Wednesday, December 20, 2006

No Doubt About It

Regular weekly usage of new media is growing at high double digit rates, while regular usage of legacy media is dropping, albeit only at single digit rates, with the exception of magazines, which are dropping at about a 12 percent rate. All of the growing formats have a network delivery or core communications element to them.

Percentage Growth of Regular Weekly Media
Medium Regular Weekly Usage
TiVo/Replay TV 88.1%
Satellite Radio 79.9%
IPOD/MP3 Player 72.1%
Blogs 63.2%
Picture/Video Phone 59.2%
Text Messaging 58.8%
PDA 14.0%
Traditional Media
Magazines -11.7%
Newspaper -7.1%
Radio -5.7%
TV -5.2%
Source: BIGresearch, December 2006

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