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A Deep Dive Into Asia Pacific Consumers' Online Behavior

by Olesia Klevchuk, November 18, 2009

For the past four years, Forrester has been tracking consumers' online and offline behavior in Asia Pacific. This is a dedicated report about Asia Pacific consumers' online behavior aimed at understanding the changes in this emerging medium. This year's . . .

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Will Radio Survive The Media Meltdown?

by Sonal Gandhi, November 12, 2009

The amount of time that US adults spend listening to radio has been on the decline. The trend is especially marked among young adults, who have taken to other audio platforms at a much greater rate. But radio as a format continues to be popular even as . . .

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Connected TVs Need To Sharpen Their Value Proposition

TV Makers Can't Reinvent TV Without Dramatic Steps

by Laurence Meyer, November 11, 2009

Connected TVs offer a huge advantage compared with legacy interactive TV and Internet TV platforms; they will also be in more than one-third of European TV households by 2014. With more than 150 million potential European users in 2014, connected TVs . . .

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Publishers Need Multichannel Subscription Models

Charging For Online Content Is Just One Part Of A Multichannel Product Strategy

by Sarah Rotman Epps, November 10, 2009

Newspaper and magazine publishers' current monetization models are broken: They are overly reliant on the "free" model of having advertisers subsidize consumer usage. But shifting more of the burden of payment to consumers is no easy task. In this report, . . .

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Who Will Pay For Online Content?

Integrate Social Media To Attract European Online Movie Buyers

by Nick Thomas, November 4, 2009

Despite widespread gloom, it appears that European Internet users are willing to pay for certain kinds of online content, including music, movies, and eBooks, although none of these markets is anywhere near maturity. Understanding how and where current . . .

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Technographics® Survey Highlights: North American Physical And Digital Media Consumer Habits  (486 KB PPT)

by Ina Mitskaviets, Corina Matiesanu, October 21, 2009

This survey highlights deck summarizes the key findings related to physical and digital media and online advertising from Forrester's North American Technographics Media And Advertising Online Survey, Q2 2009 (US). This is the second survey highlight . . .

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Technographics® Survey Highlights: Media Consumption In Asia Pacific  (422 KB PPT)

by Olesia Klevchuk, September 1, 2009

This highlight deck summarizes the key findings related to media from Forrester’s Asia-Pacific Technographics Survey, Q2 2009. This is the first survey highlight in a series from the Asia-Pacific Technographics Survey, Q2 2009.

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Technographics® Survey Highlights: Generational Analysis Of Recessionary Impact On Music, Movie, And Video Game Spending  (516 KB PPT)

by Ina Mitskaviets, Corina Matiesanu, August 25, 2009

This highlight deck summarizes the key findings from Forrester’s North American Technographics Media And Advertising Online Survey, Q2 2009 (US).

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A Deep Dive Into European Consumers' Online Behavior, 2009

Consumers' Uptake Of Social Activities Deepens Their Online Engagement

by Olesia Klevchuk, August 13, 2009

For more than 10 years, Forrester has been tracking consumers' online and offline behavior in Europe. In recent years, we've published a dedicated report about their online behavior to understand the changes in this emerging medium. This year's European . . .

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Technographics® Survey Highlight: Hispanic Technographics Media And Marketing Phone Survey, Q1 2009 (US)  (576 KB PPT)

by Tamara Barber, August 13, 2009

This highlight deck summarizes the key findings from Forrester's Hispanic Technographics Media and Marketing Phone Survey, Q1 2009.

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The Right Media Mix To Reach UK Moms

by Mary Beth Kemp, August 5, 2009

Moms, as influential household decision-makers, have always been desirable targets for many advertisers. Yet, they're not that easy to reach. They do favor television in their spare time but also tend to demonstrate rather complex media behaviors. To . . .

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How To Survive The Media Meltdown

Identifying Successful Content Strategies

by Nick Thomas, August 5, 2009

The media meltdown — where traditional media business models based on scarcity and control are fundamentally challenged by the new realities of digital media consumption — is creating huge problems for media companies. But consumers are spending more . . .

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Who Will Buy An eReader?

