Es ist Vorwahlsaison in den USA, und politische Gespräche finden überall statt - und auf jedem Bildschirm. Als ich heute Morgen einen Kaffee trinken ging, hörte ich eine Diskussion darüber, wer die Vorwahldebatte gestern Abend gewonnen hatte. Die erste Person hatte die Debatte zu Hause live verfolgt, während die zweite Person nur Ausschnitte aus den Morgennachrichten in den sozialen Medien gesehen hatte.
Als ich über die Fülle an Inhalten, neuen Plattformen und Diensten nachdachte, fiel mir auf, dass dieses besondere Beispiel zeigt, wie umfangreich und breit die Nutzung mehrerer Bildschirme geworden ist - und zwar in allen Altersgruppen. Die Fülle der Nutzung des zweiten und dritten Bildschirms ist auch im ganzen Land verbreitet - nicht nur in großen Metropolen wie New York, Chicago und San Francisco.
The Raleigh, N.C, designated market area (DMA), for example, has a TV universe estimate for adults 18+ of 2.4 million, and its residents are avid cross-platform news consumers, especially during primary season. In looking at reach, one of the market’s leading TV stations reaches 500,000 people each month. Importantly, that reach is split across platforms. Said differently, people in Raleigh don’t just get their news from the living room TV right before dinner.
We know that people are constantly connected to their devices for social media connectivity, texting with friends and leveraging digital channels for entertainment options that aren’t available across linear channels. But the lines between linear and digital are blurring. In Raleigh, half of the above-mentioned station’s audience watches its content on both traditional linear channels and digital ones (mobile, computer, tablet). Somewhat surprisingly, only 14% of adults 55-64 watch on just TV1.
Perhaps even more noteworthy is the audience that’s using multiple platforms—and the impact this has when you consider the upside for brands and advertisers. Specifically, the shift to multiple screens adds significant lift when we consider the audience members who are 55-64—a demo that marketers and planners and buyers typically exclude from their targeting efforts. Yet for this Raleigh station, the overall audience increases by 27% when viewing across all platforms includes the 55-64 audience2.
The engagement among the older demo is simply a reflection of the country’s overall population shift—one that has been happening over the past decade across the whole country, not just in Raleigh. Yet in Raleigh, 1.5% of the TV universe has transitioned from the 25-54 segment to the 55-643 segment. And when we look at multi-device usage among this older group, we see that this group of active news consumers is also contributing to the broadening reach that comes from growing cross-platform usage.
It’s been a while since marketers, planners, buyers and programmers were able to think about audiences through the lens of a single channel or platform, but it’s possible that older audiences haven’t been central in that thinking. Not only does the 55-64 demo outspend larger cohorts, it is continually leveraging different platforms and devices to stay informed and plugged into the ins and outs of the daily news cycle, especially when big political stories are breaking.
Anmerkungen
- Nielsen Local Media, Nielsen Local TV View, 22. Mai, RDU DMA
- Nielsen Local Media, May 2022 Custom Cross-Platform, Deduplicated Reach Across TV & Digital, RDU DMA
- Schätzungen des Nielsen-Universums, 2012-2022
This article originally appeared on Broadcasting+Cable.
