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The current state of mobile app privacy policies

TechCrunch :: The Washington, D.C.-based think tank Future of Privacy Forum (“FPF”) released a study this week detailing the current state of mobile app privacy policies as of this past month, June 2012. The report found that many app developers are now responding to the increased pressure from U.S. regulators on this issue, and have now introduced privacy policies for their applications as well as new policies surrounding the use of customers’ private data.

A report by Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com

Mobile Apps Study June 2012

YouTube as a news source

PEW Research .: On March 11, 2011, an earthquake registering 9.0 on the Richter scale struck the coast of northeastern Japan, triggering a tsunami that would kill more than 18,000 people and leave an estimated $180 billion in damage. The news media worldwide provided extensive coverage of the disaster and its aftermath, but millions of people also turned to the web to learn about the event on the video sharing website YouTube.

In the seven days following the disaster (March 11-18), the 20 most viewed news-related videos on YouTube all focused on the tragedy-and were viewed more than 96 million times. The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism examined 15 months' worth of the most popular news videos on YouTube (January 2011 to March 2012).

The data reveal that a complex, symbiotic relationship has developed between citizens and news organizations on YouTube, a relationship that comes close to the continuous journalistic "dialogue" many observers predicted would become the new journalism online. Citizens are creating their own videos about news and posting them. They are also actively sharing news videos produced by journalism professionals.

Findings - A report by www.journalism.org

HT: Paul Farhi, Washington Post

Americans' confidence in TV news drops to new low: From 46pc in 1993 to 21pc today

Gallup Politics :: Americans' confidence in television news is at a new low by one percentage point, with 21% of adults expressing a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in it. This marks a decline from 27% last year and from 46% when Gallup started tracking confidence in television news in 1993. The findings are from Gallup's annual update on confidence in U.S. institutions, conducted June 7-10 this year.

Continue to read Lymari Morales, www.gallup.com

HT: Dylan Byers, Politico

RISJ Digital Report 2012: Insights about digital news consumption across Europe and the United States

Reuters Insitute Digital Report :: The Reuters Institute Digital Report 2012 reveals new insights about digital news consumption across Europe and the United States. Based on a representative survey of online news consumers across five countries – UK, US, Germany, France and Denmark – the report is the start of an ambitious project to track changing digital news behaviour over the next decade.

Did you know, that there are significant differences in how regularly people keep up with the news across the surveyed countries? More than 9 in 10 Germans access the news at least once a day compared with only 3 in 4 people in the United Kingdom. The rapid switch from print to digital in the United States is not being replicated exactly in European countries. Germany is showing the strongest allegiance to traditional viewing and reading habits and has the lowest levels of internet news use.

Like to read more? Download the report (PDF) here reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

HT: Ralph Pfister

A majority or 55pc of adult cell owners now go online using their phones

Pew Internet (US) :: More than half of all adult cell owners now use their phones to go online as of April 2012. Our definition of a “cell internet user” includes anyone who uses the internet or email on their cell phone, and 55% of all adult cell phone owners use their phones for one or both of these reasons. Because 88% of U.S. adults now own a cell phone, that works out to 49% of all U.S. adults who go online using a cell phone at least occasionally. Three-quarters of these cell phone internet users (74%) say that they go online using their phone on a typical day - meaning that on a typical day fully 41% of all cell owners are using their phones to go online.

All findings - Continue to read pewinternet.org

HT: Niemanlab, here:

New Pew data: There’s a good (and growing) chance you’re reading this on your phone nie.mn/LzVVwm

— Nieman Lab (@NiemanLab) June 30, 2012

Brands’ Twitter engagement rates seen higher on weekends

Marketing Charts :: Although only 19% of brand tweets are published on weekends, these tweets show engagement rates that are 17% higher than weekdays, according to a June 2012 Buddy Media report. Certain industries can benefit even more from tweeting on weekends: for example, engagement for sports brands is 52% higher than average on the weekend. Clothing and fashion brands (+30%) also see higher-than-average engagement rates on the weekend, despite only 12% of industry tweets occurring then.

Continue to read www.marketingcharts.com

UCLA, HP study: News from reputable sources is most shared

Newscred :: Traditionally, an article’s long-term success depended on its early performance and popularity with readers. Today, with the advent of social media, it is possible to predict an article’s success even before it ever hits the newsstands…or newsfeeds. A study (direct pdf download link) performed by researchers from UCLA and HP has shed some light on the factors contributing to an article’s spread via social media.

Continue to read Lyndsey, blog.newscred.com

HT: Kylie Jane Wakefield, Contently.com

Mobile life: Usage diversifies as mobile uptake grows in Germany

eMarketer :: According to Bundesnetzagentur, the Federal Network Agency based in Bonn, Germany, mobile connections in the country reached 114.1 million at the end of 2011, approximately 5 million more than in 2010. In addition, the agency found that the number of sent text messages increased by 30% during the same period, to 55 billion. That is approximately 482 text messages per mobile connection in 2011. Other popular activities included using smartphones (40.1%), apps (36.2%) and mobile browsers (33.8%), and listening to music (27.8%).

Continue to read www.emarketer.com

Study: Privacy concerns remain for location-based service users

eMarketer :: Consumers are taking to the use of location-based services on mobile devices because of the convenience such services offer. A March 2012 poll of US mobile app users by global security association ISACA found that 58% of those who had smart devices had used location-based apps, compared with only 15% who had not. But users continue to have significant concerns regarding security and privacy issues when using portable devices.

Continue to read www.emarketer.com

public TV and radio: Americans trust traditional info sources most

Marketing Charts :: Traditional media reign supreme when it comes to Americans’ trust in information sources, according to [pdf direct download link] a survey released in June 2012 by Allstate, in association with National Journal.

75% of the survey respondents said they trust information from public TV and radio either some or a great deal, more than double those who could same the same about social networks (30%). In general, a greater amount of respondents displayed trust in traditional media information sources than in online channels. For example, trust in newspapers (71%), cable news networks (70%), and network news (64%) outstripped trust in company websites (51%) and blogs and online forums (34%).

Summary of the findings here www.marketingcharts.com