– Gavin & Stacey: What’s occurring? This: Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is giving away season two of the BBC sitcom on board its Nokia 5800 handsets… Read more »
UK affiliate marketing outfit Skimlinks has debuted Good.ly, a Tinyurl and Bit.ly clone that does more than just shorten URLs. Many online r… Read more »
With Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and Wikipedia having already told Phorm not to track web users’ activities on their sites, the pressure is mounting… Read more »
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Google’s street-level mapping service hit some privacy bumps on its recent UK launch; now it’s going off-road. The Street View Trike packs t… Read more »
In the gloom of the advertising downturn, consumer social networks expect income to reverse, while subscription-focused business publishers… Read more »
We predicted back in March that Ancestry.co.uk operator The Generations Network could be interested in buying Friends Reunited – and that’s… Read more »
At the risk of getting self-referential, this was certainly a week for paid content, the business model. After months of speculation that on… Read more »
Of all the industries you’d expect to win a patent for geolocation, baseball would not be top of the list. But MLBAM has done just that, int… Read more »
Yell Group had been expecting to lose 12 percent of its ad sales in the first three months of this year. As a sweetener ahead of its May 20… Read more »
Anyone who’s read the respective proposals knows that they appear quite different services. But, with the vitriol that Project Kangaroo attr… Read more »
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While the global services division of Ian Livingston’s BT (NYSE: BT) implodes, the telco’s UK retail operations are holding their own. In th… Read more »
ITV (LSE: ITV) keeps trumpeting the growing success of its website as a video destination – this April, video views were 300 percent up on t… Read more »
Chris Anderson may think the internet unleashes a sales boom for obscure and old content but, in the P2P file-sharing world, music download… Read more »
Chris Anderson may think the internet unleashes a sales boom for obscure and old content but, in the P2P file-sharing world, music download… Read more »
German magazine and digital publisher Hubert Burda Media is buying Lycos iQ, a question-and-answer community site that will be one of the fi… Read more »
After France’s national assembly on Tuesday approved a bill that would warn, warn again, then disconnect illegal downloaders of copyrighted… Read more »
We may still be waiting for the media’s feared swine flu pandemic to materialise, but there’s one awful virus that’s truly spreading in to t… Read more »
Struggling news publisher Johnston Press has called off the sale of its Irish newspapers, including the Leinster Leader and Tipperary Star,… Read more »
When even your online ad sales are going backward, you know something’s wrong. By April 26 this year, Sly Bailey’s Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI)… Read more »
About 20 months after the ball first got rolling, politicians in France’s national assembly on Tuesday voted 296-233 in favour of the Creati… Read more »
When under-fire MPs ask newsreaders to reveal their salaries, the TV folk usually keep diplomatically schtum – and Auntie usually rejects… Read more »
What a difference a year makes. German media conglomerate Bertelsmann swung to a Read more »
We warned BBC director-general Mark Thompson back in March that his Project Canvas was likely to face Kangaroo-style competition scrutiny. N… Read more »
Once upon a time, Shazam, the mobile app that identifies songs by listening to audio clips, was just a fun gadget to show your friends (“wow… Read more »
The BBC’s digital video ingestion and catch-up service has now served more than 414 million shows since launching in 2007. Auntie’s future m… Read more »
Jérôme Bourreau-Guggenheim only wanted to express his concern about France’s proposed bill to warn and disconnect illegal downloaders. But… Read more »
Money may be draining out of journalism in many parts of the world, but one organisation in the Czech Republic is actually investing in sett… Read more »
Cash-strapped freesheet publisher Metro International is selling off loss-making Metro USA, its US newspaper business, to Seabay Media, a co… Read more »
Cash-strapped freesheet publisher Metro International is selling off loss-making Metro USA, its U.S. newspaper business, to Seabay Media, a… Read more »
It’s impossible to fund an online content business through ads alone, and the return of paidcontent could benefit the whole industry, accord… Read more »
It’s impossible to fund an online content business through ads alone, and the return of paidcontent could benefit the whole industry, accord… Read more »
A warning for any newspapers thinking of going online-only – one Finnish daily that tried it has fared so badly it’s now being merged back i… Read more »
– FindAnyFilm.com: The UK Film Council’s new website claims to have hit 10 two million visits in the 10 weeks since its launch. FindAnyFilm… Read more »
Revolution magazine on Thursday night reported the much-talked-about unlimited music streaming service Spotify will also add unlimited downl… Read more »
The worsening advertising climate is forcing many publishers, facing only modest online gains after a decade of digital investment, to consi… Read more »
Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) won’t be buying stakes in more web music services any time soon, after it wrote off $33 million on Thursday a… Read more »
Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) is making a $33 million writedown against its investments in web music service Lala and cash-strapped social… Read more »
More and more people may be listening to internet radio, but stations online are barely attracting a greater share of listening hours than a… Read more »
The number of venture capital investments in European IT firms fell from 127 in Q408 to 82 in Q109 – the lowest number of deals since Dow… Read more »
Trying to prove itself profitable for CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), Last.fm has retooled its continuous-stream music player to include eye ca… Read more »
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