1998 eOverview Report Indicates: Nearly One-Half -47.6%- of All Teens in U.S. Will Regularly Access the Internet by Year-End 1998.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 1998-- Teens Will Account for 16.1% of Total Online Population; Percentage of Children Online (Aged 3-17) Will Increase Three-Fold by 2002 eMarketer Online Highlights Children's Web Sites Nickelodeon, PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, Kids, The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Learning Network and Babyboomer.com More than 9 million teenagers, 47.6 percent of the total U.S. teenage population, will be online by year-end 1998. The 1998 eOverview Report issued by eMarketer, a leading authority on business online, states that teenagers aged 12 - 17 will also account for 16.1 percent of the projected total U.S. online population of 56 million, by year's end. The report also indicates that the number of children online, defined as those aged 3 - 17 who regularly access the net, will rise from a projected 13 million by year-end 1998 to 38 million by the year 2002, an increase of three-fold. The steady climb in numbers in numbered parts; as, a book published in numbers. See also: Number of children online, from 3.1 million in 1996 to projected numbers of 23 million by the year 2000 and 38 million in year 2002 indicate a distinctive trend, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the report. "As children at younger ages become more involved in and more comfortable with the internet, the Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises long-term potential for e-commerce grows exponentially," says Geoff Ramsey Geoff Ramsey, previously Geoff Fink (b. 1975) before taking his stepfather's surname, is a staff member and voice actor for Rooster Teeth Productions machinima series, including Red vs. Blue, The Strangerhood and PANICS. , statsmaster of eMarketer. "Today, kids use the internet as a learning tool at school. That comfort level will lead to the future growth of other internet applications in communications, commerce, shopping and entertainment. In a few years these kids won't hesitate to purchase music, books, clothing and groceries online." Where do kids go when they go online? This week the eMarketer site features the top learning and entertainment web sites for kids including Nickelodeon, The New York Times Learning Network, PBS Kids PBS Kids (often styled all-caps as "PBS KIDS") is the umbrella brand for children's programming aired by the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. As with all PBS programming, PBS Kids programming is non-commercial. and Babyboomer.com. "They are informative and fun, both as learning tools and as entertainment vehicles," states Jonathan Jackson Jonathan Jackson is a name shared by several notable men:
The 1998 eOverview Report features 94 pages of statistical information and analyses along with 130 charts, tables and graphs, covering all aspects of the internet, from the Who, What, When, Where and Why to the How Much, How Fast and How Often." eMarketer (http://www.emarketer.com), is a complete, comprehensive resource for anyone who wants to know about e-business online. It is an easy-to-use, one-stop resource for online marketing information, statistics and news. eMarketer aggregates, organizes, analyzes and filters online business information to turn it into business intelligence. For more information and copies of the 1998 eOverview Report contact: Gary Galati, eMarketer, ggalati@emarketer.com, 212-677-7137 |
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