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How Tweens & Teens Use Social Media

  • Published: November 2009
  • Region: North America
  • 24 Pages
  • EPM Communications Inc

Turn teens and tweens into brand ambassadors to carry your company’s message in myriad unseen (and often impossible to measure) ways.

It costs little or nothing to set up a Facebook or Twitter account that can effectively reach tweens, teens, and young adults. Yet relatively few youth-oriented brands have done so. Some are so haphazard about social networking that they make it difficult to even find their sites or don’t bother to maintain them, which is potentially even more damaging. Meanwhile others successfully promote their core business with innovative social networking programs.

This new special report, How Tweens & Teens Use Social Media gives you both sides of the equation: How tweens, teens, and young adults interact with social media on the one hand, and what brands are doing to intercept their fragmented attention on the other.

Did you know that:

- 29% of Twitter users 18-24 years old use Twitter to follow their favorite companies.

- 15-17 year old Internet users spend 19.9 hours a week online.

- 54% of 13-14 year olds have Facebook pages.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

PART I: WHO USES SOCIAL MEDIA?

- Teens, Tweens Increasingly Creating Their Own Brands
- Social Networks In Flux: Demographics Shift, Marketing Applications Continually Evolving
- Tweens Search For YouTube
- Exhibit: Top Search Terms Among Tweens, Feb-June 2009
- Teens Online, And Connected
- Teens Regularly Refresh Site Links
- Exhibit: Frequency Teens Visit Select Websites, Per Day
- Virtual Worlds Must Be Fun
- Teens Spend Four Hours A Day On Social Sites
- Exhibit: Adoption Rates Of Social Networking Sites
- How Teens’ Online Activities Differ From Their Parents’ Assumptions
- Exhibit: Things Teens Have Done Online Versus What Their Parents Think They Have Done
- Twitter Still Emerging With Gen Y
- Twitter Still Not As Popular As Social Sites
- Exhibit: Reasons Twitter Members 18 And Over Access The Site, 2009
- Exhibit: Why Users Are Motivated To Visit Twitter, 2009
- Twitter Users Are Active Music Consumers
- Exhibit: Music Consumption Of Twitter Users Vs. Non-Twitter Users, 2009

PART 2: HOW BRANDS, MARKETERS ARE USING SOCIAL MEDIA

- Youth Marketers Need To Respect Boundaries, Combine Offline/Online Elements, And Venture Out To The Edge
- Marketeres Turn To Web 2.0 Tactics To Woo Young Women; But Not All Technology Is A Draw For Female Consumers
- Social Media Proclaims Love For Fox’s 'Beth Cooper'
- MySpace Still In Fashion For Uni’s 'Bruno'
- Growing Properties Across Multiple Media Platforms Enables Licensors To Broaden Their Reach
- Fox Feeds Tweets Into 'Dollhouse' Banner Ads
- Mike And Ike Back Jordin Sparks, Fight Childhood Cancer
- Brands Re-Evaluate Virtual Worlds As They Shift Expectations And Redefine Metrics For Success

PART 3: SELECT YOUTH-SKEWING BRANDS AND THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS, OR LACK THEREOF

- Exhibit: Brands And Their Social Media Links, 2009

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