MediaTel Insight

Today - According to a Pew Internet & American Life Project survey, social networking amongst internet users aged 50 or older has risen from 22% to 42% during the past year.

Yesterday - According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center's Social & Demographic Trends project, only 42% of Americans consider the television set to be a necessity.

Yesterday - According to a new survery from Ipsos OTX for Askmen.com, Facebook is now the second most popular way to keep in touch with friends, with 30.1% saying it was their primary choice.

31 August 2010 - According to a new eMarketer report, mobile content revenues is predicted to rise from less than $1.15 billion in 2009 to more than $3.53 billion in 2014.

27 August 2010 - According to a new survey by King Fish Media, HubSpot and Junta42, 72% of US companies said they had a social media strategy.

26 August 2010 - According to a new survey from Lightspeed Research, 58% of TV viewers have streamed or downloaded television within the last six months.

26 August 2010 - According to a new study from Which?, two thirds of the British respondents had received at least one cold call over the past three months - and the average number of cold calls received was six per month.

25 August 2010 - According to new research from MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, the Google logo is viewed once every nine minutes in the UK.

25 August 2010 - According to data from Hitwise, almost 17% of all UK page views in June were on Facebook. This is over twice as many as Google.

24 August 2010 - According to a new YouGov and Deloitte report, 86% of television viewers fast-forward through the adverts in digitally recorded television programmes.