Online News Sources By Type [CHART]

36% of US news consumers (who have consumed any news in the past month) said they had used social media and blogs as a news source in the week prior to a Reuters Institute survey conducted in April and released in July 2012.

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Media Reach Deepest Among Affluent [CHART]

via marketingcharts.com Most media show higher levels of reach among affluent than lower-income households, finds TVB in survey results released in June 2012. This pattern is, somewhat predictably, most apparent for digital and mobile channels, but also holds true for traditional media such as TV, which has the largest reach. For example, TV’s reach increases…

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US Political Ad Spending By Media, 2008 & 2012 [CHART]

via emarketer.com Research firm Borrell Associates in March estimated that US political ad spending on the internet would total $159.2 million this year, thanks to all of the attention being paid to the presidential race. While that figure represents only 1.5% of total political ad spending this year, it’s also a massive 617% increase from…

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Top 5 Most Trustworthy Info Sources Are Traditional Channels [CHART]

via marketingcharts.com Traditional media reign supreme when it comes to Americans’ trust in information sources, according to [pdf] a survey released in June 2012 by Allstate, in association with National Journal. Three-quarters of the survey respondents said they trust information from public TV and radio either some or a great deal, more than double those…

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