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The India Online Vernacular Language Report studies the popularity of the activity ,local language content specific usage,Demographic Profile of Local Language Content Users,Socio-Economic Profile,Economic Profile,Net Usage Status,Net Usage Dynamics,Preferred Net Activities,Most Used Websites,Most Used Offline Media Brands,Response to Online Marketing Stimuli,Offline Brands Recalled etc
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India Online 2007
Local Language Content Users Report
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Table of Content India Online 2007 ......................................................... 1 India Online 2007 Reports............................................... 3 Methodology............................................................... 5 Executive Summary .....................................................10 Key Findings ..............................................................12 Detail Findings Popularity of the Activity ..............................................23 Local Language Content Specific Usage .............................24 Demographic Profile of Local Language Content Users ...........28 Socio-Economic Profile .................................................35 Economic Profile.........................................................40 Net Usage Status.........................................................45 Net Usage Dynamics.....................................................51 Preferred Net Activities ................................................65 Most Used Websites .....................................................78 Most Used Offline Media Brands.......................................97 Response to Online Marketing Stimuli.............................. 101 Offline Brands Recalled .............................................. 102 Segment Wise Detailed Tables ...................................... 103 Appendix ................................................................ 162
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India Online 2007 The India Online 2007 study is not just an annual update over the previous year's India Online 2006 study but rather a continuation of JuxtConsult’s efforts to keep improving the quality of the study every year. The improvements made in the study this year not only involve further strengthening of the research methodology but also enhancing the coverage of the information, especially in the emerging areas of internet usage in the country like blogging, social networking and language website usage. Accordingly the India Online 2007 set of reports will not only provide you the most recent estimates on the Internet user-ship, its growth and penetration in India but will also give you an 'insightful' understanding of the current net usage behavior and preferences of various kinds of online Indians. Like in the year 2006, JuxtConsult conducted two large-scale 'primary' surveys, one offline and one online to complete the study this year as well. However, the sample size for the 'land' survey (which is used to estimate the size of internet using population in urban India) was almost doubled this year to further improve the coverage among the various population strata in urban India. The land survey, conducted during April 2007, covered 10,000 households across 31 cities of various sizes across all the four regions of the country. The 'online' survey was conducted among 3 of the most popular and generic portals in Indian with the focus on capturing the in-depth net usage behaviors and preferences of online Indians. This survey was conducted by JuxtConsult between April-May 2007 and over 14,200 in-depth and usable responses were collected and analyzed for final reporting. There is one key difference in the study this year compared to the last year. To make our findings more representative of the entire urban online population and not just the Internet users who are more likely to respond to online surveys, this year we have ‘linked’ the findings of our online survey with the findings of our land survey. This was done by deriving appropriate individual level ‘weights’ for Internet users from the land survey and then applying them to the data of the online survey. The key information included in the various reports cover the demographic and socio-economic profiles of the net users, their ownership of household assets, the source and place of their access to internet, net usage dynamics, preferred online activities, website preferences for over 20 key online activities, online buying behavior and spends, response to online marketing stimuli, offline media preferences, and much more.
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In sum, what you get in India Online 2007 you are unlikely to get elsewhere:
Highly credible latest estimate of internet using population in urban India
Key insights on various aspects of internet usage in India An understanding of online Indians as 'consumers' and not just as
faceless net users How to reach these online consumers on the net, as well as through
the offline mediums Preferred 'user shares' of key online brands in 21 different online
activity categories
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India Online 2007 Reports Main Report
Overall Status and Usage of Internet in India
User Segment Supplementary Reports
Women on the net Youth on the net (teenagers and young adults) Net users by their socio-economic (SEC) profile Students on the net Corporate employees on the net IT professionals on the net Heavy Online Spenders on the net Bloggers on the net Car owners on the net Two-wheeler owners on the net Mobile phone owners on the net Credit card owners on the net Net users by place of access (homes, place of work, cyber cafes) Net users by type of connection (broadband, dial-up) Net users by town population size (10 lakhs plus, 5-10 lakhs, 1-5
lakhs, Below 1 lakh) Net users by town market size (metros, urban uptowns, emerging
towns, others) Net users as financial investors Vernacular language net users
Category Supplementary Reports: (comparative profiling of top 5 websites)
Online shopping Emailing Job search Matrimony Info search - English Info Search - Local language Online travel Social networking/communities Friendship / dating Online news Financial info/news Online share trading Cinema content Sports content
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Online music Online games Online real estate Mobile content download Astrology Online learning/education
Note - All supplement reports are subject to sufficiency of sample responses. Demographic segment wise details by gender, age, SEC classification, region and place of net access are included in each of the reports as appendix tables.
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Methodology In order to derive highly robust and authentic estimates of the current user-ship of Internet in India, and draw out a truly representative internet usage behavior patterns, we at JuxtConsult keep improving and refining our research methodology for the India Online study every year. In 2007, we have again brought in two significant improvements:
We have increased our land survey sample base to 10,000 (from 5,500 last year) and the coverage of the number of cities to 31 (from 21 last year). The distribution of these 31 cities continues to be well spread across the 4 regions of the country. But more importantly, in terms of coverage of towns by their population size, we dug deeper this year and covered all town classes that have population of 20,000 individuals and above.
Further, to better capture the internet usage across all types of
socio-economic classes (SEC) in urban Indian, we allocated equal sample quota among the 5 broad socio-economic classes A, B, C, D and E across various zones within a town, and then across the town classes and regions. To correct for and put back the real representation of the socio-economic classes (and not equal representation) during the data processing stage, we incorporated the appropriate SEC 'weights' derived from the actual urban population statistics from authentic govt. Sources (National Sample Survey Organization and Census of India).
These two refinements in the sampling methodology ensured that this year we get an even better representation of various types of internet users in urban India. Like last year, this year again we conducted both a land survey and an online survey separately, with the focus of the land survey being on estimating the size of the internet using population in urban India, and that of the online survey on capturing the net usage behavior and preference patterns. The two surveys had some common questions on demographic profiles and net usage behavior to help us link up the two sets of data at the processing stage.
The Land Survey
The objective of the land survey was two fold. First, to help us estimate the internet user-ship in urban India, as with a land survey we could cover both the user and non-user population of the internet in a representative way. The other objective was to derive relevant demographic 'multipliers' from this survey which could then be applied to the internet usage data collected in the online survey. The use of these 'individual' level multipliers helped us make the online survey findings 'representative' of the entire urban online population and not just of those who are more likely to fill up an online surveys (because of factors like convenience of access, regularity of usage,
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attractiveness of the incentive prize offered for filling the survey, etc.). The land survey undertaken this year was again a household level survey across 10,000 households in 31 cities spread across all regions of India. The survey was conducted and completed between mid-April to early-May 2007. Care was taken that all relevant classes of towns with population size of over 20,000 individuals were covered and surveyed across each of the 4 regions of the country. Within a city, 5 geographical locations were chosen, one each in the north, south, east, west and central parts of the city. From each location within a city an equal number of households from the five socio-economic classes A, B, C, D, and E were surveyed. The cities where the land surveys were conducted and the size of the sample data collected from each of these cities are as follows: Table 1: Detailed Sample Base Distribution of the Land Survey
Region City/ Town City Class Sample Size City Class
Delhi 10 lakh + 401 10 lakh +
Kanpur (UP) 10 lakh + 297 10 lakh +
Ludhiana (Pun) 10 lakh + 302 10 lakh +
Patna (Bih) 10 lakh + 303 10 lakh +
Allahabad (UP) 5 lakh – 10 lakh 298 10 lakh +
Ajmer (UP) 1 lakh – 5 lakh 314 10 lakh +
Bhadohi (UP) 50 K – 1 lakh 299 5 lakh - 10 lakh
Muradnagar (UP) 50 K – 1 lakh 300 5 lakh - 10 lakh
North
Sohna (Har) 20 K – 50 K 307 5 lakh - 10 lakh
Mumbai (Mah) 10 lakh + 399 5 lakh - 10 lakh
Ahmedabad (Guj) 10 lakh + 404 5 lakh - 10 lakh
Pune (Mah) 10 lakh + 300 5 lakh - 10 lakh
Rajkot (Guj) 5 lakh - 10 lakh 301 1 lakh – 5 lakh
Dewas (MP) 1 lakh - 5 lakh 303 1 lakh – 5 lakh
Hinganghat (Mah) 50 K - 1 lakh 307 1 lakh – 5 lakh
Mhowgaon (MP) 20 K - 50 K 296 1 lakh – 5 lakh
West
Katol (Mah) 20 K - 50 K 276 1 lakh – 5 lakh
Kolkata (WB) 10 lakh + 398 1 lakh – 5 lakh
Guwahati (Ass) 5 lakh – 10 lakh 299 50 K – 1 lakh
Bhubneshwar (Ori) 5 lakh – 10 lakh 303 50 K – 1 lakh
Raniganj (WB) 1 lakh – 5 lakh 300 50 K – 1 lakh
Bhatapara (Chat) 50 K – 1 lakh 252 50 K – 1 lakh
East
Champa (Chat) 20 K – 50 K 292 50 K – 1 lakh
Chennai (TN) 10 lakh + 407 50 K – 1 lakh
Bangalore (Kar) 10 lakh + 406 20 K - 50 K
Hyderabad (AP) 10 lakh + 410 20 K - 50 K
Mysore (Kar) 5 lakh – 10 lakh 329 20 K - 50 K
Kozhikode (Ker) 1 lakh – 5 lakh 300 20 K - 50 K
Nellore (AP) 1 lakh – 5 lakh 300 20 K - 50 K
Cheruvannur (Ker) 50 K – 1 lakh 294 20 K - 50 K
South
Edapaddi (TN) 20 K – 50 K 305 20 K - 50 K
Total (31) - - 10002 Total (31)
Base: 9,999
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To check for both the 'regular' as well as 'occasional' usage of the Internet, at each of the 10,000 households contacted it was queried:
If any member of the household use the Internet 'at all' from anywhere (home or any location outside)? And
If any member of the household use the Internet ‘at least once a
month’ from anywhere (home or any location outside)?
Some further questions related to the specifics of demographic profile of the head of the household, their knowledge of English, computer usage, and asset ownership of the household were also asked from the respondent. The usage of computer and Internet was separately checked for each member of the household from the respondent. The above information about the head of the household, especially their education and occupation profile (thereby identifying their socio-economic or SEC classification) together with the town size class and region were used to link up to the similar authentic Government of India data to estimate the Internet user-ship as well as to generate the appropriate 'multipliers' that were to be applied to the data collected from the online survey.
The Online Survey
The online survey was used to collect the in-depth information on internet usage patterns and other media usage patterns among the various types of net users. This was done through a 'large-scale' online survey conducted between end-April to mid-May 2007 among the users of three of the biggest and most generic portals in India, namely Yahoo, Rediff and Google. On one end, the email properties of Yahoo, Rediff and Google (Gmail) were used through online survey campaigns to target the widest possible base on internet users in a random manner and collect responses (as these three email portals together cover almost all email users with a personal email id in the country). At the same time, to cover for whatever may have got missed out in these survey campaigns on email portals, a parallel 'contextual search' based survey ad campaign was run using Google AdSense. All the survey campaigns were paid for and officially run by these portals among their users. The overall online survey campaign used a combination of banner ads, e-mailers and contextual search ads through these portals. The online survey was conducted using an e-questionnaire segmented into three sections. The questionnaire was pre-tested and timed to take approximately 15-20 minutes for a respondent to complete depending on the speed of comprehension and answering of the questions. The questionnaire was structured and designed to reduce the level of 'respondent fatigue' to an extent that was practically possible.
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In this year's study, the information area coverage (in the online questionnaire) was also enhanced and fine tuned somewhat to keep abreast with the changing and evolving Indian online space:
The net usage behavior and preferences of new phenomena like blogging, social networking and language content checking were included.
In terms of capturing website preferences, 6 more online activity
categories were included this year to take their coverage to 21. The new categories added were instant messaging, real estate, online info search engine in local languages, astrology, online share trading and online learning/education.
The question about 'blogging' was fine tuned to segregate usage
behavior between only reading blogs, posting comments on blogs and having a blog site of one's own.
In the online questionnaire, a response format of 'clicking' a single or multiple options among the various given options was used for most questions. For each of these questions it was also possible for a respondent to answer 'none' or 'any other'. However, wherever the respondents were asked to give preferences for websites or brand names, only a text box was provided for them to type the name on their own (or type 'none' if not applicable). This was done to ensure that all such recall and actual usage preference responses were solicited 'unprompted'. Further, to enlist complete and sincere responses, an incentive of a significant cash prize was also announced for one selected respondent to be given at the end of the survey. Over 26,000 unduplicated and clean responses were collected from the online survey campaign in about 31/2 weeks time. Of these, all 26,000 responses were complete on user profiles and their net usage behavior information. Around 14,200 responses were complete in all aspects, including various online activities undertaken and website preferences. Thus, the responses from the three sections of the online survey have different valid sample bases and have been reported accordingly. All the usable responses after data cleaning were then collated, crosschecked and processed for tabulation and analysis. While doing the tabulation, any errors and spelling mistakes in typing of the brand names, etc. By the respondents were carefully checked and corrected. Finally, the appropriate weights (multipliers) as derived from the land survey were incorporated into the usable online survey responses to make them more 'representative' of the entire urban online population. Further, for questions that asked for preferred websites names, to remove the possible 'source' bias towards any specific generic portal among the three generic portals used, an 'equalization' correction factor was also incorporated.
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The net result was the compilation of the latest, highly authentic and representative database on the Internet habits and website preferences of online Indians. This database was then used for making 'insightful' analysis and conclusions as contained in the various reports of the India Online 2007 study. Last but not least, in this year's reports we have brought in the presentation of the 'changes' in the usage behavior and preferences vis-à-vis the last year. Wherever relevant, these changes have been presented graphically along with all the current year's data charts, graphs and tables. Note - Because of a deeper and more robust coverage of internet usage among the smaller towns (down to 20,000 population town classes), and among all the socio-economic classes in this year's land survey, there is likely to be an element of 'correction' seen in this year's data (as compared to the previous year's). These corrections are likely to be more visible in some of the demographic, socio-economic and economic profile of online Indians. The correction factor may also apply, though assumedly not to the same degree, to the current year's data on net usage behavior and website preferences.
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Executive Summary There is a huge ‘mismatch’ between potential demand and supply of local language content. Against 60% of all regular online Indians ‘preferring’ to read in local Indian languages, only 12% actually check local language content online. It indicates low overall ‘relevance’ and ‘value’ of the existing local language content on the net. The yawning gap is largely because of the absence of ‘language’ equivalents of popular online content areas like job search, email and IM, info search, online travel booking, shopping, music, e-greetings, social networking / dating / matrimonial search, etc. However, as 1 in 3 local language content user indicates ‘English’ as their most preferred language of reading, it appears that the existing online local language content is satisfying some ‘additional content’ needs of even those who can possibly check all kinds of online content in English anyways. And this need largely appears to be in the area of ‘local news’, as at least 40% of the preferred usage of local language websites fall in the genre of ‘regional news’. The current local language content user base is coming significantly more from South India. South Indians comprise almost 52% of the entire segment user base (against a much lower 40% share among all Internet users). At the language level, Tamil tops in the usage of local language web content (along with Hindi) with 19% usage share. Local language content users do not necessarily come more from smaller towns. Their distribution across town classes follows the overall trend for Internet users. Metros and urban uptowns account for over 52% of this segment, while emerging and smaller towns account for the balance 48%. The demographic profile of the local language content user varies subtly from the regular Internet user. The overall ‘caricature’ that emerges is of a slightly older, better educated, upper/middle class Internet user who is the head of the household more often than not. They are the more ‘seasoned’ internet users. 73% of the local language content users have over 2 years of Internet usage experience (against 63% among all internet users). They are not only the more ‘frequent’ users of the net but also show noticeably higher proportions of ‘heavy’ internet users amongst them (those who are online for over 2 hours per day). They ‘search’ and ‘check’ information on the net significantly more. Compared to all internet users, local language content users search and check ‘personal interest’ information significantly more. Online activities such as checking sports, news, real estate info, social
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networking and instant messaging are relatively more popular among them. However, it is the availability of ‘interactive’ online content (like emailing, messaging/chatting, social networking /communities and blogging) in local languages that is more likely to open the ‘floodgates’ for sizeable usage of online local language content in India. Local language content users are relatively more ‘responsive’ to online marketing stimuli. Over 4-in-5 local language content users (81%) have responded to at least one online marketing stimulus (against 73% of all internet users). Google has a relatively stronger standing in this segment. Google has a strong grip on this online segment with leadership position at not only the overall website salience and usage level, but also for 8 of the popular online activities. In comparison, Yahoo leads only in 5 categories (against 7 categories that it leads among the overall net user level).
