SEC Eyes Groupon Accounting Metrics: Report
When Groupon filed IPO documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June, its use of certain financial accounting metrics raised… Read more »
Most Mobile Games Revenue Is Now In-App
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In-app purchases have grown to account for 52 percent of the revenue of 200 top-grossing iOS games – up from just eight percent a year ago. Read more »
China Has 100 Million Mobile App Users And Apple Wants More
Q2 data just released by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology point to rapid mobile internet services adoption… Read more »
Infographic: iOS Vs. Android, Through The Advertising Lens
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The ultimate showdown between iOS and Android may ultimately be one of how many devices each vendor can sell, but for others in the mobile i… Read more »
Condé Nast And Adobe Try To Get A Handle On Digital Mag Metrics
While it may be exciting for advertisers to try out out an interactive ad in a digital magazine, at the end of the day, they just care about… Read more »
Chart: Which UK News Sites Post The Most Stories?
Do more stories lead to more eyeballs? New data shows which publishers are churning out most articles – but is the strategy working? Hover a… Read more »
IAB: 5 Changes That Would Get Brand Advertisers To Spend More Online
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When it comes to the gap between the amount large brand advertisers spend offline compared to offline, the usual answer is that there aren’t… Read more »
Europe’s Biggest Online Ad Growth Is Coming From Russia
In 2010, European online display advertising bounced back, with 21.3 percent annual growth outpacing search ads’ 15.1 percent increase. Read more »
What Double Dip Recession? eMarketer Revises 2011 Ad Growth Up, Up, Up
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Weaker job numbers, more turbulence on Wall St., higher oil prices — a recipe for greater economic distress is all right there. But as thes… Read more »
Undertone’s ‘PageSkin’ Ad Unit Designed To Draw More ‘Premium’ Brands
In order to close the gap between the amount spent by large brand advertisers online and offline, display ad service providers are looking f… Read more »
Most Android Apps Are Hardly Downloaded At All
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The Android sceptics may be right – 80 percent of paid Android apps have clocked fewer than 100 downloads, according to Distimo research. Fr… Read more »
More UK & Ireland Tech VC In Fewer Hands In Q1
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The number of UK and Irish tech companies taking venture funding fell below 2009 to a four-year low, according to figures published by the i… Read more »
PwC: This Is Not A Bubble, Valuations May Be Justified
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Facebook for $80 billion? LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) at $9 billion?
“There does not appear to be a bubble forming for the technology sector as a… Read more »
Nielsen To Complete Purchase Of Brainwave Researcher NeuroFocus
Nielsen is set to acquire the remaining stake in NeuroFocus, a company that applies brainwave research to advertising, programming and messa… Read more »
Amazon Hasn’t Yet Reached UK Digital Books Tipping Point
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) hasn’t reached a digital tipping point everywhere – its disclosure today flags the quick transition to e-books in the U.… Read more »
paidContent Mobile Slideshow: Flurry Reveals Trends In Mobile Apps
Some love to talk about the future and promise of the mobile web — and that may well be the case, longer term — but today the mobile world… Read more »
The Netflix Effect: Video Gobbling Up Internet Traffic
Web browsing has been displaced as the biggest use of North American fixed-line internet traffic in just two short years – video and audio s… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-11-11: Android Malware; GetJar; Moto; inMobi
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: the latest tally on Android malware; GetJar buys an app discover and metrics provider,… Read more »
UK Consumer Publishers’ Market Caps Are Sliding
Market valuations of UK companies held up from Q4 2010 to this year’s Q1 – but those in the consumer publishing sector have seen value wiped… Read more »
Internet Traffic Was Down By A Tenth On Royal Wedding Day
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Internet traffic was down by about 10 percent on the day of the Royal Wedding, according to network monitor Sandvine: “Quite simply, the bil… Read more »
More European Investments Concentrated In Fewer Hands
The number of investments in to European companies in Q1 this year fell to the lowest level since Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) VentureSource starte… Read more »
UK Bought A Fifth More E-Books In The Last Year
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The growing popularity of digital readers such as Amazon’s Kindle and ebook titles by authors including Stephen Fry and Stieg Larsson helped… Read more »
By The Numbers: An Online Snapshot Of Bin Laden’s Demise
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Osama Bin Laden’s death Sunday evening drove people to the web to find out more, and top sites are now disclosing just how many people visit… Read more »
ABCe: Mail Online Returns To Double-Digit Growth
Mail Online, the most popular UK newspaper website network, returned to double-digit growth in March.
The Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) & General… Read more »
Netflix’s Sales Jump 46 Percent; Hopes To Fund More Original Programming
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All of the latest metrics on Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) are up, up and up: The company has 23.6 million subscribers, up from 14 million a year ago… Read more »
Chart: The Battle For Global News Supremacy
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To the competition between NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) and HuffingtonPost.com, add two British challengers… Read more »
Financial Times Says Digital Subscriptions Up 8 Percent So Far This Year
The ranks of the Financial Times’ digital subscribers continues to rise: The newspaper says it now has 224,000 paid digital subscribers, up… Read more »
Who’s Up, Who’s Down In Ad Buyers’ Estimation?
Haymarket, The Guardian and ITV.com are amongst the publishers with the most improved image amongst advertising buyers, whilst Microsoft (NS… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-12-11
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» NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) visits are off as much as 15 percent a day since the debut of its paywall. (paidContent)
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Bing Gains In UK, But Makes Little Ground On Google
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Bing has nearly doubled Microsoft’s UK search share in the last year – but it’s not taking anything significant from Google (NSDQ: GOOG), wh… Read more »
Research: YouTube Beats iTunes For Consumers’ Music Attention
The format digital music listeners are most likely to pay for… is the one they use least, according to new Nielsen research… Read more »
Study: NYT Visits Off As Much As 15 Percent A Day Since Paywall Debut
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In what is the first close-look at traffic to the New York Times’ website since the debut of its paywall late last month, analytics firm Exp… Read more »
Publishers Plan To Charge For New Content
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According to the Association of Online Publishers’ annual census of 35 of its members: “63 percent of publishers are quite or very likely to… Read more »
How News Income Can Drop Off A Cliff
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SEO consultant Malcolm Coles shares how much his spending on one news brand has crashed in the digital age… Read more »
How Much Does Digital Mean To UK Newspapers?
Last month, we showed which news publishers were making most money from digital.
But bigger isn’t always better. Another way to weigh digit… Read more »
Mpire Changes Name To AdXpose, Raises $3 Million; Winfield In As CEO
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A month after rolling out a beta test for its new metrics and verification product aimed at, in part, improving mobile ad measurement, Mpire… Read more »
You Asked For It: The paidContent 50 On One Page
Earlier this week, we published our inaugural ranking of the most successful digital-media companies in the U.S. We got some great feedback… Read more »
Reading Between The Lines On The Times’ ‘Paywall’ Numbers
Let’s dive in to News International’s second release of numbers pertaining to Times Newspapers’ digital fees… Read more »
UK Times Claims 79,000 Digital Subscribers
Frequently besmirched since it started charging online eight month ago, News International has, as it promised it would, issued a second set… Read more »
Facebook Effect Lifts Online Advertising In UK
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The seemingly unstoppable rise of Facebook fuelled year-on-year growth of more than a quarter in the UK online display advertising market to… Read more »
