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Whitepaper objective:
To provide a general overview of the usage, consumption and adoption of the Smartphones by the US Hispanic Online Users.
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Harrenmedia Research White Paper: Overview of Smartphones US Hispanic November 2010
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Research Staff : Laura Morales MKT and Digital Intelligence
and Engel Fonseca VP Digital Value Generation North Cone.
Overview of Smartphones usage
and adoption by the US Hispanic
Online Users. November 2010.
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What is Harrenmedia Research?
Is Harrenmedia’s division focused on providing
significant data and identifying the vertical
opportunities by means of research, analysis and
partnership with allies to find solutions for agencies
and advertisers.
Follow us at: www.twitter.com/hm_research
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Whitepaper objective:
To provide a general overview of the
usage, consumption and adoption of
the Smartphones by the US Hispanic
Online Users.
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Methodology:
For the analysis of the US Hispanic consumer behavior and
profile regarding adoption of new technologies and mobile
phones, we harvest data from the most recent studies from
various sources such as:
1. Comscore
2. IAB
3. Pew Hispanic Center
4. E-Marketer
*US States with the biggest Hispanic population density according to CensusScope
http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_hispanicpop.html
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For the analysis of the hispanic online users navigation behavior
the top sites where the hispanic online community - that own
smartphones or are interested in having one – surf, were
determined using information fromAlexa® and Google
Adplanner®
filtering variables:
1. Country: USA
2. Language: Spanish
3. States: California, Arizona,Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and
Florida*
4. Keywords searched: mobile phones, smartphones, verizon,
sprint, blackberry, iphone, android
Methodology:
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Background:
234 million
Americans ages 13
and older used
mobile devices.
Latest Comscore Mobilens* Report states that in September 2010:
58.7 million people in
The U.S. owned
smartphones during the
three months ending in
September, up 15 percent
from the preceding three
month period
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Hispanic population is the biggest minority in the US*
Background:
*IAB Hispanic Resarch Group - U.S. Latinos Online: a driving force. Published by IAB May 5, 2010.
http://www.iab.net/insights_research/947883/us_latinos
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And they are willing to buy!
Background:
*IAB Hispanic Resarch Group - U.S. Latinos Online: a driving force. Published by IAB May 5, 2010.
http://www.iab.net/insights_research/947883/us_latinos
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Hispanics online: A fast growing community that eagerly
accept, use and adopt digital technologies*
YESTERDAY
9% growth
2009‐2010, 3x that
of non‐Hispanic
White Alone TODAY:
30M Hispanics are
online (2010)
59.5% of Hispanic
population
13% of total online
users
TOMORROW
39M Hispanics will
be online in 2014
70% of Hispanic
population
16% of total online
users
32% growth, 4x
that of
non‐Hispanic White
Alone
*IAB Hispanic Resarch Group - U.S. Latinos Online: a driving force. Published by IAB May 5, 2010.
http://www.iab.net/insights_research/947883/us_latinos
Background:
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Hispanic dominant & Biculturals represent 54% of Online
Hispanics & 71% of Offline Hispanics. Hispanic dominants are the
early adopters.*
Background:
*IAB Hispanic Resarch Group - U.S. Latinos Online: a driving force. Published by IAB May 5, 2010.
http://www.iab.net/insights_research/947883/us_latinos
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Background:
*IAB Hispanic Resarch Group - U.S. Latinos Online: a driving force. Published by IAB May 5, 2010.
http://www.iab.net/insights_research/947883/us_latinos
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*IAB Hispanic Resarch Group - U.S. Latinos Online: a driving force. Published by IAB May 5, 2010.
http://www.iab.net/insights_research/947883/us_latinos
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The Hispanic mobile suscriber is*:
1. Both male and female
of
2. 18-34 years old with an
3. income from 25k to 75k
(mayority fits into the 25k
to 50k slot).They are
4. employed full time and
mostly
5. Mexican; Mexican
American or Chicano
*Data from: comScore MobiLens, Dec ’09 3MA
Hispanics and mobile phones:
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“Hispanics cannot imagine daily life
without their mobile phones and credit the
technology with strengthening
relationships and keeping them connected
to their social world, not just friends and
family,”
Lisa E. Phillips, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the report “Hispanic
Mobile Users and Usage.”
