40% of adults use internet to get news about the election

40% of all adults have used the internet to get political news and information about the campaign so far, up from 31% at the same point in the 2004 presidential race, according to the Pew Internet Project.

Published on: August 3, 2008 Department: Internet usage

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Number of Internet users in Asian countries in April 2008
16.5 mln UK households are online
Top US search engines in June 2008
39% of US households will rent videos online by 2012
Top Web companies in June 2008
What Web sites people visit on mobile phones
Fastest-growing search terms in June 2008
US Internet user profile by demographics
Top food search terms in June 2008
US Internet usage in July 2008
Mobile Internet Penetration Across Countries
Gymnasts ranked by online buzz
Top lifestyle search terms in June 2008
Top dating search terms in June 2008
US visits to social networking sites in June 2008
Top aviation search terms in June 2008
Top search query generators in UK in June 2008
Time spent on social networks in June 2008
Top automotive search terms in June 2008
Traffic to Apple.com after iPhone and iPhone 3G launches
Online political activity between Obama and McCain supporters
Top iPhone-related search terms in June 2008
Online political activities by age
Top search terms in June 2008
Who visits online banking sites in Canada
37% of those who politically engaged online say the internet helps them feel more personally connected with the candidates
Top US domains by traffic in June 2008
Growth in political content sharing and creation since fall 2006
Top 5 online video US sites, May, 2008
65% of online Obama’s supporters and 56% of online McCain’s supporters get political news online
Top social networks in UK
Political content sharing and creation stats
Top education search terms in June 2008
Political activities of US Internet users as compared to total population
35.3 mln cable and 29.7 mln DSL subscribers in the US in Q2 2008
Top Canadian online banking sites in April 2008
55% of Republicans, 61% of Democrats, and 56% of independents look online for news about politics or the 2008 campaigns
Top video sites in Germany in May 2008
Top German sites in May 2008
Demographics of financial news and research sites
In May 2008, YouTube received 82% of its visits from returning visitors
Top US search sites in May 2008
36% of online Democrats, 21% of Republicans and 28% of independents have a profile on a social networking site
1.4 bln people will use the Internet in 2008
Political News Consumers, 2004 vs. 2008
45% of online Democrats and 34% of Republicans go online
27% of internet users go online once a week to do something related to Presidential campaign
Top sites in France in May 2008
Top US online video sites in May 2008 by videos per user
3 bln devices to access the Internet by 2012
Top US online video sites in May 2008 by number of videos
Total mortgage loan applications submitted online in Q1 2008
China’s online population to grow to 375 mln users in 2012
Top US search engines in June 2008
35% of all adults have watched a politically related video
General role of the Internet in US politics
40% of adults use internet to get news about the election
Top US search engines in May 2008
Top US sites in June 2008
10% of social network users engage in political activity of some kind
Top German online video sites in May 2008
Stats on accessing Internet via mobile device around the world
1.4 bln Internet users in 2008
50% of all Internet users will make online purchases in 2008
323 mln broadband users in 2007, 499 mln by 2012
253 mln Chinese Internet users, 214 mln of them use broadband
Top US search engines in May 2008
19% of all online users are seriously into sports
Fastest-growing US web sites in May 2008
Top social networking sites in France in April 2008
Top social networking sites in France in April 2008
Top online ad campaigns by fast food chains
Top US Web sites in May 2008
New and returning visitors to social networks in May 2008
Top US domains in May 2008
Online tools used by those who use the internet in their housing search
Top US search engines in May 2008
Time spent on social networking in May 2008
Leading search engines in May 2008
Top US Web companies in May 2008
29% of new house buyers believe online information helped them get a better price on their house or apartment
Fastest-growing US web categories in May 2008
Top food search terms in May 2008
Top 10 Web sites by video streams for April 2008
What do people do when they start looking for a place to live?
