Facebook’s upcoming location-based status update feature will likely be extremely relevant to its users. An increasing percentage of American adults are Facebook users who also access the Internet via their cell phones—a prime target audience for Facebook’s new mobile feature. As of March, 22 2010, 29% of the adult population were facebook.com visitors who also [...]

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In a typical week, 10% of all U.S. adults watch streaming content online such as videos, TV programs and movies. This percentage has doubled in just the last two years. Watching online streaming video is becoming ever more popular among adults of all ages. Nonetheless, 18-to-34 year-olds are the most likely to watch online streaming [...]

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During the previous two years, ownership of stocks and bonds among American adults has seen its share of ups and downs. In 2008 and much of 2009, ownership generally declined. But a year and a half after the onset of the economic recession, stock and bond ownership has begun to climb back to pre-recession levels. [...]

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The overarching trend in personal federal income tax filing for the past two years has been a slight decline in the US tax payers’ inclination to use professional tax services. Over the past two years, the number of tax payers who prefer to let professionals prepare their taxes has decreased by three percentage points (from [...]

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The highly anticipated Apple® iPadTM finally hit the market and early adopters lined up for hours outside of Apple’s iconic stores in hopes of being among the first to get their hands on the revolutionary new tablet computer. This is obviously not the first, nor is it likely the last Apple product to generate so much excitement, but certain consumers and parts of the country sure seem more excitable by announcements by Steve Jobs than others.

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Gone seem to be the days when the TV set was the main point of attraction in home entertainment. Today’s average home has quite a few screens that are used simultaneously and multifariously. The TV set can play the main role, become background noise, or act as a first step in a further quest for [...]

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Online streaming video and downloading technology enables instant gratification, which is something that U.S. consumers seem to relish to the fullest. For the past year and a half, online video streaming and downloading activity has been on a continuous rise, with 31% more U.S. adults today watching streaming video online and 30% more U.S. adults [...]

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We’re now able to provide a new search metric that sums the volume for all variations on a root term. Here’s a table for the top brand searches (U.S. for week ending 3/27/2010) by breadth volume.

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As recently reported on the blog of our sister company Experian Hitwise, Facebook surpassed Google in the U.S. to become the most visited website during the week ending March 13, 2010. The market share of visits to Facebook.com increased 185% during that week as compared to the same week in 2009, while visits to Google.com [...]

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Before the beginning of the “Great Recession” in October 2008, Hispanic Americans were more confident than non-Hispanic consumers that they would be better off financially in 12 months than they are today. While Hispanic consumers’ financial optimism was challenged during the last year and a half—at times declining to the point where it matched or [...]

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