Music Sales Shed Another $1.4 Billion As Digital Growth Flattens Out
The trade value of global music sales shrank by 8.4 percent, down to $17.38 billion, in 2010, as the drop-off in physical sales continued (-… Read more »
Musicians’ Digital Royalties Are Slowing Down
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Musicians received lower royalty income for the first time ever last year, because consumers are switching from CD to digital and because di… Read more »
UK Online Ad Spend Grew 10.9 Percent In 2010
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Of course, online ad spend goes on growing perpetually.
The real story, in new annual figures from the Advertising Association and WARC, is… Read more »
E-Mags Can Now Count In Circ Figures Even If They Don’t Have The Print Ads
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Just a year after the Audit Bureau of Circulations decided to modify the requirements for counting sales of a digital magazine in the U.S. a… Read more »
Hedge Fund Is Betting That Twitter Is Wall Street’s Crystal Ball
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Twitter may not yet be in the frame for its own stock market debut, but some investors think they can make millions by using Twitter to pred… Read more »
Can Twitter Predict The Future Of Stocks?
Will Duff Gordon is editor of DataExplorers, an analyst firm which digs in to stock market trends.
Stock markets are skittish and here is w… Read more »
Europeans Will Pay For Content–Why Are There So Few Compelling Options?
I’m often asked to name companies with a successful paid digital content strategy.
It’s harder than it should be to answer that question, e… Read more »
E-Book Sales Soar Over Hardcovers
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New e-reader owners are apparently very busy buying e-books: The Association of American Publishers says that in January sales of e-books gr… Read more »
iPad Added 300,000 iPlayer Views Last Month
iPlayer requests from iPad rose by 22 percent in February, after the BBC finally introduced the app version of the VOD player in the middle… Read more »
Updated: Which Papers In The UK Are Winning The Digital Revenue Race?
Online is a half-billion-pound business for UK newspapers, paidContent:UK has concluded, after researching key industry financial metrics. H… Read more »
Mobile Ads Mature: xAd Consolidates Local With Go2 Buy; mPire Metrics
Mobile advertising is still just a small part of the online advertising market, but the rise of devices capable of web browsing and using ap… Read more »
Our Poll: Most Of You Do Want The Apple iPad 2
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When Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) unveiled its iPad 2 on Wednesday, we took an informal poll to see how interested you all are in buying the device. A… Read more »
Nielsen: Apple, RIM Are Beating Android OEMs In The U.S. Smartphone Race
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Google’s Android OS is leading the pack for smartphone market share in the U.S., but when it comes to the largest smartphone manufacturer, R… Read more »
IAB Attempts To Bring Some Order To Choice Of Large Display Formats
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s “rising stars” award isn’t meant as solely as a pat on the back to high profile members at its annual c… Read more »
UK Local Papers See Web Audience Growing
UK regional and local newspapers claim their online audience has grown by nearly a quarter in the last year – but digital revenue isn’t nece… Read more »
Groupon Owns A Third Of European Deals Visits
How does the new wave of daily deals coupons sites stack up in Europe? Read more »
Digital Music Subscription Revenues Are Actually Declining In The U.S.