Top US Web sites in May 2008
Top online video destinations for US users ages 12-17
Top lifestyle search terms in May 2008
39% of cell phone buyers research phones on the internet
Top online video destinations for US users ages 2-11
Top education search terms in May 2008
Top search sites in April 2008
How do online music buyers find out about new music?
US monthly online video consumption in April 2008
Top dating search terms in May 2008
What online users do after buying music
15% of consumer time is spent online, 9% of ad budgets are currently online
Top US advertising carriers in May 2008
US Internet user profile by age
Top aviation search terms
162 mln Americans went online in May 2008
Top search terms in May 2008
Top US online video sites in April 2008
Top automotive search terms
162 mln Americans went online in May 2008
Fastest-growing search terms in May 2008
Top US search engines in May 2008
How dependent are sites on search engines in May 2008
Top search engines in UK in May 2008
US search engines share in May 2008
How cell-phone buyers learn about their future cell phone
Traffic to shopping sites in May 2008
27% of internet users downloaded music from the internet in 2008
Top food-related search terms
What do music buyers do after buying music online?
Internet ads grew by 23.9% to $7.1 bln in Q1 2008
Top lifestyle search terms
Fatest-growing Web sites in Canada in March 2008
Top French online video sites in January 2008
Top domains by time spent browsing per month in UK in March 2008
UK most popular online banking sites in January 2008
Fastest-growing sites in Germany in April 2008
Fastest-growing Web categories in Canada in March 2008
Top French online video sites in January 2008
Top domains by time spent browsing per month in United States in March 2008
Top visited US TV websites in 2006-2008 TV seasons
Where Latin American Internet users come from in April 2008
Top 10 fastest-growing search terms in April 2008
Top UK online newspapers in March 2008
Top US online video sites by videos per user
Top US online video sites in March 2008
Top-10 Rankings music -bands and artists category in US in April, 2008
Top-growing US web sites in US in March 2008
57% of US teens have a short attention span
86% of cell phone owners likely to be internet users
What people do when they start the process of looking for a place to live
How users learn about new cell phones
56% of Internet users who researched their cell phone before buying ended up being satisfied with purchase
Only 7% of internet users went online for information or help with the problems with their cell phones
29% of Americans said online information helped them get a better price on their house or apartment
47% of black teens have written in a personal journal in the past year
Top education search terms
Top dating search terms
Average US internet usage in April, 2008
Top US Web sites in April 2008
US Internet penetration by demographic profile
US Internet audience profile in April 2008
37% of social network profile owners write a journal
63% of black teens use social networking profiles for communication
57% of black teens write in a journal for school
87% of all teens engage in electronic communication
44% of US teens have a journal
6% of US teens write software for personal enjoyment
63% of teenage internet users now go online daily
Top Web sites in Japan for March 2008
39% of teens say they talk with their friends in person outside of school
66% of teens live in households with broadband
89% of teens log in from home
Only 87% of Hispanic teens go online
Leading US search engines in April 2008
Most popular US URLs in April 2008
Top Web sites in Canada in March 2008
Average US time spent in April 2008
49% of consumers listen to radio for new music
18% of US consumers have listened to an audio podcast
72% of teens usually write longhand
US weekly online radio audience increased in 2007 to 33 mln
71% of teens currently have a cell phone and computer at home
The number of social network users in Latin American countries grew 103% in January 2008
How internet users who have bought music in 2007 use online resources to learn about music
60% of Internet users in Latin American countries are using social networks
The most popular social network in Latin American countries is Orkut
Top-growing sites in Russia in February 2008
41% of weekly online radio listeners have a social networking profile
Fastest-growing sites in March 2008
44% of Americans say Internet outage would disrupt their lives
Top 10 sites in March 2008
US Internet usage in March 2008
US Internet users demographic profile in March 2008
220 mln Internet users in China, making China #1 by number of users
Internet penetration in Russia is at 27%
35% of search engine users do not use vertical search
30% of broadband users and 20% of dial-up users conduct image searches
45% of US employers monitor employee computer usage and keystrokes
US currently accounts for 21% of Internet users, down from 66% in 1996
52% of Internet users connect wirelessly
Canadian teens spend less time online than adults
