Mobile
The number of people using smartphones has been growing at a pace never seen before. And these people increasingly prefer to access local news on their mobile phones.
Your readers are now mobile!
The evolution of news
1600
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1980
2010
Smartphones
Smartphones, small pocket computers that you can also use to make calls.
2007 iPhone was released
First touch device that boosted the market
Tablets
Devices positioned halfway between a smartphone and a computer.
Since the iPad was released in 2010, tablets reveal the biggest selling growth in the history of technology.
2011
Global ownership of smartphones almost doubles, growing from 19% to 35%
2012
32 of every 100 people thinking of buying a mobile telephone will buy a smartphone
Apple
Is the preferred brand
Android
Holds the largest market share
Smartphones and Tablets
Are gaining an ever greater share among other activities
Email
54%
Get news
53%
Use social networks
39%
Play games
30%
Read books
17%
Watch video
13%
User's daily tablet activities
Getting news on the tablet is nearly as popular as email.
In only a year and a half
Time spent per day using apps in smartphones
more than duplicated.
Who are these readers?
Young
70% of young people (18-29) use mobile devices to get local news.
As generation ages, mobile technology will become a powerfull factor in the news industry.
Graduated
63% of college graduates who own a smartphone or tablet also use it to consume local news.
Urban
48% of all urban residents use a mobile device for local news.
As opposed to 38% living in rural areas.
The future
2012
2014
2014
The number of mobile Internet users will be superior to the desktop ones
Sources: Comscore, flurry.com, Inovação e Marketing, Knowliz, Morgan Stanley, Pew Internet. Data for the period of June 2010 to December 2011.
