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Goin' Mobile

Goin' Mobile - Executive Summary

Goin' MobileMobile has emerged as the new mass distribution medium, with more than four billion mobile devices worldwide—topping televisions, radios, and personal computers.

This study is a result of Arbitron’s interest in assessing how consumers perceive and use smartphones and attendant technologies.

Goin' Mobile - To Do List

Since the presentation, we have heard from several programmers about our “Texting While Driving” segment. When we were conducting the interviews, a number of respondents mentioned Oprah Winfrey’s “No Phone Zone Pledge.” It resonated in several of these interviews, and for attendees at “The Radio Show.”

It provides an opportunity for a 7th action step on the above “To-Do List” – creating your own localized version of this campaign, utilizing the power of a morning show or a personality who can make this type of initiative personal and genuine.

Goin' Mobile - Goin' To School On Mobile

Goin' To School On MobileWe’ve received a great deal of feedback on “Goin’ Mobile,” our new ethnographic collaboration with Arbitron that had its debut at The NAB/RAB Radio Show in September. The study will be presented again by Arbitron on Monday, November 15 at 2 p.m. ET in a free webinar. If you haven’t had a chance to see it, please join us – click here to sign up.

In the meantime, the presentation at The Radio Show wrapped up with a list of six “to-do” items for radio. The first of these was “Go to school on mobile.”

Goin' Mobile - Arbitron Webinar Details

Arbitron LogoThank you for joining Arbitron and Jacobs Media for the Goin' Mobile webinar presentation yesterday. As we mentioned on the call, you can now download a recording of yesterday's webinar

Please feel free to share the video with your coworkers and colleagues.

Additionally, we have three other ways that you can tap into the Goin' Mobile insights and conversation here on the site.

Goin' Mobile - NAB Recap

Working once again with Arbitron, Jacobs Media has designed and implemented a breakthrough project, focused on smartphone owners that was the talk of this year’s Radio Show.   Read the reviews from the NAB presentation, view the trailer and see some photos of the presentation.

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