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Propelled by the twin engines of population growth and expanding buying power, they are at the leading edge of converging demographic and social trends that are reshaping how marketers and advertisers use culture to connect with increasingly diverse customers. Understanding the cultural essence that drives multicultural consumer behavior today, marketers and advertisers are getting a glimpse of future market trends and forging a long-term relationship with the most dynamic and fastest-growing segment of the U.S. consumer economy. 49.2% of children aged 9 and younger last year were non-Hispanic Whites, according to a Nielsen study that demonstrates the growing clout of multicultural consumers, who have represented 92% of the population growth in the U.S. between 2000 and 2014. The study cites data demonstrating that multicultural consumers' higher life expectancies and lower median ages result in significantly more years of effective buying power than their non-Hispanic White counterparts, with Hispanics in particular averaging almost 20 more years of effective buying power. Multicultural consumers are defined using the U.S. Census Bureau definition, as being composed of several different race categories – Black, American Indian, Pacific Islander, Other, and Two or More Races. Hispanics of any race are also considered multicultural consumers, defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as an ethnicity, not a race. Media-savvy and socially empowered, multicultural consumers are:
Multicultural consumers are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, says the report. Already over 120 million strong and increasing by 2.3 million per year, multicultural populations are the growth engine of the future in the U.S. Hispanics, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and all other multiculturals already make up 38% of the U.S. population, with Census projections showing that multicultural populations will become a numeric majority by 2044. | MORE INFO
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The total number of unique visitors to newspaper websites and apps increased 10% from 161 million in March 2014 to 176 million in March 2015. The number of people who consume newspaper content only on mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, jumped 53% to 71 million unique visitors. Thus, mobile-only consumers now account for 40.3% of all digital traffic to newspapers, up from 28.8% during the same period last year. Newspapers are also seeing the net reach for their digital content increase across almost all age groups. For all adults over 18, newspapers' net reach rose from 78% in March 2014 to 83% in March 2015. Among men ages 18–24, it increased from 68% to 80%; among men 25–34, from 84% to 87%; and among men ages 35–44, from 75% to 84%. Likewise, among women ages 18–24, newspapers' net digital reach increased from 73% in March 2014 to 84% in March 2015; for women 25–34, from 84% to 92% over the same period; and for women 35-44, from 82% to 92%. Furthermore, for women ages 45-54, it increased from 78% to 83%; whereas for men in this age set, the net digital reach remained even at 80%. Previously, U.S. newspapers reached a then-record-setting 173 million unique visitors in January 2015, according to comScore and the NAA, up 19% from 146 million in January 2014 and up 4.8% from 165 million in December 2014. ©
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