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Key Findings There is a huge ‘mismatch’ between potential demand and supply of online local language content While 60% of all regular online Indians say that they ‘prefer’ to read in local Indian languages and not English, only 12% of all regular online Indians actually check local language content online. In number terms it means that on a ‘potential base’ of almost 15 million, only 3 million online Indians check local language content on the net. It clearly indicates that though there is a huge potential that a ‘sitting’ existing online Indians user base offers, the ground level conversion is an abysmal 20% (3 out of 15 million). And as the balance 12 million are already on the net (and most on a daily basis), checking English content despite being relatively less comfortable doing so, the dearth and low ‘relevance’ and ‘value’ of the existing local language content stares point-blank on the online content provider’s face. It appears that the local language preferring online Indians still await the popular (and may be more relevant) online content like job search, email and IM, info search, online travel booking, shopping, music, e-greetings, social networking / dating / matrimonial search, etc. to ‘happen’ in their language some day. Ironically, the lack of ‘interactivity’ of this ‘interactive’ medium in local Indian languages, if not corrected in time, may prove to be its nemesis in the soon-to-be most populous country in the world. Further, a careful look at the popular ‘websites’ that are being used to check local language content currently also reveal this lacuna. Other than the top 3 generic portals which have some multi-lingual content (Google, Yahoo and Rediff), most of the other popular websites come from the genre of online versions of ‘regional news media’. While 40% of local language content users cite these ‘e-news portals’ as their most preferred local language website, only 22% cite the 3 above mentioned generic portals.
_______________________________________ 1 Though the usage of language content on the net was also checked in the 2006 survey, it was done as a single question as one among the various online activities undertaken by the online Indians. In contrast, the possible usage of language content, and the preferred websites to do so, was probed more deeply this year. Due to somewhat different phrasing of the questions in the two years, the responses got also differ noticeably. We have therefore, avoided to compare the language content usage this year vis-à-vis the last year as it would not be appropriate to do so.
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Finally, a look at the wish list of the ‘desired’ online content in local Indian language among both the existing and prospective users also indicates the huge potential (and the opportunity in waiting) for those who may wish to take a lead in this direction: Table 2: Desired online activities in Indian languages
Online activities desired in Local Indian Languages
Existing Local Language
Content Users
All Internet
Users Sample Base 1,388 14,253 Email 71% 61% Chatting 50% 46% Entertainment 58% 45% Search information 45% 33% Online news 51% 31% Online learning / education 37% 31% Astrology 29% 23% Online shopping 22% 18% Travel related information 24% 16% Matrimony 18% 13% Blogs 18% 12% Not Interested in any of these activities
7% 21%
The demand for local language content is ‘stronger’ among the online South Indians Over 1-in-2 local language content users (52%) belong to South India which is significantly higher than the share of this region among all Internet users (40%). On the other hand, North and East zones online Indians have a below average representation in the usage of local language content online. Table 3: Regional distribution of local languages content users
Regions Existing Local Language
Content Users
All Internet Users
Sample Base
1,388 14,253
North 15% 22% East 7% 12% South 52% 40% West 26% 26%
The cities accounting for the bulk of this ‘southern skew’ in the user base of local language content are Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and some mid-level and smaller southern towns such as Coimbatore, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, etc.
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The southern skew in demand of local language web content is also reflected in the popularity of the ‘languages’ in which the content is sought. Tamil tops the chart (along with Hindi) with 19% usage share. Table 4: Popularity of ‘languages’ in the usage of local language content (Top 10)
Language % of Local Language
Content Users
% of Preferred Language of
Reading Sample Base
1,388 1,388
Tamil 19% 13% Hindi 19% 13% Malayalam 15% 8% Telugu 13% 9% Marathi 12% 8% Kannada 6% 5% Bengali 6% 4% Gujarati 3% 2% Oriya 1% 1% Konkani 1% 0%
An interesting observation is that 1 in 3 of the local language content users (34%) are those who’s most preferred language of reading is ‘English’. Obviously then, the existing online local language content is satisfying some ‘additional content’ need of those who can check all possible content in English anyways. Local language content users do not necessarily come more from the smaller towns Though one would expect local language content users to come more from the smaller towns, it is not so. In fact, their distribution across various town classes (by market size) follows the overall trend for Internet users. Metros and urban uptowns account for over 52% of this segment, while emerging and smaller towns account for the balance 48%.
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Table 5: Distribution of local languages content users by Town Class
Town Class (by market size)
Local Language
Content Users
All Internet
Users
Sample Base 1,388 14,253 Metro 38% 37% Urban uptowns
14% 14%
Emerging Towns
18% 16%
Others 30% 33%
The demographic and socio-economic profile of local language content users varies in subtle nuances from all Internet users:
They are relatively older. 25-45 yr olds constitute 57% of the segment as against 49% among all Internet users – this also explains the higher employment status among this segment.
Given the ‘older male’ demographic characteristic of the local language content user, the proportion of ‘head’ of households is also notably higher among them at 56% compared to 47% among all Internet users.
A slightly higher proportion of this segment is employed in the IT/ Software sector (27% versus 18% among all Internet users).
The affluence levels appear to be a shade lower among local language content users – proportion with MHI (Monthly Household Income) of Rs 50,000+ is 11% versus 13% among all Internet users. Household Durables ownership is also just marginally lower.
Interestingly, while the SEC distribution reveals a larger SEC ‘C’ base among this segment (29% versus 23% among all) – the share of lower secs (D and E) is below average.
This segment also has a higher share of graduate + users (71% versus 64% among all Internet users).
The overall ‘caricature’ that emerges of local language content users is of a slightly older, better educated, upper/middle class Internet user, with every second such user coming from South India. Local language content users are the relatively more ‘seasoned’ Internet users 73% of the local language content users have over 2 years of Internet experience and nearly half of them (47%) have been using the Internet for 5 years or more. Corresponding figures for all Internet users are much lower at 63% and 37% respectively. Other Internet related specifics such as place of access and type of connection follow the trend for all Internet users:
Over 4-in-5 (83%) access Internet from their place of work, followed by nearly 3-in-5 who do so at home (58%).
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Broadband remains the predominant type of connection at home (71%) and office (65%).
This segment also shows a distinctly higher share of ‘heavy’ Internet users (those who are online for over 2 hour per day). They not only a show a proportionately higher ‘duration’ of net surfing from both home and place of work but also both during the weekdays and the weekends. The proportion of ‘heavier’ net usage is higher from place of work and accordingly during weekdays. Table 6: Duration of internet surfing per usage day
Heavy Internet Users (2 hrs +)
Proportion of Local
Language Content Users
Proportion of Preferred
Language of Reading
Sample Base 1,388 14,253 From Home 27% 22% From Place of Work
34% 29%
During Weekday 49% 39% During Weekend 45% 41%
Other salient aspects of this segment’s Internet usage are:
At 60%, a higher proportion of local language content users who access the net from home do so more than once a day (against 51% of all net users). While the proportion of daily users (87%). On the other hand, 68% of local language content users access the net more than once a day from office (against 63% of all net users).
The proportion of users who claim to access internet ‘throughout the day’ from both home and place of work is also noticeably higher among local language content users.
Local language content users undertake information ‘searching’ and ‘checking’ activities significantly more Compared to all internet users, local language content users undertake info search and check personal interest information significantly more. Personal interest activities like checking sports, news, real estate info, social networking and instant messaging are relatively more popular among them.
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Table 7: Online activities undertaken ‘relatively’ more by local language content users (Top 10)
Online Activities % of Local Language
Content Users
Undertaking
% of All Internet
Users Undertaking
Sample Base 1,388 14,253 Check sports 76% 57% Check news 79% 61% Matrimonial search 64% 48% Check financial info 61% 45% Educational / Learning material
63% 48%
Check real estate info 51% 37% Astrology 60% 46% Social networking / communities
58% 44%
Instant messaging 76% 62% Music 74% 60%
However, in absolute terms it is still the ‘usually’ more popular online activities like emailing and job search that are also the most undertaken online activities by local language content users. Table 8: Most popular online activities among the local language content users (Top 10)
Online Activities % of Local Language
Content Users Undertaking
% of All Internet Users
Undertaking
Sample Base 1,388 14,253 Emailing 96% 95% Job Search 81% 73% Check news 79% 61% Instant messaging 76% 62% Check Sports 76% 57% Music 74% 60% Online games 68% 54% E-greetings 64% 57% Mobile content (ring tones/ games)
64% 50%
Matrimonial search 64% 48% Local language content users are relatively more ‘responsive’ to online marketing stimuli than other Internet users Over 4-in-5 local language content users (81%) have responded to at least one online marketing stimulus, against a much lower 73% of all internet users having done so.
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Among the various stimuli, local language content users seem to be ‘relatively’ more responsive to sponsored search ad. 48% of them have clicked such an ad in the past as compared to only 37% of all internet users. This is in line with the fact that local language content users ‘search’ for information relatively more. However, at an absolute level, like the overall internet users, the local language content users also respond the most to ‘banner ads’ (at 52%).
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Table 9: Response to online marketing stimuli
Online Marketing Stimulus
% of Local Language
Content Users who
Clicked
% of All Internet Users who
Clicked
Sample Base 1,388 14,253 Banner ad 52% 47% Online contest 50% 43% Sponsored search ad 48% 37% Product/service e-mailer
18% 14%
None of the above 19% 27%
Google stands out as the most popular local language content website Though the language ‘e-news’ websites put together account for the ‘bulk’ of the local language website preferences, the 2 big ‘generic portals’ Google and Yahoo stand out as the most used local language content websites. Table 10: Preferred websites for checking local language content
Website % of Local Language Content Users Using the
Website Sample Base 1,388 Google 11.70% Yahoo 8.20% Malayalamanorama 7.0% Eenadu 6.80% Thinamalar 5.30% Webduniya 3.90% Marathiworld 3.70% Webulagam 3.60% Tamilcinema 3.50% Esakal 3.40% Keralakaumudi 2.80% Jagran 2.70% Rediff 2.50% Kannadaaudio 1.70% Anandabazaar 1.60% Dainikjagran 1.60% Banglalive 1.50% Mathrubhumi 1.40% Kumudam 1.30% Gujratsamachar 1.20% Amarujala 0.90% BBCHindi 0.70% Deepika 0.70%
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Vaartha 0.70% Dailythanthi 0.60% Dinakaran 0.60% Thatskannada 0.60% Epatra 0.50% Bhaskar 0.50% Maharashtratimes 0.30% Others 18.50%
In fact, Google is the most salient and most used website among the local language content users for English language content also.
Table 11: Preferred websites for checking English content
Website % of Local Language Content
Users Using the Website
% of All Internet Users Using the
Website
Sample Base 1,388 14,253 Google 33.10% 29.30% Yahoo 25.30% 26.60% Rediff 11.20% 10.90% Orkut 5.0% 7.90% Gmail 4.30% 3.90% Hotmail 1.30% 1.50% Indiatimes 0.90% 0.90% Moneycontrol 0.70% 0.50% Contest2win 0.70% 0.30% Naukri 0.60% 0.50%
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Table 12: Most popular websites for specific online activities
Online Activity Top Website % Local Language
Content Users Prefer
to Use
% All Internet Users Prefer
to Use
Sample Base 1,388 14,253 Emailing Yahoo 49% 53% Instant Messaging Yahoo 59% 63% Info Search – English Google 74% 75% Info Search – Languages
Google 58% 74%
Job Search Naukri 38% 37% Online Travel IRCTC 17% 15% Online Shopping Rediff 28% 25% Online News Yahoo 13% 14% Financial News & Info Google 18% 13% Online Share Trading ICICI Direct 34% 36% Real Estate Info Google 22% 17% Matrimonial Search* Shaadi 27% 28% Dating / Friendship Orkut 30% 36% Social Networking Orkut 60% 64% Online Games Yahoo 21% 18% Mobile Content Google 17% 10% Online Music Raaga 22% 22% Sports Content Espnstarsports 23% 29% Cinema Content Google 12% 9% Astrology Yahoo 18% 22% Online Education Google 30% 34% Blog Site Google 27% 21%
* However Bharatmatrimony leads the pack when all the sub-brands viz. Tamilmatrimony, Keralamatrimony, Hindimatrimony etc. clubbed together with 32% among the Local language content users. The key observations that emerge from the popularity ratings of websites across specific categories are as follows:
Except for 5 categories – online shopping, matrimony, online travel, cinema and mobile content – in all other activity categories the most popularly used website by the local language content users is the same as the overall net users. In the 5 mentioned categories, at the overall net user level, Ebay, Bharatmatrimony, Makemytrip, Yahoo and Yahoo respectively are more popular.
Among the local language content users, Google strengthens its
stronghold with leadership position in 8 online categories. In comparison, Yahoo leads only in 5 categories (against 7 categories that it leads among the overall net user level).
The fall in proportionate usage of Google as the ‘most preferred
engine’ for searching local language content among this segment is largely a result of better awareness of ‘specific’ language search engines among them.
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Detailed Findings
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Popularity of the Activity Table 13: Popularity of various internet activities
Website All Users All Users (In Millions) Emailing 95% 24.0 Job Search 73% 18.4 Instant messaging 62% 15.6 Check news 61% 15.4 Music 60% 15.1 Chatting 59% 14.9 Check Sports 57% 14.4 E-greetings 57% 14.4 Online games 54% 13.7 Dating/Friendship 51% 12.9 Mobile contents (ring tones / games, etc.)
