Feb 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
Online shoppers looking for bargains sent sales figures soaring in January, spending £4.5bn during the month – a 75% increase on the year before, writes BBC News. According to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index the equivalent of £74 for every person in the...
Feb 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
t’s been a busy month for the BBC’s iPlayer service with traffic stats and new partnership deals being announced at every turn. The re-launch of the iPlayer on Christmas Day certainly seems to have certainly been successful with the corporation reporting...
Feb 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) has for the first time started to publish combined print circulation and website unique user figures in a single monthly report. The Multi-platform Monthly Report will cover circulations and unique user figures from the Daily...
Feb 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
February 2008 When it comes to helping businesses accelerate, the web is one of the most powerful of tools. In this discussion, Martin Oxley, CEO of the British Polish Chamber of Commerce, talks with Danny Meadows-Klue about how firms can harness online marketing...
Feb 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
The latest Telecoms Market Matrix report from Analysys predicts that UK calls made on mobile phones will overtake those made on fixed networks by the end of Q2 this year, writes Computer Weekly. Mobile calls across Western Europe are expected to overtake fixed line...
Feb 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
eMarketer’s latest look at the UK market has found that nearly 37m people went online in an average month during 2007 – over 60% of the UK’s population. eMarketer expects the number to keep rising and predicts that 70% of the population will be...
Feb 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
MySpaceTV is using pre and post-roll ads for the first time in a music video shown on the site, writes Brand Republic. The ads will feature in the Mark Brown featuring Sarah Cracknell single “The Journey Continues”. MySpace signed a deal with EMI’s...
Feb 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
Google has come top of a Nielsen Online study looking at the UK’s most popular websites of 2007. Google search averaged 25.1m British users/month, followed by MSN / Windows Live Messenger (14.7m) and eBay (14.5m). Beat That Quote was the UK’s fastest...
Jan 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
Is the newspaper industry stuck in the wrong advertising model?January 2008 Newspapers are still fishing for advertising in the wrong place. That’s the conclusion of newspaper veteran Bob Cauthorn in looking at how the advertising model has failed to adapt in spite of...
Jan 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
Broadband connections in Central and Eastern Europe rose 44% during 2007 and three of Europe’s five biggest telcos are moving in to take advantage. Research from Screen Digest shows that France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and Spain’s Telefonica all now have...
Jan 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
Staggering to reflect on, but half of the UK’s single population are now logging-on to dating sites. That’s the latest finding from web dating specialists Parship who reckon almost eight million Brits tried online dating last year, an increase of around...
Jan 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
Another depressing report for the print publishing industry as the latest WARC figures point to an acceleration in the contraction of the newspaper ad industry. The World Advertising Research Centre – the group behind the official Advertising Association stats...
Jan 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
We have four places for interns to help out on various projects. You’ll be based here at Digital’s office in Covent Garden and working flexible hours. Placements are for a minimum of 12 weeks and involve assisting key members of our central team. The internships...
Jan 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
Another depressing report for the print publishing industry as the latest WARC figures point to an acceleration in the contraction of the newspaper ad industry. The World Advertising Research Centre – the group behind the official Advertising Association stats...
Jan 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
The latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index has found that Q4 online sales grew from £9.61bn in 2006 to £15.2bn in 2007, writes Netimperative. Online shopping peaked in the first week of December with sales up 9% year-on-year. Firms with both online and high street...
Jan 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
China’s online population grew 53% to reach 210m at the end of 2007 from 137m the year before, reports PC World. The figures, from the China Internet Network Information Centre, put China only 5m users away from becoming the world’s largest internet...
Jan 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
Online viewers watched 3.5m programmes using the BBC’s iPlayer service in the first two weeks following its relaunch on Christmas Day, writes Brand Republic. The iPlayer site attracted over 1m visitors during the period with an average of 250,000 programmes...
Jan 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has released its inaugural Mobile Attitude and Usage Study covering five markets in Western Europe, writes Mobile Europe. The study polled 1,535 mobile users in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain and suggests that...
Jan 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has released its inaugural Mobile Attitude and Usage Study covering five markets in Western Europe. The study polled 1,535 mobile users in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain and suggests that conditions are right for strong...
Jan 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Telegraph website is planning to launch seven new online TV-style programmes covering subjects such as food and drink, culture, technology, finance, motoring, fashion and travel, writes The Guardian. The new line-up includes “Right On” a weekly...
