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Week ending August 22, 2009

Médiamétrie - L'Observatoire des Usages Internet : le succès des sites communautaires - August 18, 2009
from Isabelle Maurice/Médiamétrie

Selon l'Observatoire des Usages Internet (OUI) de Médiamétrie,  les internautes sont de plus en plus nombreux à se laisser séduire par les sites communautaires. En France, près de 16 millions d'internautes sont inscrits sur un site communautaire et plus de 4 millions d'entre eux s'y rendent quotidiennement.

16 millions d'internautes inscrits sur un site communautaire

En 2009, près de 16 millions d'internautes sont inscrits sur au moins un site communautaire (15,9 millions) en France. L'attachement des internautes à ces sites est également de plus en plus marqué puisque près d'un quart d'entre eux s'y connectent tous les jours ou presque (4,3 millions).

Les internautes inscrits sur un site communautaire sont majoritairement jeunes même si cette particularité tend à s'estomper. Les moins de 35 ans représentent aujourd'hui près des 2/3 des inscrits (62.9%) alors qu'ils représentent à peine la moitié (45,8%) des internautes ; ceci est encore plus marqué auprès des 16-24 ans (29,2% des inscrits alors qu'ils représentent 18,1% des internautes) et dans une moindre mesure des 25-34 ans (25,3% pour 19% des internautes).

Les principales raisons de ce succès

Les principales motivations d'inscription sur un site communautaire évoluent, les internautes évoquent plus volontiers la constitution d'un réseau « virtuel ». En effet, sur les 15,9 millions d'inscrits, près des trois quarts (11,9 millions d'internautes) souhaitent rester en contact avec leurs amis (74,7%) et 11,8 millions pensent retrouver d'anciennes connaissances ou amis (73,6%). La constitution de ces « réseaux » a un effet boule de neige sur les inscriptions puisque plus de la moitié des internautes inscrits (8,5 millions) ont franchi le cap de l'inscription parce que quelqu'un les y avait invités (53,1%).

Par rapport au 1er semestre 2008, la hiérarchie des motivations de l'inscription sur un site communautaire a évolué. En 2008, la principale raison de l'inscription était de pouvoir partager ses passions et ses centres d'intérêt (61,1%), venait ensuite la possibilité de rester en contact avec ses amis (58,7%).

pr2go - 76% OF BUSINESSES DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT PR IS - August 17, 2009
from Hannah Pearson/pr2go

The owner of pr2go, the online PR business has criticised practitioners for failing to communicate what the discipline entailed after discovering that 76 per cent of businesses didn’t understand what public relations was.

James Hobday, CEO of pr2go, said that the statistics had come to light as part of ongoing marketing activity for the business. The online service stripped back the PR discipline to its most basic form, offering businesses and agencies the opportunity to access affordable PR.

The service, which sees a team of journalists with experience across a broad range of sectors prepare press information and distribute it on behalf of our clients for a flat fee, has proved a big success, both with businesses wanting localised PR but also with marketing agencies wanting to add value and offer the service to their clients.

“We’ve implemented a fairly aggressive marketing campaign to raise awareness and generate business, and the thing that has appalled me is the lack of understanding of what PR really is,” said James.

“To date, 76 per cent of people we’ve spoken to have not understood what PR is. We’re not talking your average man in the street here, we’re talking marketing managers and directors of large businesses with multiple regional sites needing localised PR.

“We spoke to more than 500 business people seeking to raise the profile of their company across the UK, and their definition of PR varied from telesales to mail-shots. Very few of them understood that it involved the use of online, broadcast and print media to get their key messages and stories across,” he said.

“It concerns me as it is such a massive industry and for those incorporating PR into their communications strategies to have such a weak understanding of what it means suggests that PR practitioners are missing the mark significantly when it comes to actually demonstrating and justifying their product,” he added.

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