Internet Gambling Popularity Growing

Published: Friday, September 22, 2006 Online-Casinos.com

INTERNET GAMBLING POPULARITY IS GROWING

New research shows that up to 10 percent of Internet users have gambled on-line


A new study by US-based Parks Associates and titled "Digital Media Habits" has found that about ten percent of Internet users report they regularly gamble online. The main thrust of the study is to examine the growing interactivity of converging online technologies such as video uploading, which is currently practiced to a variety of sites by 8 percent of online users.

The increased activity could be the result of continuous mobile cellphone market penetration, making the multifarious Internet-related applications now built-in to the latest cellphones, such as digital recording and online gambling capability, widely available. Parks says that at least a quarter of all Internet users own a mobile phone.

The survey studied the responses of some 2 060 Internet users, and Parks says that its numbers have a margin of error of two percent either way. There is also apparently some correlation between the number of online gamblers and respondents who listen to podcasts, at ten and eleven percent, respectively.