Older teens are more active online than adults
88% of Canadian teens have participated in an online social activity
210 mln Internet users in China at year-end 2007
64% of Canadian teens have downloaded digital music
Americans spend 32.7 hours a week online
28% of online teens consider themselves an internet expert
84% of Internet users search, 83% use maps
3.24 mln broadband subscribers in India
Americans spend 32.7 hours a week online
56% of Internet users send e-mail every day
Internet access by household income
Income levels and levels of confidence in e-commerce
66% of online users had bought something online in September 2007
Demographic profile of online shoppers
Australians spend 8% of their Internet time on social networks
US broadband access by demographic groups
55% of all Americans have broadband Internet access
Only 48% of high-school graduates have broadband
US Internet users more likely to contact government
40% of Americans prefer to get a government document online
WiFi access points to generate $191 mln in 2012
70% of Americans expect government sites to be useful
59% of online adults seek health info online
50% of companies block some of Web 2.0 services
33% of online physicians use blogs
There were 155 mln sites in January 2008
81% of Chinese Internet users have IM, 56.5% use e-mail
Registered and active hostnames, 1995-2007
Nearly 64% of online teens are content creators
96% of California households have access to broadband
210 mln Internet users in China in 2007
82% of US teens use social networks for messaging
54% of Americans had broadband in 2007
42% of teens who are on social networks also have a blog
55% of online content created by girls
24% of Americans learn about Presidential campaign online
70% of young adults visit video-sharing sites
45% of US Internet users are creating and sharing content
40% of Estonians use Internet on a daily basis
63.7 mln baby-boomers to use Internet in 2011
12.1 mln gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual Internet users in the US
35.5% of Web users spent 3+ hours a day online
11.8% of all US Internet users to be African Americans
Total time spent online up 24.3% in October 2007
European young adults prefer being online to television
79% of US adults go online
76.4% of US teens are Internet users
41.5% of US kids 3-11 are Internet users
86.6% of Internet users spend more than 6 hours a week online
Peer-to-peer services to generate $28 bln for ISPs over next 4 years
19% of Americans spend 6+ hours a day on the Internet, 9% spend 6+ hours a day on television
1.5 bln people online by 2011
57% of mobile Internet users are under 35 years old
Young women comprise 18% of all online Britons
34% of companies do not monitor employee usage of the Internet
Top DNS servers: secureserver.net, name-services.com, yahoo.com
African Americans spend 72% more time online
85.6% of UK business have Internet access
50% of online users are looking for food and cooking information online
66% of UK non-Internet-users very unlikely to get online
56% of US Latinos go online
375 mln Internet users in Asia
Mobile gaming revenues up 80% in 2005
137 mln Internet users in China
132 mln Internet users in China
47 mln Internet users in Russia by 2012
21% of adults think kids spend too much online
Teen time spent online up 41% in 3 years
13.7% of Internet users find it hard to stay offline for a few days in a row
195.3 mln baby boomer Internet users in the US
Average US family spends 3.6 hours a day on the Internet
713 mln Internet users worldwide in June 2006
82% of engineers use Internet to research required supplies
Internet usage among students of different races
Families with kids spend 15.6-21.1 hours online weekly
Americans 18-26 years old spend 12.2 hours online every week
123 mln Internet users in China
Internet usage penetration is at 20% in Mexico
US Internet users profile
PC usage and Internet usage in the United States 1995-2006
US Internet usage 1995-2006
44% of UK population has no Internet access from home
77% of Americans are online
52% of Web users are women
Top countries by time spent online: Israel, Finland, South Korea, Netherlands
694 mln Internet users worldwide in March 2006
110 mln Chinese online, 60 mln will have blogs by year-end 2006
17 bln devices to connect to the Internet in 2012
US online gaming to generate $3.5 bln in 2009
61 mln online gamers in China by 2010
3.6 mln Internet users in Mexico
Chinese Internet users are online 17.9 hours a week
79% of urban Americans were online yesterday
Rural Internet users less active than urban and suburban
24% of rural Americans are online
4 mln MSN Messenger users in Australia
10 mln Internet users in Vietnam
30% of Internet users go online without any specific reasons
1 bln Internet users worldwide in 2005
20.1 mln African Americans online by 2007
91 Internet suicides in Japan in 2005
49% of US African-Americans are online
37% of Internet users spend less time reading books and more time online
18.6 mln mobile subscribers in Nigeria
30 mln Americans use My Yahoo!
