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Consumers with Workplace Internet Access Spend More Time in a 24-Hour Day Online than Watching TV.


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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2002

New Study from the Online Publishers Association Examines Media

Consumption, Behaviors and Attitudes of Consumers with Workplace

Internet Access See how to access the Internet. ; Finds that Daytime Daytime may refer to:
  • Daytime (astronomy), the time between sunrise and sunset, on Earth or elsewhere
  • The DAYTIME protocol, used on computer networks
  • Daytime television
  • Daytime (album), a single by the German band Jane

 is "Prime Time" on the Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 

The Online Publishers Association (OPA OPA: see Office of Price Administration. ) announced today the results of a media consumption study undertaken with Millward Brown Millward Brown is a market research company,[2] with its headquarters based in the UK. Millward Brown was the first company to provide continuous tracking studies, and has researched more ads and more brands than any other research company.  IntelliQuest in November November: see month.  2001.

The study profiles consumers who had accessed the Internet from work in the past 30 days ("At-Work Users"), and contrasts them with Internet users Internet user ninternauta m/f

Internet user Internet ninternaute m/f 
 who hadn't had·n't  

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hadn't had not
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 ("Non-Work Users").

The U.S. at-work Internet audience numbered 52.8 million in 2001, according to according to
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2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

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 Jupiter Jupiter, in Roman religion and mythology
Jupiter, in Roman religion and mythology, the supreme god, also called Jove. Originally a sky deity associated with rain and agriculture, he developed into the great father god, prime protector of the state,
 Media Metrix. This new research suggests that these users have highly desirable demographics The attributes of people in a particular geographic area. Used for marketing purposes, population, ethnic origins, religion, spoken language, income and age range are examples of demographic data. . They are significantly more likely to be aged 18-34 (45% vs. 26%), are more likely to be highly educated (70% have at least a bachelor's degree vs. 50%) and have considerable spending power The power of legislatures to tax and spend.

Spending power is conferred to state and federal legislatures through their constitution. Judicial Review of legislative spending varies from state to state, but the law of federal spending informs courts in all states.
 (45% have household income greater than $75,000 vs. 22%) in comparison to Non-Work Users. Seventy-nine percent of At-Work Users report that the Internet has made them more productive workers, and 69% indicate that it helps them balance their personal and professional lives.

The vast majority of At-Work Users (91%) also log on from home. The study investigated the overall media usage of At-Work Users during a typical 24-hour day. Interviews conducted Tuesday through Saturday asking about yesterday's media consumption revealed that this affluent, highly educated group now spends more time on the Internet on a typical Monday-Friday than they spend watching television. (Use of the Internet for e-mail was specifically excluded in the questionnaire.) Thirty-four percent of total media minutes are spent on the Internet, while 30% are spent watching television and 26% are spent listening to the radio. Even among Non-Work Users, the amount of time spent on the Internet during the workweek is second only to TV.

The study also confirmed that daytime is prime time for the Internet. While Internet usage is notably strong throughout the day in comparison to other media, the Internet completely dominates daytime media use in the same way that television dominates evenings. (Usage was consistently defined for all media.)

"Busy working people now spend more time on the Internet than they spend either watching television, listening to the radio, or reading newspapers or magazines," said Michael Zimbalist, acting executive director of the Online Publishers Association. "It is clear that the Internet is an extremely positive force in these users' lives. Its value extends from productivity enhancement to information retrieval information retrieval

Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links.
 on high-quality media sites, making these sites a particularly compelling way for advertisers to reach their customers."

On a series of attitudinal questions comparing online advertising to advertising in other forms of media, the survey revealed that At-Work Users consider Internet ads to be more rich in information than ads in traditional media. They further indicated that online advertising was their preferred way to receive marketing messages about new products and information about companies. Most significantly, online advertising was cited as the number one form of advertising that helps them decide what to buy.

Zimbalist continued: "The buying power Buying Power

The money an investor has available to buy securities. In a margin account, the buying power is the total cash held in the brokerage account plus maximum margin available.

Also referred to as "Excess Equity.
 of At-Work Users, coupled with their clear indication that online ads help them make purchase decisions more than ads in traditional media, makes a strong case for all major advertisers to include online in their media mix."

The research was conducted on a sample size of 1,022 Internet users, of which 755 had accessed the Internet from work in the past 30 days, and 272 had accessed the Internet from somewhere other than work in the past 30 days. The sample was recruited throughout the day from the Lightspeed web panel.

A more detailed summary of findings from this study will be available later this afternoon at the Online Publishers Association Web site at www.online-publishers.org. A white paper containing the full results will be available next month. Further OPA/Millward Brown IntelliQuest research on the effectiveness of online media in conjunction with television advertising is also underway, and results should be available this spring.

About Millward Brown IntelliQuest

Millward Brown IntelliQuest is the technology research center of the Millward Brown Group. A leading provider of marketing research to technology companies and Internet marketers, Millward Brown IntelliQuest provides marketing research services enabling clients to understand and improve the strategic position of their brands, products, media or channels. It offers custom research solutions, market and brand tracking, media research and business-to-business online marketplace tracking. Millward Brown is a member of The Kantar Group The Kantar Group (TKG), based in Fairfield, Connecticut, and London, was founded in 1993 as the Information and Consultancy Division of WPP Group plc, a London-based public company. Eric Salama is the current chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TKG. , the research and consultancy arm of WPP Group WPP Group plc (LSE: WPP) (NASDAQ: WPPGY), based in London, United Kingdom, is one of the world's largest communications services groups (and one of the big six advertising holding companies, the others being Omnicom, Interpublic, Publicis, Dentsu and Havas) employing .

About the Online Publishers Association

Founded in June 2001 by twelve of the Internet's leading content brands, the Online Publishers Association (OPA) is an industry trade organization whose mission is to advance the interests of high-quality online publishers before the advertising community, the press, the government and the public. Members of OPA represent the highest standards in Internet publishing with respect to editorial quality and integrity, credibility and accountability. For more information about the Online Publishers Association, visit www.online-publishers.org.

For the purposes of this study, the total day was divided into the following dayparts:

    EASTERN & PACIFIC/CENTRAL & MOUNTAIN
    6am-9am / 5am-8am = Morning
    9am-1pm / 8am-12pm = Daytime I
    1pm-4:30pm / 12pm-3:30pm = Daytime II
    4:30pm-6pm / 3:30pm-5pm = Early Fringe
    6pm-7pm / 5pm-6pm = Early Fringe II
    7pm-11pm / 6pm-10pm = Prime Time
    11pm-1am = Late Fringe
    1am-6am / 12am-5am = Late Night


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    CONTACT: Online Publishers Association
             Lisa Carparelli, 917/743-4537
             E-mail: lcarparelli@online-publishers.org
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             Katy Richardson, 512/347-2932
             E-mail: krichardson@intelliquest.com

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