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    "title" : "Trends on Tuesday: America’s New First Screen |Digital.gov",
    "description": "Trends on Tuesday: America’s New First Screen",
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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: America’s New First Screen","summary" : "It has finally happened: Mobile has bumped TV as America’s first screen. Recent analysis from Flurry Analytics, which included data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, found that time spent on mobile devices grew in the U.S. by 9.3% to 2 hrs and 57 minutes, while time spent watching TV has remained flat at 2 hrs and 48","date" : "2014-12-02T10:00:46-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2014/12/2014-12-02-trends-on-tuesday-americas-new-first-screen.md","slug" : "trends-on-tuesday-americas-new-first-screen","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/12/02/trends-on-tuesday-americas-new-first-screen/","content" :"\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/12/600-x-450-Shows-tablet-denphumi-iStock-Thinkstock-176622799.jpg\"\n    alt=\"concept image of a mobile tablet being used for a variety of tasks; television, movies, games, music, email, social networks, et cetera.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt has finally happened: Mobile has bumped TV as America’s first screen. Recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.flurry.com/blog/flurry-insights/mobile-television-we-interrupt-broadcast-again#.VHyqPofinAi\"\u003eanalysis from Flurry Analytics\u003c/a\u003e, which included \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/TUS/CHARTS/LEISURE.HTM\"\u003edata from the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u003c/a\u003e, found that time spent on mobile devices grew in the U.S. by 9.3% to 2 hrs and 57 minutes, while time spent watching TV has remained flat at 2 hrs and 48 minutes daily.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo what are some of the factors that helped mobile snatch the big prize from television? Flurry says:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOverlap between the time spent watching TV and that on mobile devices\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmart devices are practical and more consumers use mobile devices for almost every daily task\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMobile devices are glued to consumers 24/7/365\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTime spent in “torso and tail” apps, which are apps below the top 25, grew 21%\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis a big moment for the mobile industry, as well as app developers (like us). Despite the belief that the larger players in the app industry would monopolize time spent on mobile, consumers have shown that there is growing interest in specialized applications.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more information on how to successfully develop mobile applications and/or mobile websites for the public, check out the \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/resources/mobile-application-development-program/\" title=\"Mobile Application Development Program\"\u003eMobile Application Development Program\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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