E-book Sales Overtake Audiobooks, But Remain Small Fry To Publishers
UK book publishers pulled in 20 percent more digital income in 2009 – but e-books remain a small slice of the pie, and digital’s growth rate… Read more »
Opera Browser Is iPhone’s #1 Free App With A Million Downloads
After the surprise of Opera mini being approved for iPhone, the Norwegian web browser could scarcely have proved more popular on Apple’s han… Read more »
Positive Trends For The Search Market With Earnings Season Ahead
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Looks like the search-ad market’s recovery is happening faster than anticipated. Search engine marketing firm Efficient Frontier now says it… Read more »
Paywall Brigade: The Newspapers That Now Charge For Online Access
photo: Valerie Everett
In the mid-90s, at least 45 U.S. newspapers charged for online access, though almost all of them later hopped over the fence to the free sid… Read more »
iPad’s Early App Economy: Games Dominate, News Makes In-Roads
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It’s four days after launch, so how is the nascent iPad app environment shaping up? The numbers are in. There are now 2,385 iPad-only apps,… Read more »
Forecast: TV, Internet Will Lead Advertising Back Up As Print Wanes
Publicis Groupe’s ZenithOptimedia is revising up its forecast of 2010 global advertising growth from 0.9 percent to 2.2 percent – its second… Read more »
The Numbers On The iPad’s Debut
photo: Corbis / Brooks Kraft
Taking stock of the iPad’s debut with the help of some metrics being talked about on the web:
» The lines: “Hundreds” Saturday m… Read more »
iPad Sales Forecasts Shoot Up
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As iPad day approaches, sales estimates are getting increasingly bullish. iSuppli said today it expects Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to sell 7 million… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Smart Stats, Bambuser, Mirror App, Spotify Update, Indian iPlayer
– Stats: Smartphone adoption grew 70 percent in the UK last year, compared to France (48 percent), Germany (34 percent), Spain (27 percent)… Read more »
Research: UK Online Ad Spend Grew 4.2 Percent In 2009
UK online advertising spend grew at its slowest pace since the boom began last year, as the economy tempered a growth phenomenon that had pr… Read more »
The Online Ad Market Is Back To Setting Records In The U.S.
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Double-digit growth is set to return to the online ad market this year, according to IDC. The market research firm says it expects online ad… Read more »
Research: Top iPhone Apps’ Average Price Is Falling
Increasingly, the most popular iPhone apps are the free or lower-priced ones, according to mobile app store trend monitor Distimo.
Despite… Read more »
GOOG v BIDU: A Tale Of Two Stocks
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It now seems all but official that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will pull its search operations in China; Chinese media says Google will make an anno… Read more »
UK Publishers Expect Even Slower Online Revenue Growth
The days of web sales nearly doubling each year are long gone. UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP) members – who forecast 31 percent h… Read more »
A Changing Of The Silicon Valley Guard?
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Hitwise runs the numbers and notes that for the first time ever last week Facebook passed Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to become the most visited web… Read more »
Audit Bureau Revises Guidelines For Broader Inclusion Of E-Reader Newspaper, Mag Editions
With pre-orders for the iPad off to a fast start in preparation for the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) product’s release next month, the Audit Bureau of… Read more »
Private Media Investment ‘Has Reached The End Of The Trough’
The media sector is now out of the crunch, as far as private equity investments in to the sector go, according to financial advisory BDO.
I… Read more »
Putting The iPad Pre-Order Numbers In Some Context
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) was selling pre-orders for the iPad at a rate of about 25,000 an hour this morning, according to a Forbes Fortune piece.… Read more »
Excited Publishers Following The Money To Web Video
Web newspaper views may be petering out, but the broadband boom of that last few years has left us with one big growth opportunity in partic… Read more »
The Mobile Stats That Keep Microsoft’s Execs Up At Night
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Here’s why Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is launching a “completely new smartphone OS.” The latest smartphone platform market share figures were re… Read more »
In UK Search, Everyone’s Miles Behind Google, Bing’s Overtaking Yahoo
photo: Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Here’s why Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is advertising Bing on UK TV: it’s barely making the tiniest dent in Google’s search leadership.
