Online Hispanic Trends

Social Media and Mobile Internet Use of Hispanic Teens and Young Adults

The Pew Internet and American Life Project recently published a report entitled Social Media & Mobile Internet Use of Teens and Young Adults. 

A few of the more interesting findings on teens and young adults in general include: 

• Blogging and commenting on blogs by teens and young adults has decreased since 2006 while it has increased among older adults (from 28% to 14%),
• Both teen and adult use of social networking sites has increased significantly, but the sites where teens and young adults maintain their profiles are different, with 66% using MySpace compared to 36% of those 30 and over, and most interesting....
• Only 8% of Internet users age 12-17 use Twitter.

With respect to Latino teens and young adults, the results of Pew's research show that:

• Although not as often as White teens and young adults, Hispanic teens and young adults report going online once a day or three to five times a week.

• Although laptops have overtaken desktops as the computer of choice, Hispanic adults are less likely than White adults to own a desktop or laptop computer.

• Along with young adults, Hispanics and African‐Americans are more likely to go online wirelessly. According to the report "Half of all African‐American adults (48%) have used their cell phone to access the internet, compared with 40% of Hispanic adults and just 31% of white adults."

Correction: Pew Research indicates that 18% of Online Hispanic Adults Use Twitter

I ran across an interesting tweet by Luis Pagan that referenced a Pew Report on Twitter and Status updates.  In addition to showing an increase in making status updates on Twitter or another service - from 11% to 19% since April 2009, the report shows that 18% of online Hispanic adults use Twitter. 

Thanks to Tomas of http://www.hispanictips.com for pointing this out.

View the full report

Media Usage Way Up for Kids and Teens, but Particularly for Black and Latino Children

The Kaiser Family Foundation recently released a report that shows that the amount of time young people are spending with entertainment media has increased signifcantly over the past five years, rising from 6.21 hours to 7.38. When taking into account "media multitasking," the number actually adds up to 10:45 minutes per day.

Among other interesting findings, the results of the study show that mobile media and social networking are driving this increased consumption, and that Black and Hispanic children spend much more time with media than White children do - 13:00 hours of of total media exposure for Hispanics, 12:59 for Blacks, and 8:36 for Whites.

The news release says that "top online activities include social networking (:22 a day), playing games (:17), and visiting video sites such as YouTube (:15).  Three-quarters (74%) of all 7th - 12th graders say they have a profile on a social networking site."

Source: PRNewswire

LATISM DC - Dec. 11th and 12th

Excited to be attending the LATISM DC event this Friday and Saturday, in particular to connect with others that are interested in using the power of social media to make a difference.

LATISM DC is a Latinos in Social Media community building event in DC. It will bring together organizations focused on reaching Latinos and the seasoned social media veterans that can help them. From Blogs, My Space, Twitter, YouTube to Facebook, hear about what’s worked or not worked so far in the Latino community.

The conference tracks include:

• Brand Building - Build brand awareness and affinity among Latinos
• Social Good - Reach Latinos to improve opportunities and quality of life
• The Mobile Opportunity - Use mobile to reach more Latinos
• Gov 2.0 - Empower and inform Latinos through the gov't, work of grassroots and CBOs
• 101 Social Media - Learn the basics

For more info, check out: http://latismdc.eventbrite.com/ and http://latismdc.wordpress.com/

If you can't make it, you can follow the action on Twitter, by following the LATISMDC Twitter crew here: http://tweepml.org/LatISM-DC/

Flock, Univision's Highly Customized Web Browser for the Online Hispanic Audience

Univision Interactive Media recently launched Flock, a highly customized web browser for the online Hispanic community.

Responding to Latinos' social nature and use of both social networking sites and email to communicate with friends and family, the browser offers entry points to these key online destinations. Easy entry points to these popular destinations has been astutely positioned with Univision's web content to create a uniquely branded experience for the online Hispanic market, both in English and Spanish, with the goal of keeping this important market close to home.

 

Source: Hispanicad.com

NASA Astronaut Starts Agency's First Bilingual Twitter

NASA, one of the government agencies that has been doing some interesting work in the use of social media for the general market, has figured out a way to promote its mission with the Hispanic community. 

Jose Hernandez, who is set to fly aboard space shuttle Discovery in August, will be twittering about his training experience in English and Spanish.

Read the Nasa press release to learn more about this initiative and Jose's interesting background and sign up to follow Jose at http://www.twitter.com/astro_jose.

Sixty-five percent of Hispanics Now Using Social Media

According to Manny Miravete, VP, Sales and Strategy, MySpace and MySpace Latino, 65% of Hispanics online are now using social media. Miravete highlighted the fact that marketers should "“Understand the key driving points for the brand. Connect what your brand can offer and what users want" and "develop the experience and content around passion points." 

Read more at Brandweek