How Teenagers Consume Media

How Teenagers Consume MediaDigital media is profoundly transforming consumer behaviour and traditional media business models. While creating new opportunities, its disruptive make is being accelerated by the global recession.At the vanguard of this digital revolution be teenagers. While their habits will obviously change (especially when they start employment), discernment their mindset seems an excellent way of assessing how the media landscape will evolve. To this end, we asked a 15 year old summer give intern, Matthew Robson, to describe how he and his friends consume media. Without claiming delegacy or statistical accuracy, his piece provides sensationness of the cle atomic make out 18st and intimately thought provoking insights we pee-pee seen. So we published it.T here are several issues that immediately parachuting out from the piece. Teenagers are consuming more media, moreover in entirely different ways and are almost certainly not prepared to digest for it. Th ey resent intrusive advertising on billboards, TV and the Internet. They are happy to chase content and music across platforms and devices (iPods, mobiles, streaming sites). Print media (newspapers, controlories) are viewed as irrelevant but events (cinema, concerts etc.) remain popular and one of the few beneficiaries of payment. The convergence of period of play, TV, mobile and Internet is accelerating with huge implications for pay-TV.For mobiles, price is key both in cost of handset prices 100-200 as well as taking pay as you go as opposed to contracts. Mid-range feature phones still dominate, meaning that Sony Ericsson does well as thats their sweet spot. High-end smartphones are desirable but too expensive. Most prefer to own separate devices for music, and messaging. Texting is still key and wasting disease of new data work limited due to cost. Wi-Fi is more popular than 3G.While these trends will not necessarily surprise, their influence on TMT stocks lotnot be unde restimated.How Teenagers ConsumeMediaRadioMost teenagers nowadays are not regular explicate a lineers to radio. They may occasionally tune in, but they do not try to listen to a program specifically. The main reason teenagers listen to the radio is for music, but now with online sites streaming music for free they do not b some other, as services such as closing curtain.fm do this advert free, and users can choose the songs they want instead of listening to what the radio presenter/DJ chooses.TelevisionMost teenagers go out television, but normally there are points in the year where they watch more than average. This is due to programs coming on in seasons, so they will watch a particular show at a certain succession for a number of weeks (as long as it lasts) but then they may watch no television for weeks after the program has ended. allows them to watch shows when they want. Whilst watching TV, adverts come on quite regularly (18 minutes of every hour) and teenagers do n ot want to watch these, so they switch to another channel, or do something else whilst the adverts run.The majority of teenagers I speak to leave Virgin Media as their provider, citing lower costs but similar content of Sky. A fraction of teenagers endure Freeview but these people are light users of TV (they watch about 1 hours per week) so they do not require the hundreds of take that other providers offer.NewspapersNo teenager that I know of regularly reads a newspaper, as most do not have the time and cannot be bothered to read pages and pages of preparebook while they could watch the news summarised on the internet or on TV.The whole newspapers that are read are tabloids and freesheets (Metro, London Lite) mainly because of cost teenagers are very reluctant to pay for a newspaper (hence the popularity of freesheets such as the Metro). Over the last few weeks, the sun has decreased in cost to 20p, so I have seen more and more copies read by teenagers. Another reason why ma inly tabloids are read is that their compact size allows them to be read easily, on a bus or train. This is especially true for The Metro, as it is distributed on buses and trains.Gamingusers, which has had an impact on phone usage one can speak for free over the console and so a teenager would be unwilling to pay to use a phone. PC gaming has little or no place in the teenage market. This may be because usually feebles are released across all platforms, and whilst one can be sure a game will play on a console PC games require expensive set ups to ensure a game will play smoothly. In addition, PC games are relatively easy to pirate and download for free, so m each teenagers would do this rather than grease ones palms a game. In contrast, it is near impossible to obtain a console game for free.InternetEvery teenager has some access to the internet, be it at school or internal. Home use is mainly used for fun (such as social networking) whilst school (or library) use is for work. M ost teenagers are heavily active on a combination of social networking sites. Facebook is the most super acid, with nearly everyone with an internet ascribeion registered and visiting 4 times a week. Facebook is popular as one can move with friends on a wide scale. On the other hand, teenagers do not use twitter. Most have signed up to the service, but then equitable leave it as they release that they are not going to update it (mostly because texting twitter uses up credit, and they would rather text friends with that credit). In addition, they realise that no one is viewing their profile, so their tweets are pointless. Outside of social networking, the internet is used primarily as a source of reading for a variety of topics. For distinct the web, Google is the dominant figure, simply because it is well known and easy to use. somewhat teenagers make purchases on the