Hispanics and mobile phones:
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*Pew Research Center, More Cell Phone Owners Use an App for That July, 2010.
** Comscore MobiLens, Dec ‘09 3MA
Hispanics love to use their
Mobiles
Hispanics and mobile phones:
There were 15.2M
Hispanic Mobile
Subscribers as
reported by
comScore MobiLens,
Dec ’09 3MA
40 percent of
Hispanic adults use
their mobile phone
to access the
Internet*
59 percent of
Hispanic
teens access
news on their
mobile
devices*
Hispanics ages 16 to 25
are more likely than
Hispanics ages 26 and
older to use mobile
technologies to
communicate with their
friends
62% of Hispanic adults,
access the Internet
wirelessly, either from
a WiFi/WiMax laptop
connection or through
their handheld device
like a smart phone**
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Data from Comscore MobiLens, Dec ‘09 3MA
Hispanics and Smartphones:
22.3% of Hispanic Mobile
Subscribers own a smartphone vs.
16.8% of USTotal Mobile
Subscribers. As of Dec ’09
3MA.3,391,000Hispanic
smartphone Subscribers.
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Top 6 Platforms:
41.6% RIM (Blackberry)
26% Apple (Iphone)
17.8% Microsoft (Windows
Mobile)
6.2% Google (Android)
5.9% Palm
2.4% Symbian (Nokia)
Smartphone market share:*
23.6
22.8
14.3
14.3
7.4
Top 5 operators (% share)
Verizon
AT&T Cingular
T-Mobile
Sprint
Metro PCS
Hispanics and Smartphones:
Data from Comscore MobiLens, Dec ‘09 3MA
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Where can we reach them?
Our research threw these web sites as those
reaching the most US
Hispanic dominant audience, interested in
smartphones, gadgets and social networking:
Hispanic audience for
smartphones:
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*Data provided by GOOGLE AdPlanner®
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So, the hispanics’ fav sites are:
Search engines: Google, Live.com, about.com
OnlineVideo:Youtube
Social networks: Facebook,Twitter, Myspace
Web portals:Yahoo!, MSN.com, go.com
Mail and messaging: Hotmail
Shopping: Amazon
Auctions: ebay
Computers: Apple
Hispanic audience for
smartphones:
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And what about the long – tail?
Long-tail is the term used for those vertical sites that, although
each on their own don’t have the amount of users as the great
big sites, alltogether they capture most of the audience we are
interested in.
This year, lovetoknow.com*, a site dedicated to provide
information of US vertical websites (long-tail) Published it’s
“Top 10 hispanic sites” and those are:
* Lovetoknow.com Top 10 Hispanic Web Sites
Lovetoknow.com is an online media company that owns and operates a family of web sites dedicated to providing high quality, useful
information to Internet users.
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According to “Love to Know”*, the TOP 10 HISPANIC WEB SITES are:
http://www.lovetoknow.com/top10/hispanic.html
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Hispanic audience for
smartphones:
Likes and Interests:
Data from GOOGLE Adplanner® by analizing the top sites for hispanic audiences.
Reggaeton
Ringtones and
Mobile
Goodies
Latin
American
Music
Social Network apps and add-
ons.
Mexico
Central
America
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Conclusions:
1. Hispanics are the most important minority market in the US
2. The mayority is from mexican background, and fully
bilingual.
3. Are young and they are employed full time.
4. They tend to live in larger households than the non-hispanic
population.
5. Like to buy.
6. Adopt easily and eagerly the new communication adn
entertainment technologies and are Internet’s heavy users.
7. Love their mobile phones, and are increasingly switching to
smartphones.
8. The younger, the more they use mobile technologies to
interact socially.
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9. Are heavily interested in Reggaeton, Mobile ringtones and
goodies, Mexico, Latin American Music and Social
Networking.
10. Can be reachable online in various sites such as:
9. Facebook
10. Twitter
11. Youtube
12. Migente.com
13. Mocospace.com
14. Yahoo!
15. MSN.com
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Thank You!
Laura Fernanda Morales Marketing and Digital Intelligence
laura.morales@harrenmedia.com
Engel Fonseca VP for Digital Value Generation North Cone
engel.fonseca@harrenmedia.com
Juan José Núñez C.O.O Harrenmedia US
jjnunez@harrenmedia.com
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