Apr 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
MySpace is close to signing a deal with Sony BMG and Warner Music to offer legal music downloads, writes The New York Post. The firm is also close to coming to an agreement with Universal Music. The joint venture is expected to offer a mixture of pay-per-download and...
Apr 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
Latest data from Hitwise looks back on 2007 and firms up the most searched for terms on the web among UK audiences. Ranked in order: 1 ebay, 2 bebo, 3 youtube, 4 facebook, 5 myspace, 6 argos (the UK retailer), 7 amazon, 8 you tube, 9 bbc, 10 tesco. Hitwise:...
Apr 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
TradeDoubler has launched td AdMatch a new contextual ad service, writes Netimperative. td AdMatch works by scanning web pages for content and then contextually matching relevant ads using automated and manually specified keywords. The service supports text, image and...
Apr 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
ZenithOptimedia has upgraded its predictions for online adspend’s share of the total global ad market for 2008 from 9.4% (from its December forecast) to 9.7%, writes Netimperative. Online is expected to show strong growth despite a slowdown in US and Western...
Apr 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Hitwise UK Annual Online Performance Awards serve up a list of best in class category winners for website traffic throughout 2007. Published this month, the Hitwise team collate data and compare across a large number of services in the same category. What’s...
Apr 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
Publishing Director, British Medical JournalMarch 2008 Peter Ashman leads the strategic, commercial and operational development of BMJ Journals and has business responsibility for the Group’s flagship journal, the weekly British Medical Journal (BMJ). He was...
Mar 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
Further projections from eMarketer estimate that US advertisers will spend $25.8bn (£12.9bn) online during 2008 – down from their previous forecast of $27.5bn (£13.77bn) made last October. However eMarketer predict that online is still on course to grow 23% from...
Mar 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
Mobile network operator 3 UK has launched an ad supported, commercial mobile music video service in conjunction with record label Sony BMG. The service, powered by Rhythm NewMedia, is available to all 3 UK customers and is accessed through 3’s music homepage. The...
Mar 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
Online adspend in the UK is set to reach £3.4bn this year, up 27% from 2007 according to new findings from eMarketer, writes Brand Republic. Double-digit growth will continue for the next three years with online advertising expected to exceed £5bn by 2012....
Mar 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
Yahoo! has joined forces with Google, MySpace, Bebo and others in the OpenSocial initiative, writes The Guardian. The initiative was formed last November in order to make it easier for developers to create applications which will automatically work across numerous...
Mar 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
UK traffic to online video sites grew 178% year-on-year from February 2007 to 2008 reports Hitwise. According to the firm the top 25 video websites accounted for 2.22% of all UK internet visits – equal to one in every 45 visits that month. YouTube remained the...
Mar 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
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Mar 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
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Mar 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
The latest estimate from Juniper Research expects annual revenues from mobile search to reach $4.8bn (£2.4bn) by 2013, writes ENN. 40% of mobile search advertising budgets will go to local search services. From ENN: http://www.enn.ie, 18/03/2008 Juniper Research:...
Mar 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
The announcement in March that Microsoft was interested in advertising yield management specialist Rapt (reported by vnunet.com) was particularly interesting because of the effect Rapt has had on the pricing of online advertising in the US domestic market. The smart...
Mar 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
The announcement in March that Microsoft was interested in advertising yield management specialist Rapt (reported by vnunet.com) was particularly interesting because of the effect Rapt has had on the pricing of online advertising in the US domestic market. The smart...
Feb 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
New data from Point Topic shows that digital music sales now account for nearly 30% of the US market and 20% of the European market, writes VNUnet.com. Total revenues from digital sales grew 40% during 2007 to reach $2.9bn with revenues split roughly 50/50 between...
Feb 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
Juniper Research predict that the global mobile music market will be worth $17.5bn by 2012, writes Netimperative. Subscription music services and full-track downloads will contribute to the rise as the ringtones market will shrink from 68% (in 2007) to 38%. Ringtone...
Feb 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
According to the latest Superbrands study Google is now the UK’s strongest brand, pushing ahead of Microsoft and the BBC, writes Brand Republic. Google is the only brand in the list which was formed after 1990 – in comparison the average top-50 firm has 90...
Feb 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
The latest digital TV forecast from Strategy Analytics shows that global sales of digital set-top boxes surpassed 100m units for the first time during 2007, rising 12% to reach 102.4m units sold writes DTG News. IPTV’s market share for the year grew 5.9% (from...
