Category: E-mail
December 19th, 2008
5% of Americans have only work e-mail accounts
80% working adults maintain either a personal or work-related email account.53% have both personal and work accounts. 22% say they only maintain personal email accounts and just 5% of working adults say that their email use is limited to a work account. 45% of working Americans say they have just one personal email account, while 18% say they maintain two and 13% keep tabs on three or more personal accounts. 45% of working Americans have just one email account for work, while 9% maintain two and 5% manage three or more work accounts, according to Pew Internet Project.
December 18th, 2008
0.4% of spam in September 2008 was targeted
More than 0.4% of all spam sent in September 2008 were targeted attacks, Cisco found. Since 90% of all e-mails sent worldwide are spam, this means 800 mln messages a day are attempts are spear phishing. In 2007, targeted attacks with personalized messages were less than 0.1% of all spam.
December 18th, 2008
20% of young adults have three or more personal e-mail accounts
Young working adults are the most likely to maintain multiple personal addresses; 20% report having three or more personal accounts, compared with just 13% of those ages 30- 49. However, younger workers are no more likely to maintain multiple work accounts. In fact, more working 30-49 year olds report having work email accounts overall; 65% say they have accounts for work, while just 49% of working young adults report the same, according to Pew Internet Project.
December 17th, 2008
How many e-mail accounts do Americans have?
| Type of account and group |
At least one |
Only one | Two | Three or more |
None | Don’t Know |
| Personal | ||||||
| All employed adults | 76% | 45% | 18% | 13% | 24% | |
| Employed internet users |
87 | 51 | 21 | 15 | 13 | |
| Employed adults working over 40 hrs/wk |
80 | 51 | 15 | 14 | 20 | |
| Work | ||||||
| All employed adults | 59 | 45 | 9 | 5 | 40 | 1 |
| Employed internet users |
66 | 51 | 10 | 5 | 33 | 1 |
| Employed adults working over 40 hrs/wk |
72 | 53 | 13 | 6 | 27 | |
| Source: Pew Internet Project | ||||||
December 13th, 2008
46% of employees with annual income of more than $75K check their e-mail constantly
The more money an employee earns, the more closely he or she monitors work email accounts. While 27% of those earning less than $30,000 per year say they keep constant tabs on their work email, 46% of those earning $75,000 or more report that level of monitoring. Fully 78% of work emailers in the top earning bracket say they check their email accounts at least as often as several times per day, according to Pew Internet Project.
December 12th, 2008
37% of Americans check their e-mail are at work
37% of employed Americans check their email at work. Men and women tend to their work email with equal frequency. Workers ages 30 to 49 years old are the power emailers when it comes to managing work email. For instance, 40% of 30-49 year olds with work email accounts check those accounts constantly while at work, compared with 30% of those ages 50-64,according to Pew Internet Project.
December 12th, 2008
37% of Americans check their e-mail are at work
37% of employed Americans check their email at work. Men and women tend to their work email with equal frequency. Workers ages 30 to 49 years old are the power emailers when it comes to managing work email. For instance, 40% of 30-49 year olds with work email accounts check those accounts constantly while at work, compared with 30% of those ages 50-64,according to Pew Internet Project.
December 11th, 2008
Half of corporate employees check their email constantly
Half of work emailers who are currently employed at large corporations check their email constantly, compared with just 32% of those who work for small businesses. Indeed, there is a considerable amount of overlap in the patterns seen here with wages and job types; as mentioned previously, many of those who earn less than $30,000 work in the service industry, skilled and semi-skilled jobs-professions that are not associated with high levels of internet or email use, according to Pew Internet Project
December 10th, 2008
25% of employed email users say they check email even when they have taken a sick day
Fully 22% of employed say that they check their work email accounts “often” during the weekend, compared with just 16% who reported doing this in 2002. 34% employed email users in jobs earning 75,000 USD or more say they check their work email often on the weekends, while just 17% of those earning under 50,000 USD do so. 25% of employed email users say they check email “often” even when they have taken a sick day, compared with 17% who say they often check their inboxes before they go to work for the day, and 19% who frequently check their email after leaving work for the day, according to Pew Internet Project.
December 9th, 2008
34% of employed email users check their email on vacations
34% of employed email users say they will at least occasionally check their email on vacations; 11% say they do so often, 14% say they sometimes check in and 9% rarely log in to their email while taking a vacation day. 18% of employed email users report some level of on-the-go emailing for work, and just 7% say they check in frequently while on the go, according to Pew Internet Project.
December 9th, 2008
34% of employed email users check their email on vacations
34% of employed email users say they will at least occasionally check their email on vacations; 11% say they do so often, 14% say they sometimes check in and 9% rarely log in to their email while taking a vacation day. 18% of employed email users report some level of on-the-go emailing for work, and just 7% say they check in frequently while on the go, according to Pew Internet Project.
December 8th, 2008
54% of employees occasionally check their personal inboxes
54% of employees with personal email accounts say they at least occasionally check their personal inboxes while at work. Most do so on a daily basis; 39% of all personal emailers say they check their personal accounts at least once a day at work, while 15% report checking in less often than that. Just 7% admit to refreshing their personal inboxes at work constantly, and 4% say they check in several times an hour, according to Pew Internet Project. 66% of employees frequent checking of work-related email earning $75,000 per year or more say they check their personal accounts at work, compared with just 45% of those in jobs earning less than $30,000 annually.