50% 12.5
Search work related info 49% 12.3 Matrimonial search 48% 12.0 Educational / Learning material 48% 12.0 Screensavers/wallpapers 46% 11.5 Astrology 46% 11.5 Check financial info 45% 11.4 Search for product information 45% 11.2 Social networking / Communities 44% 11.0 Buy travel products 43% 10.9 Share pictures 40% 10.0 Check real estate info 37% 9.2 Check hobby related info 32% 7.9 Check business/Financial news 30% 7.6 Net banking 30% 7.6 Check health & lifestyle info 30% 7.6 Movies 29% 7.4 Check cinema content 28% 7.0 Check / read blogs 27% 6.7 Business/professional networking 26% 6.6 Check personal travel related info 26% 6.5 Buy other than travel products 24% 6.1 Look for Seminar/workshops 24% 6.0 Online bill payment 22% 5.6 Check business travel related info 19% 4.7 Adult content 18% 4.6 Online stock trading 13% 3.3 Net telephony 13% 3.2 Comment on blog post 12% 3.0 Local language website usage 12% 2.9 Have a blog site of own 7% 1.7
Base: 25,060
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Local Language Content Specific Usage Chart 1: Vernacular language usage
Base: 14,253
Current Year
12%
88%
Use other language websitesUse only English websites
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Table 14: Most used local language (other than English)
Website Language Users All Users
Tamil 19% 19%
Hindi 19% 19%
Malayalam 15% 15%
Telugu 13% 13%
Marathi 12% 12%
Kannada 6% 6%
Bengali 6% 6%
Gujarati 3% 3%
Oriya 1% 1%
Konkani 0.8% 0.8%
Base: 1,388
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Table 15: Most used website for checking content in other language
Activity Language Users
Google 12%
Yahoo 8%
Malayalamanorama 7%
Eeandu 7%
Thinamalar 5%
Webduniya 4%
Marathiworld 4%
Webulagam 4%
Tamilcinema 4%
Keralakaumudi 3%
Jagran 3%
Esakal 3%
Base: 1,388
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Table 16: Online activities desired in other languages
Activity Language Users All Users
Email 71% 61%
Entertainment 58% 45%
Online news 51% 31%
Chatting 50% 46%
Search information 45% 33%
Online learning / education 37% 31%
Astrology 29% 23%
Travel related information 24% 16%
Online shopping 22% 18%
Matrimony 18% 13%
Blog 18% 12%
Not Interested 7% 21%
Base: 1,388
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Demographic Profile of Local Language Content Users Chart 2: Gender breakup
Base: 1,388
Current Year
84% 82%
16% 18%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Language Users All Users
Male Female
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Chart 3: Age group distribution
Base: 1,388
Current Year
7%11%
31%36%
17%13%
28%
41%
0%
15%
30%
45%
Language Users All Users
Age 13-18 years Age 19-24 yearsAge 25-35 years Age 36-45 years
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Chart 4: City class - by population size
Base: 1,388
Current Year
12% 12%14% 15%
30% 29%
44% 45%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Language Users All Users
Upto 1 Lakh 1-5 Lakhs 5-10 Lakhs Above 10 Lakhs
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Chart 5: City class - by market size
Base: 1,388
Current Year38% 37%
14% 14%18%
16%
30%33%
0%
20%
40%
Language Users All Users
Metro Urban uptowns Emerging Towns Others
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Table 17: Top 10 cities
Cities Language Users All Users
Delhi 10% 12%
Mumbai 9% 10%
Chennai 6% 4%
Bangalore 6% 6%
Hyderabad 6% 5%
Pune 3% 3%
Kolkata 3% 3%
Coimbatore 2% 0.9%
Ahmadabad 1% 2%
Thiruvanathapuram 1% 0.6%
Base: 1,388
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Chart 6: Region-wise break-ups
Base: 1,388
Current Year
52%
40%
26% 26%
15%22%
7%12%
0%
20%
40%
60%
Language Users All Users
South West North East
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Table 18: Preferred language of reading
Cities Language Users All Users
English 34% 41%
Hindi 13% 19%
Tamil 13% 6%
Telugu 9% 6%
Malayalam 8% 4%
Marathi 8% 5%
Kannada 5% 4%
Bengali 4% 3%
Gujarati 2% 4%
Oriya 0.7% 3%
Base: 1,388
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Socio-Economic Profile Chart 7: Socio economic classification
Base: 1,388
Current Year
25% 24%
30%32%
29%
23%
12%14%
5%7%
0%
20%
40%
Language Users All Users
SEC A SEC B SEC C SEC D SEC E
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Chart 8: Highest educational qualification
Base: 1,388
Current Year
8%13%
21% 23%
39%
28%25%
43%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Language Users All Users
Up to SSC/HSCCollege but not GraduateGraduate & above - general streamGraduate & above - professional stream
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Chart 9: Occupational break up
Base: 1,388
Current Year
33%38%
67%62%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
Language Users All Users
Unemployed Employed
Local Language Content Users
38
Chart 10: Function / field of occupation
Base: 930
Current Year
27%
18%15%19%
10% 10%
48%54%
0%
20%
40%
60%
Language Users All Users
IT/SW MARCOM Finance Others
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Chart 11: Head of the household
Base: 1,388
Current Year
56%
47%44%
53%
0%
20%
40%
60%
Language Users All Users
Head of the household Not head of the household
Local Language Content Users
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Economic Profile Chart 12: Monthly family income
Base: 1,240
Current Year
38% 38%40% 39%
10% 10%11% 13%
0%
15%
30%
45%
Language Users All Users
Upto Rs. 10K 10-30K 30-50K Above 50K
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Chart 13: Most expensive vehicle owned by the household
Base: 1,388
Current Year
46% 44%
24%28%
8% 9%
22%19%
0%
20%
40%
60%
Language Users All Users
2 Wheeler 4 Wheeler
Others Don't own a vehicle
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Chart 14: Ownership of credit cards (individually)
Base: 1,388
Current Year
62%67%
38%34%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
Language Users All Users
Don't own a credit card Own a Credit Card
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Table 19: Household asset ownership
Assets Language Users All Users
Color TV 92% 92%
Mobile Phone 88% 90%
Bank Account 84% 82%
Cable TV connection/DTH 73% 72%
Fridge 73% 75%
Computer/Laptop 67% 67%
Camera 64% 64%
Life Insurance 63% 61%
Landline Phone 61% 62%
Home 56% 58%
Debit Card 55% 52%
Music System/DVD/MP3 54% 55%
Washing Machine 50% 57%
Credit Card 37% 35%
Medical Insurance/CGHS 34% 33%
Fixed Deposits 33% 34%
Mutual Funds 22% 22%
Demat Account 21% 21%
Air Conditioner 20% 25%
Microwave 20% 24%
Share of Companies 19% 20%
Video Camera 16% 20%
Chit Fund Deposits 10% 7%
IPod 8% 10%
Base: 1,388
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Chart 15: Current loan liabilities
Base: 1,388
Current Year
42%45%
25%20%
15% 13%12% 12%11%9%
6%3%4% 4%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Language Users All Users
Home Loan Personal LoanTwo - wheeler Loan Car LoanEducation Loan Consumer DurablesBusiness Loan
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Net Usage Status Chart 16: Years of experience in using internet
Base: 1,388
Current Year
13%20%
14% 16%
73%
63%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
Language Users All Users
Up to 1 year 1-2 years More than 2 years
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Current Year
58% 59%
83% 78%
49% 47%
6% 6%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Language Users All Users
HomePlace of work (office / school / college)Cyber cafeIn transit (while traveling)
Chart 17: Place of accessing internet
Base: 1,388
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Current Year
16% 16%
68%
9% 10%4% 7%
71%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
Language Users All Users
Regular Dial Up Broadband Others Don't Know
Chart 18: Type of internet connection at home
Base: 786
Local Language Content Users
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Current Year
7% 7%
65% 61%
14% 13%15%19%
0%
10%20%
30%
40%
50%60%
70%
80%
Language Users All Users
Regular Dial Up Broadband Others Don't Know
Chart 19: Type of internet connection at office
Base: 1,158
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Current Year
37% 35%
17% 17%
11% 10%9% 8%5% 5%5% 6%5% 6%
0%
20%
40%
Language Users All Users
BSNL/Sancharnet Airtel/BhartiVSNL / Tata Local Cable OperatorMTNL RelianceSify
Chart 20: Service provider subscribed to at home
Base: 786
Local Language Content Users
50
Chart 21: Service provider subscribed to at office
Base: 1,158
Current Year
28% 28%
18%15%
13%11%
4% 5%4%6%
4% 4%3%5%
0%
10%
20%
30%
Language Users All Users
BSNL/Sancharnet Airtel/BhartiVSNL / Tata MTNLReliance Local Cable OperatorSify
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Net Usage Dynamics Chart 22: Frequency of accessing internet from home
Base: 759
Current Year87% 84%
12% 14%
2% 2%
0%
15%
30%
45%
60%
75%
90%
Language Users All Users
At least once daily Weekly, but not dailyLess than once a week
Local Language Content Users
52
Current Year87% 86%
11% 11%2% 3%
0%
15%
30%
45%
60%
75%
90%
Language Users All Users
At least once daily Weekly, but not dailyLess than once a week
Chart 23: Frequency of accessing internet from office
Base: 1,060
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Current Year
9% 9%15%
20%
53% 54%
23%18%
0%
20%
40%
60%
Language Users All Users
Midnight to 9.00 AM 9.00 AM-6.00 PM6.00 PM - 12.00 Midnight Throughout the Day
Chart 24: Time of the day accessing internet from home
Base: 746
Local Language Content Users
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Chart 25: Time of the day accessing internet from office
Base: 1,062
Current Year
4% 4%
52%55%
9%12%
35%29%
0%
15%
30%
45%
60%
Language Users All Users
Midnight to 9.00 AM 9.00 AM-6.00 PM6.00 PM - 12.00 Midnight Throughout the Day
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Chart 26: Duration of PC usage from home
Base: 840
Current Year
58%67%
26%22%
16%12%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
Language Users All Users
Light users Medium users Heavy users
Local Language Content Users
56
Current Year
36%
43%38%
35%
27%22%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Language Users All Users
Light users Medium users Heavy users
Chart 27: Duration of internet usage from home
Base: 752
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Chart 28: Duration of PC usage vis-à-vis internet usage from home
Base: 840(PC), 752(Int.)
Current Year
26%
38%
27%
58%
16%
36%
0%
20%
40%
60%
Light users Medium users Heavy users
PC Use Internet Use
Local Language Content Users
58
Chart 29: Duration of PC usage from office
Base: 1,086
Current Year
25%31%
20% 22%
56%
47%
0%
20%
40%
60%
Language Users All Users
Light users Medium users Heavy users
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Chart 30: Duration of internet usage from office
Base: 1,048
Current Year
39%45%
26% 26%
34%29%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Language Users All Users
Light users Medium users Heavy users
Local Language Content Users
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Chart 31: Duration of PC vis-à-vis internet usage from office
Base: 1,086(PC), 1,048(Int.)
Current Year
25%20%
39%
26%
56%
34%
0%
20%
40%
60%
Light users Medium users Heavy users
PC Use Internet Use
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Chart 32: Duration of internet usage during weekdays vis-à-vis weekends
Base: 1,234(Weekdays), 1,234(Weekends)
Current Year
16%
28%25%
17%
28%
23%
11%13%
7%
11%11%10%
0%
10%
20%
30%
Less than 30
Minutes
30 to 60
Minutes
1-2 Hours 2-5 Hours 5-8 Hours More than 8
Hours
Weekdays Weekends
Local Language Content Users
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Chart 33: Time spent by internet users on watching TV
Base: 1,209
Current Year
44% 44%42% 43%
13% 13%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Language Users All Users
Light users Medium users Heavy users
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Chart 34: Time spent by internet users on reading newspaper
Base: 1,242
Current Year
43%46%44%
41%
14% 14%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Language Users All Users
Light users Medium users Heavy users
Local Language Content Users
64
Chart 35: Time spent by internet users on listening to radio
Base: 863
Current Year
72% 72%
20% 19%
8% 10%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
Language Users All Users
Light users Medium users Heavy users
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Preferred Net Activities Table 20: Popularity of various internet activities
Website Language Users All Users Local language website usage 100% 12% Emailing 96% 95% Job Search 81% 73% Check news 79% 61% Instant messaging 76% 62% Check Sports 76% 57% Music 74% 60% Online games 68% 54% E-greetings 64% 57% Mobile contents (ring tones / games, etc.) 64% 50% Matrimonial search 64% 48% Educational / Learning material 63% 48% Dating/Friendship 63% 51% Chatting 62% 59% Check financial info 61% 45% Astrology 60% 46% Social networking / Communities 58% 44% Search work related info 56% 49% Check real estate info 51% 37% Search for product information 51% 45% Screensavers/wallpapers 49% 46% Buy travel products 48% 43% Share pictures 44% 40% Check / read blogs 38% 27% Check business/Financial news 37% 30% Net banking 37% 30% Check hobby related info 35% 32% Movies 34% 29% Check health & lifestyle info 33% 30% Check personal travel related info 32% 26% Check cinema content 32% 28% Business/professional networking 32% 26% Buy other than travel products 31% 24% Look for Seminar/workshops 30% 24% Online bill payment 28% 22% Adult content 21% 18% Check business travel related info 21% 19% Comment on blog post 17% 12% Online stock trading 16% 13% Net telephony 16% 13% Have a blog site of own 10% 7%
Base: 1,388
Local Language Content Users
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Chart 36: Professional activities
Base: 1,388
Current Year
83%73%
62%56%49%
37%30% 26%30% 24%21% 19%
89%81% 76%
26%*
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Language Users All Users
Emailing - work related Job SearchInstant messaging Search work related infoCheck business/Financial news Business/prof. networkingLook for Seminar/workshops Check business travel info.
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Chart 37: Personal activities
Base: 1,388
Current Year
89%79%
61%
76%
57%64%
48%
63%51%
62% 59%60%
46%58%
44%51%
45%
92%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Language Users All Users
Emailing - personal Check newsCheck Sports Matrimonial searchDating/Friendship ChattingAstrology Social networking/communitiesSearch for product information
Local Language Content Users
68
Chart 38: Downloading activities
Base: 1,388
Current Year
60%54%
50% 48% 46%
34%29%
18%
74%68% 64% 63%
49%
21%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
Language Users All Users
Music Online gamesMobile contents (ring tones/games) Educational / Learning materialScreensavers/wallpapers MoviesAdult content
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Chart 39: E-commerce related activities
Base: 1,378
Current Year
58%
46%37%
31%25%
30% 29%23% 23%
65%62%
52%
37%31% 28%
24%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Language Users All Users
E-greetings Check financial infoCheck real estate info Net bankingBuy non-travel products Book train ticketsOnline bill payment Book air tickets
Local Language Content Users
70
Chart 40: Online shopping
Base: 1,388
Current Year
57%
43%49%51%
0%
20%
40%
60%
Language Users All Users
Non-Buyers Buyers
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Chart 41: Blogging activities
Base: 1,388
Current Year
38%
27%
17%12%10% 7%
59%
70%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
Language Users All Users
Check / read blogs Comment on blog postHave a blog site of own None of the above
Local Language Content Users
72
Chart 42: Member of an online community
Base: 1,388
Current Year
49% 51%
41%
59%
0%
20%
40%
60%
Language Users All Users
Not a member of any online communityMember of an online community
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Table 21: Membership by type of online community
Type Of Community Language Users All Users
Not a member of any online community 49% 59%
Computers & Internet 10% 5%
Alumni & Schools 6% 7%
Romance & Relationships 5% 5%
Business / Professional community 4% 3%
Games 3% 2%
Music 3% 3%
Arts & Entertainment 2% 2%
Individuals 2% 2%
Schools & Education 2% 3%
Cultures & Community 2% 2%
Company 2% 1%
Travel 2% 0.9%
Science & History 1% 0.8%
Family & Home 0.9% 0.5%
Recreation & Sports 0.8% 0.3%
Automotive 0.7% 0.5%
Countries & Regional 0.7% 0.4%
Health, Wellness & Fitness 0.7% 0.7%
Religion & Beliefs 0.7% 0.8%
Hobbies & Crafts 0.5% 0.4%
Fashion & Beauty 0.4% 0.4%
Pets & Animals 0.3% 0.2%
Cities & Neighborhoods 0.2% 0.2%
Gay, Lesbian & Bi 0.2% 0.2%
Food, Drink & Wine 0.1% 0.1%
Government & Politics 0.1% 0.2%
Base: 1,388
Local Language Content Users
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Chart 43: Problems faced while surfing the internet
Base: 1,388
Current Year
62%
49% 49%48% 45%
29%35%
26% 27%
12% 12%
58%52% 52%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Language Users All Users
Slow website opening Virus / spywareSpam / junk mails Unsolicited ads/pop-upsDifficult to connect Lack of response to queriesCumbersome navigation
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Table 22: Preferred websites - emailing
Website Language Users All Users
Yahoo 49% 53%
Gmail 25% 20%
Rediff 16% 18%
Hotmail 6% 6%
Sancharnet/BSNL 2% 0.7%
Indiatimes 0.7% 0.9%
VSNL 0.6% 0.5%
Lycos 0.5% 0.2%
Sify 0.5% 1%
AOL 0.2% 0.1%
Base: 1,388
Local Language Content Users
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Chart 44: Multiple user shares of email websites
Base: 1,388
Current Year
89%
65%59%61% 57%
43%36%
21% 17%17% 13%
89%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Language Users All Users
Yahoo Gmail Rediff Hotmail Indiatimes Sify
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Chart 45: Number of email accounts and average per capita email ids
Base: 1,388
Current Year
11%15%
23%
28%24%
27%
21%17%
22%
14%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
Language Users All Users
1 email id 2 email ids3 email ids 4 email ids5 or more email ids
Local Language Content Users
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Most Used Websites Table 23: Top of mind unaided recall - all websites
Website Language Users All Users
Google 30% 27%
Yahoo 29% 30%
Rediff 12% 12%
Gmail 5% 3%
Orkut 3% 5%
Indiatimes 1% 1%
Hotmail 0.9% 2%
Ebay 0.6% 0.3%
Manoramaonline 0.6% 0.1%
Contest2win 0.6% 0.6%
Base: 1,364
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Table 24: Most used website - all websites
Website Language Users All Users
Google 33% 29%
Yahoo 25% 27%
Rediff 11% 11%
Orkut 5% 8%
Gmail 4% 4%
Hotmail 1% 2%
Indiatimes 0.9% 0.9%
Moneycontrol 0.7% 0.5%
Contest2win 0.7% 0.3%
Naukri 0.6% 0.5%
Base: 1,373
Local Language Content Users
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Table 25: Info search (English)
Website Language Users All Users
Google 74% 75%
Yahoo 10% 10%
Rediff 3% 2%
Dictionary 2% 1%
BBC 2% 0.5%
Wikipedia 2% 1%
English 2% 3%
MSN 1% 1%
Altavista 0.8% 0.3%
Sify 0.5% 0.4%
Base: 1,012
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Table 26: Info search (local language)
Website Language Users All Users
Google 58% 74%
Guruji 6% 2%
Manoramaonline 4% 2%
Kerala 4% 1%
Webduniya 3% 1%
Webulagam 2% 0.8%
Eenadu 2% 1%
Khoj 2% 1%
Jagran 1% 0.5%
Chennaionline 0.3% 0.6%
Base: 633
Local Language Content Users
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Table 27: Job search
Website Language Users All Users
Naukri 38% 37%
Monster 24% 27%
Timesjobs 12% 14%
Google 10% 5%
Yahoo 4% 3%
Rediff 2% 2%
Jobs 1% 1%
Indiatimes 1% 1%
Jobstreet 0.9% 0.7%
Jobsahead 0.7% 1%
Base: 1,119
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Table 28: Online shopping (other than travel tickets)
Website Language Users All Users
Rediff 28% 25%
Ebay 28% 34%
Google 11% 8%
Yahoo 8% 7%
Indiatimes 5% 7%
Futurebazaar 4% 6%
Amazon 3% 0.9%
Sify 2% 2%
Indiaplaza 1% 1%
Shopping 0.8% 2%
Base: 889
Local Language Content Users
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Table 29: Online news
Website Language Users All Users
Yahoo 13% 14%
Google 11% 9%
NDTV 8% 12%
Rediff 8% 10%
Indiatimes 6% 7%
Manoramaonline 6% 3%
Eenadu 5% 2%
BBC 4% 5%
Jagran 3% 1%
Sify 3% 2%
Base: 1,095
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Table 30: Financial news & info (rates, quotes, etc.)
