BIG BROTHER SERIES 6
48% of you have been watching Big Brother series 6 on Channel 4 (54% of female Urbanites and 63% of Urbanites aged 18-24). The other 51% of Urban Lifers have probably been trying to avoid it!Amongst those who have been watching it:
42% have been watching right from day one
13% started watching after the first week or so
7% tuned in about half way through
5% started watching it only very recently
32% watch random episodes here and there
86% of those who have been watching BB6 have NOT voted in the evictions: only 14% have voted for a housemate to be evicted.
CINEMA & MOVIES
This year on Urban Life we're running a film poll on each wave so we can measure the most popular films across the year and see how you rate them against each other.Percentage of all Urban Lifers that had seen each film:
| NEWLY RELEASED FILMS LISTED: | % THAT SAW IT AT THE CINEMA | HOW THEY RATED IT (MARKS / 10) |
|---|---|---|
| Batman Begins | 19% | 8.1 |
| Sin City | 17% | 7.8 |
| Mr & Mrs Smith | 14% | 6.3 |
| War of the Worlds | 12% | 7.2 |
| Kung Fu Hustle | 5% | 8.1 |
| The Pacifier | 2% | 5.6 |
| A Lot Like Love | 1% | 6.6 |
| None of these | 61% | --- |
YOU THE CRITIC! The films the highest number of you had seen at the cinema when asked in July were Batman Begins 19% and Sin City 17%The films rated as the best were Batman Begins (8.1 out of 10) and King Fu Hustle (8.1 out of 10). Batman Begins wins unanimously! |
NEWS WEBSITES
We asked all Urban Life members which websites you visited at work for news in a typical week (between Monday and Friday only, not evenings or weekends). The top websites for news are:
| BBC News | 72% |
| Sky.com/news | 15% |
| Guardian.co.uk | 14% |
| ThisisLondon.co.uk | 13% |
| Google News | 12% |
| Yahoo News | 10% |
| TimesOnline.co.uk | 8% |
| MSN News | 8% |
| TheSun.co.uk | 6% |
| FT.com | 4% |
| Telegraph.co.uk | 4% |
| DailyMail.co.uk | 2% |
| None of these | 16% |
EMAIL & SMS ALERTS
50% of Urban Lifers said they currently signed up to receive daily or weekly email alerts other than for work-related purposes. Of these people, 62% said they had a "favourite" email alert. The top 10 were:- Popbitch.com
- BBC emails
- Ticketmaster
- FHM
- Google News
- Lastminute.com
- Motley Fool
- Holy Moly
- Seetickets.com
- This Is London
In comparison, just 6% of you are currently signed up to receive any daily or weekly SMS text-message alerts. Those most cited were Transport for London's travel alerts, followed by First Direct and Lloyds TSB banks' balance alerts, where they can send your current bank balance to your mobile phone.
BLOGGING
"Blogging" is the act of writing a "weblog" - a website containing dated entries in reverse chronological order about a particular topic, functioning as an online journal usually written by one person or a small group of contributors. (But don't worry if you didn't know this, 20% of Urban Lifers were unfamiliar with the "blogging" phenomenon!)14% of Urban Lifers regularly look at "blog" sites. The most frequently named site was Livejournal.com, visited by 11% of all blog viewers. This was followed by MySpace.com (3%), Blogger.com (2%), BelleDeJour (1%) and Blogspot (1%)
