Teen Content Creators and Consumers

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2005/Teen-Content-Creators-and-Consumers/1-Summary-of-Findings.aspx

More than half of online teens are Content Creators.

Some 57% of online teens create content for the internet. That amounts to half of all teens ages 12-17, or about 12 million youth. These Content Creators report having done one or more of the following activities: create a blog; create or work on a personal webpage; create or work on a webpage for school, a friend, or an organization; share original content such as artwork, photos, stories, or videos online; or remix content found online into a new creation.

   The most popular Content Creating activities are sharing self-authored content and working on webpages for others.
   33% of online teens share their own creations online, such as artwork, photos, stories, or videos.
   32% say that they have created or worked on webpages or blogs for others, including those for groups they belong to, friends or school assignments.
   22% report keeping their own personal webpage.
   19% have created their own online journal or blog.
   About one in five internet-using teens (19%) says they remix content they find online into their own artistic creations.

19% of online teens keep a blog and 38% read them.

Teens are much more likely than adults to blog and they are also more likely to read blogs. Blogs are a type of webpage, typically created and maintained with software that allows internet users to easily post material to a webpage, usually displaying the material in reverse chronological order with the newest items at the top.

   19% of online youth ages 12-17 have created their own blog. That is approximately four million people.
   38% of all online teens, or about 8 million young people, say they read blogs.
   7% of adult internet users say they have created their own blog and 27% of online adults say they read blogs. (Note: Data for adult blog readers comes from the May-June 2005 Pew Internet Project Tracking Survey.)