Though G… Read more »
UX Tracker Fhios Bought By Digital Marketer One-To-One
photo: One to One Interactive
More consolidation in the digital marketing space: U.S.-based agency One to One Interactive has acquired fhios, a London-based marketing fir… Read more »
NBCU Olympics: Digital Is The Future, But TV Is Still King
It’s half-way through the Vancouver Olympics and NBC (NYSE: GE) Universal’s research head Alan Wurtzel already has some findings to share ab… Read more »
Millennial Media Acquires Mobile Analytics Company TapMetrics
The mobile advertising consolidation continues: Baltimore-based Millennial Media, which is one of the largest U.S. based mobile ad networks,… Read more »
BBC iPlayer Traffic Doubled In Last 12 Months
The popularity of Auntie’s online broadcast service shows no signs of plateauing. January UK requests doubled from last year to 120.3 millio… Read more »
Both NBCOlympics.com And Yahoo Claim Gold In Olympics Traffic
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It apparently can’t be an Olympics without dueling claims from both Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and NBC on whose Olympics website is tops. The headli… Read more »
Web Analytics Startup Effective Measure Gets $4 Million
Web analytics startup Effective Measure has raised $4 million in a first round of funding from Rho Ventures. The Australia-based company spe… Read more »
Analytics Startup Mixpanel Gets Funding From PayPal And Bebo Co-Founders
Analytics startup Mixpanel has raised $500,000 from PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and Bebo co-founder Michael Birch, according to Venturebea… Read more »
A Decade In Mags: Our Top Titles Have Lost Nearly A Fifth Of Sales
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Today’s *ABC* figures for consumer magazine sales figures for July to December show several individual stories – Wired UK debuted with 48,27… Read more »
NYT Hit 75 Million Mobile Pageviews In December; Reached 3 Million iPhone App Downloads
Amid a flurry of positive digital ad stats included in the NYTCO’s Q4 rebound, Janet Robinson, president and CEO, also ticked off several no… Read more »
Fas-Fax: Mags’ Newsstand Decline Started To Slow By End Of ’09
Magazines’ newsstand sales were a mix of good and bad during the latter half of ’09, as Audit Bureau of Circulations’ Fas-Fax (sub. req.) fo… Read more »
Facebook’s New Role: News Site
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Facebook, the news site? Hitwise runs the numbers and determines that the social network is now the fourth biggest source of visits to news… Read more »
Video Game Sales Down Eight Percent In ‘Transition Year’
Game publishers’ financials had already told us the video games industry is in something of a slump – now complete sales figures from the wo… Read more »
Digital Music Sales Are Booming, But Industry Still Cites Piracy Woes
Global digital music revenue has grown 20,900 percent since the music business started keeping count in 2003 – but it still needs government… Read more »
Firm Ups Estimates For Search Ad Spending Growth
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Good news for the big search companies with earnings season just ahead. Search engine marketing firm Efficient Frontier has upped its estima… Read more »
UK Media M&A: The Only Way Is Up After An Annus Horribilis
UK media M&A deals should bounce back this year after hitting their lowest level since the post-dot.com crash of early 2002, Pricewaterhouse… Read more »
Bellwether: Advertisers Flocked To Web During Downturn
What’s the opposite of “recession”? UK internet ad budgets were up for the second consecutive quarter in Q409, as the web continued to take… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: VOD Stats, OiNK Cleared, Nexus Cheaper
– VOD stats 20 percent of net users surveyed by TalkTalk said they watched or downloaded TV from the net over Christmas, for an average 2.5… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Spotify Limit, Russian IPTV, 3D Rugby
– Spotify limit: Some labels are turning their streaming-music scepticism in to action – La Roux’s Polydor is running her eponymous debut a… Read more »
PIB: Mag Ad Pages Plummeted 25 Percent In ’09
It’s a given that 2009 was a particularly bad year for media ad spending, and the latest figures from the Publisher’s Information Bureau sho… Read more »
