Survey: Nearly All Moms Have A Smartphone

Moms and Media 2019 revealed continued interest in devices both new and old, heavy internet usage and social media engagement.

With data points drawn from the Infinite Dial series from Edison Research and Triton Digital, the latest installment of Moms and Media shows how Moms in the United States continue to build their tech tool kit, using established devices like smartphones along with newer technologies such as smart speakers. Additionally, this year’s report illustrates how the internet is crucial to Moms’ media behaviors and consumption.

Smartphone ownership among Moms continues to rise in 2019. Powering Moms’ mobile lifestyle, this device reigns as an essential to the tech tool kit.  Showing a slight increase over last year, 94% of Moms now own a smartphone.

While Moms have been consuming content, engaging social media and communicating with smartphones for many years, they are showing great interest and making room in their tech tool kit for smart speakers. Just getting on Moms’ radar in the last year or so, now about one third of Moms own some type of smart speaker.

The research reveals in 2019 more than ever that the internet is the engine of Moms’ media consumption.  Heavy users spending about 4 hours daily using the internet, Moms are not limited to just listening to online audio and using social media. Moms are invested in streaming video services like Netflix as well, and also continue their trend of watching YouTube specifically for music videos.

Pinterest continues grow in usage among Moms, showing a strong upward trend in the last few years. Back in 2017, 47% of Moms used the site and in 2018 it was more than half of Moms, at 54%. This year more than 6 in 10 Moms report using Pinterest.

Historically, Facebook has always been a major factor in Moms’ social networking. Despite the downward trend in usage among total users 12+, Facebook remains strong among Moms with 81% reporting that they currently use the site.

Where the reports sees some Facebook fallout is for the social networking site used most. Among moms who use social networking, 64% said they use Facebook most, which is down from where it was last year at 69% and 72% in our 2017 data.