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Recommendations to Radio from the
2000 "American Youth Study"
Send stations after these demos or watch
them fade away
Co-opt Internet audio or lose it
Just like Cable TV to Broadcast
Explore co-branded side channels
Consider industry advertising
a la "Got Milk"
Recruit young people -- we can't just depend
on them showing up any longer
How the 2010 Survey Was Conducted:
A sequel to Edison Research's survey from 2000,
"Radio's Future: Today's 12 to 24 year-olds"
1533 interviews nationwide
875 interviews age 12-24 (demo)
888 interviews age 22-34 (cohort)
Online survey of respondents ages 12 to 34
employing "KnowledgePanel" from Knowledge
Networks
Interviews conducted 9/8 - 9/13, 2010
Data matched to national age and sex demographics
What you will see today:
Have significantly
cut back 27%
37%
Have cut back a little
3%
6%
Spending a little more
27%
Have not changed spending on
discretionary expenses
Base: Age 12-24
The Cell Phone:
Yes Yes
29% 81%
No
No
19%
71%
More than four-in-ten 12-24s
who carry cell phones say
theirs is a 'Smart Phone'
"Is your cell phone also a smart phone?
(It has advanced capabilities beyond a typical mobile phone — such as the ability to send and receive
email, access the Internet, listen to audio and watch video, and download apps)"
Yes
43%
Don't know
5%
No
52%
Watch video 37
Listen to Internet-only radio
such as Pandora 18
Listen to the stream of any
FM or AM radio stations
16
0 20 40 60 80 100
Base: Age 12-24 and have own cell phone % ever doing each activity
Today's 12-24s own a broad
variety of devices -- most of
which did not even exist in 2000
"Do you have your own...?"
Cell phone 81
Laptop computer 56
Apple iPod 46
Portable MP3 player
other than Apple iPod 35
Apple iPhone 7
Apple iPad 3
Portable hand-held book reader
such as Amazon Kindle 2
0 20 40 60 80 100
% owning device
Base: Age 12-24
Radio:
hours:minutes
Ten years later, teens and young
adults report nearly three hours per
day on Internet and much less radio
"In the last 24 hours, approximately how much time did you spend...?"
0:59
On the Internet
32:52
2:37
Watching television
32:47
2:43
Listening to the radio
1 1:24
0:42
Playing video games
1 1:10
1:44
Talking on the telephone
1 1:04
0:24
Reading magazines
0 0:11 2000: 12-24s
0:17 2010: 12-24s
Reading newspapers
00:08
hours:minutes
Radio is one of only three options with a
'net more' among 12-24s; along with
Internet and surprisingly, telephone
"Compared to one year ago, are you spending more, less or the same amount of time...?"
Don't Know/
More Same Less NA
On the Internet 48 36 14 2
Watching television 18 44 35 2
Listening to the radio 27 43 22 7
Playing video games 19 35 30 16
Talking on the telephone 28 45 23 4
Reading magazines 10 45 23 22
Reading newspapers 10 46 17 27
Going to concerts 9 33 17 40
Going to movies 20 40 28 12
0 20 40 60 80 100
Friends 46 45 90
YouTube 31 42 72
0 20 40 60 80 100
0 20 40 60 80 100
Base: Age 12-24 and ever listen to AM/FM radio
Also the concert industry -- once
seen as the great hope of music --
has been whacked by the economy
"Approximately how many concerts have you attended in the last year?"
One
15%
One
20%
None None
43% 64%
Don't know
7% Social network site
Other 10%
4% Music artist/group Web site
AM/FM radio station Web site 8%
1% Ticket Web site
Email from the concert venue 7%
3%
Base: Age 12-24 and have attended at least one concert in last year
12-24s report vastly fewer physical
CDs purchased; even the 'cohort'
members have dropped by 62%
"Approximately how many music CDs have you bought in the last 12 months --
that is, the physical or packaged disk?"
300
200
100
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Yes Yes
31% 65%
No No
69% 35%
Many of our young
respondents were happy to
report their 'illegal' downloads
"How often do you obtain music by...?" Once per week Once per month or more
or more (but less than once per week)
Purchasing digital music files
online from iTunes 6 16 23
Downloading for free from peer-to-peer or
BitTorrent apps like Limewire 7 12 19
Receiving digital music files from a friend via
e-mail/IM/Internet/sharing a flash drive 4 9 13
Downloading music for free
from an MP3 blog 4 8 12
Downloading music for free from an
artist/record label Web site 4 6 10
Downloading files online fr. music sub. services
w/ monthly fee for unlimited downloads 3 58
Purchasing through a direct link from an online
music service such as Pandora or Shazam 2 46
Purchasing digital music files
online from Amazon.com 2 35
0 10 20 30
Base: Age 12-24
In the last decade, Radio has lost its
edge as the most prevalent activity
in the morning for young people
"In the morning, do you regularly...?"
