Heatmap: How News Consumption Differs Across Europe
Newspaper readership varies widely across Europe. In France, for example, consumption is so low, at 46 percent of French, that the governmen… Read more »
Music Videos: Glaenzer, Shazam On Spotify, Sales And ‘Copyright Blah-Blah’
“This whole copyright blah-blah, I can’t stand it. This is the wrong way of attracting innovation. We should not rely on a law that was set… Read more »
BBC Red Button Underperforms Websites And Must Cut Costs
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The BBC’s pseudo-interactive Red Button TV service has high reach but is appreciated by viewers less than BBC online services and must cut c… Read more »
Orange/T-Mobile UK Look For A Step Change In Everything Everywhere
They were mocked when the merged UK operations of T-Mobile and Orange revealed that they would be called Everything Everwhere. Now the combi… Read more »
Recovering Subs Give Euromoney Record Profit And Online Funds
DMGT’s financial business pub Euromoney is another to have found strong profit rebound after last year’s cost cuts. Read more »
Telefonica: Profit Up, Spain Disappoints, And Mobile Data Still Tiny
Developing markets continue to be a driving force at Telefonica (NYSE: TEF). The Spanish incumbent, which gets more than 40 percent of its r… Read more »
BT Vision Has 50k Sky Subs And Is Adding BBC iPlayer
BT (NYSE: BT) says it added 24,000 IPTV customers between July and September – a third more than the same time last year – taking it up to 5… Read more »
Fish4 Will Give Trinity Mirror An Extra £3 Million This Year
Sly Bailey’s Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) says its recent acquisition of the 50 percent of Fish4 it did not already own will add £3 million to… Read more »
Broadcasters Round On TV Streaming Site FilmOn
UK broadcasters have joined U.S. counterparts in declaring new TV streaming site FilmOn illegal.
The mysterious site – which was developed… Read more »
Our Tweets From 11.10.2010
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Three Reasons It’s Back To Square One For UK’s Digital Copyright Strategy
Three Wednesday announcements mean the UK’s approach to digital copyright infringement may be majorly halted and started over, despite month… Read more »
O2 Undercuts Big Box Retailers On Kinect To Lure Mobile Upgrades
As price competition continues to put pressure on mobile operators, O2 has come up with a new customer retention strategy: give them a game… Read more »
UK TV Viewers Allowed To Vote In Shows Via Mobile App
Pretty soon, British TV talent contests like The X Factor could be taking viewer votes by mobile applications.
Right now, UK broadcasters c… Read more »
YouView Calls For Long-Form Professional Video Portals In Test
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YouView is now asking video and audio portals and content management companies to apply to work with it on defining how content and services… Read more »
News International’s Reputation Is Amongst Those Falling With Ad Buyers
Digital ad salespeople from News International, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), The Guardian and Facebook are amongst those going down in the estima… Read more »
Over-The-Top TV Bringing New Opportunities For Developers
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As we’ve been writing lately, the growing swell in connected TV variants means great new opportunities for content distribution services – b… Read more »
WPP Buying Intelligence Database Marketer I-Behavior
When you consider the extent to which the Clubcard loyalty scheme, devised by Dunnhumby, has transformed Tesco, it’s clear that data about c… Read more »
Johnston Press Hit By Job Ad Slump
Johnston Press has reported an ad revenue decline 5.4% in the 18 weeks to 6 November, as declining public sector and recruitment advertising… Read more »
Our Tweets From 11.09.2010
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Plastic Logic Gets Second Chance With Russian Funds To Make Business Reader
E-reader maker Plastic Logic may finally have benched its long-awaited, first-generation monochrome Que tablet this August after 18 months o… Read more »
We7 Repositions, Saying Users Prefer Radio To On-Demand
Do users really want unlimited digital options? We7, a British online music service part-funded by Peter Gabriel, is making a strategy switc… Read more »
Ofcom Sets Out White Spaces Rules While Skype Offers Free WiFi
The UK’s congested wireless networks may soon be getting an extra traffic lane: today, Ofcom took one further step along the route to puttin… Read more »
Ad Pot At End Of VOD’s Rainbow Remains Elusive
Whether it’s advertising or payments, on-demand video is one of the hottest digital media revenue opportunities. But some are now trying to… Read more »
The IPTV Revolution Will Be Television, Little More
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What ever happened to TV’s internet revolution?
