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How Teens Use Media a Nielsen Report on the Myths and Realities of Teen Media Trends June 2009 How Teens Use Media A Nielsen report on the myths and realities of teen media trends INSIDE: How teens use… TV, Online and Mobile Video Internet Mobile Phones Games Movies Music Advertising Executive Summary It’s easy to get caught up in the hype • Teens watch less online video than In a word, teens are “normal.” around teenagers. The notion that teens most adults, but the ads are highly It’s true: the media universe is expanding are too busy texting and Twittering to be engaging to them: Teens spend 35% for teens. Social networks play an in- engaged with traditional media is excit- less time watching online video than creasingly important role (about half of ing, but false. adults 25–34, but recall ads better when U.S. teens use Facebook) and now many watching TV shows online than they do To develop the best strategy around teens access the Web over their phones on television. teens and media, start by challenging (37% in the U.S.) Teens time-shift popular assumptions about teens. Don’t • Teens read newspapers, listen to the video with DVRs and they place-shift focus on the outliers, but on the macro- radio and even like advertising more on their video MP3 players. Yet teens level trends of media and preferences for than most: Teens who recall TV ads are are not unique in this media revolution. the segment. The averages will show you 44% more likely to say they liked the ad. The media experience has evolved and that teens can often be reached by the cross-platform engagement will be criti- • Teens play video games, but are as same means as their parents. cal to reaching all consumers, not just excited about play-along music games teens. Media innovations have impacted In this report, “How Teens Use Media,” and car-racing games as they are about everyone’s experience—not just the High we debunk the myths and give you the violent ones: Just two of their top five School Musical set. hard facts. most-anticipated games since 2005 are rated “Mature.” So don’t reconfigure the playbook. • Teens are NOT abandoning TV for Discard the assumption that, as a rule, new media: In fact, they watch more • Teens’ favorite TV shows, top websites teens are “alien” and plan for them as TV than ever, up 6% over the past five and genre preferences across media you would any demographic segment— years in the U.S. are mostly the same as those of their with careful attention and calculus, not parents: For U.S. teens, American Idol • Teens love the Internet…but spend panic. Keep your eye on the averages, was the top show in 2008, Google the far less time browsing than adults: keep your head on your shoulders, and top website and general dramas are a Teens spend 11 hours and 32 minutes before you rewire your system, remind preferred TV genre for teens around per month online—far below the yourself: Teens are people, too. the world. average of 29 hours and 15 minutes. Introduction Ephebiphobia is the irrational fear of We sometimes fall prey to the notion Globally, there are more than 1.2 billion youth, rooted in the Greek “ephebos” for that teen habits are changing so quickly people ages 10–19, according to the U.S. youth, and “phobos,” for, well, phobia. and dramatically that they run counter to Census. Of those, there are about 33 While the term was coined just 15 years broader cultural trends, are unknowable million teenagers ages 13–19 in the United ago, a curiosity and mystique around and unmeasurable, constantly evading our States. Beyond sheer mass, this demo- youth and their behavior has long been understanding and engagement. graphic wields tremendous influence—on a cultural obsession. Consider these their peers, their parents and the culture The fact is, teens are unique, but they are Newsweek covers over the decades: “Let’s at large. As well, the formative nature of not as bizarre and outlying as some might Face It: Our Teenagers Are Out of Control” their years has implications for everything presume. Sure, they are the digital natives, in 1954; “The Teenagers: A Survey of What from consumer packaged goods marketing super-communicators and multi-taskers They’re Really Like” in 1966; “The Secret to the democratic process. we hear so much about, but they are also Life of Teens” in 1999 and “Why Teens Do the TV viewers, newspaper readers and Understanding the reality of how teens Stupid Things” in 2006, reflecting society’s radio listeners that some assume they are use media is critical—not just for business, long-held view that teens are downright not. What we have