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The average teen consumes 6.5 hours of media per day
(8.5 hours if you include media multitasking).
On average there are more TV's per household in the U.S. than there are children per household.
1 out of 5 toddlers under the age of 3 have a TV in their bedroom.
The average child will spend 18,000 hours in front of the television by the time they graduate from high school. That's 5,000 more hours than they will spend in school for 12 years The only thing the average child will do more of is... sleep.
55% of teens use social networks online.
The average user spends over 2 hours a day on MySpace.
The average American spent 3,518 hours consuming media in 2007 (TV, Movies, Music, Newspapers, Internet) which equals nearly 5 months for each person.
$936.75 was the average amount of money spent on media per person in the U.S. during 2007
The average young person views 3,000 advertisements per day on TV, on the internet, on billboards, in magazines, and other forms of media. They view 40,000 ads a year on TV alone.
The top 20% of "gamers" spent an average of 5 hours 45 minutes a day playing video games.
Of children ages 6-11:
The Kaiser Family Foundation reported that…
90% of children between 8-16 years old have viewed pornography online (most while innocently doing homework)
MTV broadcasts an average of 18 physical and 17 verbal references to sex per hour
By the time the average child is 18 years old, they will have witnessed 16,000 murders on TV and 200,000 acts of violence.
89% of the top selling video games contain violent content
Nearly 75% of violent scenes on Television feature no immediate punishment for or condemnation of violence
In 2003 MySpace emerges as a social network which reaches 100 million profiles by August of 2006. It was purchased by News Corportation in 2005 for $580 million.
In 2005 YouTube is launched and over 3 billion videos are watched in January 2008 alone. 100 million videos are watched everyday and 50,000 new videos are being added each day.
In 2007 the popular video game Halo 3 sets an all-time entertainment record with $170 million in sales in the first 24 hours.
In 2008 a 30 second commercial during the Superbowl cost $2.7 million. There were a total of 63 commercial spots.
The average teen consumes 6.5 hours of media per day
(8.5 hours if you include media multitasking).
On average there are more TV's per household in the U.S. than there are children per household.
- 2.75 TV's per household
- 2.57 total PEOPLE per household
1 out of 5 toddlers under the age of 3 have a TV in their bedroom.
The average child will spend 18,000 hours in front of the television by the time they graduate from high school. That's 5,000 more hours than they will spend in school for 12 years The only thing the average child will do more of is... sleep.
55% of teens use social networks online.
The average user spends over 2 hours a day on MySpace.
The average American spent 3,518 hours consuming media in 2007 (TV, Movies, Music, Newspapers, Internet) which equals nearly 5 months for each person.
$936.75 was the average amount of money spent on media per person in the U.S. during 2007
The average young person views 3,000 advertisements per day on TV, on the internet, on billboards, in magazines, and other forms of media. They view 40,000 ads a year on TV alone.
The top 20% of "gamers" spent an average of 5 hours 45 minutes a day playing video games.
Of children ages 6-11:
- 975,000 visited/used MySpace
- over 2 million downloaded music
- over a million have written or read an online blog
- 54% have a TV in their room (over 13 million)
- 19% have a computer in their room (over 4 million)
The Kaiser Family Foundation reported that…
- sex scenes on TV have doubled since 1998
- 70% of the top 20 shows watched by teens included sexual content
- 15% of scenes involving sex were between characters that just met
90% of children between 8-16 years old have viewed pornography online (most while innocently doing homework)
MTV broadcasts an average of 18 physical and 17 verbal references to sex per hour
By the time the average child is 18 years old, they will have witnessed 16,000 murders on TV and 200,000 acts of violence.
89% of the top selling video games contain violent content
Nearly 75% of violent scenes on Television feature no immediate punishment for or condemnation of violence
In 2003 MySpace emerges as a social network which reaches 100 million profiles by August of 2006. It was purchased by News Corportation in 2005 for $580 million.
In 2005 YouTube is launched and over 3 billion videos are watched in January 2008 alone. 100 million videos are watched everyday and 50,000 new videos are being added each day.
In 2007 the popular video game Halo 3 sets an all-time entertainment record with $170 million in sales in the first 24 hours.
In 2008 a 30 second commercial during the Superbowl cost $2.7 million. There were a total of 63 commercial spots.
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