The proportion of U.S. adults who said they watched an online video in the last 30 days more than doubled to 11.4% over the last year, according to data from Mediamark Research Inc. Adults who
reported visiting blogs almost tripled to 6.7%, and those making phone calls online tripled to 2.6%. Using e-mail, obtaining news, and personal shopping were the most common Internet activities--with
70.5%, 40.2% and 34.2% of the population, respectively, pursuing them. The research is derived from MRI's fall 2006 survey, for which interviews were conducted from September 2005 to October 2006.