This is another reason why US-based labels have been so hesitant on Spotify. Sure, the licensing climate on Spotify is softening somewhat,… Read more »
Social Networks Are Serving 30 Billion UK Display Ads A Month
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Social networks served up 29.5 billion display ads to UK users in December 2010, according to comScore’s Ad Metrix. Read more »
comScore: January Browsing Was All About Jobs, Taxes And Travel
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The latest comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) Media Metrix rankings are out and January showed web users thinking about three things in particular: jobs,… Read more »
The 10-Year View: UK Magazine Sales Hit Another Low
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*ABC* data is out today for UK autumn and winter magazine sales. The industry’s Periodical Publishers’ Association (PPA) optimistically sees… Read more »
Netflix Surges In Nielsen’s First Video Data In 7 Months
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Welcome back, Nielsen, which publicly issued late Friday its first set of online video metrics since June 2010 due to computer glitches that… Read more »
The Decline Of The Dongle: Phones And Tablets Are Winning Out
Consumer intent to buy a mobile broadband dongle has halved from 14 percent to seven percent in the last year, says YouGov’s DongleTrack pol… Read more »
Smartphone Usage Up 60 Percent; Android Makes Biggest Gains
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Smartphone usage has grown by an astounding 60 percent in the last year in the U.S., but the latest figures from comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) show… Read more »
Facebook Video Count Has Been Plummeting For Five Months
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Facebook is practically synonymous with explosive growth–with one notable exception. An examination of comScore’s U.S. online-video ranking… Read more »
MSNBC And Newsweek End Web Traffic Partnership
With the final ink barely dry on the merger between Newsweek and The Daily Beast, MSNBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) has been told that it will no longer s… Read more »
Slide Deck: UK Linear TV Viewing Has Hit A Record And A Peak
Conventional TV is not dead. In 2010, the amount of live, linear telly watched by the average Brit jumped by 124 minutes per week to an all-… Read more »
DLD: Slides/Video: Is The Click The Right Currency For Ad Effectiveness?
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If clicks were actual currency it would take a huge number to buy one dollar — and it’s getting worse. Why? Click rates are shrinking, a ve… Read more »
@ DLD: Slides/Video: Is The Click The Right Currency For Ad Effectiveness?
Using clicks to measure for digital ad value may be easy but it’s not the best gauge — and it could be hurting. Some reasons, according to… Read more »
Google Under Schmidt: By The Numbers
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Google’s announcement today that Eric Schmidt will step down as CEO ends what has to be one of the most successful tenures for a chief execu… Read more »
Digital Music’s Slowdown Draws Out Familiar Industry Worries
Global digital music revenue has grown 1,000 percent since 2004 – but only six percent through 2010, says the International Federation of th… Read more »
Report: Search Ad Spending Jumped By 23 Percent During The Quarter
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The search advertising market is still going strong. The latest report from Efficient Frontier shows that total spending on search-ads jumpe… Read more »
Bellwether: UK Internet Ad Budget Growth Is Slowest For 18 Months
Yep, the internet is still the medium capturing most new advertising decisions, in what remains a choppy overall ad economy, according to th… Read more »
More Than 60 Apps On Every iOS Device, And Numbers Are Still Growing
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As Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) fast approaches its 10-billionth app download, some fascinating numbers from the analyst house Asymco on what that 10-… Read more »
FT’s Paid Digital Subs Up 71 Percent In A Year
The Financial Times released its own audience figures…
“206,892 paying digital subscribers … up 71% year on year.”
Daily print circulat… Read more »
Tipping Point: Android Jumps Ahead Of Apple iOS In Mobile Ad Rankings
It may be a little harder to call who will be the dominant Android device maker in the year ahead, but it does look like we have reached a t… Read more »
Are iPad Users Shifting Their Reading Habits From Work PC To Sofa?
iPad owners are shifting their online reading time out of work time and in to prime-time TV hours, according to fascinating analysis from Re… Read more »
Half Of iPhone App Income Now Generated In-App
The average price of a mobile app from the main app stores fell dramatically in 2010, according to latest research by the Distimo monitor. Read more »
PwC: Digital Urgency Will Boost 2011 Euro Media Deals
European media mergers and acquisitions nearly doubled in 2010 – and will bounce even farther back in 2011, thanks to regulatory relaxation,… Read more »
UK’s Digital Music Boost Slowed In 2010
UK music sales are still growing – but a slowdown in online sales has reduced that industry growth to its slowest since digital’s boost firs… Read more »
Report: Look For Venture-Backed Exits To Rise Further This Year
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With 2010 a wrap, industry watchers keep on predicting a hot 2011 for M&A and IPO activity. The latest is Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) VentureSourc… Read more »
