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Netpop|Vote Highlights

Netpop|Vote The Internet's Impact on the 2008 Presidential Campaign

According to the recent Netpop|Vote report, 20% of definite Obama/Biden voters say they changed their mind about their preferred candidate as the result of information they learned online, compared to 9% of definite McCain/Palin voters Read more

Netpop Reports

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  • Netpop | Play: Online Entertainment and New Content Discovery  
       

    Netpop | Play: Online Entertainment and New Content Discovery

    New and unexpected forms of content are now accessible across millions of websites, bringing expansive opportunities for personal choice and social interactions. This report zeroes-in on entertainment online, examining the content, sites and behaviors that shape how entertainment is experienced on... more
  • Netpop | Play: Communitainment: The Social Side of Entertainment Online  
       

    Netpop | Play: Communitainment: The Social Side of Entertainment Online

    This report zeroes in on the social interaction that takes place around the involvement of Broadbanders™ in entertainment activities. Almost 1300 Netpop respondents (N=1284) answered an expanded series of questions about their behaviors and attitudes around various types of entertainment content,... more
  • Netpop | Play: Entertainment Content, Media & Devices in the Digital Age  
       

    Netpop | Play: Entertainment Content, Media & Devices in the Digital Age

    With content no longer tethered to particular a medium, device or location, advertisers and business leaders cope with an increasingly complex web of consumer choices and behaviors. Devices proliferate, access is anywhere and content is set free to be enjoyed where ever and when ever… or so the... more
  • Shop

  • Netpop | Shop: Media or Entertainment Shoppers Quick Sheet  
       

    Netpop | Shop: Media or Entertainment Shoppers Quick Sheet

    Netpop | Shop Quick Sheets are an introduction to some of the characteristics and behaviors that influence shoppers in each of ten product categories analyzed in the Netpop | Shop series. This Media or Entertainment Shoppers Quick Sheet looks at the types of media or entertainment products recently... more
  • Netpop | Shop: Automotive Shoppers Quick Sheet  
       

    Netpop | Shop: Automotive Shoppers Quick Sheet

    Netpop | Shop Quick Sheets are an introduction to some of the characteristics and behaviors that influence shoppers in each of ten product categories analyzed in the Netpop | Shop series. This Automotive Shoppers Quick Sheet looks at the types of automotive products recently purchased or planned... more
  • Netpop | Shop: Travel Shoppers Quick Sheet  
       

    Netpop | Shop: Travel Shoppers Quick Sheet

    Netpop | Shop Quick Sheets are an introduction to some of the characteristics and behaviors that influence shoppers in each of ten product categories analyzed in the Netpop | Shop series. This Travel Shoppers Quick Sheet looks at the types of travel products recently purchased or planned for... more
  • Nations

  • Netpop | Nations: Online Shopping and the New Chinese Consumer Market  
       

    Netpop | Nations: Online Shopping and the New Chinese Consumer Market

    China is the second largest Internet population in the world and is projected to overtake the U.S. in total number of users within a few years. Broadband penetration among Internet users in China is approximately 76 percent and this group, although only approximately ten percent of the... more

  • Netpop | Nations: Comparison of China and U.S. Broadband Usage  
       

    Netpop | Nations: Comparison of China and U.S. Broadband Usage

    This report compares eight usage characteristics of broadband users in China to those of the U.S., including access devices, wired vs. wireless connections, dayparts online, hours per week, online activities, etc. Two graphs are available for every topic covered; one that compares the total... more

  • Netpop | Nations: Demographic Comparison of China and U.S. Broadband Users  
       

    Netpop | Nations: Demographic Comparison of China and U.S. Broadband Users

    This report compares nine demographic characteristics of broadband users in China to those of the U.S., including age, gender, tenure online, education, marital status, employment status, etc.  Each graph is presented with a brief prose analysis to help distill findings for time-constrained... more

