I'm looking for some stats that describe how "the playlist generation"
is using media, specifically radio. I'm thinking of young people who
own MP3 players and program their own content. Stats would be related
to how young people consume media, how much they listen to compared to
older/unconnected adults.

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Clarification of Question by rservice-ga on 01 Mar 2005 09:53 PST

Thanks -- this is good for digital music, but I'm looking for other
media as well (radio especially, but also newspapers and TV).

http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/050215mp3ownership/ :
Men are more likely to sport such a gadget than women. According to
the survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 14 percent
of men own a digital music player, compared to 9 percent of women.

Ownership of such gadgets also depended on age. Almost 20 percent of
the under 30 crowd owns a digital music player, while 14 percent of 30
to 39-year-olds have a device, and 14 percent of 40 to 48-year-olds
purchased an MP3 player.

The presence of children in the home is also likely to increase music
player ownership: 16 percent of parents living with children under 18
in their home have MP3 players, compared to 9 percent of those that
don?t have children living at home.

Higher income houses are also more likely to own a MP3 player.
According to the survey, 24 percent of those households that earn more
than US$75,000 have one. Households earning $30,000 to $75,000 account
for 10 percent of players, and 6 percent of players are owned
households earning less than $30,000.

Web spinning

Internet use also has an impact on ownership of these devices. Those
who use the Internet are four times as likely as non-Internet users to
have MP3 players, probably because Internet users can get much of the
music they enjoy online, says Pew Internet.

According to the research, 15 percent of Internet users have MP3
players, compared to 4 percent of non-Internet users. And the more
advanced the Internet user, the more likely it is that he has an MP3
player. Those with six years or more of Internet experience are twice
as likely to have them as those who are relatively new to the Internet
-- less than three years experience.

Not surprisingly, broadband access is also strongly associated with
ownership of MP3 players. Some 23 percent of those with broadband at
home have MP3 players, compared to 9 percent of those who have dialup
connections.

And those who have broadband access at home and at work, are the most
likely of all to have MP3 players. Almost a third (31 percent) of
those people had a player.


http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P2143

16% of online adults currently enjoy downloading 99-cent singles. 17%
have been wooed by subscription services, according to
JupiterResearch. 19% of 13- to 17 year olds used the subscription
services, compared with 31% of 18- to 24 year olds. That number
reached 37% for "music addicts," defined by Jupiter as those who have
spent more than $45 on music in the past three months. 41% of young
adults between ages 18 and 24 burn CDs and 31% use file sharing. 14%
of people over the age of 25 who burn discs and 4% who swap files.


link - Dec 02, 04 | 5:10 pm - Explore the Music category
All Music statistics
$1 bln worth of digital music will be sold in Europe in 2009
1.67 British Internet users download movies
1000 songs is just enough for 90% of the music lovers
13 bln songs available for download on peer-to-peer networks
20 mln Americans listen to Webcasts weekly
200 mln music tracks downloaded legally in 2004
40% want to buy music online, 8% prefer music subscriptions
42% will still download music for free off the Internet
47% pay for their downloaded music
48.6% of shared files is music, 27% is video
50 mln cellular music decks sold by 2009
50% want to share copied video, 18% - copied audio
56% American Internet users listen to Internet radio
66% of P2P music searches include only song name
67% Steal Music
7 mln MP3 players expected to be sold in 2004
78% of British teenagers listen to music online, most of them on Yahoo! Launch
8 mln Brits download music
9.5 mln use P2P daily
92% of high-capacity music players are iPods
92% of music listeners list CD as preferred format
95% of Apple iTunes catalog sold at least once
Apple iTunes sells 150,000,000th digital song
Apple owns 75% of digital music market, Real 50% of online entertainment market
Apple product marketing says QuickTime Player almost reached Windows
Media Player market share
Apple sold 50 mln songs in 11 months
Apple sold almost 4 mln iPods, 860K in Q3 2004
Australian music sales up 8% for 2003
BitTorrent becomes the dominant peer-to-peer protocol
British music sales up 3% in 2004, the best year for music sales ever
Brits purchase 1.5 mln digital tracks in the last 2 months
By 2007 third of music will be sold online
CD shipments up 4%
Christian kids downloading music at the same rate as non-Christian
Digital format market shares: MP3 - 72%, WMA - 19.6%, AAC - 4.3%
Digital music sales to generate $270 mln in 2004
E-Poll on music downloading statistics
eDonkey becomes the leading P2P network
eDonkey has 2.54 mln users, Kazaa - 2.48 mln
Global sales of pirated music generated $4.5 bln in 2003
IFPI: Global music market share
In 2003 Europeans bought 3 mln digital music tracks online
Informa: Digital music $3.9 B by 2008
Jupiter: $80 M in digital music sales in 2003
Macrovision: 150M CDs globally are copy-protected
MP3 ownership is 59% male, 41% female
MP3 player sales to grow 100% in 2004
Music downloading does not impact sales
Music downloading up again
Music player market shares
Music players market share - WinAmp, Real, Windows Media, QuickTime
Music sales up 9.1% in Q1 2004, CD sales up 10.6%
Napster sold its 5,000,000th song
Nielsen: Kazaa users down 40%
Number of online music buyers triples
Online and offline music sales
Online media sales to generate $7 bln in 2008
Online music doubles MP3 hardware sales
Online music market shares: iTunes - 70%, Napster - 11%, Real,
MusicMatch, WalMart - 6%
Online music products generated $500 mln in 2004
Online music services cost US$700m in CD sales
Online music to reach $4.4 bln in 2008
P2P usage stats
Pew: Internet downloads sharply down
Portable music player market to generate $58 bln in sales by 2008
Real Networks sells 1 million digital tracks in 1 week
Ringtones to comprise 18% of music market in 2008
Sandvine: eDonkey up in Europe P2P
Top online music destinations
UK CD spending down 32%, singles down 59%
US CD sales up 2.3% in 2004
Wireless music sales to bring $2 bln in 2009


