Slide Deck: The Economist Sees The Rebirth Of Lean-Back Media
It may seem retrograde, but The Economist, like many publishers, is super-bullish about how digital tablets, more than websites, align perfe… Read more »
Chinese Flock To Carry Out Mobile Searches
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Need another indicator for how mobile is exploding in China? Look to search…
Average daily searches this fall (Q3) hit 718 million, accor… Read more »
The 'Hangover' Part II: Business Publishers Tipped For Slower Growth
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Bernstein Research has cut its growth forecasts for professional publishing companies, saying that the sector will suffer the same post-rece… Read more »
Chart: Spotify's Growth Story; Next Stop: 100 Million Users?
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Spotify is getting its systems in order to support a planned 100 million users in the future, job openings suggest.
But, as it prepares to… Read more »
European Economy, U.S. Rivals Threaten Media Companies, Analyst Says
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City analyst Bernstein has cautioned investors to steer clear of public European media companies – citing exposure to the continent’s econom… Read more »
News Of The World Readers 'Vanish' As They Stop Reading Newspapers
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The latest newspaper readership figures suggest that a huge number of people have stopped reading a Sunday newspaper altogether since the cl… Read more »
iOS Download Stats For China Show The Importance Of App Localization
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New statistics showing the popularity of various free and paid iOS apps in China show the great importance of localization. And now that Chi… Read more »
China's Search Business Growing Fast, But Lags Behind U.S.
China’s internet market is growing fast. Search engine revenue grew 20.3 percent through Q3 to 5.38 billion yuan, according to Analysys. Read more »
Corrected: Nook, Zinio Tie iPad For Magazine Publisher Take-Up
The tablet magazine opportunity is not all about iPad apps.
Although nearly half of U.S. magazine publishers have launched iPad apps, about… Read more »
Spotifies May Steal Customers From Pandoras, With Facebook's Help
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Unlimited-access music subscription services will take almost a third of consumers’ digital music spending by 2015, analyst firm Gartner rec… Read more »
Mobile Apps Seeing ‘Astronomical’ Growth In China
These are the 10 countries where mobile apps have seen the fastest consumer adoption this year, new Flurry analytics show… Read more »
Fas-Fax: Major Newspapers’ Total Digital Editions Rise 63 Percent
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Digital editions of the top 25 newspapers rose 63 percent to 2,169,843 for the six months ending in September, according to Audit Bureau of… Read more »
Adobe, Looking To Grab Rising Online Video Ad Dollars, Buys Auditude
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Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is continuing to build its advertising business through major acquisitions and this time, it’s buying Auditude, which ope… Read more »
Video Ad Gains Are Still Impressive, But Hurdles To Higher Growth Persist
Digital advertisers hardly need to be reminded that video is the fastest rising spending category for online media, but that speed is impede… Read more »
Chart: Comparing The Two Timeses’ Subscriber Growth
News Corp.’s The Times and NYTCo’s The New York Times each introduced online charges in summer 2010 and March 2011 respectively. So how are… Read more »
Online Movie Choice In UK Pales Against DVDs
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Ahead of the coming connected TV opportunity, availability of movies through UK online services is still poor – and Lovefilm has amongst the… Read more »
Research: Spotify Had 2.4 Million U.S. Users In September
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Since Spotify launched in the U.S. this July, various folks have taken a stab at ascertaining its popularity. Here is another from comScore,… Read more »
Charting WSJ Europe’s Circulation Over The Last Decade
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Our analysis shows how The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) Europe, which is being investigated for an alleged circulation “scam”, doubled it… Read more »
UK Times’ Digital Sales Still Growing But At Slower Rate
News Corp.’s Times Newspapers is continuing to see digital subscription gains – but growth is slowing, and their boost to print sales has pr… Read more »
Missing: 30 Percent Of The BBC’s Online Radio Traffic
More people appear to be listening to less BBC Radio through BBC iPlayer.