Internet activities by age group
US Internet users by age group
5.39 mln Internet users in Netherlands
20% of Malaysian government staff use Internet for personal activities
111 mln Internet users in China in 2005
89% of US small businesses have Internet connections
93% of Europeans access Web from home, 47% from work, 26% from schools
150 mln Americans have cell phones with color screens
European Internet traffic is 19% Usenet, 13% P2P
US online user demographics: 68% of men and 66% of women are online
Men use Internet for weather, news, DIY, sports; women - for email, maps, medical information
68% of men and 66% of women in the USA go online
50% of New Zealand kids use Internet daily
39% of Internet users would give up cell phone, 33% - TV, 28% - Internet
38.5 mln Internet users in India in 2005, 100 mln by 2007
17% of US Internet users have streamed music content
17% of US Internet users have sold something online
2.96 mln Internet users in Venezuela
67% of Chinese Internet users are males
47% of Europeans use the Internet, 85% of 16-24-year-olds
15.5 mln Canadians have cell phones
10.5% of US Internet users are African American
Top US states by PC penetration: Utah, Alaska, New Hampshire, Washington
18.8% of US Internet users are teens and kids
80% of African Americans online, 67% have broadband
Internet usage highest among whites, hispanics, college grads, 18-29 years old
32% of Americans do not use Internet
63% of UK women use the Internet
eDonkey accounts for 51% of P2P, BitTorrent for 34%
87% of US employees do personal browsing at work, 65% say it provides them with short breaks
US instant messaging market: AOL - 41.6 mln users, Yahoo! - 19.1 mln, MSN - 14.1 mln
66% of Australian parents say their kids are more Internet-savvy
55% of US farmers use PCs, 51% are online
557 mln hours spent in June 2005 on content sites
Australian kids on average spend 6.2 hours a week online
87% of US teens are online, 50% of those online have broadband
15% of the time Americans spend with media is spent online
7.6 mln Russians are online, ISP market to generate $1.5 bln in 2005
103 mln Internet users in China
76% of Arab Americans and 67% of Asian Americans are online
6.0 mln African Americans use dial-up
100 mln Internet users in India by 2007-2008
65% of US women and 67% of US men are online
100 mln Internet users in China
98.9% of US libraries offer Internet, 18% have Wi-Fi
3.2 mln Internet users in the Philippines
27.7% of Americans 65+ years old are online
55% of Internet users search for do-it-yourself information
AOL lost 549K subscribers in Q1 2005
61% spend more time on Internet now compared to a year ago
38% of business travelers think $25 a flight is a good price for in-flight Internet
23% of kids 3-5 are online
Belgium to have 64% online penetration, Netherlands to reach 75% by 2010
35 mln households had home networks in 2004, 162 mln will have them in 2010
6.4 mln Ukrainians online in April 2005
US small businesses to spend $7.4 bln on Web hosting in 2009
20% of UK parents are Internet-illiterate
51.6% of US online users are women
21% of seniors 65+ search for health information online
Americans spend 13 hours 44 minutes a month online
91% of companies use some wireless service
Monthly Americans spend 13 hours 44 minutes on the Internet
13% of US teens do not use Internet at all
10.3 mln households with income $150,000 and above are online
10 mln seniors online
2 mln US households to use broadband for online gaming in 2007
94 mln Internet users in China, 43 mln have broadband
31% of US seniors are online
5.9 mln Ukrainians online
Online users spend 57% of their time on communication, 43% on browsing
18.3% of US urban Internet users are 55+ years old
32.3% of men and 24.9% of women spend 3+ hours per day on the Internet at work