http://www.equator.ac.uk/PublicationStore/BrownBMusicPaperinteract.pdf


Is this something like what you are looking for?

Lists newspapers, radio, cable, and internet. Thought you may find it useful.
http://people-press.org/reports/print.php3?PageID=834
The decade-long slide in newspaper readership has leveled off. The
percentage of Americans reporting that they read a newspaper
"yesterday" fell from 58% in 1994 to 47% in 2000, and 41% in 2002. It
now stands at 42%.

Newspaper readership among young people continues to be relatively
limited. Among those under age 30, just 23% report having read a
newspaper yesterday. This is down slightly from 26% in 2002 and stands
in marked contrast to the 60% of older Americans who say they read a
newspaper yesterday. Young people are more apt to read a magazine or a
book for pleasure on a daily basis than they are to pick up a
newspaper.

Readership of news magazines, business magazines, literary magazines,
and political magazines is unchanged from 2002: 13% of Americans
regularly read news magazines such as Time, U.S. News or Newsweek; 4%
read business magazines such as Fortune and Forbes; 2% read literary
magazines such as the Atlantic, Harper's or the New Yorker; and 2%
read political magazines such as the Weekly Standard or the New
Republic.
"

They also do a bit of a breakdown on where people are going for news,
AOL, Yahoo, Netwrok sites.


This site also had some surprizing facts- although I am not sure if it
is the direction you are looking at going
in:http://www.info.gov.hk/coy/text/eng/report/media.htm

http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release1107.html: ""Born to Be Wired"
While teens and young adults consume many different types of media,
the study revealed that the Internet surpasses them all in the amount
of time spent, which in an average week is as follows: (1) 16.7 hours
online (excluding email), (2) 13.6 hours watching TV, (3) 12 hours
listening to the radio, (4) 7.7 hours talking on the phone, (5) Six
hours reading books and magazines (personal, not scholastic).

The study, which polled more than 2,500 teens and young adults (ages
13-24) using both qualitative and quantitative methods, revealed that
"control" -- the ability to personalize and manage the media
experience and content -- emerged as the primary reason this group
chooses the Internet over other forms of media. Survey findings also
showed that teens use the Internet as a "hub" -- or primary media --
while other media are used as a starting point for the online
experience. While other generations are more likely to be wed to a
single type of media, the study revealed that today's teens and young
adults are not overwhelmed by the abundance of media choices like
cable stations, networks, magazines and radio, but rather feel
empowered by it and are able to multi-task -- using more than one form
of media at a time -- more than any other generation.
"

Here is one describing the 16-24 year old market, again, not sure this
is the directiion you are going but contains valuable info
http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/marketresearch/audiencegroup2.shtml
" (television)

http://www.civicyouth.org/research/areas/news_media.htm has alot of
research papers that you may find helpful

lru

stats are one thing and can be misleadin. check out the dynamics of
what people actually do.  go to a site like http://www.sonicswap.com
where they allow users to share and swap playlists.  it's an amazing
viral activity.

http://www.sputnikradio.com

I know from my experience that pls files are the way to go . Although
they where at first considered to be for winamp only , now almost
every media player can use this streaming play list format.M3U is not
bad either more friendly with Netscape if you do not have the Netscape
extensions set right .

I hope this helps

Stop worrying about playlists and just listen to internet radio instead.

A good example of internet radio would be:
WBAT Internet Radio - http://www.wbatradio.com