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Browse by Topic allows you to review more than 350 topics included in our Netpop tracking study. Analyze trends year over year and across the U.S. and China.

Netpop | Nations Highlights

Remix of Flickr Images by 'spaceodissey' and 'Saad.Akhtar' 92 Percent of Chinese Netizens use Social Media Compared to 76 Percent in the U.S.

Netpop | Nations: “The Great Social Wall of China” examines why China is a critical consumer market and how companies must act now or risk being locked out in the future. Read more

Netpop Reports

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  • Netpop | Play: Online Entertainment and New Content Discovery  
       

    Netpop | Play: Online Entertainment and New Content Discovery

    New and unexpected forms of content are now accessible across millions of websites, bringing expansive opportunities for personal choice and social interactions. This report zeroes-in on entertainment online, examining the content, sites and behaviors that shape how entertainment is experienced on... more
  • Netpop | Play: Communitainment: The Social Side of Entertainment Online  
       

    Netpop | Play: Communitainment: The Social Side of Entertainment Online

    This report zeroes in on the social interaction that takes place around the involvement of Broadbanders™ in entertainment activities. Almost 1300 Netpop respondents (N=1284) answered an expanded series of questions about their behaviors and attitudes around various types of entertainment content,... more
  • Netpop | Play: Entertainment Content, Media & Devices in the Digital Age  
       

    Netpop | Play: Entertainment Content, Media & Devices in the Digital Age

    With content no longer tethered to particular a medium, device or location, advertisers and business leaders cope with an increasingly complex web of consumer choices and behaviors. Devices proliferate, access is anywhere and content is set free to be enjoyed where ever and when ever… or so the... more
  • Shop

  • Netpop | Shop: Media or Entertainment Shoppers Quick Sheet  
       

    Netpop | Shop: Media or Entertainment Shoppers Quick Sheet

    Netpop | Shop Quick Sheets are an introduction to some of the characteristics and behaviors that influence shoppers in each of ten product categories analyzed in the Netpop | Shop series. This Media or Entertainment Shoppers Quick Sheet looks at the types of media or entertainment products recently... more
  • Netpop | Shop: Automotive Shoppers Quick Sheet  
       

    Netpop | Shop: Automotive Shoppers Quick Sheet

    Netpop | Shop Quick Sheets are an introduction to some of the characteristics and behaviors that influence shoppers in each of ten product categories analyzed in the Netpop | Shop series. This Automotive Shoppers Quick Sheet looks at the types of automotive products recently purchased or planned... more
  • Netpop | Shop: Travel Shoppers Quick Sheet  
       

    Netpop | Shop: Travel Shoppers Quick Sheet

    Netpop | Shop Quick Sheets are an introduction to some of the characteristics and behaviors that influence shoppers in each of ten product categories analyzed in the Netpop | Shop series. This Travel Shoppers Quick Sheet looks at the types of travel products recently purchased or planned for... more
  • Nations

  • Netpop | Nations: Online Shopping and the New Chinese Consumer Market  
       

    Netpop | Nations: Online Shopping and the New Chinese Consumer Market

    China is the second largest Internet population in the world and is projected to overtake the U.S. in total number of users within a few years. Broadband penetration among Internet users in China is approximately 76 percent and this group, although only approximately ten percent of the... more

  • Netpop | Nations: Comparison of China and U.S. Broadband Usage  
       

    Netpop | Nations: Comparison of China and U.S. Broadband Usage

    This report compares eight usage characteristics of broadband users in China to those of the U.S., including access devices, wired vs. wireless connections, dayparts online, hours per week, online activities, etc. Two graphs are available for every topic covered; one that compares the total... more

  • Netpop | Nations: Demographic Comparison of China and U.S. Broadband Users  
       

    Netpop | Nations: Demographic Comparison of China and U.S. Broadband Users

    This report compares nine demographic characteristics of broadband users in China to those of the U.S., including age, gender, tenure online, education, marital status, employment status, etc.  Each graph is presented with a brief prose analysis to help distill findings for time-constrained... more

  • Response

  • Netpop | Response: Response by Psychographic Profiles  
       

    Netpop | Response: Response by Psychographic Profiles

    Netpop | Portraits provides a segmentation analysis of the broadband population. Applying these segments to Netpop | Response shows how a users' overall attitudes and orientation to the Internet impacts response to online... more
  • Netpop | Response: Response by Site Category & Demographics  
       

    Netpop | Response: Response by Site Category & Demographics

    Of the 118 personal interest categories covered in this study, 53 of them generated at least 100 site mentions. Revealing what interests lead to high response scores, this section also compared response scores between shopping sites and other major category sites, high and low-traffic... more