Website Language Users All Users
Google 18% 13%
Moneycontrol/CNBC 14% 13%
Yahoo 13% 12%
ICICI Direct/ICICI Bank 7% 7%
Rediff 6% 6%
NDTV/NDTVprofit 4% 4%
Economictimes 3% 3%
Sharekhan 3% 4%
Indiatimes 3% 4%
HDFC 2% 0.8%
Base: 823
Local Language Content Users
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Table 31: Online share trading
Website Language Users All Users
ICICI Direct 34% 36%
Sherkhan 21% 22%
Religare 9% 4%
Geojit 4% 2%
Kotaksecurities 3% 4%
Indiabulls 3% 7%
hdfcsec 3% 2%
5Paisa 3% 3%
NSE 2% 3%
BSE 2% 3%
Base: 185
India Online 2007
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Table 32: Real estate info
Website Language Users All Users
Google 22% 17%
Yahoo 16% 14%
Realestates 9% 10%
99acres 8% 10%
Magicbricks 8% 14%
Rediff 6% 7%
Indiaproperty 5% 5%
Indiatimes 3% 2%
Property 2% 3%
Sulekha 2% 1%
Base: 693
Local Language Content Users
88
Table 33: Matrimonial search
Website Language Users All Users
Shaadi 27% 28%
Bharatmatrimony 23% 29%
Jeevansaathi 9% 6%
Google 8% 6%
Yahoo 5% 5%
Tamilmatrimony 5% 3%
Matrimony 5% 5%
Rediff 3% 3%
Keralamatrimony 3% 0.9%
Indianmatrimony 2% 0.6%
Base: 865
India Online 2007
89
Table 34: Dating/friendship search
Website Current Year All Users
Orkut 30% 36%
Yahoo 23% 23%
Google 13% 8%
Rediff 7% 7%
Fropper 3% 3%
Adultfriendfinder 2% 2%
Indiatimes 2% 2%
Tagged 2% 1%
MSN 2% 1%
Friendfinder 1% 2%
Base: 850
Local Language Content Users
90
Table 35: Social networking/communities
Website Language Users All Users
Orkut 60% 64%
Yahoo 23% 16%
MSN 1% 1%
Tagged 0.8% 0.4%
Communities 0.7% 1%
Myspace 0.6% 0.6%
Ryze 0.4% 0.3%
Fropper 0.4% 0.4%
Bharatstudent 0.4% 0.4%
Linkedin 0.3% 0.3%
Base: 642
India Online 2007
91
Table 36: Online gaming
Website Language Users All Users
Yahoo 21% 18%
Zapak 18% 17%
Google 12% 9%
Games 7% 7%
Indiagames 4% 3%
Rediff 4% 3%
Contest2Win 3% 3%
Easports 2% 1%
Miniclip 2% 4%
Onlinegames 1% 2%
Base: 895
Local Language Content Users
92
Table 37: Download mobile content
Website Language Users All Users
Google 17% 10%
Rediff 16% 12%
Yahoo 13% 14%
Nokia 11% 9%
Indiatimes 7% 7%
Sify 4% 2%
Airtel 3% 3%
Mobile9 3% 4%
Zedge 3% 2%
Funmaza 2% 3%
Base: 859
India Online 2007
93
Table 38: Download music
Website Language Users All Users
Raaga 22% 22%
Google 10% 7%
Yahoo 10% 10%
Cooltoad 5% 5%
Musicindiaonline 4% 4%
Rediff 3% 3%
Youtube 3% 2%
Tamilsongs 3% 2%
Mp3 3% 3%
Music 2% 4%
Base: 980
Local Language Content Users
94
Table 39: Sports content
Website Language Users All Users
Espnstarsports 23% 29%
Cricinfo 16% 14%
Yahoo 13% 12%
Google 11% 8%
Rediff 10% 8%
Sports 4% 4%
Indiatimes 2% 3%
NDTV 2% 2%
Sify 1% 2%
MSN 1% 1%
Base: 958
India Online 2007
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Table 40: Cinema content
Website Language Users All Users
Google 12% 9%
Yahoo 9% 11%
Bollywood 6% 5%
Tamilcinemas 5% 3%
Cinema 4% 4%
Indiafm 4% 5%
Rediff 4% 5%
Santabanta 3% 3%
Indiaglitz 3% 2%
Indiatimes 3% 3%
Base: 904
Local Language Content Users
96
Table 41: Preferred blog sites
Website Language Users All Users
Google 27% 21%
Yahoo 18% 18%
Rediff 12% 10%
Blogger 9% 11%
Ibibo 9% 10%
Youtube 7% 2%
Blogspot 7% 11%
Hi5 4% 2%
Indiatimes 2% 2%
Mylot 2% 1%
Base: 271
India Online 2007
97
Most Used Offline Media Brands Table 42: Favorite TV channels
Website Language Users All Users
Star Plus 9% 13%
Sun TV 8% 5%
Discovery 6% 7%
NDTV 5% 5%
Aajtak 5% 5%
Asianet 5% 1%
HBO 4% 4%
E TV 4% 1%
CNBC 4% 2%
Star Movies 3% 3%
Base: 1,263
Local Language Content Users
98
Table 43: Favorite newspapers
Website Language Users All Users
The Times of India 23% 35%
The Hindu 22% 18%
Eenadu 4% 3%
Dinamalar 4% 1%
The Hindustan Times 4% 6%
Indian Express 3% 3%
Malyalam Manorama 3% 2%
Deccan Chronicle 2% 4%
Dainik Jagran 2% 2%
Deccan Herald 2% 1%
Base: 1,258
India Online 2007
99
Table 44: Favorite magazines
Website Language Users All Users
India Today 26% 23%
Reader's Digest 6% 7%
The Week 6% 5%
Ananda Vikatan 3% 1%
Outlook 3% 4%
Kumudham 3% 1%
Sports Star 3% 4%
Digit 2% 3%
Competition Success Review 2% 1%
Film Fare 2% 3%
Base: 1,113
Local Language Content Users
100
Table 45: Favorite radio channels
Website Language Users All Users
Radio Mirchi 38% 38%
AIR 14% 11%
Red FM 11% 12%
Suryan FM 10% 6%
Radio City 7% 11%
Big FM 6% 5%
AIR FM RAINBOW 5% 4%
AIR FM GOLD 5% 5%
BBC 2% 1%
World Space 1% 2%
Base: 845
India Online 2007
101
Response to Online Marketing Stimuli Chart 46: Response to online marketing stimulus
Base: 1,134
Current Year
47%43%
48%
37%
28%23%
27%21%18%
14%19%
27%
52% 50%
0%
20%
40%
60%
Language Users All Users
Clicked a banner ad Participated in an online contestClicked a sponsored search ad Bid/Bought in an Online auctionBought in a special promotion / deal Clicked a product/service e-mailerNone of the above
Local Language Content Users
102
Offline Brands Recalled Table 46: Tom recall for brands
Website Language Users All Users
Nokia 8% 7%
Sony 8% 8%
Tata 6% 5%
LG 5% 4%
Colgate 4% 3%
Reliance 3% 3%
Intel 3% 0.9%
HLL 3% 3%
Adidas 3% 2%
Samsung 2% 2%
Base: 1,343
India Online 2007
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Segment Wise Detailed Tables
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Table 1: Gender breakup
Gender Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Male 84% 82%
Female 16% 18%
Table 2: Age group distribution
Age Group Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Age 13-18 years 7% 11%
Age 19-24 years 28% 31%
Age 25-35 years 41% 36%
Age 36-45 years 17% 13%
Age 46-55 years 6% 6%
Above Age 55 years 2% 2%
105
Table 3: City class - by population size
City Class Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Upto 1 Lakh 12% 12%
1-5 Lakhs 14% 15%
5-10 Lakhs 30% 29%
Above 10 Lakhs 44% 45%
Table 4: City class - by market size
City Class Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Metro 38% 37%
Urban uptowns 14% 14%
Emerging Towns 18% 16%
Others 30% 33%
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Table 5: Cities
Cities Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Delhi 10% 12%
Mumbai 9% 10%
Chennai 6% 4%
Bangalore 6% 6%
Hyderabad 6% 5%
Pune 3% 3%
Kolkata 3% 3%
Coimbatore 2% 0.9%
Ahmadabad 1% 2%
Thiruvanathapuram 1% 0.6%
Kochi 0.9% 0.5%
Nagpur 0.9% 0.8%
Indore 0.8% 0.7%
Lucknow 0.8% 1%
Vijayavada 0.8% 0.5%
Bhopal 0.7% 0.6%
Nashik 0.6% 0.4%
Patna 0.6% 0.6%
Surat 0.6% 0.7%
Visakhapatanam 0.6% 0.9%
Mysore 0.6% 0.4%
Chandigarh 0.5% 0.8%
Jaipur 0.5% 0.8%
Madurai 0.5% 0.4%
Vadodara 0.5% 0.7%
Aurangabad 0.4% 0.3%
Dehradun 0.4% 0.3%
kanpur 0.4% 0.5%
Ludhiana 0.4% 0.6%
Tiruchirapalli 0.4% 0.3%
Jabalpur 0.3% 0.2%
Ranchi 0.3% 0.3%
Varanasi 0.3% 0.2%
Agra 0.1% 0.3%
Amritsar 0.1% 0.3%
Bhubaneswar 0.1% 0.5%
Cuttack 0.1% 0.4%
Faridabad 0.1% 0.6%
Goa 0.1% 0.3%
Mangalore 0.1% 0.2%
Meerut 0.1% 0.3%
Rajkot 0.1% 0.3%
Solapur 0.1% 0.1%
Allahabad 0.0% 0.4%
Assansol 0.0% 0.1%
Dhanbad 0.0% 0.1%
Guwahati 0.0% 0.3%
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Jodhpur 0.0% 0.2%
Raipur 0.0% 0.2%
Others from North India 7% 9%
Others from South India 20% 14%
Others from East India 5% 6%
Others from West India 8% 7%
Table 6: Region-wise break-ups
Region Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
South 52% 40%
West 26% 26%
North 15% 22%
East 7% 12%
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Table 7: Preferred language of reading
Language Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
English 34% 41%
Hindi 13% 19%
Tamil 13% 6%
Telugu 9% 6%
Malayalam 8% 4%
Marathi 8% 5%
Kannada 5% 4%
Bengali 4% 3%
Gujarati 2% 4%
Oriya 0.7% 3%
Urdu 0.7% 1%
Punjabi 0.5% 1%
Awadhi 0.4% 1%
Bhojpuri 0.3% 0.2%
Konkani 0.3% 0.5%
Haryanvi 0.2% 0.1%
Sanskrit 0.2% 0.1%
Assamese 0.1% 0.5%
Maithili 0.1% 0.1%
Marwari 0.1% 0.4%
Sindhi 0.1% 0.2%
Bodo 0.0% 0.0%
Bundeli 0.0% 0.0%
Chhattisgarhi 0.0% 0.1%
Dogri 0.0% 0.0%
Kanauji 0.0% 0.0%
Kashmiri 0.0% 0.1%
Kurchi 0.0% 0.0%
Manipuri 0.0% 0.0%
Magahi 0.0% 0.0%
Nepali 0.0% 0.0%
Santhali 0.0% 0.0%
Tulu 0.0% 0.1%
Others 0.3% 0.3%
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Table 8: Socio economic classification
Sec Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
SEC A 25% 24%
SEC B 30% 32%
SEC C 29% 23%
SEC D 12% 14%
SEC E 5% 7%
Table 9: Highest educational qualification
Highest Educational Qualification Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Up to SSC/HSC 8% 13%
College but not Graduate 21% 23%
Graduate & above - general stream 43% 39%
Graduate & above - professional stream 28% 25%
Table 10: Occupational break up
Occupational Break Up Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Unemployed 33% 38%
Employed 67% 62%
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Table 11: Function / field of occupation
Function / Field Of Occupation Language Users All Users
Sample Base 930 15,219
IT/Software 27% 18%
Marketing/Sales 12% 16%
Administration 12% 11%
Finance 10% 10%
Manufacturing 10% 11%
Academics 5% 4%
Consultancy 5% 6%
Advertising/PR/Media 3% 3%
HR 2% 3%
Others 15% 19%
Table 12: Head of the household
Head Of The Household Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Head of the household 56% 47%
Not head of the household 44% 53%
Table 13: Monthly family income
Monthly Family Income Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,240 21,343
Upto 5K 13% 13%
5-10K 25% 25%
10-20K 25% 25%
20-30K 15% 14%
30-50K 10% 10%
50-75K 5% 4%
75-100K 3% 3%
Above 100K 4% 6%
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Table 14: Most expensive vehicle owned by the household
Most Expensive Vehicle Owned By The Household Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Bi-Cycle 7% 7%
Motor-Cycle/Scooter 46% 44%
Small Car (Up to Rs.4 lakhs) 17% 18%
Mid-Size Car (Rs.4 to 8 lakhs) 6% 8%
Premium/Luxury Car (Above Rs.8 lakhs) 0.6% 2%
Others 0.8% 1%
Don't own a vehicle 22% 19%
Table 15: Ownership of credit cards (individually)
Ownership Of Credit Cards (Individually) Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Single Card 21% 18%
Multiple Cards 17% 16%
No Credit Card 62% 67%
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Table 16: Household asset ownership
Household Asset Ownership Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Color TV 92% 92%
Mobile Phone 88% 90%
Bank Account 84% 82%
Cable TV connection/DTH 73% 72%
Fridge 73% 75%
Computer/Laptop 67% 67%
Camera 64% 64%
Life Insurance 63% 61%
Landline Phone 61% 62%
Home 56% 58%
Debit Card 55% 52%
Music System/DVD/MP3 54% 55%
Washing Machine 50% 57%
Credit Card 37% 35%
Medical Insurance/CGHS 34% 33%
Fixed Deposits 33% 34%
Mutual Funds 22% 22%
Demat Account 21% 21%
Air Conditioner 20% 25%
Microwave 20% 24%
Share of Companies 19% 20%
Video Camera 16% 20%
Chit Fund Deposits 10% 7%
IPod 8% 10%
Table 17: Current loan liabilities
Current Loan Liabilities Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Home Loan 42% 45%
Personal Loan 25% 20%
Two - wheeler Loan 15% 13%
Car Loan 12% 12%
Education Loan 11% 9%
Consumer Durables 6% 3%
Business Loan 4% 4%
Other 0.5% 0.1%
None of Above 7% 9%
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Table 18: Years of experience in using internet
Years Of Experience Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Less Than 6 Months 7% 10%
6 Months-1 year 6% 10%
1-2 years 14% 16%
2-5 years 26% 26%
5-6 years 16% 12%
6 years and above 32% 25%
Table 19: Place of accessing internet
Place Of Access Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Home 58% 59%
Place of work (office / school / college) 83% 78%
Cyber cafe 49% 47%
In transit (while traveling) 6% 6%
Table 20: Type of internet connection at home
Type Of Internet Connection Language Users All Users
Sample Base 786 14,856
24 Hrs Broadband 34% 31%
Broadband Dial Up 28% 28%
Regular Dial Up 16% 16%
Cable 10% 9%
Mobile Connection 6% 6%
Wi Fi Connection 0.9% 2%
Lease/Dedicated line 0.5% 0.5%
Others 2% 2%
Don't Know 4% 7%
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Table 21: Type of internet connection at office
Type Of Internet Connection Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,158 19,740
24 Hrs Broadband 36% 31%
Broadband Dial Up 23% 25%
Lease/Dedicated line 9% 6%
Regular Dial Up 7% 7%
Cable 5% 6%
Wi Fi Connection 2% 3%
Mobile Connection 2% 2%
Others 1% 2%
Don't Know 15% 19%
Table 22: Service provider subscribed to at home
Service Provider Language Users All Users
Sample Base 786 14,856
BSNL/Sancharnet 37% 35%
Airtel/Bharti 17% 17%
VSNL / Tata 11% 10%
Local Cable Operator 9% 8%
MTNL 5% 5%
Reliance 5% 6%
Sify 5% 6%
Spectranet 0.0% 0.1%
Others 9% 7%
Don't Know 3% 5%
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Table 23: Service provider subscribed to at office
Service Provider Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,158 19,740
BSNL/Sancharnet 28% 28%
Airtel/Bharti 18% 15%
VSNL / Tata 13% 11%
MTNL 4% 5%
Reliance 4% 6%
Local Cable Operator 4% 4%
Sify 3% 5%