Within one week in March, average weekly minutes for radio listen… Read more »
UK Web Ad Spend Defies Slowdown
UK internet advertising spend defied the slowdown affecting other media in the first half of 2011, with the sector enjoying 13.5% year-on-ye… Read more »
Digital Gains Can’t Halt UK Music Album Declines
Digital’s share of UK album sales has grown from a fifth to nearly a third in the last year, according to the British Phonographic Industry… Read more »
Can Publishers Capitalize On Kindle Tablet To Boost’ Digital Downloads?
Publishers are once again rubbing their hands together over the new possibility of another, non-Apple-owned avenue for selling digital versi… Read more »
Worried Economists Rein In Ad Forecasts, But Digital Could Shield Agencies
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About-turn. Advertising prospects, which had begun to look up after the 2008/09 economic crunch, are now looking more modest. Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-21-11: Apple October 4; Google; HTC; Tablet Forecasts
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Apple looks like it has a date for its much-anticipated new product announce… Read more »
@ pcAds: Mobile Ad Spend Is Exploding But It’s Not The Silver Bullet
Kicking off the full day ahead of paidContent Advertising, Geoff Ramsey, eMarketer’s CEO, talked about the rapid growth in mobile and the op… Read more »
Newspapers Are Messing Up Their Mobile Strategies, Researchers Say
Regional newspaper publishers are blithely shovelling their expensive content to mobile channels with no hint of a business model, according… Read more »
It’s Time To Stop Using Downloads As The Key Metric For Apps Success
The mobile apps industry is suffering from download-milestone overkill. Developers and publishers boast about how many times their apps have… Read more »
Tablets Have Displaced Mobile And Web As Paid Content’s Great Hope
What’s the number-one priority for UK publishers in the next 12 months? Tablets, according to their Association of Online Publishers’ (AOP)… Read more »
Macquarie: AOL’s Homepage Ad Pace Appears ‘Sluggish,’ As YouTube Surges
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) may be having a tough time attracting marketers to its vaunted Project Devil ads, which promise a larger canvas and greater… Read more »
Mobile Data Worth £459 Million To UK Telcos
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From Ofcom’s Telecommunications Market Data Update Q1 2011: “The total number of UK mobile connections fell by 39,000 to 81.1 million in Q1… Read more »
Is Mobile App Advertising’s ‘Staggering’ Inventory Growth A Good Thing?
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The amount of advertising inventory within mobile apps in the US has exploded in the last year, but does that mean developers and publishers… Read more »
We Love Us Some Mobile Internet In The UK
Numbers out this morning from the Office of National Statistics in the UK give us the most up-to-date picture yet of the growing role mobile… Read more »
Millennial: WiFi’s The Big Winner In Mobile Data, iPhone Still Dominates
Monthly figures out today from mobile ad network Millennial Media indicate that the mobile network that is benefiting most of all from the s… Read more »
Magazine Newsstand Sales Fall, But Digital May Be Lifting Overall Circ
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While the publishing world is falling all over itself to make its newspapers and magazines print pubs as accessible on the major mobile and… Read more »
UK Annual Digital Media Snapshot In Charts
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Running to 341 pages, Ofcom’s Communications Market Report 2011 is an essential snapshot of data, charts and graphs about UK digital media c… Read more »
Teen Girls Want BlackBerries, Not iPhones
Fascinating metrics in Ofcom’s wide-ranging Communications Market Report 2011 counters the commonly-held, share-based belief that Apple (NSD… Read more »
UK Music Industry Revenue Down 4.8 Percent
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Plummeting CD sales, the ongoing toll of digital piracy and a lack of big name acts on tour fuelled a £189m drop in UK music revenues last… Read more »
Citing Traffic Success, PBS Adds Pre-Roll, Considers UK Offering
U.S. viewers watched more than 145 million videos across all of PBS’s web and mobile platforms, making the non-profit broadcaster the 15th m… Read more »
UK Newspaper Sites See A Summer Slump
Beating NYTimes.com may have to wait. Mail Online lost 13 percent of its monthly audience in June, down to 67.1 million unique browsers. Read more »
