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Survey: To Reach College Students, Brands Need to Use Internet

As college students prepare to invade campuses, marketers can best reach and build relationships with this demo of up-and-coming consumers via the internet, which students prefer to both TV and radio, according to a recent Burst Media study of college students (pdf), writes MarketingCharts.

The July 2007 Burst Media online survey of 439 college students 18-24 years old studied students’ media consumption, how they finance their discretionary spending, and what influences their brand preferences.

According to Burst’s survey:

  • College students spend more time with the internet than other media:
    • 33.0 percent spend more than 10 hours per week online, and 19.6 percent spend more than 20 hours per week online.
    • However, just 16.6 percent watch more than 10 hours per week of television.
    • And only 5.5 percent listen to terrestrial/satellite radio more than 10 hours per week.

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  • Students are online even when watching television or listening to the radio:
    • 50.6 percent surf the web while watching TV.
    • 43.5 percent are online while listening to terrestrial/satellite radio.
  • Students use the internet mostly to keep in touch and be entertained:

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  • Brand selection among students is driven by WOM and cost-consciousness:

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MarketingCharts has more findings from the study.

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