So looking at 18 to 24 year olds, so they're very talked about Gen Z generations only spending 53 minutes daily watching linear TV. If you compare that to older age groups, 55 to 64, 65 plus, it's over four hours daily of linear TV.
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| Jan 4, 2024
Gen Zers crave more robust e-Transfer request capabilities. The share of Gen Zers (35%) who called requesting an e-Transfer payment “extremely valuable” was 9 percentage points higher than the share of total respondents. Gen Zers are highly active mobile banking users: 93% access their account using a mobile device at least weekly.
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| Apr 4, 2023
On today's podcast episode, we discuss our changing digital media consumption habits: how much time we spend per day with media, how TV watching is holding up, how much we digitally multitask, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our forecasting writer Ethan Cramer-Flood and director of forecasting Oscar Orozco.
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| Apr 4, 2024
Gen Zers place little value on most forms of ads, including traditional TV, out of the home, radio, print and even podcast ads. I can't even believe that. But I think that while they say they don't place value, it doesn't mean that banks shouldn't message to this generation through these media channels.
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| Nov 28, 2023
TikTok is the first true Gen Z app. Until TikTok’s meteoric rise during the pandemic, most people equated Gen Z with Snapchat—and for good reason: Over half (52%) of Snapchat’s US users will be Gen Zers in 2023. But TikTok will surpass Snapchat among teens ages 12 to 17 this year, and by 2024, more Gen Zers will use TikTok than Snapchat.
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| Jan 25, 2023
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| Mar 7, 2025
“Understanding how consumers are spending their time and money is paramount to your business being successful,” our analyst Jeremy Goldman said on “The Future of Digital 2024” webinar. Here are three shifts in media consumption, purchasing behavior, and mobile usage, and how each is prompting new advertising strategies in streaming, social search, and gaming.
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| Feb 1, 2024
Gen Zers led adoption with a penetration rate of 98.2% for ages 16 to 24. Only one age cohort was below the 90% mark, ages 55 to 64, with 88.2% penetration. Total listenership of digital audio formats fell YoY. The total for audio formats including radio, music streaming, and podcasts declined, amounting to 3:56 in H1 2023, down 9 minutes YoY.
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| Oct 30, 2023
Short-video formats on TikTok and Instagram Reels are effective for Gen Z, and longer-format mobile ad units on YouTube have proved effective for broader branding aims. Be sure to have a CTV strategy to augment investments in linear TV. National brands rely on TV for maximum reach, but the audience is increasingly fragmented across linear and digital services.
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| May 3, 2023
And, when you look specifically at Gen Z, TikTok’s influence rises significantly. As these digital native consumers continue to age into an economic powerhouse, social media will only strengthen as an advertising channel. Retail media’s power as a performance and brand-building platform. Recent data from DISQO shows that 46% of people shop online at least weekly.
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| Jul 29, 2024
That’s true even for Gen Zers: At least half had viewed influencer or creator content on each TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube in the previous month, per our June 2023 survey. For more findings from our Gen Z and social media survey, look out for our upcoming report, publishing in September. The balance of power in the creator-social platform relationship is shifting.
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| Sep 1, 2023
And by generation you've got millennials and Gen Z folks doing it more so. However, Rajiv, I want to come to you for this for a second, because I also read this as half do, I also read this as half don't. So half of Americans don't compare prices for medication and insurance plans.
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| Jan 27, 2025
Launched in September 2023 in the US, TikTok Shop hopes to bring Asian-style social shopping to its huge Gen Z audience. Along with shopping livestreams, which so far have fizzled in the US, TikTok Shop also includes shoppable video and a marketplace.
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Listen to the full episode of “Behind the Numbers” for more insights on Gen Z’s media habits and growing up with AI. This was originally featured in the Ģą˝AV Daily newsletter. For more marketing insights, statistics, and trends, subscribe here.
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| Jul 8, 2024
So MSNBC's median age is 70, Fox News is 69 and CNN's is 67, which kind of got me thinking like I thought about my own media consumption habits and you think about what other people perceive to be the media habits of younger Americans and which would be, no one watches the news, no one reads, it's all TikTok and Twitter and whatever.
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| Jun 7, 2024
Gen Z is Reddit’s audience to keep—or lose. Gen Zers are notoriously fickle social media users who are passionate about the causes they believe in, and they are also quickly gravitating toward Reddit. By 2027, Gen Z will rival millennials in the percentage of internet users using Reddit. Many Gen Zers rely on Reddit to research and discuss their interests and passions.
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| Jul 6, 2023
On today’s podcast episode, we discuss which group of folks ChatGPT will affect the most next year, a social media ban for young people in Australia, how the “snippet generation” are influencing our world, what to make of this new group of “subscription pausers,” movie theatre etiquette around throwing popcorn, and more. Tune in to the discussion with Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, Senior Analysts Ross Benes and Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf, and Vice President of Content Paul Verna.
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| Dec 6, 2024
More Chart of the Day:. 10/6 - Marketers bet on email. 10/5 - Instagram is crucial for creators. 10/4 - Why apply AI. 10/3 - Gen Z streams. 10/2 - How the cookies crumble.
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| Oct 9, 2023
On today's podcast episode, host Bill Fisher is joined by our analysts Paul Briggs and Paul Verna and GWI’s chief research officer Jason Mander to discuss the latest Global Media Intelligence report, outlining media consumption behaviors from around the world.
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| Oct 30, 2023
Digital ad spending by healthcare and pharmaceutical companies went through its own upheaval during the pandemic. Now the industry is settling into a new normal for growth in some channels as consumer media habits have changed.
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| Sep 29, 2023
So investments in brand building and the behaviors of Gen Z who are really adept at avoiding traditional ads. That's not just that they don't like them, but they're also sometimes good at circumventing them. That's really what's driving the resurgence with the organic social, and marketers are focusing on more on community building and organic engagement strategies that resonate better with this demo.
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| Jul 23, 2024
However, TV remains the No. 1 single source for media consumption (not including total digital or mobile): 2:59 per day will be spent watching TV in 2022. Its lead comes from staple primetime programming—especially in Quebec where TV viewership is heaviest—and appointment viewing of news and live sports.
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| Nov 14, 2022
Our worldwide social network user estimates are updated on a biannual basis to continually incorporate the latest changes and developments in consumers’ digital media consumption and technology adoption.
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| Jan 31, 2023
Gen Z viewers will likely outperform the channel average once again this year. Note: The EBU did not include TV viewer figures for Russia and Ukraine in its 2022 reporting. This accounts for the YoY drop in viewers from 183.0 million in 2021. However, TV viewership was up 7.0 million YoY in 2022 after excluding these two markets from the 2021 data.
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| May 11, 2023