Later Adopters May Not Be As Loyal To Amazon.com

by Sarah Rotman Epps, July 29, 2009

Awareness and ownership of eReaders is growing, spurred by marketing campaigns from Amazon.com and Sony as well as press coverage and word-of-mouth buzz. But Forrester's newest data suggests that tomorrow's prospects for eReader purchasing bear scant . . .

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Technographics® Insight: Media Downloading Behavior In Europe  (552 KB PPT)

by Joost van Kruijsdijk, July 16, 2009

This Technographics Insight focuses on the usage of file sharing software and legal music downloading services. It also looks at how the usage overlaps, and which countries and age groups lead in the usage of file sharing and legal music downloading.

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The Recession's Impact On US Media Consumers

by Sarah Rotman Epps, July 8, 2009

Eighteen months into the US recession, consumers are feeling the pain. They're cutting back on certain forms of media and entertainment, such as buying music CDs, DVDs, and magazines from a store or kiosk. But other forms of media show stability: For . . .

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Laying The Groundwork For The Next Wave Of TV Advertising

by David Card, May 28, 2009

As consumers skip ads with digital video recorders, use video-on-demand, or multitask, the effectiveness of TV ads drops. Forrester found that 21% of the entire US population usually or systematically fast-forwards past TV commercials, and Early Adopters . . .

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How Big Is The eReader Opportunity?

Book Readers Drive The Market Now, But That Will Change

by Sarah Rotman Epps, May 27, 2009

The eReader market is hot: Barely a day goes by without an announcement of a new device release or acquisition. Amazon.com, leveraging its position as a dominant book retailer, has catalyzed the market for eBooks, but that's just the beginning of the . . .

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Segmenting Consumers By Technology Preference

Updated Data Profiles Of Forrester's Technographics Segments

by Jacqueline Anderson, April 20, 2009

When budgets tighten, researchers need to get creative. One cost-effective way to gain valuable consumer insights without bursting the research budget is to use a syndicated segmentation scheme. Ensuring that the segmentation aligns with internal needs . . .

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Technographics® Insight: Word-Of-Mouth Youths Are Active Online And Comfortable With Their Mobile Devices  (416 KB PPT)

by Corina Matiesanu, March 27, 2009

This Technographics Insight looks at ‘Word of mouth’ youths in the US. It examines their online and social networking behaviors, mobile behaviors and preferred communication channels for interacting with their friends and interacting with their favorite . . .

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Six Ways Online Publishers Can Boost CPMs

by Sarah Rotman Epps, March 19, 2009

With supply decidedly in advertisers' favor, online publishers struggle to charge rates that are high enough to support their content production and technology infrastructure costs. But this environment isn't hopeless: There are concrete ways in which . . .

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Technographics® Insight: Global Media Consumption   (316 KB PPT)

by Olesia Klevchuk, Corina Matiesanu, March 11, 2009

This Technographics Insight takes a look at media consumptions in North America, Europe and Asia. It examines levels and trends of media consumption across the Globe.

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Consumers Are Ready For Home Remote Control

With Entertainment Networks On The Rise, Home Automation Is Next

by Charles S. Golvin, March 10, 2009

Home networks are the foundation of the digital home but are still primarily utilitarian — most networks are erected to share a broadband pipe among multiple PCs, and it's primarily PCs that are connected to them. Yet as consumers accumulate more and . . .

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Who Pays For Online Content?

Soft Ad Revenues Make Publishers Look Twice At Content-Buying Consumers

by Sarah Rotman Epps, March 9, 2009

As the economy continues to slide into recession, advertisers are curbing spend in all channels, including online: Publishers like AOL, Yahoo!, and the New York Times Company reported a decrease in online advertising revenues in Q4 2008, although year-on-year . . .

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What Engagement Means For Media Companies

Forrester's Framework Measures Four Dimensions Of Engagement

by Sarah Rotman Epps, March 2, 2009

Media companies are investing more in social media, video, rich Internet applications, and other initiatives to drive online engagement. But what does engagement really mean for media companies, and what's the best way to measure it? As Web analytics . . .

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Is Hyperlocal Hype Or Happening?

What US Online Consumers Want From "Local" Media

by Sarah Rotman Epps, Elizabeth Stark, January 27, 2009

Will going "hyperlocal"— serving the information needs of local neighborhoods or communities —offer a viable future for media companies online? That's a question many seek to answer as local TV and radio stations, newspapers, and telecom providers, as . . .