Report

Generations 2010

Dec 16, 2010Kathryn Zickuhr

Major trends in how different generations of Americans use the internet

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Commentary

Podcasting into the Cloud

Sep 12, 2008Mary Madden

Today we released new data that helps to trace the outline of the cloud in "cloud computing."

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Is podcasting only for the young?

Matthew Lasar , ARS Technica

Aug 31, 2008

"Podcasting continues to grow at a rate that's faster than a snail's pace, but not by much. The Pew Internet and American Life project reports that almost one in five Internet users (19 percent) say they have saved a podcast for later listening. That...

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Report: Podcasting on the Up and Up

Chris Snyder, Wired Blog Network

Aug 29, 2008

"Nineteen percent of internet users say they have downloaded a podcast, according to a new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

This number, while still pretty low, considering that podcasting first picked up steam in 2004, is up f...

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Podcasts' popularity surges in US

Oliver Luft, Guardian

Aug 29, 2008

"Internet users are increasingly time-shifting their media consumption by downloading podcasts to watch or listen later, according to a US study.

A research group looking into the habits of web users, the Pew Internet and American Life Project, found ...

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Podcasting has far to go before entering mainstream

Jon Gordon, Future Tense

Aug 29, 2008

"Back in 2005 the New Oxford American Dictionary named "podcasting" its word of the year. At that point It certainly looked like the downloadable audio and video programs would radically change the way we consume media, and would empower amateurs to ...

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Report

Podcast Downloading 2008

Aug 28, 2008Mary Madden, Sydney Jones

As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast.

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What Podcasting Revolution?

Catherine Holahan , BusinessWeek.com

Nov 27, 2006

"No doubt about it, podcasting is growing in popularity. More people than ever are downloading audio files for listening on music players and other electronic devices. The question is: Are they doing it with much regularity? More to the point, how lo...

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Podcasting: It's not just for geeks anymore

Elise Ackerman, The Seattle Times

Nov 27, 2006

"When Robert Walch started podcasting in December 2004, it was a pastime embraced by only the hardest-core geeks.

"It was the lunatic fringe," Walch recalls. "That was before early adopters."

Skip ahead two years. One of roughly eight baby boomers head...

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Podcast numbers show 'few hooked'

BBC News

Nov 23, 2006

"The survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found 12% of US people online had downloaded a podcast.

Earlier this year, a survey by the same research group found that just 7% of online Americans had downloaded a show.

But despite the growt...

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