In July, on the back of reports that companies are gradually coming back to the hiring market, candidates spent a lot of time on job portals… Read more »
Last week’s latest CalibreOne study showed how tech investment reached a low from January to March, as the recession bit hard, but started t… Read more »
All you need to know about newspaper circulation is that it’s dropping rapidly, and the decline shows no sign of slowing. According to the J… Read more »
Hitwise’s contribution to the pay-for-content debate – metrics showing that free sites (entertainment, social nets and forums, news and medi… Read more »
The increasing availability of free applications will drive the number of U.S. downloads to reach 6.67 billion in 2014 from all applications… Read more »
Are UK 15-to-24-year-olds really growing tired of social networking? Ofcom last week reported (p289) a five percent fall-off, to 50 percent,… Read more »
Gian M. Fulgoni is Executive Chairman and Co-founder of comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) Inc. Previously, he was President and CEO of Information Resou… Read more »
Not too long ago, click fraud was the topic du jour, with a number of advertisers saying they were cutting back on pay per click ad spending… Read more »
Vizisense, an audience measurement tool from digital marketing firm Komli Media, has launched monthly rankings of websites based on traffic… Read more »
U.S. venture funding recovered in Q2 after steadily declining since early 2008, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Thirty-one percent m… Read more »
European companies have just posted their worst quarter on record for attracting venture funding. Dow Jones VentureSource says Q2 saw comp… Read more »
The venture capital industry may actually — finally — be showing some signs of recovery, with total dollars invested up 15 percent compare… Read more »
Facebook now claims a quarter of a billion users, including an astounding 50 million new users since April 8. But the company’s challenge ha… Read more »
After a month of a massive advertising campaign and almost universally positive reviews, what’s been the payoff for Microsoft’s Bing? A 0.4… Read more »
– Chinese IPTV: New York-based Chinese IPTV service KyLinTV is partnering with fellow Chinese broadcaster Phoenix TV to bring 20 Chinese TV… Read more »
Despite their vocal complaints, users may be falling for Facebook’s latest redesign. The social networking site jumped to the top of the lis… Read more »
» Facing pressure from Facebook, MySpace plans to turn itself into an entertainment-information portal. [WSJ]
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Some mixed, although not unexpected, news ahead of search-engine companies’ second-quarter earnings reports: Search-ad spending has largely… Read more »
It’s been the star performer in an online advertising market that has itself flattened lately – but now spend search advertising is also exp… Read more »
Just how dominant is Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in the mobile search market? According to StatCounter Read more »
April UK online video views were up 47 percent to 4.7 billion from the year before, clocking up 971 million ad views in the process, comScor… Read more »
Global online advertising spend is the only category ZenithOptimedia reckons is growing this year, according to its latest forecast. The age… Read more »
» The Economist attempts to lure back UK readers with a new cinema ad, trying to recreate the cool aura it has in U.S. [WSJ] The… Read more »
By Kevin Anderson: The music, film and video game industries are pricing themselves out the market, according to new research from Ipsos MOR… Read more »
It’s got a long way to go to become the standard method of radio listening, but the number of regular internet radio listeners is growing fa… Read more »
Online ads are often targeted, but that doesn’t mean that people necessarily pay attention. A survey by AdWeek and Harris Interactive (via S… Read more »
Borrell Associates — which earlier this year provided a very bearish outlook for growth in the local online ad market — has changed its mi… Read more »
Secretive mobile analytics startup Ground Truth, which recently hired former Qpass president Sterling Wilson as its CEO, has raised $2.62 mi… Read more »
We knew Russia’s online media were exploding; now comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) data shows the country’s internet users visit social networking site… Read more »
While the larger M&A market has all but dried up in the first half of 2009, “companies that have something, anything, to do with mobile,” ar… Read more »
The latest evidence that Microsoft’s Bing is off to a successful start: Web analytics firm StatCounter says Microsoft’s share of the search… Read more »
First, the good news: There were actually four three venture-backed IPOs in the second quarter, compared to only one over the prior 13 month… Read more »
Most digital-ad-spending forecasts for the rest of 2009 (and beyond) are predicting little-to-no growth this year. But that data may not tel… Read more »
Just how gaga did people go over news about Michael Jackson’s death? Nielsen tracked the number of mentions in the blogosphere. Read more »
The sudden interest in the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett was apparently too much for Twitter’s search engine, which quickly g… Read more »
Western Europe annual ad spend will be down 11.1 percent for 2009, but a “mild recovery” in 2010 will turn the decline to just 3.5 percen… Read more »
Whether you hate it or can’t live without it, there’s no denying that Twitter has gone from early adopter craze to genuine mainstream popula… Read more »
It’s still early days, of course, but not only are more people using Microsoft’s revamped search engine — new data shows that Microsoft’s s… Read more »
More than 60 percent of mobile users still use their handset for only voice and text, according to a KPMG survey. KPMG director Mark Harding… Read more »
It looks like newspapers are having as much trouble holding their readers’ attention online as well as offline. Time spent on 17 of the 30 m… Read more »
