Aug 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
Spend is predicted to increase to $2.4 billion in 2009, 2008-2009
Aug 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
A new study from NPD Group has found that Extreme Gamers play games for an average 45 hours per week and have bought 24 titles in the past three months. The “Games Segmentation 2008” report identified 7 gamer segments based on usage, ownership and...
Aug 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
According to the annual media sector study from Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) online advertising will surpass newspaper adspend by 2011, writes The Financial Times. VSS expect online to grow over 21% per year to reach $62bn (£30.63bn) in 2011 against a predicted...
Aug 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
Vodafone UK has launched “Vodafone Music” a new mobile music store. The service lets customers preview songs for free or download tracks straight to their mobile and immediately play them through the music player on their phone. Singles and albums cost on...
Aug 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
A new analysis of the global mobile payments opportunity forecasts that 2.1bn mobile subscribers will “pay by mobile” for digital goods downloaded to their mobile phones by 2013. Juniper Research defines digital goods as music (ringtones and full tracks),...
Aug 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
Online ads on branded sites consistently perform above those on other sites, writes Netimperative. Research from the US-based Online Publishers Association (OPA) has found that sponsorships on branded content sites perform 36% above those on portals and 42% above...
Jul 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here are the latest stats and figures from the past month. Monthly internet usage statistics for the UK, June 2008 Source: Nielsen/NetRatings Home/Work Panel monthly statistics Nielsen Online: http://www.nielsen-online.com
Jul 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
Source: Nielsen/NetRatings Home/Work Panel monthly statistics Nielsen Online: http://www.nielsen-online.com
Jul 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
Note: This list features the most popular websites based on UK Internet usage for June 2008, ranked by market share of visits across all Hitwise industries. Source: Hitwise Datacentre, June 2008, based on market share of visits Hitwise:...
Jul 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
Source: Nielsen/NetRatings Nielsen Online: http://www.nielsen-online.com
Jul 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
New research from BT shows that 57% of all internet users now spend over 6 hours per week online, compared with 14% in 1998. writes Netimperative. In addition, 7% of users now go online for over 30 hours per week. Brits are also visiting more websites, with 19%...
Jul 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
China has overtaken the US to become the world’s biggest online market, writes the BBC. New figures from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) show that over 253m Chinese now go online, eclipsing for the first time the 223m people using the...
Jul 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
Microsoft has agreed a new deal with Facebook under which it will integrate its Live Search product and serve paid search ads on the social networking site writes The Financial Times. According to sources close to Facebook, the firm is aiming for advertising sales of...
Jul 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
The UK’s six biggest ISPs have signed a memorandum of understanding with music industry body the BPI and the Motion Pictures Association of America, writes The Financial Times. The deal was brokered by the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory...
Jul 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
New figures from Hitwise show that traffic to Facebook in the UK has grown 188% in the last year, writes Brand Republic. The site accounted for 45.29% of all UK social networking traffic in June, 80% more than its closest rival. The top three sites (Facebook, Bebo and...
Jul 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
Source: Hitwise Hitwise: http://www.hitwise.co.uk
Jul 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
Note: Data is based on a custom category of 57 of the leading social networking websites ranked by market share of U.S. visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. Hitwise...
Jul 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
Higher Mac and iPod shipments have contributed to Apple posting higher-than-expected quarterly results, writes Silicon.com. The firm reported revenues of $7.46bn and net profits of $1.19 for its third fiscal quarter, ending 28 June. Mac sales rose 41% with 2.5m units...
Jul 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Internet retail in the UK was up 38% in the first half of 2008 as consumers headed online to go shopping, writes The Guardian. According to the IMRG-Capgemini online sales index £26.5bn was spent online during the period, equivalent to 17p in every £1 spent by British...
Jul 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
Apple has announced that it sold 1m of its new 3G iPhone during the first weekend they were on sale, writes The Financial Times. The firm also revealed that users downloaded over 10m application from the App Store in the three days following the launch. Many retail...