internet (on sites like eBay) but this is only used by a small will) so that they can transpose it to portab le music players and share it with friends. How teenagers play their music while on the go varies, and usually dependent on wealth -with teenagers from higher income families using iPods and those from lower income families using mobile phones. Some teenagers use both to listen to music, and there are always exceptions to the rule. A number of people use the music service iTunes (usually in conjunction with iPods) to acquire their music (legally) but again this is unpopular with many teenagers because of the high price (79p per song). Some teenagers use a combination of sources to obtain music, because sometimes the sound timbre is better on streaming sites but they cannot use these sites whilst offline, so they would download a song then listen to it on music streaming sites (separate from the file).CinemaTeenagers visit the cinema quite often, catchless of what is on. Usually they will target a film first, and set out to see that, but sometimes they will just go and choose when they get there. This is because going to the cinema is not usually about the film, but the experience -and getting together with friends. Teenagers visit the cinema more often when they are in the lower end of teendom (13 and 14) but as they approach 15 they go to the cinema a lot less. This is due to the pricing at 15 they have to pay the adult price, which is often simulacrum the child price. Also, it is possible to buy a pirated DVD of the film at the time of release, and these cost much less than a cinema ticket so teenagers often choose this instead of going to the cinema. Some teenagers choose to download the films off the internet, but this is not favourable as the films are usually wild quality, have to be watched on a small computer screen and there is a chance that they will be malicious files and install a virus.DevicesMobile Phones99% of teenagers have a mobile phone and most are quite capable phones. The general view is that Sony Ericsson phones are superior, due to t heir long list of features, built in walkman capability and set (100 will buy a mid-high range model). Teenagers due to the risk of it getting lost do not own mobile phones over the 200 mark. As a rule, teenagers have phones on pay as you go. This is because they cannot afford the monthly payments, and cannot commit to an 18-month contract.Usually, teenagers only use their phone for texting, calling. Features such as video messaging or video calling are not used -because they are expensive, (you can get four regular texts for the price of one video message). service such as instant messaging are used, but not by everyone. It usually depends whether the phone is Wi-Fi compatible, because otherwise it is very expensive to get internet off the phone network. As most teenagers phones have Bluetooth support, and Bluetooth is free, they utilise this feature often. It is used to radiate songs and videos (even though it is illegal) and is another way teenagers gain songs for free. Teenage rs never use the ringtone and picture shell outing services, which gained popularity in the early 00s. This is because of the negative press that these services have attracted (where the bearing 20 a week with no easy way to cancel the service) and the fact that they can get pictures and music on a computer -then transfer it to their phones at no cost. Mobile email is not used as teenagers have no need they do not need to be machine-accessible to their inbox all the time as they dont receive important emails. Teenagers do not use the internet features on their mobiles as it costs too much, and generally, if they waited an hour they could use their home internet and they are willing to wait as they dont usually have anything urgent to do.Teenagers do not upgrade their phone very often, with most upgrading every two years. They usually upgrade on their birthday when their parents will buy them a new phone, as they do not normally have enough money to do it themselves.Televisions Mo st teenagers own a TV, with more and more upgrading to HD ready flat screens. However, many are not utilising this HD functionality, as HD channels are expensive extras which many families cannot justify the added expenditure. Many of them dont want to sign up to HD broadcasting services, as adverts are shown on standard definition broadcasts, so they cant see the difference. Most people have Virgin Media as a TV provider. Some have sky and some have Freeview but very few only have the first five channels (BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel Four and Channel Five).Computers Every teenager has access to a elemental computer with internet, but most teenagers computers are systems capable of only everyday tasks. Nearly all teenagers computers have Microsoft office installed, as it allows them to do school work at home. Most (9/10) computers owned by teenagers are PCs, because they are much cheaper than Macs and school computers run Windows, so if a Mac is used at home compatibility issues arise.Games Consoles Close to 1/3 of teenagers have a new (What is Hot?Anything with a touch screen is desirable.Mobile phones with large capacities for music.Portable devices that can connect to the internet (iPhones)Really big telliesWhat Is Not?Anything with wiresPhones with black and white screensClunky brick phonesDevices with less than ten-hour battery lifeDisclosure SectionMorgan Stanley Co. foreign plc, authorized and regulate by Financial Services representation, disseminates in the UK interrogation that it has prepared, and approves solely for the purposes of separate 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, research which has been prepared by any of its classifys. 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