Spectranet 0.1% 0.3%
Others 8% 8%
Don't Know 17% 19%
Table 24: Frequency of accessing internet from home
Frequency Language Users All Users
Sample Base 759 14,231
Over 5 times a Day 31% 24%
2-5 times a Day 29% 27%
Once Daily 27% 33%
Once In 2-3 Days 8% 10%
Once a Week 3% 5%
1-3 times a Month 0.8% 1%
Once in More than a Month 0.9% 0.9%
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Table 25: Frequency of accessing internet from office
Frequency Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,060 17,617
Over 5 times a Day 46% 38%
2-5 times a Day 23% 25%
Once Daily 19% 24%
Once In 2-3 Days 8% 7%
Once a Week 3% 4%
1-3 times a Month 0.6% 1%
Once in More than a Month 2% 1%
Table 26: Time of the day accessing internet from home
Time Of The Day Accessing Internet From Home Language Users All Users
Sample Base 746 13,905
Before 9.00 AM 6% 5%
9.00 AM-12.00 Noon 9% 8%
12.00 Noon - 3.00 PM 4% 6%
3.00 PM-6.00 PM 3% 6%
6.00 PM - 9.00 PM 17% 18%
9.00 PM - 12.00 Midnight 36% 35%
After 12.00 Midnight 3% 3%
Throughout the Day 23% 18%
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Table 27: Time of the day accessing internet from office
Time Of The Day Accessing Internet From Office Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,062 17,680
Before 9.00 AM 3% 2%
9.00 AM-12.00 Noon 21% 22%
12.00 Noon - 3.00 PM 18% 21%
3.00 PM-6.00 PM 14% 13%
6.00 PM - 9.00 PM 6% 8%
9.00 PM - 12.00 Midnight 3% 4%
After 12.00 Midnight 1% 2%
Throughout the Day 35% 29%
Table 28: Duration of internet usage from home
Duration Language Users All Users
Sample Base 752 14,015
Less than 30 Minutes 13% 15%
30 to 60 Minutes 23% 28%
1-2 Hours 38% 35%
2-5 Hours 19% 17%
5-8 Hours 3% 3%
More than 8 Hours 5% 3%
Table 29: Duration of internet usage from office
Duration Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,048 17,100
Less than 30 Minutes 17% 20%
30 to 60 Minutes 23% 25%
1-2 Hours 26% 26%
2-5 Hours 17% 15%
5-8 Hours 10% 7%
More than 8 Hours 7% 7%
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Table 30: Duration of internet usage during weekdays
Duration Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,234 21,956
Less than 30 Minutes 7% 8%
30 to 60 Minutes 16% 20%
1-2 Hours 28% 34%
2-5 Hours 25% 24%
5-8 Hours 13% 7%
More than 8 Hours 11% 7%
Table 31: Duration of internet usage during weekends
Duration Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,113 19,522
Less than 30 Minutes 10% 10%
30 to 60 Minutes 17% 17%
1-2 Hours 28% 31%
2-5 Hours 23% 24%
5-8 Hours 11% 9%
More than 8 Hours 11% 9%
Table 32: Duration of PC usage from home
Duration Language Users All Users
Sample Base 840 15,214
Less than 30 Minutes 7% 10%
30 to 60 Minutes 21% 20%
1-2 Hours 31% 37%
2-5 Hours 26% 22%
5-8 Hours 8% 7%
More than 8 Hours 8% 5%
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Table 33: Duration of PC usage from office
Duration Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,086 18,200
Less than 30 Minutes 4% 5%
30 to 60 Minutes 7% 9%
1-2 Hours 14% 17%
2-5 Hours 20% 22%
5-8 Hours 30% 26%
More than 8 Hours 26% 21%
Table 34: Time spent by internet users on watching TV
Time Spent On Watching TV Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,209 21,962
Less than 30 Minutes 16% 16%
30 to 60 Minutes 28% 28%
1-2 Hours 42% 43%
2-5 Hours 12% 11%
5-8 Hours 0.6% 1%
More than 8 Hours 0.5% 0.5%
Table 35: Time spent by internet users on reading newspaper
Time Spent On Reading Newspaper Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,242 22,501
Less than 30 Minutes 43% 46%
30 to 60 Minutes 44% 41%
1-2 Hours 12% 12%
2-5 Hours 1% 1%
5-8 Hours 0.1% 0.2%
More than 8 Hours 0.3% 0.2%
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Table 36: Time spent by internet users on listening to radio
Time Spent On Listening To Radio Language Users All Users
Sample Base 863 14,785
Less than 30 Minutes 46% 46%
30 to 60 Minutes 26% 26%
1-2 Hours 20% 19%
2-5 Hours 5% 6%
5-8 Hours 0.9% 2%
More than 8 Hours 2% 2%
Table 37: Professional activities
Professional Activities Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 14,253
Emailing - work related 89% 83%
Job Search 81% 73%
Instant messaging 76% 62%
Search work related info 56% 49%
Check business/Financial news 37% 30%
Business/prof. networking 32% 26%
Look for Seminar/workshops 30% 24%
Check business travel info. 21% 19%
None of the Above 1% 3%
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Table 38: Personal activities
Personal Activities Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 14,253
Emailing - personal 92% 89%
Check news 79% 61%
Check Sports 76% 57%
Matrimonial search 64% 48%
Dating/Friendship 63% 51%
Chatting 62% 59%
Astrology 60% 46%
Social networking/communities 58% 44%
Search for product information 51% 45%
Share pictures 44% 40%
Check hobby related info 35% 32%
Check health & lifestyle info 33% 30%
Check personal travel info. 32% 26%
Check cinema content 32% 28%
None of the above 0.5% 0.7%
Table 39: Downloading activities
Downloading Activities Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 14,253
Music 74% 60%
Online games 68% 54%
Mobile contents (ring tones/games) 64% 50%
Educational / Learning material 63% 48%
Screensavers/wallpapers 49% 46%
Movies 34% 29%
Adult content 21% 18%
None of the above 7% 13%
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Table 40: E-commerce related activities
E-Commerce Related Activities Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,378 14,043
E-greetings 65% 58%
Check financial info 62% 46%
Check real estate info 52% 37%
Net banking 37% 31%
Buy non-travel products 31% 25%
Book train tickets 30% 29%
Online bill payment 28% 23%
Book air tickets 24% 23%
Online stock trading 16% 13%
Net telephony 16% 13%
Book hotels 8% 8%
None of these 7% 13%
Table 41: Online shopping
Online Shopping Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 14,253
Searched only 30% 33%
Both searched and bought 51% 43%
Neither searched nor bought 19% 24%
Table 42: Blogging activities
Blogging Activities Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 14,253
Check / read blogs at least once a week 34% 23%
Check / read blogs less than once a week 11% 8%
Comment on blog post at least once a week 14% 9%
Comment on blog post less than once a week 8% 5%
Have a blog site of my own 10% 7%
None of the above 59% 70%
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Table 43: Member of an online community
Member Of An Online Community Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 14,253
Not a member of any online community 49% 59%
Member of an online community 51% 41%
Table 44: Membership by type of online community
Membership By Type Of Online Community Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 14,253
Not a member of any online community 49% 59%
Computers & Internet 10% 5%
Alumni & Schools 6% 7%
Romance & Relationships 5% 5%
Business / Professional community 4% 3%
Games 3% 2%
Music 3% 3%
Arts & Entertainment 2% 2%
Individuals 2% 2%
Schools & Education 2% 3%
Cultures & Community 2% 2%
Company 2% 1%
Travel 2% 0.9%
Science & History 1% 0.8%
Family & Home 0.9% 0.5%
Recreation & Sports 0.8% 0.3%
Automotive 0.7% 0.5%
Countries & Regional 0.7% 0.4%
Health, Wellness & Fitness 0.7% 0.7%
Religion & Beliefs 0.7% 0.8%
Hobbies & Crafts 0.5% 0.4%
Fashion & Beauty 0.4% 0.4%
Pets & Animals 0.3% 0.2%
Cities & Neighborhoods 0.2% 0.2%
Gay, Lesbian & Bi 0.2% 0.2%
Food, Drink & Wine 0.1% 0.1%
Government & Politics 0.1% 0.2%
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Table 45: Usage of other language websites
Usage Of Other Language Websites Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 14,253
Use other language websites 1 12%
Use only English websites 0.0% 88%
Table 46: Online activities desired in other languages
Online Activities Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 14,253
Email 71% 61%
Entertainment 58% 45%
Online news 51% 31%
Chatting 50% 46%
Search information 45% 33%
Online learning / education 37% 31%
Astrology 29% 23%
Travel related information 24% 16%
Online shopping 22% 18%
Matrimony 18% 13%
Blog 18% 12%
Not Interested 7% 21%
Table 47: Problems faced while surfing the internet
Problems Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 14,252
Slow website opening 58% 62%
Virus / spyware 52% 49%
Spam / junk mails 52% 49%
Unsolicited ads/pop-ups 48% 45%
Difficult to connect 29% 35%
Lack of response to queries 26% 27%
Cumbersome navigation 12% 12%
Lack of local language content 12% 9%
Never faced any problem 8% 8%
Others 2% 2%
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Table 48: Top of mind unaided recall - all websites
Websites Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,364 24,433
Google 30% 27%
Yahoo 29% 30%
Rediff 12% 12%
Gmail 5% 3%
Orkut 3% 5%
Indiatimes 1% 1%
Hotmail 0.9% 2%
Ebay 0.6% 0.3%
Manoramaonline 0.6% 0.1%
Contest2win 0.6% 0.6%
BSNL 0.5% 0.1%
WWE 0.5% 0.3%
Howstuffworks 0.3% 0.2%
ICICIDirect 0.3% 0.1%
NDTV 0.3% 0.2%
Nokia 0.3% 0.3%
Microsoft 0.3% 0.4%
India 0.3% 0.3%
Moneycontrol 0.2% 0.4%
MSN 0.2% 0.5%
Naukri 0.2% 0.5%
Sify 0.2% 0.5%
Timesofindia 0.2% 0.1%
Makemytrip 0.2% 0.1%
Zapak 0.2% 0.1%
123Greetings 0.1% 0.0%
Reliance 0.1% 0.2%
Santabanta 0.1% 0.3%
Wikipedia 0.1% 0.3%
You tube 0.1% 0.2%
Amazon 0.0% 0.0%
BBC 0.0% 0.1%
Bharatmatrimony 0.0% 0.0%
CBSE 0.0% 0.1%
Cricinfo 0.0% 0.1%
Download 0.0% 0.1%
Economictimes 0.0% 0.0%
Espnstar 0.0% 0.2%
Freshersworld 0.0% 0.2%
HDFC 0.0% 0.0%
Hi5 0.0% 0.1%
Hpindia 0.0% 0.1%
ICICIbank 0.0% 0.2%
Indiabulls 0.0% 0.0%
Indiafm 0.0% 0.1%
Indiainfoline 0.0% 0.0%
Indiamart 0.0% 0.0%
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Indianexpress 0.0% 0.0%
Indianrailways 0.0% 0.0%
Indya 0.0% 0.0%
IRCTC 0.0% 0.2%
Monster 0.0% 0.3%
NSEindia 0.0% 0.1%
Raaga 0.0% 0.1%
Samachar 0.0% 0.0%
Shaadi 0.0% 0.0%
Sharekhan 0.0% 0.1%
Sony 0.0% 0.1%
Timesjob 0.0% 0.1%
VSNL 0.0% 0.0%
Ebizel 0.0% 0.1%
Funmaza 0.0% 0.2%
India games 0.0% 0.2%
Rcm business 0.0% 0.0%
Yatra 0.0% 0.1%
Mail2 web 0.0% 0.0%
Airtel 0.0% 0.0%
Others 12% 12%
127
Table 49: Most used website - all websites
Websites Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,373 14,075
Google 33% 29%
Yahoo 25% 27%
Rediff 11% 11%
Orkut 5% 8%
Gmail 4% 4%
Hotmail 1% 2%
Indiatimes 0.9% 0.9%
Moneycontrol 0.7% 0.5%
Contest2win 0.7% 0.3%
Naukri 0.6% 0.5%
Ebay 0.4% 0.4%
MSN 0.4% 0.4%
WWE 0.4% 0.2%
Icicidirect 0.3% 0.3%
Wikipedia 0.3% 0.6%
Download 0.2% 0.2%
Icicibank 0.2% 0.3%
Sharekhan 0.2% 0.1%
Sify 0.2% 0.5%
Monster 0.1% 0.2%
Raaga 0.1% 0.2%
Timesjob 0.1% 0.1%
Youtube 0.1% 0.2%
Espnstar 0.0% 0.1%
Nseindia 0.0% 0.2%
Santabanta 0.0% 0.3%
Bseindia 0.0% 0.2%
Others 14% 13%
128
Table 50: Preferred website for emailing
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Yahoo 49% 53%
Gmail 25% 20%
Rediff 16% 18%
Hotmail 6% 6%
Sancharnet/BSNL 2% 0.7%
Indiatimes 0.7% 0.9%
VSNL 0.6% 0.5%
Lycos 0.5% 0.2%
Sify 0.5% 1%
AOL 0.2% 0.1%
Table 51: Multiple user shares of email websites
Multiple User Shares Of Email Websites Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 25,060
Yahoo 89% 89%
Gmail 65% 59%
Rediff 61% 57%
Hotmail 43% 36%
Indiatimes 21% 17%
Sify 17% 13%
VSNL 8% 4%
Sancharnet/BSNL 8% 7%
AOL 4% 3%
Lycos 3% 2%
Others 6% 4%
129
Table 52: Preferred website for job search
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,119 10,387
Naukri 38% 37%
Monster 24% 27%
Timesjobs 12% 14%
Google 10% 5%
Yahoo 4% 3%
Rediff 2% 2%
Jobs 1% 1%
Indiatimes 1% 1%
Jobstreet 0.9% 0.7%
Jobsahead 0.7% 1%
Clickjobs 0.6% 0.5%
Freshersworld 0.3% 2%
Jobsearch 0.1% 0.6%
Jobsindia 0.1% 0.1%
Devnetjobs 0.0% 0.2%
Others 6% 5%
130
Table 53: Preferred website for mobile content
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 859 6,912
Google 17% 10%
Rediff 16% 12%
Yahoo 13% 14%
Nokia 11% 9%
Indiatimes 7% 7%
Sify 4% 2%
Airtel 3% 3%
Mobile9 3% 4%
Zedge 3% 2%
Funmaza 2% 3%
Hutch 2% 3%
Mobango 2% 2%
Mobileringtones 1% 0.7%
Ringtones 1% 3%
Sonyericsson 1% 1%
Freeringtones 0.9% 0.6%
Idea 0.8% 0.3%
Games 0.5% 0.8%
Download 0.4% 0.6%
R World 0.4% 0.6%
Mauj 0.3% 0.5%
MSN 0.3% 0.3%
Samsungmobile 0.3% 0.4%
Santabanta 0.3% 0.8%
Motozone 0.3% 0.6%
Apniisp 0.3% 0.2%
Papuyaar 0.2% 0.4%
Tagtag 0.2% 0.6%
Getjar 0.2% 0.6%
Dotsis 0.2% 0.2%
Cellebrum 0.1% 0.3%
Cooltoad 0.1% 0.7%
Hungama 0.1% 0.2%
Masti4India 0.1% 0.7%
Raaga 0.1% 0.2%
Zapak 0.1% 0.4%
Indiafm 0.0% 0.2%
BSNL 0.0% 0.2%
Others 11% 14%
131
Table 54: Preferred website for sports
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 958 7,666
Espnstarsports 23% 29%
Cricinfo 16% 14%
Yahoo 13% 12%
Google 11% 8%
Rediff 10% 8%
Sports 4% 4%
Indiatimes 2% 3%
NDTV 2% 2%
Sify 1% 2%
MSN 1% 1%
WWE 1% 2%
Tensports 1% 2%
Cricketnext 1% 2%
DD Sports 1% 0.4%
BBC Sports 0.9% 0.8%
Khel 0.7% 0.5%
Cricbuzz 0.5% 0.3%
Iccworldcup 0.5% 0.5%
Timesofindia 0.4% 0.7%
