Digital Drives UK Music Sales To 10-Year High, But Look Deeper
2009 Official Charts Company figures from the BPI show unit sales 15 percent up from 2008 to a decade high of 281.6 million, spurred by digi… Read more »
Gawker’s Denton: Unique Visitors More Valuable Than Pageviews
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Some pageviews are worth more than others, but when it comes to a benchmark to impress advertisers, Gawker Media head Nick Denton (pictured,… Read more »
Flurry And comScore Partner On App Audience Measurement
Fresh off its merger with fellow app analytics provider Pinch Media, Flurry has struck an alliance with comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) on a joint mob… Read more »
eMarketer Trims ’09 Online Ad Forecast (Again), But Calls ‘Bottom’
eMarketer is out with what should be its last online ad spend forecast for the year — and the final stats for 2009 are even gloomier than t… Read more »
Game Sales Down In November, Analysts Split On Whether We’ll See Holiday Rebound
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Even the record-breaking sales of Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 weren’t enough to bring the video game industry out of its sal… Read more »
Research: Online Radio Languishing Compared With Web Video
Radio’s Rajar measuring group is nothing if not optimistic. After surveying just 977 people, who have already told it they listen to online… Read more »
Forecast: Online Will Take More Ad Dollars Than Newspapers By 2015
Is the upswing in effect? Three industry forecasts are raising their expectations for next year’s ad spend…
Magna Global is predicting a… Read more »
Multi-Tasking Teens Still Like TV, And Talking About It Online
Information on teens’ behavior, as we saw from the coverage of Morgan Stanley Read more »
Survey: Targeting Propped Up Online Ad Rates Through Downturn
Most online publishers (61 percent) refrained from reducing the price on their advertising rate cards, despite the ad downturn and rising we… Read more »
Facebook’s New Privacy Controls To Go Into Effect
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Facebook’s growth shows no signs of abating — something that CEO Mark Zuckerberg says has meant that in many cases an increasing number of… Read more »
Nielsen People Meters To Provide Single Measurement For TV And Online Viewing
After a few months of testing, Nielsen is ready to officially roll out a combined measurement for internet and TV viewing though its People… Read more »
ABCes: Record Traffic For UK News Sites; But What Good Is It?
Aggregate UK newspaper site traffic has rebounded from a spring-and-summer lull, despite falling audiences at some of the most popular sites… Read more »
How Your Favourite Newspapers And Magazines Fared In The Readership Survey
The results of the latest round of Indian Readership Survey is out and here’s a compilation of how some of the most popular English newspape… Read more »
Change In Counting Newspapers’ Digital Subs Masks Actual Circ Woes
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Although the latest newspaper circ numbers showed continued declines, changes to the way the Audit Bureau of Circulations counts electronic… Read more »
Report: BlackBerry Achieves Record Smartphone Share Of 20 Percent In Q3
Smartphones continue to be the fastest-growing mobile device segment in the third quarter with sales surpassing 41 million units worldwide,… Read more »
M&E At The WEF India Economic Summit: Room For Growth, Monetization Challenges, Protectionist Voices
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Four themes more or less dominated an interesting panel discussion on media and entertainment at the India Economic Summit of the World Econ… Read more »
comScore Cuts Eight Percent Of Workforce
comScore (NSDQ: SCOR), which just announced it would acquire Latin American online researcher Certifica, is also cutting eight percent of it… Read more »
The Beatles: Rock Band Marks First Month As Top Selling Music Video Game
In its first month on the market, The Beatles: Rock Band jumped to the top of the music video game charts. It was the top selling music vide… Read more »
Nielsen Promises More Disclosure To Media Companies
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As Nielsen faces increasing challenges from other audience-measurement outlets and rising demands from ad agencies and media companies, the… Read more »
Twitter Cracks Down On Spam
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In its latest attempt to clean up the messages being sent across its site, Twitter is now letting users flag spammers by clicking a “report… Read more »
Firm Sees Potential For ‘Double-Digit’ Increase In Search Ad Spending This Quarter
