Daily internet usage climbs to 50% in Brazil

Half of all the internet users in Brazil went online daily during August 2011, according to the 10th edition of local ad agency F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi's "F/Radar" report. This was an increase of 9 percentage points from April 2011, and 13 percentage points higher than the survey from the same month two years prior. 

Daily internet users in Brazil, April 2008-August 2011:
- April 2008: 32%
- August 2008: 38%
- March 2009: 32%
- August 2009: 37%
- April 2010: 38%
- November 2010: 44%
- April 2011: 41%
- August 2011: 50%

eMarketer estimates there were 78.3 million internet users in Brazil in 2011, meaning roughly 42 million people accessed the web every day. eMarketer forecasts Brazil will have 98.5 million internet users by 2015. At today's daily access rate, that translates to almost 50 million users online every day.