Zeesports 0.1% 0.2%
CNN 0.1% 0.4%
Others 10% 8%
132
Table 55: Preferred website for travel products
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 844 7,089
IRCTC 17% 15%
Yatra 16% 16%
Google 15% 11%
Makemytrip 10% 17%
Yahoo 9% 8%
Rediff 6% 5%
Indiatimes 3% 3%
Travel 3% 3%
Cleartrip 3% 2%
Airdeccan 2% 2%
Travelguru 2% 2%
Travel India 1% 0.8%
Sify 1% 0.7%
Incredibleindia 0.8% 0.3%
Goair 0.7% 0.4%
Jetairways 0.7% 0.7%
Airindia 0.5% 0.9%
Indiatravels 0.5% 0.3%
MSN 0.4% 0.6%
Flykingfisher 0.3% 0.2%
Spicejet 0.3% 0.4%
Tours 0.3% 0.6%
Rajtravels 0.3% 0.7%
Indianairlines 0.2% 0.4%
KSRTC 0.1% 0.1%
Travelocity 0.1% 0.2%
Hotels 0.1% 0.3%
Airsahara 0.0% 0.0%
Sitatours 0.0% 0.0%
Thomascook 0.0% 0.1%
Others 7% 9%
133
Table 56: Preferred website for matrimony
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 865 6,675
Shaadi 27% 28%
Bharatmatrimony 23% 29%
Jeevansaathi 9% 6%
Google 8% 6%
Yahoo 5% 5%
Tamilmatrimony 5% 3%
Matrimony 5% 5%
Rediff 3% 3%
Keralamatrimony 3% 0.9%
Indianmatrimony 2% 0.6%
Telugumatrimony 2% 1%
Matrimonial 1% 2%
Simplymarry 1% 3%
Sify 0.9% 0.4%
Indiatimes 0.4% 0.8%
MSN 0.3% 0.5%
Bengalimatrimony 0.3% 0.2%
Indiamatrimony 0.3% 0.9%
Oriyamatrimony 0.1% 0.2%
Marathimatrimony 0.1% 0.1%
Agarwal2Agarwal 0.0% 0.0%
Matchmaker 0.0% 0.2%
Punjabmatrimony 0.0% 0.3%
Hindimatrimony 0.0% 0.1%
Gujuratimatrimony 0.0% 0.1%
Sindhimatrimony 0.0% 0.0%
Urdumatrimony 0.0% 0.1%
Others 5% 4%
134
Table 57: Preferred website for financial news/info
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 823 6,207
Google 18% 13%
Moneycontrol/CNBC 14% 13%
Yahoo 13% 12%
ICICI Direct/ICICI Bank 7% 7%
Rediff 6% 6%
NDTV/NDTVprofit 4% 4%
Economictimes 3% 3%
Sharekhan 3% 4%
Indiatimes 3% 4%
HDFC 2% 0.8%
Sify 2% 2%
Efinancialnews 1% 0.5%
Business 1% 1%
Financialexpress 1% 0.9%
Timesofindia 1% 1%
Indiabulls 1% 1%
Stockmarket 0.9% 2%
Indiainfoline 0.8% 0.5%
Zeebusiness 0.8% 0.6%
Manoramaonline 0.7% 0.4%
MSN 0.6% 1%
NSE 0.5% 2%
Valueresearch 0.5% 0.4%
CNN 0.4% 1%
Ibnlive 0.4% 0.5%
Financialnews 0.3% 1%
Kotaksecurities 0.2% 0.6%
5Paisa 0.1% 0.1%
Capitalmarket 0.1% 0.2%
Reliancemoney 0.1% 0.3%
Karvey 0.1% 0.2%
BBC 0.1% 0.8%
Equitymaster 0.0% 0.4%
Others 13% 14%
135
Table 58: Preferred website for cinema
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 904 6,883
Google 12% 9%
Yahoo 9% 11%
Bollywood 6% 5%
Tamilcinemas 5% 3%
Cinema 4% 4%
Indiafm 4% 5%
Rediff 4% 5%
Santabanta 3% 3%
Indiaglitz 3% 2%
Indiatimes 3% 3%
Imdb 3% 2%
Sify 2% 2%
Movies 2% 3%
Thecinema 2% 1%
PVR Cinemas 1% 5%
Filmfare 1% 0.6%
Idlebrain 1% 2%
Starmovies 1% 0.4%
Chitraloka 1% 0.4%
Andhravilas 1% 0.7%
Funcinemas 1% 2%
Hollywood 1% 0.5%
Galatta 0.9% 0.8%
Youtube 0.9% 1%
Inox 0.8% 1%
Smashits 0.8% 0.4%
Timesofindia 0.7% 0.4%
Malayalamcinema 0.7% 0.4%
Cinemax 0.6% 0.7%
Indya 0.6% 0.8%
Raaga 0.6% 1%
Zeecinemas 0.6% 1%
NDTV 0.5% 0.4%
Indiancinema 0.4% 1%
MSN 0.4% 0.9%
Satyamcinema 0.4% 0.9%
Adlabs 0.3% 0.9%
Sonypictures 0.3% 0.2%
Prasad2 0.3% 0.3%
Cinesouth 0.2% 0.5%
Teluguone 0.1% 0.7%
Yashrajfilms 0.0% 0.3%
Musicindiaonline 0.0% 0.5%
Glamsham 0.0% 0.2%
Funmala 0.0% 0.3%
Others 19% 16%
136
Table 59: Preferred website for online share/stock trading
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 185 1,558
ICICI Direct 34% 36%
Sherkhan 21% 22%
Religare 9% 4%
Geojit 4% 2%
Kotaksecurities 3% 4%
Indiabulls 3% 7%
hdfcsec 3% 2%
5Paisa 3% 3%
NSE 2% 3%
BSE 2% 3%
Reliancemoney 1% 1%
Angeltrade 0.7% 0.5%
Karvy 0.0% 0.5%
Others 14% 13%
137
Table 60: Preferred website for games
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 895 7,383
Yahoo 21% 18%
Zapak 18% 17%
Google 12% 9%
Games 7% 7%
Indiagames 4% 3%
Rediff 4% 3%
Contest2Win 3% 3%
Easports 2% 1%
Miniclip 2% 4%
Onlinegames 1% 2%
Hungama 1% 0.6%
Download 0.8% 1%
Indiatimes 0.8% 2%
MSN 0.7% 2%
Cricinfo 0.5% 1%
Funmaza 0.5% 0.5%
Sports 0.5% 0.4%
Playgames 0.5% 0.3%
Cartoonnetwork 0.4% 0.6%
Freeonlinegames 0.4% 0.7%
Stickcricket 0.4% 0.4%
Gamesworld 0.4% 0.3%
Bigfishgames 0.4% 0.8%
Funtoosh 0.3% 0.4%
Gamehouse 0.3% 0.4%
Sify 0.3% 0.7%
Santabanta 0.3% 0.4%
Games2win 0.3% 1%
Freegames 0.1% 0.6%
Gamezone 0.1% 0.2%
Realarcade 0.1% 0.5%
Toondisneyindia 0.1% 0.2%
Gamespot 0.0% 0.4%
Gamesonline 0.0% 0.4%
Arcade 0.0% 0.2%
Others 17% 17%
138
Table 61: Preferred website for online shopping
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 889 7,261
Rediff 28% 25%
Ebay 28% 34%
Google 11% 8%
Yahoo 8% 7%
Indiatimes 5% 7%
Futurebazaar 4% 6%
Amazon 3% 0.9%
Sify 2% 2%
Indiaplaza 1% 1%
Shopping 0.8% 2%
Onlineshopping 0.7% 1%
MSN 0.5% 0.7%
Timesofindia 0.3% 0.3%
Others 7% 6%
139
Table 62: Preferred website for online news
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,095 8,509
Yahoo 13% 14%
Google 11% 9%
NDTV 8% 12%
Rediff 8% 10%
Indiatimes 6% 7%
Manoramaonline 6% 3%
Eenadu 5% 2%
BBC 4% 5%
Jagran 3% 1%
Sify 3% 2%
Thehindu 3% 2%
Aajtak 3% 5%
Timesofindia 2% 3%
Dinamalar 2% 0.9%
Ibnlive 2% 3%
MSN 2% 3%
CNN 2% 3%
Esakal 0.9% 0.3%
Hindustantimes 0.7% 0.7%
Zeenews 0.6% 2%
Economictimes 0.5% 0.4%
Times 0.5% 0.6%
Starnews 0.4% 0.7%
Moneycontrol 0.4% 0.5%
Midday 0.3% 0.2%
Hinduonnet 0.2% 0.3%
Webduniya 0.2% 0.1%
CNBC 0.1% 1%
DD News 0.1% 0.6%
TV9 0.0% 0.9%
Others 12% 9%
140
Table 63: Preferred website for friendship/dating
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 850 7,084
Orkut 30% 36%
Yahoo 23% 23%
Google 13% 8%
Rediff 7% 7%
Fropper 3% 3%
Adultfriendfinder 2% 2%
Indiatimes 2% 2%
Tagged 2% 1%
MSN 2% 1%
Friendfinder 1% 2%
Date 1% 2%
Desimartini 1% 0.5%
Friends 0.8% 1%
Hi5 0.7% 2%
Sify 0.7% 0.5%
Friendship 0.6% 0.9%
Match 0.5% 0.2%
Batchmates 0.3% 0.4%
Friendster 0.0% 0.3%
Others 11% 9%
141
Table 64: Preferred website for music
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 980 8,142
Raaga 22% 22%
Google 10% 7%
Yahoo 10% 10%
Cooltoad 5% 5%
Musicindiaonline 4% 4%
Rediff 3% 3%
Youtube 3% 2%
Tamilsongs 3% 2%
Mp3 3% 3%
Music 2% 4%
123music 2% 0.8%
Smashits 2% 2%
Songs 2% 1%
Andhravilas 2% 0.9%
Musiconline 1% 0.7%
Mtv 1% 1%
Sify 1% 0.9%
Realplayer 1% 0.5%
Indiatimes 0.9% 1%
MSN 0.9% 0.5%
Tamilmp3world 0.9% 0.3%
Dishant 0.7% 1%
Papuyaar 0.7% 2%
Indiafm 0.6% 0.9%
Indianmusic 0.6% 0.5%
Okesite 0.6% 0.7%
Itunes 0.6% 0.4%
Downloads 0.5% 0.5%
Bollyexpress 0.5% 0.8%
Musicworld 0.4% 0.3%
Apniisp 0.3% 1%
Bollywoodmusic 0.3% 0.9%
Livewire 0.3% 1%
Mag4U 0.3% 0.4%
Pz10 0.3% 1%
Musicmazaa 0.3% 0.3%
Emusic 0.3% 0.9%
Bollyfm 0.2% 0.7%
Timesmusic 0.1% 0.4%
Telgusongs 0.1% 0.3%
Sonymusic 0.1% 0.2%
Radiomirchi 0.1% 0.3%
Funmaza 0.1% 0.7%
Desiweb 0.0% 0.1%
Desimusic 0.0% 0.3%
Others 13% 13%
142
Table 65: Preferred info search engine - local language
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 633 3,853
Google 58% 74%
Guruji 6% 2%
Manoramaonline 4% 2%
Kerala 4% 1%
Webduniya 3% 1%
Webulagam 2% 0.8%
Eenadu 2% 1%
Khoj 2% 1%
Jagran 1% 0.5%
Chennaionline 0.3% 0.6%
MSN 0.0% 0.8%
Others 17% 15%
Table 66: Preferred website for real estate
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 693 5,129
Google 22% 17%
Yahoo 16% 14%
Realestates 9% 10%
99acres 8% 10%
Magicbricks 8% 14%
Rediff 6% 7%
Indiaproperty 5% 5%
Indiatimes 3% 2%
Property 2% 3%
Sulekha 2% 1%
Sify 2% 1%
Manoramaonline 0.9% 0.5%
Chennaionline 0.8% 0.4%
Realtor 0.4% 0.4%
MSN 0.4% 0.5%
NDTV 0.3% 0.3%
Keralarealestate 0.0% 0.3%
Indiabulls 0.0% 0.4%
Others 13% 12%
143
Table 67: Preferred info search engine - English
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,012 7,874
Google 74% 75%
Yahoo 10% 10%
Rediff 3% 2%
Dictionary 2% 1%
BBC 2% 0.5%
Wikipedia 2% 1%
English 2% 3%
MSN 1% 1%
Altavista 0.8% 0.3%
Sify 0.5% 0.4%
Indiatimes 0.5% 0.5%
Timesofindia 0.4% 0.3%
Others 4% 5%
Table 68: Preferred website for instant messaging
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,009 8,632
Yahoo 59% 63%
Google Talk 21% 14%
Rediffbol 10% 10%
Meebo 4% 1%
MSN 4% 5%
Orkut 0.8% 3%
Skype 0.6% 0.6%
AIM 0.4% 0.3%
Indiatimes 0.1% 0.4%
Others 1% 3%
144
Table 69: Preferred website for social networking/communities
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 642 5,227
Orkut 60% 64%
Yahoo 23% 16%
MSN 1% 1%
Tagged 0.8% 0.4%
Communities 0.7% 1%
Myspace 0.6% 0.6%
Ryze 0.4% 0.3%
Fropper 0.4% 0.4%
Bharatstudent 0.4% 0.4%
Linkedin 0.3% 0.3%
Hi5 0.2% 0.9%
Friends 0.1% 1%
Others 11% 14%
145
Table 70: Preferred website for astrology
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 808 6,357
Yahoo 18% 22%
Google 18% 11%
Astrology 15% 19%
Rediff 11% 9%
Indiatimes astrospeak 7% 8%
Astrogyan 3% 0.8%
Sify 2% 3%
Sarafreder 2% 3%
Astroindia 2% 0.5%
Indianastrology 2% 0.8%
Astrolife 2% 2%
MSN 1% 3%
Astroyogi 1% 0.8%
Webulagam 1% 0.4%
Webduniya 0.8% 0.6%
Santabanta 0.7% 0.7%
Manoramaonline 0.7% 0.4%
Astrologyzone 0.7% 0.4%
Astrocenter 0.7% 0.6%
Jagran 0.5% 0.2%
Timesofindia 0.3% 0.6%
Ganeshaspeaks 0.2% 0.3%
Bejandaruwalla 0.2% 0.6%
Ivillage 0.1% 0.8%
Indya 0.1% 0.5%
Cyberastro 0.1% 0.3%
Tarot 0.0% 0.3%
Paramdhaam 0.0% 0.5%
Kundli 0.0% 0.2%
Horoscope 0.0% 2%
Astroworld 0.0% 0.3%
Others 11% 9%
146
Table 71: Preferred website for online learning/education
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 818 6,571
Google 30% 34%
Yahoo 12% 10%
Wikipedia 7% 6%
W3schools 5% 2%
Rediff 4% 4%
Onlinelearning 2% 1%
Education 2% 3%
MSN 1% 1%
Pubmed 1% 0.5%
Microsoft 1% 0.9%
Dewsoftoverseas 1% 0.5%
Annauniversity 0.9% 0.8%
IGNOU 0.8% 1%
Howstuffworks 0.8% 0.6%
ICFAI 0.7% 1%
Britishcouncil 0.7% 0.4%
BBC 0.7% 0.5%
Learning 0.6% 0.5%
Ebizel 0.5% 1%
ICAI 0.4% 0.5%
Mit.edu 0.3% 0.2%
Indiatimes 0.3% 1%
CBSE 0.3% 1%
Symbiosis 0.2% 0.4%
Onlineeducation 0.2% 0.8%
Gurukul 0.2% 0.4%
Freshersworld 0.2% 0.5%
English 0.2% 0.2%
Worldwidelearn 0.1% 0.3%
NCERT 0.1% 0.3%
Goiit 0.1% 0.5%
Answers 0.1% 0.4%
Others 26% 24%
147
Table 72: Other language preferred for local content
Language Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 1,388
Tamil 19% 19%
Hindi 19% 19%
Malayalam 15% 15%
Telugu 13% 13%
Marathi 12% 12%
Kannada 6% 6%
Bengali 6% 6%
Gujarati 3% 3%
Oriya 1% 1%
Konkani 0.8% 0.8%
Urdu 0.7% 0.7%
Punjabi 0.5% 0.5%
Assamese 0.1% 0.1%
Awadhi 0.1% 0.1%
Bhojpuri 0.1% 0.1%
Bodo 0.1% 0.1%
Kanauji 0.1% 0.1%
Maithili 0.1% 0.1%
Manipuri 0.1% 0.1%
Sanskrit 0.1% 0.1%
Tulu 0.1% 0.1%
Bundeli 0.0% 0.0%
Haryanvi 0.0% 0.0%
Kashmiri 0.0% 0.0%
Marwari 0.0% 0.0%
Santhali 0.0% 0.0%
Others 2% 2%
148
Table 73: Preferred blog sites
Blog Sites Language Users All Users
Sample Base 271 1,853
Google 27% 21%
Yahoo 18% 18%
Rediff 12% 10%
Blogger 9% 11%
Ibibo 9% 10%
Youtube 7% 2%
Blogspot 7% 11%
Hi5 4% 2%
Indiatimes 2% 2%
Mylot 2% 1%
Sulekha 1% 0.7%
MSN 0.8% 1%
Debonairblog 0.8% 2%
Myspace 0.7% 0.7%
Mouthshut 0.5% 1%
Tagged 0.4% 2%
TimesofIndia 0.2% 0.4%
Fropper 0.0% 0.3%
Monster 0.0% 0.2%
Others 1% 2%
149
Table 74: Most preferred TV channel
TV Channel Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,263 12,631
Star Plus 9% 13%
Sun TV 8% 5%
Discovery 6% 7%
NDTV 5% 5%
Aajtak 5% 5%
Asianet 5% 1%
HBO 4% 4%
E TV 4% 1%
CNBC 4% 2%
Star Movies 3% 3%
Sony 3% 4%
CNN IBN 2% 2%
DD 1 2% 2%
Zee TV 2% 3%
Kairali TV 2% 0.3%
ESPN 2% 3%
Vijaya TV 2% 0.7%
Star One 2% 3%
Ten Sports 2% 3%
Zoom 2% 0.9%
Etv Kannada 1% 0.4%
National Geographic 1% 2%
Pogo 1% 0.9%
TV 9 1% 2%
Star News 1% 1%
Gemini 1% 0.9%
M TV 1% 3%
Sun Music 1% 0.8%
AXN 0.8% 1%
Cartoon Network 0.8% 1%
Sab TV 0.8% 1%
Travel & Living 0.8% 0.9%
Zee Marathi 0.8% 0.3%
Disney Channel 0.7% 0.6%
History Channel 0.7% 0.5%
Etv Marathi 0.6% 0.1%
Zee Music 0.6% 0.3%
Dd News 0.5% 0.3%
Raj TV 0.5% 0.0%
Set Max 0.5% 0.5%
SS Music 0.5% 0.4%
Star Sports 0.5% 0.8%
Animal Planet 0.4% 0.7%
Headlines Today 0.4% 0.2%
Star Gold 0.4% 0.2%
F TV 0.3% 0.5%
Star Anand 0.3% 0.1%
Teja TV 0.3% 0.1%
Udaya TV 0.3% 0.3%
Zee Business 0.3% 0.1%
Zee Cinema 0.3% 0.5%
Aawaz 0.2% 0.2%
Alfa Marathi 0.2% 0.1%
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Any Music Channel 0.2% 0.4%
Any News Channel 0.2% 0.4%
Any Sports Channel 0.2% 0.4%
BBC 0.2% 0.8%
Maa TV 0.2% 0.3%
Surya TV 0.2% 0.6%
Zee News 0.2% 0.4%
B4U 0.1% 0.1%
Sahara One 0.1% 0.4%
Star World 0.1% 2%
NDTV24*7 0.1% 0.3%
All Telugu 0.1% 0.0%
Times Now 0.1% 0.3%
India Vision 0.1% 0.1%
Ibnlive 0.1% 0.2%
Aditya 0.0% 0.0%
Animax 0.0% 0.2%
Any Movie Channel 0.0% 0.1%
Astha 0.0% 0.0%
ETC 0.0% 0.2%
Etv Bangla 0.0% 0.1%
God 0.0% 0.1%
India TV 0.0% 0.4%
Jaya TV 0.0% 0.1%
K TV 0.0% 0.0%
Sahara TV 0.0% 0.0%
Sanskar 0.0% 0.0%
V Channel 0.0% 0.3%
Vh1 0.0% 0.4%
Zee Café 0.0% 0.1%
Zee English 0.0% 0.0%
Zee Studio 0.0% 0.0%
NDTV Profit 0.0% 0.5%
Star Utsav 0.0% 0.1%
MH1 0.0% 0.2%
Hungama TV 0.0% 0.1%
Jetix 0.0% 0.2%
Nick 0.0% 0.0%
Sahara Samay 0.0% 0.0%
Smile TV 0.0% 0.0%
Zee Bangla 0.0% 0.0%
Akasha Bangla 0.0% 0.0%
Peace TV 0.0% 0.0%
Hall Mark 0.0% 0.1%
Local 0.0% 0.1%
Kiran TV 0.0% 0.1%
Zee Primier 0.0% 0.0%
Set Pix 0.0% 0.0%
Win Cable 0.0% 0.0%
Others 2% 1%
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Table 75: Most preferred newspaper