found, across a variety but for civic, cultural and social pursuits. troublesome—or a form of alien life. of studies, is that teens embrace new This paper examines teens in the U.S. and In media and marketing, ephebiphobia media not at the cost of traditional media, in many of the international markets that shows up in the constant and frenetic but in supplement to it. Taken on whole, Nielsen measures. Our findings challenge quest to understand how teens use media, teens exhibit media habits that are more a whole host of assumptions about the made murky by assumptions that teens similar to the total population than not. media habits of this generation—offering somehow behave radically differently a few surprises as we separate myth than their parents and other consumers. from reality. 1 A Day in the Life First, let’s look at a snapshot of how a typical teen might spend a media day, based on a variety of Nielsen sources: Video consumption, led by TV viewing, is the centerpiece of teen media consumption. Figure 1: A Day In The Life^ Media Consumption of a Typical U.S. Teenager as measured by Nielsen Of course there is no “typical” teen- age consumer, just as really there is no PC TV Video on an MP3 typical consumer overall. The segmented 52 minutes Mobile Voice 3 hours, Player behavior of extreme teen users, teens including 6 minutes 20 minutes 1 in 4 watched of different races or genders and teens applications in different regions, internationally and Audio-Only MP3 DVR Internet Text-Messages domestically, is poorly represented by Player 8 minutes 23 minutes 96 sent or received averages. But what averages conceal in 1 in 2 used variation, they make up for it in perspec- Mobile video tive. A summary view of media behavior is Online video DVD If they watched, Newspaper particularly useful when examining teens, If they watched, 17 minutes watched for 13 1 in 4 read since you may know or envision outliers of watched 6 minutes minutes this segment and mistake their behavior as representative. PC Games Movie Theater Console Gaming Mobile Web 1 in 10 played, Went once in the 25 minutes 1 in 3 used today past 5 weeks ^For directional purposes only, this table estimates daily U.S. teen media use across a variety of platforms based on a range of Nielsen sources from 2008 and Q1 2009. Details of these estimates are contained in the body of this paper. Source: The Nielsen Company More Focused Than You Think Myth: Teens use media—10 screens at School Media Too,” (2007). In the study, a time researchers found that 23% of the media time among observed teens was concur- Reality: Teens are more likely than adults rent media exposure, where two or more to use their media one at a time media were in simultaneous use. Put dif- Popular opinion is that teen media ferently, 77% of the time observed, teens consumers are constantly surrounded were consuming media they were using by multiple media, but the image of the just one at a time. “typical” teen listening to an iPod, watch- This level of concurrent use is lower than ing TV, texting and browsing the Internet Ball State researchers saw in older media all at the same time, it turns out, is grossly consumers in the now famous Middletown While teens do multi-task in their media misrepresentative. Media Studies research, also a product experience, their concurrent behavior may In 2007, Ball State University’s Center of the Center for Media Design. There, actually be lower than it is among adults. for Media Design conducted an obser- 31% of adult media time was concurrent The myth that concurrent exposure is vational study of teen media use, “High exposure. the norm, for teens in particular, sets an important framework as we explore the breadth of the teen media experience. 2 Video: Boob Tube or YouTube? Figure 2: Daily U.S. Teen (12–17) Television Viewing—2003–2008 Myth: Teens are abandoning TV for 3:36:00 new media 3:08:33 3:20:04 Reality: Wrong. They’re watching more 2:24:00 TV than ever 1:33:29 1:58:23 1:12:00 Hands down, television is still the 0:59:42 0:37:51 dominant medium of choice for teenagers. 0:00:20 0:00:00 0:08:23 Nielsen’s most recent A2M2 Three Screen 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Report showed that the typical teen tele- hh:mm:ss vision viewer watched 104:24 (hh:mm) of television per month in the first quarter of HUT/PUT Viewing Source Ad Supported Cable Orig 2009. While less than the average for all Broadcast DVR Playback television viewers (153:27), it tops Nielsen estimates of teen Internet use over the Source: The Nielsen Company NPOWER, 2003–2008 course of a month (11:32).
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