Online adspend drops 5% in US to reach $5.5bn

The latest US figures from the IAB and PwC show that online adspend fell 5% year-on-year in Q1. Against the previous quarter the decline was even higher at 10%. The results represent the first time that year-on-year figures have been negative since 2002. However,...

Channel 4: web-enabled archive

This weekend the UK’s Channel 4 television network announced 10,000 archived shows are being put online – and for free. Media guardian reported that over 4,000 hours of content on the way, and all viewable through the 4oD catch-up service. The implications are that...

Online display ad activity up 21% in first third of 2009

Nielsen Online have released new research which shows that activity in the UK’s online display advertising sector grew 21% year-on-year in the first four months of 2009, writes Media Week. The research studied the online display ad market by tracking three...

Graham Bower

CEO Taglab, AuthorJune 2009 By day, he’s chief executive of a funky London agency called Taglab. They’re famous for a decade of building websites and online campaigns for global brands. But away from the web, Graham has been developing ideas around a new business...

Online retail set to grow 13.3% during 2009

A new report from Verdict Research estimates that online retail in the UK will grow 13.3% in 2009, despite a predicted decline in total retail of 0.6%, writes Telecoms Europe. According to Verdict, online retail spending will reach £20.9bn by the end of this year as...

In-game advertising on course for $1bn in five years

Screen Digest have predicted that in-game advertising will be worth over $1bn (£627m) by 2014, writes Media Week. The firm’s study, “In-Game Advertising: Market Assessment and Forecasts to 2014”, forecasts that the sector will grow to take 1.5% of...

24% of Europeans regularly use mobile internet

New research from Forrester has found that 24% of Europeans now regularly use the internet on mobile phones, writes New Media Age. This marks a 20% increase on last year when the firm found that 20% of Europeans used their phones to access the web. The figures rise to...

End of daily newspapers: newspaper bankruptcies

The presses will stop rolling in Philadelphia, writes The Observer newspaper in the UK. Philadelphia looks set to become the first US city without a local newspaper as both The Daily News and The Inquirer file for bankruptcy. The average US newspaper share price...

Apple App Store takes 12% of mobile application market

Strategy Analytics have revealed that Apple’s App Store captured a 12% volume share of the mobile application market during 2008, writes Telecoms.com. However the report also showed that the App Store’s commercial value is significantly lower thanks to...