Back in 2005 when Pew started tracking social media usage just 7% of adults were active on social networking sites. Today that number is 65%. Over the years Pew has monitored how the rise of social media has affected our work, relationships and communication patterns and how these changes have affected business and politics. An analysis of their reports over the … [Read more...]
2015 State of the News Media Report
Pew Research released their 2015 State of the Media report this week. And the major takeaway is mobile, mobile, mobile. 39 of the top 50 digital news websites have more traffic to their sites and associated applications coming from mobile devices than from desktop computers says the report. However, for half of those top 50 news sites mobile visitors tend to spend less time … [Read more...]
Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Source
Online news has seen a sharp spike in the last year. According to the Pew Research Center for People and the Press the percentage of people getting their news online jumped from 24 percent a year ago to 40 percent. And in this same time period newspapers have been hovering around 35 percent. If you’re after a younger audience the figures are even more startling: For … [Read more...]