  • Netpop | Response: Response to Online Advertising  
       

    Netpop | Response: Response to Online Advertising

    Broadbanders say one-fourth of the sites they visit for personal interests are likely to advertise products and brands they are interested in. Comparisons in terms of size of site and liking of site reveal what factors actually influence people's response to online... more

  • Snapshot

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    Netpop | Snapshot: China 2009  
       

    Netpop | Snapshot: China 2009

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    This report offers a high-level overview of the five attitudinal segments that make-up the broadband population in China. It is designed to introduce the segments and set them in the context of... more

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    Netpop | Snapshot: U.S. 2009  
       

    Netpop | Snapshot: U.S. 2009

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    This report offers a high-level overview of the five attitudinal segments that make-up the broadband population in the United States. It is designed to introduce the segments and set them in... more

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    Netpop | Snapshot: China 2008  
       

    Netpop | Snapshot: China 2008

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    This report offers an overview of the five attitudinal segments or "portraits" that make-up the broadband population in China. It is designed to introduce the segments and set them... more

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    Netpop | Snapshot: U.S. 2008  
       

    Netpop | Snapshot: U.S. 2008

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    This report offers an overview of the five attitudinal segments or "portraits" that make-up the broadband population in the United States. It is designed to introduce the segments... more

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    Netpop | Snapshot  
       

    Netpop | Snapshot

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    This Report provides an overview of 5 segments that comprise the broadband population, including demographic and attitudinal data to help illustrate various approaches to the Web. ... more

  • Pocket

  • Netpop | Pocket: Current Pocket-Net Users  
       

    Netpop | Pocket: Current Pocket-Net Users

    This section portrays the Broadbanders who used their cell phone or PDA to access the Internet in the month prior to this survey in demographics as well as in cellular handset brand and mobile service brand selection. In addition, it applied the segmentation analysis of Netpop | Portraits to... more

  • Netpop | Pocket: Second Screen Loyalists  
       

    Netpop | Pocket: Second Screen Loyalists

    We asked broadband users who are not using a mobile device to go online about the types of online activities they would be most interested in doing through their cell phone or PDA, assuming it were easy and affordable. Comparing current users' actual use and non-users' expectations, mobile... more

  • Netpop | Pocket: Pocketing the Internet Today  
       

    Netpop | Pocket: Pocketing the Internet Today

    Over 100 million Americans aged 13 and older currently access the Internet through a broadband connections, yet only five percent of these Broadbanders - roughly five million Americans - used their cell phone or PDA to access the Internet in the month prior to this study. This section analyzed how... more
  • Connect

  • Netpop | Connect: Media Shifts to Social - China 2009  
       

    Netpop | Connect: Media Shifts to Social - China 2009

    《转向社交 - 中国》报告是用英文撰写的,但如果您有任何问题或需要翻译,请发电子邮件至support@netpopresearch.com。 The impact of social media is just beginning. Market trends and customer opinion are being shaped by end users more rapidly and with greater... more
  • Netpop | Connect: Media Shifts to Social 2009  
       

    Netpop | Connect: Media Shifts to Social 2009

    The impact of social media is just beginning. Market trends and customer opinion are being shaped by end users more rapidly and with greater impact on business than ever before. Netpop | Connect: Media Shifts to Social, a new report from Netpop Research, provides important insights into social... more
  • Netpop | Connect: Social Networkers China  
       

    Netpop | Connect: Social Networkers China

    Netpop® Research reports that social networking is growing in popularity and influence in China. Today, 24 percent of all Chinese broadband users regularly participate in social networking – an increase of 9 percent since 2007 – and social networking sites were influential in 20 percent... more

  • Netpop Research Blog

    Ripples from a Web 2.0 Summit

    2009 was an exciting year at the Web 2.0 Summit. From the battle for real-time search between Bing and Google and platform vs. content presentations from Adobe and AOL, news broke every hour.   More

    Tired: Exchange Outages | Wired: Gmail Cloud Latency

    Back in the day, at least there was an IT department to harrass. Now, the company blog is the place to complain about the lack of email availability. Read more about the problem some companies are experiencing.   More

    Social Networks Coping with the Cool Factor

    The coverage of our recent Social Networking report in the blogosphere is gratifying to see. Thanks to all of you who read and commented on the report. Links to two of the blogs that covered the report are posted below, if you’re interested.

    Much of the interest/discussion seems to have centered on Part 2 of the report, that is, the comparison between Facebook and MySpace.   More