Research that quantifies global trends in web behaviour and social media and the impact on consumer behaviour, purchasing and marketing communications

Web Coverage

The Global Web Index covers all aspects of web usage and focuses in-depth on the rising impact of social media:

  • Location of access
  • PC behaviour
  • Browser and operating system
  • Attitudes towards online
  • Motivations for going online
    • Motivations for creating content
    • Motivations for connecting online
  • International web brands
  • Types of sites
  • Search
  • Web Services
  • Web behaviour
  • Blogging
    • Where blog
    • Content shared
    • Topics read and written about
  • Micro-blogging
    • Service used
  • Video Sharing
    • Where viewed and uploaded
    • Type and frequency of video watched, shared and uploaded
  • Social Networking
    • Service used
    • Content shared
    • Interactions
  • Forums
    • Type of forums
  • Downloading
    • Types of content
    • What paid for
  • Streaming
    • Types of content
    • What paid for
  • Networks
    • Digital networks versus face to face
    • Community
  • Gaming
  • Mobile behaviour
  • Mobile Internet
  • Future concepts

Other Coverage

The Global Web Index links web behaviour, motivations and impact with key dynamics to provide you personalised insight:

  • Consumer dynamics:
    • Demographics
    • Attitudes
    • Motivations
    • Interests
    • Employment
  • Purchasing:
    • Types of products owned, planning to buy
    • What purchased offline vs online
    • What researched online
    • What talked about online
    • Why talked about brands?
    • Influencers
  • Communications:
    • Traditional media consumption
    • Trust in communications sources
    • How should brands behave
    • Consumer opinion of brand activity in social media
    • Which marketing communication improve brand perception
    • Which ones get you to talk
    • Which ones get you to purchase

Market

A truly global reach covering 69% of the worlds internet population:

  • Australia
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • China
  • France
  • Germany
  • India
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Netherlands
  • Mexico
  • Russia
  • South Korea
  • Spain
  • UK
  • US

Methodology

The Global Web Index interviews 32,000 consumer opinions annually:

  • 16-64 active web users (online monthly)
  • Representative by age, gender, income volume of usage, region
  • Self completion online questionnaires conducted via Lightspeed global panels
  • 16K surveys in June. 16K surveys in December, providing global ongoing trend data
  • 32K double base survey in December for detailed interrogation
  • 30 minute survey
  • Local language

Analysis

Analysis: Trend reports, point of view and thinking

Trend reports covering global trends on blogging, social networking, Twitter and other critical areas, released through the year

• download to you desktop

• Share with staff and clients

• Get ideas and thinking not just data

In-depth analysis from the Global Web Index team and leading thinkers on web usage trends

Data access

Data access: Crosstab, personalise and export

  • Interrogate the data at a respondent level
  • Customise charts
  • Export to Excel or PowerPoint
  • Create favourites
  • Build target audiences
  • Filter countries
  • Perform crosstabs

Customise:

Brand Perspective: Add your brand and competitors and discover the how you engage key online audiences such as bloggers, twitter users and commentators

Add questions: Include a question that is private to you and can be analysed against the whole survey

Niche audiences: Re-run sections of the survey against niche audiences such as specific B2B purchasers and then benchmark against the consumer data

New markets: re-run the survey in any online market in the world and benchmark against core data

Bespoke: One off research projects for internal usage or to be packaged for marketing communications and external distribution

To find out more contact the team: globalwebindex@trendstream.net