The full 379 page report is
available here.
For those of you with other things to do here are some highlights:
TV
- Nearly a quarter of people (22 per cent) say they have bought a HD-ready TV set in the last 12 months.
- Some 31 per cent of households with internet access used it to watch online catch-up TV - up 8 percentage points over the year.
- The proportion of time-shifted television viewing has more than tripled since 2006, from 1.7 per cent to 5.9 per cent.
Radio
- People listen to 20.1 hours of radio per week.
- Some 35 per cent of people own at least one DAB digital radio.
- Total listening hours to all BBC Radio stations were down by 1.2 per cent during 2009 and down 2.2 per cent on five years previously.
- All commercial radio listener hours were stable in the year but down 10.1 per cent over five years.
Mobile
- Consumers sent a record number of texts (over 100 billion) in 2009 equivalent to 1700 for every person in the UK.
- Data volumes over mobile networks increased by 240 per cent in 2009.
- Over a quarter of people in the UK (26.5 per cent) said they have a smartphone, more than double the number two years ago.
- Nearly a quarter of adults (23 per cent) accessed content or sent emails on their mobile phones.
Internet
- Broadband take-up has now reached 71 per cent.
- Some 37 per cent of over 55s use email each day and 47 per cent use it weekly.
- Social networking accounts for nearly a quarter of all time spent on the internet.
- The average Facebook user spent 6.5 hours on the site during May 2010.
- Usage of instant messaging declined from 14 per cent to 5 per cent.