Connected TVs are about to jumpstart the nascent IPTV and VOD sectors, perhaps even with ra… Read more »
The Grassroots Can’t Fix The Ways Proprietors Have Wrecked Their Papers
You won’t be surprised to learn that I am an unrepentant advocate for professional journalism – and I don’t give a damn if that sounds eli… Read more »
Vodafone Raises Profit Outlook And Sells Off Softbank Stake
Back to basics for Vodafone, as the carrier continues apace with its sell-off of non-controlled assets. Today it has agreed to sell off a $5… Read more »
Blinkx In Half-Year Profit; Now Connecting Amino Boxes
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Video search and advertising firm Blinkx has turned last year’s mid-year half-year loss of $6.9 million in to a $2 million profit.
Half-yea… Read more »
Yell’s Online Sales Grow But Cautious Advertisers Spending Less; New CEO
Same old story at Yellow Pages’ publisher – online sales are growing, but the larger, print business (and, therefore, the overall pie) is sh… Read more »
Battle For The Digital Home: Our Coverage In Links
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We’ve just wrapped up our entertainment-focused conference, Battle for the Digital Home, a full-day event where we debated the issues surrou… Read more »
The Times’ Paywall And Newsletter Economics
In early July, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) placed its two London-based “quality” dailies, the Times and Sunday Times, behi… Read more »
Digital Home: Boxee’s Ronen: People Don’t Want To ‘Surf’ Their TVs
As Nielsen’s research showed during the previous Battle for the Digital Home conference panel, hardly anyone is truly cutting their cable co… Read more »
Digital Home: The Content Conundrum–How Does It All Get Paid For?
Scrounging for “digital cents” is a risky business that makes content companies worried about losing analog dollars. But they’re forging ahe… Read more »
Digital Home: Google TV’s Queiroz: ‘It’s TV And Web, Not TV Vs. Web’
The web is rapidly merging with television, and the economic, technological, and legal barriers that have kept consumers’ internet experienc… Read more »
Nokia Takes Control Of Symbian; Foundation Stepping Back
After a year in which the gap between Nokia’s hardware and The Symbian Foundation’s OS has been horrible noticeable, the foundation is essen… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Windows 7 Phones; Docomo LTE; Carphone’s ’99p Mobile’
– Windows Phone 7: Devices built on Microsoft’s latest mobile platform finally go on sale in the U.S. First models out the door, as listed… Read more »
Why The Book Business May Soon Be The Most Digital Of All Media Industries
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Consider it an inauguration of sorts, a celebration of the e-book industry becoming a member of the major media club just as digital music a… Read more »
Industry Moves: Reader’s Digest, Selantra, Oil Studios
– Readers Digest: Former ITV.com editor Marc Webber recently became the mag’s new digital editor, as it gets serious about launching a prop… Read more »
Watch Live Stream Of Today’s Battle For The Digital Home Conference
Not too long ago, the fight for control was all about the living room and it was between cable, satellite and telcos with a tech effort here… Read more »
Vogue Gets Wired: iPad Apps Launched For Condé Nast
Last week, two Condé Nast magazines, Vogue and Wired UK, unveiled iPad editions of their December issues, and Nicholas Coleridge, the manag… Read more »
Change Of Direction For Guardian Media Group?
Guardian Media Group (GMG) is to undergo a change of strategy under plans drawn up by its new chief executive, Andrew Miller, reports today’… Read more »