November 8th, 2008
81% of employed Americans have an e-mail account
Among those who are employed, 96% are in some way making use of new communications technologies- either by going online, using email or owning a cell phone. This group includes employed respondents who are either internet users (86%), have a cell phone (89%) or an email account (81%). Additionally, some 73% of workers use all three basic tools of the information age: they use the internet, have an email account, and have a cell phone, according to Pew Internet Project.
October 20th, 2008
Cost-per-lead consumer programs averaged $1.15 per lead
Prices of list rentals are declining across the board and - for the first time ever - show a downward trend in every B2C and B2B category tracked, according to Worldata’s Fall 2008 List Price Index. The categories tracked include cost-per-lead consumer and B2B programs and white-paper syndication programs: ?ost-per-lead consumer programs averaged $1.15 per lead, a 4.17% decrease from Q2 2008; cost-per-lead B2B programs averaged $4.80 per lead, a 2.4% decrease from Q2 2008; white paper syndication cost-per-lead programs showed an average of $12.50 per download, a 3.85% decrease.
October 19th, 2008
53% of US adults have both personal and work email accounts
More than half of working adults (53%) have both personal and work email accounts. And while 22% say they only maintain personal addresses, just 5% say that their email use is limited to a work account. 54% of employees with personal email accounts say they at least occasionally check their personal inboxes while at work and most do so on a daily basis. Personal email spills over to the cell phone and Blackberry, too: Among employed respondents who actively use their cell phone or Blackberry for email, 44% say that most or all of the messages they send and receive are personal, while 32% say that most or all of the messages are work-related. Another 25% say their email use is equally split between personal and work-related messages. 37% of those with work email accounts check them constantly, up from 22% in 2002, according to Pew Internet Project.
October 18th, 2008
22% of Americans have to reply to work e-mails away from work
The off-hours checking of work-related email is not an act generated solely by the volition of the employee. Some 22% of employed email users say they are expected to read and respond to work-related emails, even when they are not at work. Blackberry and PDA owners are more than twice as likely to report that their employer expects that they will stay tuned in to email outside of the office. Fully 48% say they are required to read and respond to email when they are away from work, according to Pew Internet Project..
October 17th, 2008
17% of Americans believe that using email increased their workload
Most employed email users do not believe that using email has increased the amount of time they spend working overall. Just 17% attribute some increase to email, while 6% feel as though email has actually cut down the amount of time they spend working. About the same modest number report some increase in the amount of time spent working specifically at home (16%), while 5% note a decrease. A smaller segment (10%) note an increase in the amount of time spent working at the office, while nearly the same number (7%) say email has cut down the time they spend at the office, according to Pew Internet Project.
October 11th, 2008
60% of users use e-mail on a typical day in 2008
In 2002-2008 the use of email on a typical day rose from 52% to 60%, for a growth rate of just 15%. These new figures propel search further out of the pack, well ahead of other popular internet activities, such as checking the news, which 39% of internet users do on a typical day, or checking the weather, which 30% do on a typical day, according to Pew Internet Project.
September 15th, 2008
69% of US adults still use e-mail for sharing information
US adults still depend on personal email as a main source of receiving shared content: 69% still rely on email to share content and information, Forrester Research reports. Personal emails made up 56% of shared content received; however, more than 50% of youth use instant messaging, videos from YouTube, and wikis to share content, while notes on social networks and text messages on cell phones equates respectively to 30% and 41% for how this demographic receives information. Power Sharers are a new category defined as individuals that share content at least weekly and share with 11 or more people through at least one channel. Adult Power Sharers represented 35% of the online population, and Youth Power sharers make up 62% of the online population, showcasing how each of these groups feed the viral cycles and influence networks. 92% of adults trust an email from someone they know, while 70% trust messages through someone they know through a social site. 64% of adults and 60% of youth still use the traditional cut and paste method to share a URL or information.
Video content is shared twice as much amongst online youth than adults, with 60% noting they received information through an online video site such as YouTube. Web tools such as wikis are used by 53% of youth vs. 29% of adults, with webpage services such as ‘tags’ being shared by 31% of youth vs. only 16% of adults. Online youth share more content types than adults (with the exception of news articles). In particular, 73% of online youth shared peer-generated video, versus 39% of online adults. Men more likely to share product recommendations and video than women; 77% of adult males and 74 of younger males shared news and web links. Women strongly favor send to a friend feature; more than 60% of adult woman use the send to a friend feature on websites.
August 19th, 2008
29% of Internet users buy from spam emails
29% of Internet users have purchased goods from spam emails, according to Marshal. The most commonly purchased items include sexual enhancement pills, software, adult material and luxury items such as watches, jewellery and clothing. Botnets are networks comprised of thousands of infected personal computers, controlled remotely by criminals. They have enabled spammers to push down their costs through economies of scale and eliminated the need for spammers to host their own spam servers as they simply take control of other people’s computers instead. Recent FBI prosecutions of bot-herders and investigations of message-boards used by spammers, suggests the going rate for spammers to send a mln spam messages is as little as $5-10.
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