dedicated podcast audience - those that download podcasts every day - has gone up 300% in the same time.
New research shows that people are relentlessly moving from traditional media - including newspaper, radio & television - to Internet-based news sources.
In the last ten years, the percent of people getting their news from the Internet has tripled, while the radio and newspaper news audience has declined 14% and the television news audience has declined 9%!
55% of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection at home, according to a May 2008 survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project:
The percentage of Americans with broadband at home has grown from 47% in early 2007 and 42% in early 2005.
Among individuals who use the internet at home, 79% [...]
Pew Internet released an interesting report earlier this week that looks at Teens and Social Media. According to Pew, more teenagers than ever are creating content online.
Here are the highlights:
64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation, up from 57% of online teens in 2004.
Girls continue [...]