62
Listen to music other than the radio
49
38
Watch TV
42
16
Use the Internet
42
74
Listen to the radio
41
2000: 12-24s
29 2010: 12-24s
Read a newspaper
8
0 20 40 60 80 100
% saying "yes"
Radio remains the top choice for
22-34s, but Internet and TV have
nearly eliminated the gap
"In the morning, do you regularly...?"
62
Listen to music other than the radio
35
38
Watch TV
45
16
Use the Internet
47
74
Listen to the radio
53
2000: 12-24s
29 2010: 22-34s
Read a newspaper
14
0 20 40 60 80 100
% saying "yes"
Television has passed Radio as the
'most used' in the morning among 12-24s
"Which do you do most in the morning?"
Read newspaper
3%
Music other than radio
Read newspaper
9%
6%
Watch TV
Watch TV 25%
Use Internet
18% Music other than radio
23%
None/Don't know
21% None/Don't know
Use Internet
6% 11%
4%
Biggest reason they don't listen
more hasn't changed one bit:
Too Many Commercials
"Do you not listen to AM/FM radio more because...?" page 1
75
AM/FM radio stations play too many commercials
74
63
AM/FM radio stations have too much talk
62
47
You prefer to watch television instead
45
2000: 12-24s
25 2010: 12-24s
You prefer to play video games instead
39
0 20 40 60 80 100
% saying "yes" this is a reason they
*2000 wording: "CDs and cassettes"
do not listen to AM/FM radio more
Interestingly, today's 12-24s are less
likely to say that they aren't hearing
the music they like on the radio
"Do you not listen to AM/FM radio more because...?" page 2
51
You don’t hear the music you like on AM/FM radio
36
44
You don’t have enough time to listen
30
0 20 40 60 80 100
% saying "yes" this is a reason they
do not listen to AM/FM radio more
In these job-challenged days --
why do so few young people think
Radio DJ sounds like a cool job?
0 20 40 60 80 100
% agreeing with statement
Social Networking:
MySpace 12 18 18 17 28 8
Facebook 55 19 3 2 17 4
Twitter 4 8 82 61 16
0 20 40 60 80 100
MySpace 10 22 59 9
Facebook 51 30 17 3
Twitter 24 28 34 14
0 20 40 60 80 100
Phone 22
Text message 8
Facebook 8
Email 7
Twitter 2
0 10 20 30 40
% saying "yes"
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"Think about the radio station you listen to most. What type of music does it play?"
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What are your five favorite
musical artists or group?
(most mentions)
2000 2010
1. Eminem 1. Eminem
2. 'N Sync 2. Lady Gaga
3. Limp Bizkit 3. Lil Wayne
4. Britney Spears 4. Taylor Swift
5. Korn 5. Drake
6. Backstreet Boys 6. Rihanna
7. DMX 7. Beatles
8. Dr. Dre 8. Katy Perry
9. Metallica 9. T.I.
10. Blink-182 10. Green Day
Yes
33%
No
67%
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Base: Age 12-24 and ever listen to Pandora % agreeing "strongly"
Our Next Steps:
Radio Innovations
One-third of 12-24s say that putting
an FM tuner on their cell phones
would lead to more listening
"If your cell phone had an FM radio tuner, would it lead you to listen to FM radio a lot more than you do
now, a little more than you do now or would it have no effect on your radio listening?"
Don't know
12% No effect
35%
Somewhat interested
39%
Very interested
28%
Don't know
7%
Not at all interested Not very interested
3% 23%
Base: Age 12-24
Today's 12-24s are only slightly more
likely to have visited a Radio Station site;
the 'cohort' does show increased usage
"Have you ever visited a radio station's Web site?"
2000: 12-24s 42
2010: 12-24s 46
2000: 12-24s 42
2010: 22-34s 61
0 20 40 60 80 100
% saying "yes"
After all these years and all the radio
commercials, only four-in-ten 12-24s
have even heard of HD Radio
"Have you ever heard of HD Radio?"
Yes
42%
No
58%