According to a recent report from In-Stat, mobile music service, either in the form of downloadable music files or broadcast digital radio, have greater interest among US mobile customers than gaming, an application that is now providing some of the greatest mobile data revenue. However, until key issues such as pricing, revenue sharing and Digital Rights Management (DRM) can be worked out in the ecosystem, widespread uptake of music applications may be on hold.

Ipsos Public Affairs recently conducted a survey of American adults that revealed about four in ten are concerned about their overall health and eating healthy meals regularly . In the past six months, the biggest changes in respondent eating habits included 11% eating more healthfully or watching their eating habits, 10% eating more vegetables, and 9% eating more fruits.

The Middletown Media Studies, from Ball State University, catalogues daily interactions with media to show that people spend a staggering amount of time engaged, to one extent or another, with some form of media during the average day. The study concludes that although TV is still the major force, radio remained in second place by incidence, and computer use came in at just over half the average amount of time of TV use.

Nielsen/NetRatings reported that traffic to image hosting Web sites has skyrocketed due to the massive rise in blogging activity seen since the beginning of this year. As a category, image hosting sites have grown 406 percent to more than 14.7 million unique users since January 2005, accounting for nearly 10 percent of active U.S. Internet users.

According to the J.D. Power and Associates 2005 Residential Cable/Satellite TV Satisfaction Study, satellite TV service continues to erode cable's market share, increasing every year for the past 10 years and making its most significant leap this year. Currently, 27 percent of U.S. households subscribe only to satellite service?up from 19 percent in 2004 and 12 percent in 2000. Sixty percent of households subscribe only to cable service?down from 62 percent in 2004 and 66 percent in 2000.

Leichtman Research Group, Inc., in their updated report, Broadband, Cable and DBS Across the US 2005, found that at the beginning of 2005 broadband penetration of households in the US stood at close to 29% nationwide. Significant state-by-state disparities in broadband penetration remain, however. While these disparities are largely related to variations in household income across the states, these differences are strikingly similar to the state-by-state splits in the 2004 presidential election.

In a new study of U.S. digital camera owners' usage habits, IDC found that the number of aggregate digital images captured per month continued to grow another 18 points in 2005, largely driven through cheaper flash memory card prices and increased capacities.

The recent release of BIGresearch's Consumer Intentions & Actions Survey for September points out that conservatism is the name of the game regarding personal finances, with the majority of consumers contend they're practical spenders.

Nielsen//NetRatings released the best selling product categories for July's top 10 eCommerce sites during the recent Shop.org Annual Summit. Ebay's top selling product category was Toys, Games & Hobbies, the company's original product offering. But this category only accounted for 29 percent of its customers' purchases.

Arbitron and comScore Media Metrix recently released the online radio ratings for July 2005 which show that these measured online networks reached 6,756,100 million listeners. RLR Network (Yahoo Music, AOL Radio Network, MSN Radio and WindowsMedia.com, and Live365) had an estimated 6,012,700 million listeners age 12 and older.