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UK Teens Spend 34 Hours a Week Online

Young people in the UK spend 34 hours online each week, with 80 percent of 16-24-year-old Brits logging on to the internet daily, writes PublicTechnology, citing UK-related findings from a Microsoft/MTV study (otherwise covered extensively, here).

However, 73 percent of young Brits have a TV in their room and tend to multitask, watching TV programs while surfing the net and chatting online with friends, writes MarketingCharts.

The Circuits of Cool/Digital Playground technology and lifestyle study found that the average 16-24 year old in the UK…

  • Has a total of 49 friends, of which 7 are close friends, 26 are acquaintances and 16 are online friends whom they have never met in person
  • Has 75 phone numbers in their mobile, but only 14 percent use it to call friends; most prefer to text or listen to music on their mobile device instead
  • Has 86 buddies on their instant messenger list
  • Is a member of up to three social networks and connected to 86 people (56 percent visit a social networking site every week).
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XM Revs up Indy Car Coverage

XM Satellite Radio will air extensive coverage of the 92nd running of the Indianapolis 500 in the days heading up to the May 25 race.

The Indianapolis 500 can be heard on the IndyCar Series Racing channel (XM channel 145)…

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Ogden Merges Herb Pubs

Ogden’s Herbs for Health magazine is being folded into big-sister publication the Herb Companion.

A reader survey revealed that the two publications had virtually identical purchasing habits, interests and demographics, said publisher and editorial director Bryan Welch (via Folio). The Herb…

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B&N Tosses Hubcaps, Asks, ‘How Do You Fix a Flat?

Barnes & Noble is launching a guerilla marketing campaign as part of a larger effort to promote its how-to website, Quamut.com.

The site - which touts itself as the “go to how to” - offers professionally written info that answers how-to…

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Differences in Media Consumption among Racial Groups

Targeting advertising toward African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Whites requires distinct media plans, because these groups use traditional media differently - and their new-media adoption patterns also vary, according to an analysis by BIGresearch, writes MarketingCharts.

“Understanding how media consumption behaviors…

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Another Good Year for Millionaire Households

For the sixth consecutive year, the number of millionaire households ($1MM+ net worth, not including primary residence) in the U.S. increased significantly, reaching some 9.9 million, according to TNS’s annual Affluent Market Research Program (AMRP), writes MarketingCharts.

The number of millionaire households…

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