Newspaper Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,258 12,762
The Times of India 23% 35%
The Hindu 22% 18%
Eenadu 4% 3%
Dinamalar 4% 1%
The Hindustan Times 4% 6%
Indian Express 3% 3%
Malyalam Manorama 3% 2%
Deccan Chronicle 2% 4%
Dainik Jagran 2% 2%
Deccan Herald 2% 1%
Dainik Bhaskar 2% 2%
Mathrubhumi 2% 0.6%
Kerala Kaumudi 2% 0.2%
Vijay Karnataka 2% 1%
The Telegraph 2% 3%
Gujrat Samachar 2% 1%
The Economic Times 2% 2%
Dinakaran 1% 0.4%
Sakal 1% 0.6%
Loksatta 1% 0.4%
The Tribune 1% 2%
Mumbai Mirror 1% 0.9%
Daily Thanthi 1% 0.6%
Gulf News 0.9% 0.1%
Mid Day 0.9% 1%
Lokmat 0.8% 0.6%
Punjab Kesari 0.8% 0.3%
Nai Dunia 0.8% 0.2%
Anand Bazar Patrika 0.7% 0.8%
Maharashtra Times 0.7% 0.2%
DNA 0.6% 1%
Prajavani 0.6% 0.3%
Amar Ujala 0.4% 0.5%
Kannada praba 0.4% 0.1%
Nav Hindi Times 0.4% 0.4%
Andhra Jyoti 0.3% 0.1%
Nav Bharat Times 0.3% 0.3%
Rajasthan Patrika 0.3% 0.5%
Vartha 0.3% 0.1%
Janshakti 0.3% 0.0%
Business Line 0.2% 0.3%
Business Standard 0.2% 0.1%
Pudhari 0.2% 0.0%
Sandesh 0.2% 0.4%
The Statesman 0.2% 0.2%
Udayavani 0.2% 0.1%
Dinamani 0.1% 0.1%
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Divya Bhaskar 0.1% 0.5%
Free Press Journal 0.1% 0.0%
Hitvada 0.1% 0.2%
Mumbai Samachar 0.1% 0.1%
Samaj 0.1% 0.1%
Vartaman 0.1% 0.0%
Asian Age 0.0% 0.0%
Dharitri 0.0% 0.1%
Employment News 0.0% 0.0%
Financial Express 0.0% 0.0%
Jansatta 0.0% 0.0%
Madhyamum 0.0% 0.0%
Prabhat Khabar 0.0% 0.1%
Rashtriya Sahara 0.0% 0.0%
Saamna 0.0% 0.1%
Sambad 0.0% 0.1%
Sanmarg 0.0% 0.0%
Siasat 0.0% 0.0%
The Pioneer 0.0% 0.0%
Tarun Bharat (Marathi) 0.0% 0.0%
india Today 0.0% 0.0%
Pratidin (Local) 0.0% 0.1%
Bangalore Times 0.0% 0.1%
Aaj Kal 0.0% 0.0%
Vijaya Times 0.0% 0.3%
Inquilab 0.0% 0.0%
Greater Kashmir 0.0% 0.0%
Sambad 0.0% 0.0%
Mint 0.0% 0.0%
Others 0.7% 0.8%
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Table 76: Most preferred magazine
Magazine Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,113 10,515
India Today 26% 23%
Reader's Digest 6% 7%
The Week 6% 5%
Ananda Vikatan 3% 1%
Outlook 3% 4%
Kumudham 3% 1%
Sports Star 3% 4%
Digit 2% 3%
Competition Success Review 2% 1%
Film Fare 2% 3%
Business Today 2% 2%
Business World 2% 2%
Autocar India 2% 2%
Swathi 2% 2%
Chip 2% 2%
Sudha 2% 0.3%
Electronics For You 1% 1%
Grihshobha 1% 0.9%
PC Quest 1% 0.6%
Femina 1% 4%
Women's Era 1% 2%
Star Dust 1% 2%
Vanita 1% 1%
National Geographic 1% 0.6%
Science Reporter 1% 0.6%
Today 0.9% 0.5%
India Times 0.8% 0.8%
Business India 0.7% 0.7%
Manorama 0.7% 0.2%
Aha Zindagi 0.6% 0.2%
Business & Economy 0.6% 0.5%
Fortune India 0.6% 0.7%
Time 0.6% 0.6%
Chitralekha 0.5% 0.7%
Junior Vikatan 0.5% 0.2%
Computers Today 0.4% 0.7%
Desh 0.4% 0.2%
Developer IQ 0.4% 0.0%
Sarita 0.4% 0.2%
Nirogadhaam 0.4% 0.1%
Aval Vikatan 0.3% 0.2%
Chronicle 0.3% 0.2%
Cosmopolitan 0.3% 0.8%
Cricket Samrat 0.3% 0.6%
Grihlakshmi 0.3% 0.0%
Playboy 0.3% 0.3%
Safari 0.3% 0.3%
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Sananda 0.3% 0.3%
Animation Reporter 0.3% 0.1%
Brunch 0.2% 0.3%
Business Week 0.2% 0.3%
Champak 0.2% 0.1%
Cineblitz 0.2% 0.2%
Dalal Street 0.2% 0.3%
Data Quest 0.2% 0.2%
Outlook Money 0.2% 0.4%
Saptahik Sakal 0.2% 0.1%
Money life 0.2% 0.1%
Business Standard 0.2% 0.1%
Abhiyan 0.1% 0.2%
Anandamela 0.1% 0.2%
Debonair 0.1% 0.2%
Meri Saheli 0.1% 0.5%
Taranga 0.1% 0.2%
The Economist 0.1% 0.2%
Graphiti 0.1% 0.2%
Saptahik Bartaman 0.1% 0.1%
Wisdom 0.1% 0.7%
Andra Jyoti 0.1% 0.1%
Anandalok 0.0% 0.0%
Auto India 0.0% 0.1%
Better Photography 0.0% 0.1%
Business Times 0.0% 0.0%
Buzz 0.0% 0.1%
Capital Market 0.0% 0.2%
Deccan Chronicle 0.0% 0.1%
Elle 0.0% 0.1%
Frontline 0.0% 0.1%
Gladrags 0.0% 0.3%
Good House Keeping 0.0% 0.3%
Health 0.0% 0.5%
Inside Outside 0.0% 0.3%
Kadambini 0.0% 0.0%
Linux For You 0.0% 0.2%
Lokprabha 0.0% 0.1%
Mathrubhumi 0.0% 0.0%
Maxim 0.0% 0.2%
Outlook Traveller 0.0% 0.0%
Overdrive 0.0% 0.6%
Pratiyogita Darpan 0.0% 0.0%
Saras Salil 0.0% 0.1%
Savvy 0.0% 0.1%
Society 0.0% 0.1%
Top Gear 0.0% 0.1%
Living Digital 0.0% 0.1%
Saheli 0.0% 0.0%
PC World 0.0% 0.3%
Sakhi 0.0% 0.0%
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Mans World 0.0% 0.0%
Chandamama 0.0% 0.1%
Kurukshetra 0.0% 0.0%
Automobiles 0.0% 0.1%
Auto World 0.0% 0.0%
Bikes 0.0% 0.1%
Economical Times 0.0% 0.0%
Others 9% 7%
Table 77: Most preferred radio channel
Radio Channel Language Users All Users
Sample Base 845 8,205
Radio Mirchi 38% 38%
AIR 14% 11%
Red FM 11% 12%
Suryan FM 10% 6%
Radio City 7% 11%
Big FM 6% 5%
AIR FM RAINBOW 5% 4%
AIR FM GOLD 5% 5%
BBC 2% 1%
World Space 1% 2%
Fever FM 0.6% 3%
Power FM 0.3% 0.8%
Amar FM 0.3% 0.3%
Go FM 0.2% 0.8%
Hum FM 0.0% 0.0%
Others 0.9% 1%
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Table 78: Preferred website for checking local language content
Website Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,388 1,388
Google 12% 12%
Yahoo 8% 8%
Malayalamanorama 7% 7%
Eeandu 7% 7%
Thinamalar 5% 5%
Webduniya 4% 4%
Marathiworld 4% 4%
Webulagam 4% 4%
Tamilcinema 4% 4%
Keralakaumudi 3% 3%
Jagran 3% 3%
Esakal 3% 3%
Rediff 3% 3%
Kannadaaudio 2% 2%
Anandabazaar 2% 2%
Dainikjagran 2% 2%
Banglalive 2% 2%
Matrubhumi 1% 1%
Kumudam 1% 1%
Gujratsamachar 1% 1%
Amarujala 0.9% 0.9%
bbchindi 0.7% 0.7%
Deepika 0.7% 0.7%
Sakal 0.7% 0.7%
Vaartha 0.7% 0.7%
Dailythanthi 0.6% 0.6%
Dinakaran 0.6% 0.6%
Thatskannada 0.6% 0.6%
Epatra 0.5% 0.5%
Bhaskar 0.5% 0.5%
Maharashtratimes 0.3% 0.3%
Others 19% 19%
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Table 79: Response to online marketing stimulus
Response Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,134 10,888
Clicked a banner ad 52% 47%
Participated in an online contest 50% 43%
Clicked a sponsored search ad 48% 37%
Bid/Bought in an Online auction 28% 23%
Bought in a special promotion / deal 27% 21%
Clicked a product/service e-mailer 18% 14%
None of the above 19% 27%
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Table 80: Top of mind recall for brands
Tom Recall For Brands Language Users All Users
Sample Base 1,343 24,288
Nokia 8% 7%
Sony 8% 8%
Tata 6% 5%
LG 5% 4%
Colgate 4% 3%
Reliance 3% 3%
Intel 3% 0.9%
HLL 3% 3%
Adidas 3% 2%
Samsung 2% 2%
HP 2% 1%
Microsoft 2% 2%
Airtel 2% 0.9%
Coca Cola 1% 1%
Godrej 1% 2%
Bajaj 1% 1%
Google 1% 1%
Hero Honda 1% 1%
Pepsi 1% 2%
Philips 1% 1%
Maruti 1% 2%
Videocon 1% 0.7%
IBM 1% 1%
Nike 1% 3%
Sony Ericsson 1% 0.5%
Canon 0.8% 0.2%
Motorola 0.8% 0.4%
Nestle 0.8% 0.4%
Raymonds 0.8% 1%
Yahoo 0.8% 0.1%
BPL 0.7% 0.6%
Louis Phillip 0.7% 0.1%
Mercedes 0.7% 0.5%
Onida 0.7% 0.7%
Wipro 0.7% 0.6%
Britannia 0.6% 0.6%
Hutch 0.6% 0.2%
Reebok 0.6% 1%
BMW 0.5% 0.2%
Lifebuoy 0.5% 0.2%
Amul 0.4% 0.7%
Dabur 0.4% 0.4%
HCL 0.4% 0.5%
Lee 0.4% 0.5%
Pepsodent 0.4% 0.2%
BSNL 0.3% 0.4%
Cadbury 0.3% 0.6%
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Compaq 0.3% 0.5%
Honda 0.3% 0.8%
Horlicks 0.3% 0.2%
Lakme 0.3% 0.7%
Levis 0.3% 0.9%
Lux 0.3% 0.2%
Nescafe 0.3% 0.1%
Nirma 0.3% 0.1%
Peter England 0.3% 0.4%
Rediff 0.3% 0.1%
Skoda 0.3% 0.1%
Toyota 0.3% 0.3%
Whirlpool 0.3% 0.4%
Amway 0.2% 0.3%
Arrow 0.2% 0.1%
Close Up 0.2% 0.2%
Dettol 0.2% 0.1%
Garnier 0.2% 0.3%
Hyundai 0.2% 0.3%
Infosys 0.2% 0.2%
ISI 0.2% 0.2%
Johnson & Johnson 0.2% 0.3%
Kingfisher 0.2% 0.3%
Maggi 0.2% 0.1%
Suzuki 0.2% 0.2%
P & G 0.2% 0.1%
Pantaloon 0.2% 0.3%
Parle 0.2% 0.4%
Surf 0.2% 0.4%
Tata Indicom 0.2% 0.1%
TVS 0.2% 0.2%
Voltas 0.2% 0.0%
Woodland 0.2% 0.2%
Yamaha 0.2% 0.3%
Apple 0.2% 0.4%
Sansui 0.2% 0.1%
Allen Solly 0.1% 0.1%
Bata 0.1% 0.4%
Denim 0.1% 0.2%
Fair & Lovely 0.1% 0.1%
Ford 0.1% 0.1%
GE 0.1% 0.0%
Hamam 0.1% 0.1%
Honda City 0.1% 0.1%
ICICI 0.1% 0.4%
IFB 0.1% 0.1%
ITC 0.1% 0.3%
John Players 0.1% 0.2%
Koutons 0.1% 0.1%
Lenovo 0.1% 0.3%
LIC 0.1% 0.1%
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Mark & Spencer 0.1% 0.0%
MRF 0.1% 0.1%
Panasonic 0.1% 0.1%
Ponds 0.1% 0.3%
Provogue 0.1% 0.2%
Ray Ban 0.1% 0.1%
Red Label 0.1% 0.0%
Reid & Taylor 0.1% 0.0%
Rin 0.1% 0.1%
SBI 0.1% 0.0%
Siemens 0.1% 0.0%
Sify 0.1% 0.1%
Thums Up 0.1% 0.2%
Times of India 0.1% 0.1%
Titan 0.1% 0.4%
Axe 0.1% 0.1%
Lays 0.1% 0.1%
TCS 0.1% 0.1%
Glaxo 0.1% 0.0%
Liberty 0.1% 0.0%
Armani 0.0% 0.0%
Brooke Bond 0.0% 0.2%
Chevrolet 0.0% 0.0%
Citi Bank 0.0% 0.0%
Dell 0.0% 0.3%
Ferrari 0.0% 0.1%
Fevicol 0.0% 0.1%
Gillette 0.0% 0.1%
Gold Flake 0.0% 0.1%
Gucci 0.0% 0.1%
HDFC 0.0% 0.0%
Killer 0.0% 0.2%
Kodak 0.0% 0.1%
L`Oreal 0.0% 0.2%
Mahindra & Mahindra 0.0% 0.1%
Mcdonald 0.0% 0.1%
NIIT 0.0% 0.0%
Park Avenue 0.0% 0.1%
Parker 0.0% 0.1%
Pears 0.0% 0.0%
Pepe 0.0% 0.2%
Revlon 0.0% 0.1%
Rolex 0.0% 0.1%
Santro 0.0% 0.1%
Scorpio 0.0% 0.0%
Spykar 0.0% 0.2%
Taj 0.0% 0.1%
Tanishq 0.0% 0.0%
Tata Indica 0.0% 0.0%
Tata Motors 0.0% 0.0%
Tata Tea 0.0% 0.1%
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Van Huesen 0.0% 0.1%
Versace 0.0% 0.1%
VIP 0.0% 0.1%
VSNL 0.0% 0.0%
Wills 0.0% 0.2%
Zodiac 0.0% 0.1%
Acer 0.0% 0.1%
Idea 0.0% 0.1%
L&T 0.0% 0.1%
Ranbaxy 0.0% 0.1%
Sahara 0.0% 0.1%
HSBC 0.0% 0.0%
MTNL 0.0% 0.0%
Satyam 0.0% 0.0%
Others 11% 14%
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Table 81: City type classification by market size
REGIONS
North South East West
Metros
Delhi Bangalore Chennai
Coimbatore Hyderabad
Kolkata Ahmadabad Mumbai
Pune Surat
Urban Uptowns
Faridabad Jaipur
Kanpur Lucknow Ludhiana
Patna
Kochi Madurai
Asansol Bhopal Thane Indore
Nagpur Vadodara
Emerging Towns
Amritsar Chandigarh
Dhanbad Ghaziabad
Thiruvanathapuram Tiruchirapalli
Vijayavada Visakhapatanam
Guwahati Aurangabad Goa
Jabalpur Nashik Rajkot
CIT
Y TY
PE B
Y M
AR
KET
SIZ
E1
Others
Agra Allahabad Dehradun Gurgaon Jodhpur Meerut Noida
Ranchi Varanasi
Others from North India
Mangalore Mysore
Secunderabad Others from South
India
Bhubaneswar Cuttack Raipur
Others from East India
Solapur Others from
West India
1 Above segmentation of Indian cities are basis their market size and not by the population size. Market size of a city is calculated basis the total annual household consumption expenditure of all household in that city/district. Total household consumption includes all possible household goods and services that a household usually spends on. For more details refer to ‘Market Skyline of India 2006’ Reports published by Indicus Analytics.
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Table 82: Socio Economic Classification (SEC) Grid
Chief Wage Earner's Highest Education
Illiterate School
(Up to 4 yrs)
School (5-9 yrs)
Secondary/ High School
Not Grad.
Grad./ PG
(Gen.)
Grad./ PG
(Prof.)
Unskilled worker E E E D D D D
Skilled worker E E D C C B B
Petty traders E D D C C B B
Shop owners D D C B B A A
Businessmen/ industrialists – with no employee
D C B B A A A
Businessmen/ industrialists – with 1 to 9 employee
C B B B A A A
Businessmen/ industrialists – with 10+ employee
B B A A A A A
Self-employed professionals D D D B B A A
Clerical/ salesmen D D D C B B B
Supervisor level D D C C B B A
Officers/ executives (junior) C C C B B A A
Chie
f W
age
Earn
er's
2 Occ
upat
ion
Officers/ executives (middle/ senior)
B B B B A A A
2 Chief Wage Earner is the head of the household who contributes maximum to the monthly household income. It is assumed in Indian marketing and media space that the life style of a household is largely determined by the combination of head of household’s highest level of education and current occupation.
