Here's some shocking statistics about entertainment...
The average teen consumes 7.5 hours of media per day
(Over 10 hours if you include media multitasking).
On average there are more TV's per household in the U.S. than there are children per household.
The average child will spend 18,000 hours in front of the television by the time they graduate from high school. That's 5,000 more hours than they will spend in school for 12 years The only thing the average child will do more of is... sleep.
The average person watches 4.7 hours of TV each day
The average mobile teen sends and receives an average of 2,899 text messages per month
The average young person views 3,000 advertisements per day on TV, on the internet, on billboards, in magazines, and other forms of media. They view 40,000 ads a year on TV alone.
The top 20% of "gamers" spent an average of 5 hours 45 minutes a day playing video games.
90% of children between 8-16 years old have viewed pornography online (most while innocently doing homework)
MTV broadcasts an average of 18 physical and 17 verbal references to sex per hour
By the time the average child is 18 years old, they will have witnessed 16,000 murders on TV and 200,000 acts of violence.
89% of the top selling video games contain violent content
Nearly 75% of violent scenes on Television feature no immediate punishment for or condemnation of violence
In 2005 YouTube is launched and now over 2 billion videos are viewed each day. 24 hours worth of new videos are addes each day
In 2007 the popular video game Halo 3 sets an all-time entertainment record with $170 million in sales in the first 24 hours. This record was broken by the release of Grand Theft Auto IV which sold $310 million worth of games in the first 24 hours.
In 2010 a 30 second commercial during the Superbowl cost $3 million. That's $100,000 a second!
The average teen consumes 7.5 hours of media per day
(Over 10 hours if you include media multitasking).
On average there are more TV's per household in the U.S. than there are children per household.
- 2.75 TV's per household
- 2.57 total PEOPLE per household
The average child will spend 18,000 hours in front of the television by the time they graduate from high school. That's 5,000 more hours than they will spend in school for 12 years The only thing the average child will do more of is... sleep.
The average person watches 4.7 hours of TV each day
The average mobile teen sends and receives an average of 2,899 text messages per month
The average young person views 3,000 advertisements per day on TV, on the internet, on billboards, in magazines, and other forms of media. They view 40,000 ads a year on TV alone.
The top 20% of "gamers" spent an average of 5 hours 45 minutes a day playing video games.
90% of children between 8-16 years old have viewed pornography online (most while innocently doing homework)
MTV broadcasts an average of 18 physical and 17 verbal references to sex per hour
By the time the average child is 18 years old, they will have witnessed 16,000 murders on TV and 200,000 acts of violence.
89% of the top selling video games contain violent content
Nearly 75% of violent scenes on Television feature no immediate punishment for or condemnation of violence
In 2005 YouTube is launched and now over 2 billion videos are viewed each day. 24 hours worth of new videos are addes each day
In 2007 the popular video game Halo 3 sets an all-time entertainment record with $170 million in sales in the first 24 hours. This record was broken by the release of Grand Theft Auto IV which sold $310 million worth of games in the first 24 hours.
In 2010 a 30 second commercial during the Superbowl cost $3 million. That's $100,000 a second!
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