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Media multitasking and “double-dipping” - watching TV while surfing the internet - are common among online adults in the United States and Britain, finds a survey by Harris Interactive conducted on behalf of online video search engine Blinkx, writes MarketingCharts.
Below, findings from the study.
Multitasking
Television should not fear that online video will steal away viewers, because it’s not an either/or proposition. That is, people use the web as an accompaniment to TV:
Double-Dipping
Double-dippers are adults who enjoy surfing the internet while watching television:
MarketingCharts has more findings from the study.
About the survey: Harris Interactive fielded the online survey on behalf of blinkx Feb. 13-18, 2008 among nationwide cross-sections of 2,471 adults age 18+ in the United States and 2,228 adults aged 16+ in Great Britain. Both sets of data were weighted to be representative of the population of online adults in each country.
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