Traditional Media Use Stabilizes as Online Rises

Online shopping and social networking jumped while TV news was flat.

eMarketer, January 29, 2009 — Traditional media usage by Internet users in the US remained largely steady in 2008 after falling in 2007, judging by respondents to a Ketchum and USC Annenberg Strategic Public Relations Center survey conducted in late 2008. For instance, less than two-thirds of respondents said they watched major network TV news, about the same as in 2007 but down from the 71% who said so in 2006.