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The search-ad market is on the way up again. Search engine marketing firm Efficient Frontier says it now sees “potential” for “double-digit”… Read more »
Widespread Drop In Circulation Of English Dailies In Latest ABC Round
Most English dailies in India registered a drop in circulation during January-June 2009, according to figures from the Audit Bureau of Circu… Read more »
For The First Time, Gmail Is Ahead Of Yahoo Mail In India
A week after Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) splashed India’s top newspapers with its bright yellow house colour in a high voltage ad campaign, it has em… Read more »
YouTube Praises Itself On Its Google Birthday
Google’s attempts to turn around negative perceptions of its $1.6 billion purchase of YouTube continue: In a post marking the three year ann… Read more »
As Challenges Grow, Nielsen Looks To Explain Its Digital Media Abilities
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As major media companies have been gathering to start their own cross-media measurement venture and companies like Omniture (NSDQ: OMTR) and… Read more »
Microsoft Wants To Make A Play In Social Media Monitoring
Is there demand for yet another social media monitoring tool? Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) seems to think so, saying it will begin testing a new w… Read more »
2009 Online News Traffic Has Barely Grown At All
Online newspapers’ dirty little secret? The big traffic growth may be tailing off…
August unique users to the seven sites that file month… Read more »
Facebook Rolls Out New Ads; Partners With Nielsen To Measure Their Effectiveness
Facebook may have just pulled the plug on its controversial Beacon ad program, but it keeps devising new ways to generate revenue and profit… Read more »
Bing’s Three-Month Report Card
It’s been a quarter now since Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) relaunched its search engine as Bing — and so far Microsoft has been able to boost its… Read more »
Stakes Get Higher For Nielsen, As comScore, Omniture Roll Out Hybrid Measurement Product
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In an effort to give publishers and advertisers a better read on how their campaigns are performing, *comScore* and *Omniture* are partnerin… Read more »
Most Traffic Growth To UK News Sites Is Coming From U.S.
We’ve often written about how UK newspaper sites get a healthy number of visitors from the US, mainly via Drudge Report referrals (see Neil… Read more »
US Bringing Most Traffic Growth To UK News Sites
We’ve often written about how UK newspaper sites get a healthy number of visitors from the US, mainly via Drudge Report referrals (see Nei… Read more »
Cinema Admissions Rise 14.5 Percent During The Downturn
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That old adage about people flocking to cinemas during recessions? Turns out to be true.
January-to-June UK theatre admissions rose 14.5 pe… Read more »
Newspaper Print Sales: Will The Decline Ever End?
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The question is no longer how far national newspaper circulation can fall, but whether it will stop falling at all. The latest ABC figures f… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Broadband Stats; Greyhound Wifi; BeeTV-Amino Communications
– Broadband stats The UK added just over one million broadband subscribers in the 12 months to July, giving it 17.83 million connections ac… Read more »
As Readers Flee, Papers Ask Those Left To Pay More
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What’s wrong with this picture? Here’s proof that newspaper economics no longer made sense even earlier this decade (and it was probably als… Read more »
As Papers Mull Online Charges, Print Cover Prices Go Up And Up
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While newspapers painfully mull charging online, it’s worth noting that, in print, publishers have no qualms about asking readers for more a… Read more »
Chart: Twitter Now More Popular Than MySpace In UK
There has been a series of increasingly ridiculous comparative Twitter metrics in the last few months. See Twitter More Popular Than The BBC and Twitter Bigger Than Newspapers In UK. C’mon – comparing a social comms tool with content publishers is like comparing dancing with architecture. […] Read more »
Fourteen Million New Mobile Phone Subscribers In July; Teledensity Is Now 41.08%
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India’s mobile phone companies added 14 million subscribers in July, up from 12 million additions in June, according to data from India’s te… Read more »
How Microsoft + Yahoo Stacks Up In India
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) reached an agreement last month under which Yahoo Search will be replaced by Microsoft’s Bing… Read more »