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Index: Charts Chart 1: Vernacular language usage ......................................... 24 Chart 2: Gender breakup ...................................................... 28 Chart 3: Age group distribution .............................................. 29 Chart 4: City class - by population size ..................................... 30 Chart 5: City class - by market size.......................................... 31 Chart 6: Region-wise break-ups .............................................. 33 Chart 7: Socio economic classification ...................................... 35 Chart 8: Highest educational qualification ................................. 36 Chart 9: Occupational break up .............................................. 37 Chart 10: Function / field of occupation ................................... 38 Chart 11: Head of the household............................................. 39 Chart 12: Monthly family income ............................................ 40 Chart 13: Most expensive vehicle owned by the household.............. 41 Chart 14: Ownership of credit cards (individually)........................ 42 Chart 15: Current loan liabilities............................................. 44 Chart 16: Years of experience in using internet ........................... 45 Chart 17: Place of accessing internet ....................................... 46 Chart 18: Type of internet connection at home ........................... 47 Chart 19: Type of internet connection at office........................... 48 Chart 20: Service provider subscribed to at home ........................ 49 Chart 21: Service provider subscribed to at office........................ 50 Chart 22: Frequency of accessing internet from home ................... 51 Chart 23: Frequency of accessing internet from office................... 52 Chart 24: Time of the day accessing internet from home ............... 53 Chart 25: Time of the day accessing internet from office ............... 54 Chart 26: Duration of PC usage from home................................. 55 Chart 27: Duration of internet usage from home.......................... 56 Chart 28: Duration of PC usage vis-à-vis internet usage from home ... 57 Chart 29: Duration of PC usage from office ................................ 58 Chart 30: Duration of internet usage from office ......................... 59 Chart 31: Duration of PC vis-à-vis internet usage from office........... 60 Chart 32: Duration of internet usage during weekdays vis-à-vis weekends ........................................................................ 61 Chart 33: Time spent by internet users on watching TV ................. 62 Chart 34: Time spent by internet users on reading newspaper ......... 63 Chart 35: Time spent by internet users on listening to radio ........... 64 Chart 36: Professional activities ............................................. 66 Chart 37: Personal activities.................................................. 67 Chart 38: Downloading activities............................................. 68 Chart 39: E-commerce related activities ................................... 69 Chart 40: Online shopping..................................................... 70 Chart 41: Blogging activities .................................................. 71 Chart 42: Member of an online community................................. 72 Chart 43: Problems faced while surfing the internet ..................... 74 Chart 44: Multiple user shares of email websites ......................... 76 Chart 45: Number of email accounts and average per capita email ids 77 Chart 46: Response to online marketing stimulus ........................ 101
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Index: Tables Table 1: Detailed Sample Base Distribution of the Land Survey .......... 6 Table 2: Desired online activities in Indian languages.................... 13 Table 3: Regional distribution of local languages content users ........ 13 Table 4: Popularity of ‘languages’ in the usage of local language content (Top 10)................................................................ 14 Table 5: Distribution of local languages content users by Town Class . 15 Table 6: Duration of internet surfing per usage day ...................... 16 Table 7: Online activities undertaken ‘relatively’ more by local language content users (Top 10) ............................................. 17 Table 8: Most popular online activities among the local language content users (Top 10)......................................................... 17 Table 9: Response to online marketing stimuli ............................ 19 Table 10: Preferred websites for checking local language content .... 19 Table 11: Preferred websites for checking English content ............. 20 Table 12: Most popular websites for specific online activities .......... 21 Table 13: Popularity of various internet activities ........................ 23 Table 14: Most used local language (other than English)................. 25 Table 15: Most used website for checking content in other language . 26 Table 16: Online activities desired in other languages ................... 27 Table 17: Top 10 cities ........................................................ 32 Table 18: Preferred language of reading ................................... 34 Table 19: Household asset ownership ....................................... 43 Table 20: Popularity of various internet activities ........................ 65 Table 21: Membership by type of online community ..................... 73 Table 22: Preferred websites - emailing.................................... 75 Table 23: Top of mind unaided recall - all websites ...................... 78 Table 24: Most used website - all websites................................. 79 Table 25: Info search (English) ............................................... 80 Table 26: Info search (local language) ...................................... 81 Table 27: Job search ........................................................... 82 Table 28: Online shopping (other than travel tickets).................... 83 Table 29: Online news ......................................................... 84 Table 30: Financial news & info (rates, quotes, etc.) .................... 85 Table 31: Online share trading ............................................... 86 Table 32: Real estate info..................................................... 87 Table 33: Matrimonial search................................................. 88 Table 34: Dating/friendship search.......................................... 89 Table 35: Social networking/communities ................................. 90 Table 36: Online gaming....................................................... 91 Table 37: Download mobile content......................................... 92 Table 38: Download music .................................................... 93 Table 39: Sports content ...................................................... 94 Table 40: Cinema content..................................................... 95 Table 41: Preferred blog sites ................................................ 96 Table 42: Favorite TV channels .............................................. 97 Table 43: Favorite newspapers ............................................... 98 Table 44: Favorite magazines ................................................ 99 Table 45: Favorite radio channels .......................................... 100 Table 46: Tom recall for brands............................................. 102
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Index: Segment wise Detailed Tables
Table 1: Gender breakup..................................................... 104 Table 2: Age group distribution ............................................. 104 Table 3: City class - by population size .................................... 105 Table 4: City class - by market size ........................................ 105 Table 5: Cities.................................................................. 106 Table 6: Region-wise break-ups ............................................. 107 Table 7: Preferred language of reading.................................... 108 Table 8: Socio economic classification..................................... 109 Table 9: Highest educational qualification ................................ 109 Table 10: Occupational break up ........................................... 109 Table 11: Function / field of occupation .................................. 110 Table 12: Head of the household ........................................... 110 Table 13: Monthly family income ........................................... 110 Table 14: Most expensive vehicle owned by the household ............ 111 Table 15: Ownership of credit cards (individually)....................... 111 Table 16: Household asset ownership ...................................... 112 Table 17: Current loan liabilities............................................ 112 Table 18: Years of experience in using internet.......................... 113 Table 19: Place of accessing internet ...................................... 113 Table 20: Type of internet connection at home.......................... 113 Table 21: Type of internet connection at office ......................... 114 Table 22: Service provider subscribed to at home ....................... 114 Table 23: Service provider subscribed to at office....................... 115 Table 24: Frequency of accessing internet from home.................. 115 Table 25: Frequency of accessing internet from office ................. 116 Table 26: Time of the day accessing internet from home .............. 116 Table 27: Time of the day accessing internet from office .............. 117 Table 28: Duration of internet usage from home......................... 117 Table 29: Duration of internet usage from office ........................ 117 Table 30: Duration of internet usage during weekdays.................. 118 Table 31: Duration of internet usage during weekends ................. 118 Table 32: Duration of PC usage from home ............................... 118 Table 33: Duration of PC usage from office ............................... 119 Table 34: Time spent by internet users on watching TV ................ 119 Table 35: Time spent by internet users on reading newspaper ........ 119 Table 36: Time spent by internet users on listening to radio .......... 120 Table 37: Professional activities ............................................ 120 Table 38: Personal activities................................................. 121 Table 39: Downloading activities ........................................... 121 Table 40: E-commerce related activities .................................. 122 Table 41: Online shopping.................................................... 122 Table 42: Blogging activities................................................. 122 Table 43: Member of an online community ............................... 123 Table 44: Membership by type of online community .................... 123 Table 45: Usage of other language websites .............................. 124 Table 46: Online activities desired in other languages .................. 124 Table 47: Problems faced while surfing the internet .................... 124 Table 48: Top of mind unaided recall - all websites ..................... 125 Table 49: Most used website - all websites................................ 127 Table 50: Preferred website for emailing ................................. 128 Table 51: Multiple user shares of email websites ........................ 128 Table 52: Preferred website for job search ............................... 129
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Table 53: Preferred website for mobile content ......................... 130 Table 54: Preferred website for sports .................................... 131 Table 55: Preferred website for travel products ......................... 132 Table 56: Preferred website for matrimony............................... 133 Table 57: Preferred website for financial news/info .................... 134 Table 58: Preferred website for cinema ................................... 135 Table 59: Preferred website for online share/stock trading............ 136 Table 60: Preferred website for games .................................... 137 Table 61: Preferred website for online shopping......................... 138 Table 62: Preferred website for online news ............................. 139 Table 63: Preferred website for friendship/dating ...................... 140 Table 64: Preferred website for music..................................... 141 Table 65: Preferred info search engine - local language................ 142 Table 66: Preferred website for real estate............................... 142 Table 67: Preferred info search engine - English ......................... 143 Table 68: Preferred website for instant messaging ...................... 143 Table 69: Preferred website for social networking/communities ..... 144 Table 70: Preferred website for astrology................................. 145 Table 71: Preferred website for online learning/education ............ 146 Table 72: Other language preferred for local content .................. 147 Table 73: Preferred blog sites ............................................... 148 Table 74: Most preferred TV channel....................................... 149 Table 75: Most preferred newspaper ....................................... 151 Table 76: Most preferred magazine......................................... 153 Table 77: Most preferred radio channel ................................... 155 Table 78: Preferred website for checking local language content .... 156 Table 79: Response to online marketing stimulus ........................ 157 Table 80: Top of mind recall for brands ................................... 158 Table 81: City type classification by market size ........................ 163 Table 82: Socio Economic Classification (SEC) Grid ...................... 164
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