  • Response

  • Netpop | Response: Response by Psychographic Profiles  
       

    Netpop | Response: Response by Psychographic Profiles

    Netpop | Portraits provides a segmentation analysis of the broadband population. Applying these segments to Netpop | Response shows how a users' overall attitudes and orientation to the Internet impacts response to online... more
  • Netpop | Response: Response by Site Category & Demographics  
       

    Netpop | Response: Response by Site Category & Demographics

    Of the 118 personal interest categories covered in this study, 53 of them generated at least 100 site mentions. Revealing what interests lead to high response scores, this section also compared response scores between shopping sites and other major category sites, high and low-traffic... more

  • Netpop | Response: Response to Online Advertising  
       

    Netpop | Response: Response to Online Advertising

    Broadbanders say one-fourth of the sites they visit for personal interests are likely to advertise products and brands they are interested in. Comparisons in terms of size of site and liking of site reveal what factors actually influence people's response to online... more

  • Snapshot

  • Netpop | Snapshot: China 2007  
       

    Netpop | Snapshot: China 2007

    This report offers an overview of the five attitudinal segments or "portraits" that make-up the broadband population in China. It is designed to introduce the segments and set them in the context of the broadband population as a whole.

    The Netpop segmentation model was... more

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    Netpop | Snapshot: U.S. 2007  
       

    Netpop | Snapshot: U.S. 2007

    This report offers an overview of the five attitudinal segments or "portraits" that make-up the broadband population in the United States. It is designed to introduce the segments and set them in the context of the broadband population as a whole.

    The Netpop segmentation... more

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    Netpop | Snapshot  
       

    Netpop | Snapshot

    This Report provides an overview of 5 segments that comprise the broadband population, including demographic and attitudinal data to help illustrate various approaches to the Web. ... more
  • Pocket

  • Netpop | Pocket: Current Pocket-Net Users  
       

    Netpop | Pocket: Current Pocket-Net Users

    This section portrays the Broadbanders who used their cell phone or PDA to access the Internet in the month prior to this survey in demographics as well as in cellular handset brand and mobile service brand selection. In addition, it applied the segmentation analysis of Netpop | Portraits to... more

  • Netpop | Pocket: Second Screen Loyalists  
       

    Netpop | Pocket: Second Screen Loyalists

    We asked broadband users who are not using a mobile device to go online about the types of online activities they would be most interested in doing through their cell phone or PDA, assuming it were easy and affordable. Comparing current users' actual use and non-users' expectations, mobile... more

  • Netpop | Pocket: Pocketing the Internet Today  
       

    Netpop | Pocket: Pocketing the Internet Today

    Over 100 million Americans aged 13 and older currently access the Internet through a broadband connections, yet only five percent of these Broadbanders - roughly five million Americans - used their cell phone or PDA to access the Internet in the month prior to this study. This section analyzed how... more
  • Connect

  • Netpop | Nations: China and the U.S. in a Web 2.0 World  
       

    Netpop | Nations: China and the U.S. in a Web 2.0 World

    Broadband access to the Internet is creating an immense network of people who have access to the same kinds of content, ideas, and technology—a true global broadband community that shares similar web-based experiences. Netpop examines how that common “language” and experience affects... more

  • Netpop Research Blog

    The Dark Ages of Online Advertising (circa 2009)

    Let’s face it: We might as well skip the holiday shopping season altogether. If Best Buy is already reporting drops in consumer spending of “seismic” proportions, Americans might actually exult in being thrifty this year. Imagine that! Santa goes on a strict diet. I see fashion magazine touting the virtues of "Depression Era Gray.   More

    A Viral-Spiral of Upward Support for Obama

    1.The Internet helped Obama win-over more supporters than McCain

    2.Obama supporters age 18-30 use the Internet more than McCain supporters of the same age

    These confluent finding from Netpop | Vote 2008 come to mind as I scour post-election results for signs of what this election says about technology, culture and America’s future.   More

    Going Online While Watching TV

    Tonight, as the American public focuses full attention on election results, large portions of the population will be tracking results simultaneously across the major TV news channels and online—searching for the newest result, the most interesting factoid.   More