Teens
topic on 6 shows · 8 statements across 7 episodes
More or Less 
Lenny's Podcast 
My First Million 
Big Technology 
TBPN 
20VC
8 statements about Teens, every show
Britt Morin: Half of teenagers talk to an AI companion every day
“Half of teens are talking to their AI companion every day.”
Means: 35% of American teens take chronic disease medications
“35% of teens are on some kind of chronic disease drug.”
Kantrowitz: 73% of teens use YouTube daily, 15% constantly
“Overall, 73% of teens say they go on YouTube daily. This share includes 15% who describe their use as almost constant.”
Communication products must target teens to leverage expanding social graphs
“If you're building a product with network effects, that's a communication tool. You want to be on that ups upward curve Of adding connections to your social graph, because then the urgency to connect is higher. So if you really want to actually innovate at the…”
Means: 50% of US teens and 80% of adults are overweight or obese
“So we have something unique going on where 50% of teens are overweight or obese, and then 80% of American adults are overweight or obese.”
Parr: Share of sexually inactive teens jumped from 11% to 21%
“It rose from 11% to 21% of teens that do not have sex, that, that haven't had sex in the last year.”
Feed Is Only the Third Most Important Instagram Surface for Teens
“If you look at how teens spend their time on Instagram, they spend more time in DMs than they do in stories, and they spend more time in stories than they do in feed. Yet people think of Instagram as a feed, and it's the third most important Surfers at best. M…”
Instagram Notes Drove Significant Teen Engagement Despite Low Adult Adoption
“Notes are, you know, basically aim status, but better looking at the top of the inbox. Anybody above 20, like, doesn't use them very much. Unbelievable how much they've moved Instagram engagement overall, app level engagement for teens.”