Digital Now A Fifth Of UK Music Sales But 76 Percent Of Downloads ‘Illegal’
2010 was the year the music industry got its way, when the graduated-response method of dissuading piracy was adopted by parliament.
But no… Read more »
Doubt Cast On Research Suggesting Equal Time For TV And Online
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A Forrester Research report released Monday received a ton of attention for its suggestion that TV and internet usage in the U.S. had reache… Read more »
Radio Industry Thinks Smartphone Listening Is Growing Nicely
The UK radio industry’s Rajar group has released another set of stats it says shows growing consumption of its programming via online platfo… Read more »
Look How Many Newspapers Are Still Sold Every Day In The UK
How many people in Britain buy a newspaper every day? It’s a question of ten asked and rarely answered with any authority.
I found myself f… Read more »
O&O Slide Deck: Half Of People Do Want Local TV
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Why let the apparent lack of a business model stand in the way of Jeremy Hunt’s vision for a first ever UK local TV ecosystem? An Oliver & O… Read more »
O&O: Media’s Recovery Is An Indian Summer Before The Winter
Nothing like a hard dose of reality, administered by data. On Wednesday morning, media advisory Oliver & Ohlbaum bombarded guests at a brief… Read more »
O&O: Pay-TV Viewers Not Ready To Cut Cord For YouView
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The pay-TV market is nearing a subscriptions plateau – but YouView doesn’t yet look like stealing current operators’ customers.
An Oliver &… Read more »
ZenithOptimedia: All Media Bar Print Will Join Net On Ad Growth Curve
All media bar newspapers and magazines are now on a global advertising growth up-curve toward 2013, when the internet will nearly match the… Read more »
NAA: Newspapers’ Ad Declines Slim, As Online Struggles To Maintain Growth
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Compared to the past three years, newspapers in Q3 had its first positive — or perhaps, “less worse” is more accurate — ad revenue news in… Read more »
Slide Deck: Hard Stats On Monetising Online News
Media advisory firm Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates’ CEO Mark Oliver presented these fascinating survey results, detailing the challenge of char… Read more »
Research: 14 Percent Of Times Readers Have Subscribed
More than a tenth of The Times’ core readers who have internet access have now paid to subscribe to the paper’s website or its web-and-prin… Read more »
Slide Deck: More People Using VOD For Same Old TV
Pro-TV agency Thinkbox recently compiled Tellyport, a piece of research examining video-on-demand consumption in 3,000 of “the most digitall… Read more »
BBC Takes A Lead In Cross-Platform TV Measurement
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In a broadcasting industry plagued by, yet obsessed with, what some concede is faulty audience measurement, the BBC is taking it upon itself… Read more »
Windows Phone 7: Games Are The Most Popular Paid Apps, Prices Are Cheap
Early days for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Marketplace app store indicates that games are by far the most popular category among paid apps,… Read more »
Heatmap: How News Consumption Differs Across Europe
Newspaper readership varies widely across Europe. In France, for example, consumption is so low, at 46 percent of French, that the governmen… Read more »
News International’s Reputation Is Amongst Those Falling With Ad Buyers
Digital ad salespeople from News International, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), The Guardian and Facebook are amongst those going down in the estima… Read more »
Digital Home: Nielsen’s Stats On Tablets, 3D TV And Online Viewing
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Just how connected and technologically advanced of an audience are we? Sure, DVRs are becoming more and more commonplace and it may be intui… Read more »
Nielsen Points To System ‘Flaw’ For Under-Reporting Time Spent On Websites
Nielsen has uncovered a glitch in its system that led it to under-report the amount of time users spent on websites and is investigating the… Read more »
Can Biometrics Boost Brand Marketers’ Confidence In Digital Advertising?
Most agencies and big marketers still think of digital advertising as a “cheaper” medium that’s best suited for direct-response ads, rather… Read more »
ABCes: Independent.co.uk Scores Biggest Monthly Rise
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Independent.co.uk enjoyed the biggest month-on-month rise in average daily browsers among national newspaper websites in September, while gu… Read more »
Chart: How Newspaper E-Editions Are Faring
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One circulation metric that wasn’t down year-over-year for U.S. newspapers during the first half of 2010: the total number of subscribers to… Read more »
Newspaper Fas-Fax: Newspaper Circ Decline Slows, E-Editions Up 47 Percent
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Increased interest in e-editions wasn’t enough to keep U.S. newspapers from another circ decline but it did help slow the bleeding. Circulat… Read more »
Chart: How The 2011 Ad Forecasts Stack Up
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The major prognosticators covering online ad spending are bullish about next year. Here’s why: Online ads are back to reaching new heights,… Read more »
Charts: ZenithOptimedia’s Revised 2012 Ad Forecast
ZenithOptimedia is revising up its forecast for 2010 global ad spend, from +3.5 percent to +4.8 percent.
Its 2011 forecast is up, too, from… Read more »
Bellwether: Online Gaining Biggest Marketing Hike, As Biz Confidence Dips
The internet is still proving the medium most likely to attract new marketing pounds, especially during austere times.
The balance of compa… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.15.10
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» As expected, Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) Television Group has acquired a majority stake in UK production company Shed Media. [The… Read more »
With Earnings Season Ahead, Across-The-Board Gains For The Search Market
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Search-ad sales increased 19 percent year-over-year during the most recent quarter, marking the third consecutive quarter of double-digit gr… Read more »
TubeMogul Raises $10 Million For Online Video Analytics
TubeMogul, which provides online video analytics and other video tools to publishers and advertisers, has raised $10 million in its latest f… Read more »
Online Ad Spend Back To Double-Digit Growth
Spending on online ads during the first half of 2010 in the UK returned to double-digit growth, increasing 10 percent from the previous year… Read more »
Facebook Revenue Estimates Go Up — Even More
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It was only last month that eMarketer said Facebook’s ad sales for the year would likely total $1.2 billion. In a report today on the state… Read more »
Updated: Twitter.com’s Impact On News Traffic Is Tiny
Facebook sends 13 times more clicks to news sites than Twitter in France, according to European internet monitor AT Internet Institute…
T… Read more »
Vinyl’s Revival Skips A Beat
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So much for that “vinyl revival”. UK sales of music on the ridged discs are now back to falling. Read more »
In France, Freesheets Are Most Popular Newspapers; But Not In Italy
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Two posts by Hogeschool Utrecht professor Piet Bakker show different outcomes for freesheet newspapers in Europe…
In France, the 20 Minut… Read more »
Do Publishers See More Pay Potential On Web Than On Mobile?
It seemed that some publishers were reaching a point at which their long-developed websites would be regarded as poor earners, with more ear… Read more »
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The success of free, ad-funded services has made users the overwhelming beneficiaries in the internet economy, while those services themselv… Read more »
Google Says Google Reader Is Doing Just Fine
We reported last week in the aftermath of IAC’s decision to shut down Bloglines that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Reader was not doing that well eith… Read more »
Forecast: Global Online Ad Spend Will Hit $96.8 Billion In 2014
Western Europe will see comparatively slower growth in online advertising spend than North America coming out of the downturn. Read more »