8.1 mln Internet users in Central and Eastern Europe
24.7% of rural Americans have Internet access
51% of online Hispanics are affluent
Internet takes 20% of media consumption time in UK
4 mln Ukrainians online
CacheLogic says 35% of all Internet traffic is now BitTorrent
14% of Americans want to watch their houses through Web-enabled cameras
23% of Bulgarians unaware of Internet
Chine to become world’s largest online gaming market in 2007
Females comprise 51% of US and 42% of European online population
Federal spending on broadband to libraries and schools totals $2.25 bln a year
Yahoo and MSN have the top messengers, Yahoo Mail the top free e-mail
15.6 mln people will watch TV over IP in 2007
30-40% of Internet use at work is not work-related
High income brings to less TV, more time spent online
Over 1 bln online in 2005
Firefox gaining browser market share
Internet gaming market to generate $1 bln in 2004
88% of Americans say internet plays a major role in their life
30 mln Koreans online
Number of Japanese Web users grows 7.7% in May 2004
79.5% of Americans use the Internet, 63% the Web
22 mln Americans bank online
63 mln domains registered
82% of office workers have an invisible colleague
22 mln US teens online by 2008
What do people use on IM?
Half the Brits spend 1-5 hours online at work for personal reasons
Internet audience breakdown by household income
13 mln Hispanic Internet users by the end of 2004
72.5% of 18-34 year-olds are online
17% have used wireless Internet, 23% participated in an online auction, 65% bought online
Home networking reaches 49% awareness in Asia Pacific
Busy women are addicted to the Internet, not enough time for anything else
IM spam to triple in 2004
Rapid decline in TV viewership among young males
22% of Americans over 65 are online
Internet usage by country, February 2004
28 mln Internet users in Central and Eastern Europe by 2006
75% of Americans are online
Internet penetration ratio is higher among women
4 mln Americans are accessing Internet from place other than home or work
25% of US Internet users think about switching ISPs
AOL, Comcast, United are top US ISPs
82% of teens send e-mail, 80% listen to the music online
3.8 mln Ukrainians are online
UK Internet subscriber numbers up 6.5% in 2003
52% of rural residents are online
The most addicted Internet gamers: females over 40
13.8 mln savvy Internet users in UK
Instant messaging market shares
80 mln Chinese surf the Web
Nielsen on the most influential Web sites
Windows Media Player top Internet non-browser app
New Pew report on Internet usage
US Internet usage growth levels off
95% of US car buyers research online
78 mln Chinese online by the end of 2003
NCMEC: Child pornography on P2P is insignificant
50% of Internet traffic passes through Virginia
10% of under-teenagers have their own Web site
Internet access devices up 30% in 2004
Prepaid Internet revenues to double next year
Nielsen/NetRatings October Stats
31% of US tech-savvy
eMarketer: $1.4 B spent on online content in 2003
UN: 592 mln. people have Internet access
ITU: Most wired countries in the world
Physicians online
Ipsos-Reid: Do Canadians like researching drugs online?
Employee Internet abuse is becoming an issue
NSSE: 87% of undergraduate students use Internet for cheating
comScore: Young males online
Nielsen: Married people spend more
Nielsen on Internet porn
AMD: UK Internet facts
AMD: US Internet facts
comScore: 150 M Internet users in the US
Ipsos-Reid: Canadian Homebuyers Go Online
Nielsen: Kids online
NetCraft: October 2003 survey
Forrester: Internet usage in the US
Nielsen: Stickiest brands in August 2003
Autosearch audience
Broadband surge nets 75% of UK population
EFM Enables Cheap Broadband in Asia Pacific
Internet usage in the United States

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