{"id":1302,"date":"2009-02-04T07:41:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T12:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2009-02-04T04:43:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T09:43:12","slug":"digital-media-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/04\/digital-media-consumers","title":{"rendered":"Digital Media Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/1\/7\/nation\/20090107204447&#038;sec=nation\">online survey<\/a> (500 Malaysians, all online already, and in total, it was 26,000 amongst the countries surveyed) by The Nielsen Company, showed that Malaysians ranked fifth amongst 52 countries for being digital media consumers. The stats (with more from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Thursday\/National\/2447050\/Article\/index_html\">the NST<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Malaysians ranked third globally for those that spent more than 20 hours a week watching streamed or downloaded content from the Internet &#8211; translation, Malaysians bittorrent a lot, or are in love with YouTube. Video in Malaysia is big, clearly.<\/li>\n<li>53%\/41% played(streamed, even)\/downloaded video\/movie\/audio\/game content online in December 2008. Translation? The ones with 1mbps broadband lines are streaming YouTube content&#8230; How about a local video sharing site, or a local site with content?<\/li>\n<li>85% got on their computers, while only 77% turned on their TV sets &#8211; translation, if you&#8217;re not advertising online or your media buyers don&#8217;t know how to deal with it, its time to find new ones<\/li>\n<li>4% download movies\/movie clips more than 30 times in a month &#8211; that means about 7.5 TV series that they&#8217;re following, or less, but with movies thrown in &#8211; eep, no advertising seen<\/li>\n<li>8% download music or other audio files more than 30 times &#8211; since there&#8217;s no iTunes music store in Malaysia, its probably entirely illegal content<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So its skewed. With a broadband penetration rate of about 18% only, they asked the choir, and the results aren&#8217;t too surprising. I predict we&#8217;ll see more people online in the results of the June\/July survey, as we face this economic slowdown, and more people buckle up, stay at home, and still live their lives.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Digital%20Media%20Consumers&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F02%2F04%2Fdigital-media-consumers&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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