Analysts: Netflix Has Fully Recovered From Its Qwikster Debacle
In 2010, people couldn’t say enough good things about Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) — it was the darling of the digital entertainment world. Then la… Read more »
Rentrak Edges Further Onto Nielsen's TV Turf
photo: Flickr/Midnight-digital
After enjoying a ratings monopoly during television’s first six decades, Nielsen increasingly finds itself challenged by upstart competitors… Read more »
The Missed Opportunity In Cable VOD
photo: Flickr / Robert S. Donovan
U.S. consumers are increasing the amount of time they spend on internet video-on-demand services like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), and cable compan… Read more »
Pew: Papers' Biggest Revenue Threat Is Inertia; Second Biggest Is Action
photo: Shutterstock / Elena Blokhina
Before we get into the results of the latest detailed look at how U.S. newspapers are faring on the digital revenue front, let’s get one ser… Read more »
Is The Honeymoon Over For Facebook Gaming?
photo: Zynga
It’s not just Facebook commerce, or F-commerce as some like to call it, that is languishing at the world’s largest social network. With its… Read more »
Want To See 2012′s Mobile Future? Look At 2011.
photo: Flickr / bitterjug
What will 2012 bring to our mobile world where tablets are trying to take the place of PCs and we’re carrying small computers in our pockets… Read more »
Why Do We Need Academic Journals In The First Place?
It may not get as much attention as the disruption that is occurring in newspapers, e-books or other parts of the mainstream media industry,… Read more »
Report: Facebook, Google Overtake Yahoo In Display Ad Market Share
photo: Getty Images / Justin Sullivan
Yahoo’s once dominant position with display advertising is now officially over. Research firm eMarketer released figures Wednesday showing t… Read more »
NBCU Taps Google To Create Cross-Platform Audience Metric For 2012 Olympics
photo: lilivanili
NBCUniversal (NSDQ: CMCSA) will once again use its Olympics coverage to search for what it calls the “holy grail” of audience measurement. T… Read more »
NPD: Apple Takes Top Three Slots For Smartphone Best-Sellers In U.S.
photo: Tom Krazit
Android held on to its title as the most-popular smartphone platform in the U.S. in the last quarter, but when it comes to sales of specific… Read more »
Living In A Smartphone World: Apple Number-Three Among ALL Mobile Players
It was five years ago that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) executives brushed off the idea of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as “not a threat” to Nokia’s top position… Read more »
Report: Broadcast Networks Will Get 8% Higher CPMs At Upfront This Year
The rush of content announcements from video companies in recent days, from players like YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) and Hulu, has caused a number… Read more »
RIM In Trouble In Europe? Not In The UK, It Claims
photo: Flickr / lilivanili
RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) is taking a beating at the moment from handset makers like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung, which have eaten into a smartpho… Read more »
Tablets: Apple’s Lead Narrows Among Widening Field Of Android Makers
photo: Apple
With the tablet market now overtaking PC sales, all eyes are on which platform will dominate this next generation of computing devices. A re… Read more »
2012 Mobile Ad Spend Revised Up To $2.6 Billion, Google Fueling The Machine
photo: Flickr / Tracy O
A big endorsement today for mobile advertising from eMarketer: their analysts today said they were revising up their forecasts for U.S. mobi… Read more »
Analyst To Studios: It’s Time To Force Early VOD On Theater Chains
With both the theatrical and home video channels in revenue decline, and amid panic that digital piracy will soon crest into a tidal wave, B… Read more »
Carriers Have Only Around 100 Million Pay-TV Users, Less Than 60% Via IPTV
photo: Shutterstock / alexmillos
Some numbers out today that underscore the challenge telecoms operators have had in attracting customers to their pay-TV platforms, includin… Read more »
Digital Music Growth Re-Accelerated In 2011 Thanks To New Services
The six-year slowdown in digital music’s commercial growth rate ended in 2011, when digital trade revenue grew eight percent to $5.2 billion… Read more »
Tablets Are Prime-Time Media Devices
Tablet web use spikes after work and before sleep, another piece of research shows… Read more »
Is This The Year Ad Spending Online Tops Print?
photo: Shutterstock / oover
Internet advertising in the U.S. will once again post 20 percent-plus yearly growth this year, and, for the first time, surpass print ad spe… Read more »
Research: Professionals With iPads Are Deserting Printed Media
photo: Boston Globe
Stark new research statistics suggest digital replacement of analogue content is now very high amongst tablet owners. Read more »
Bellwether: Q4 UK Ad Spend Up Slightly On Online Growth
photo: Corbis / Paul Hardy
In a climate where economic forecasts continue to remain cloudy, ad spend in the UK went up marginally in Q4 2011, with increased spend on i… Read more »
ComScore Study: A Third of Ad Impressions Are Never Seen
photo: Corbis / Ruediger Trebels
ComScore (NSDQ: SCOR) has released its first ad-verification tool since acquiring Seattle’s AdXpose for $22 million in mostly stock last Aug… Read more »
Updated: In-App Purchases To Overtake Sales From Paid Apps By 2013
photo: Google Android
The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money fr… Read more »
The Year Of The Dumb And Dumber, Sub-$100 Smartphone – 500 Million Of Them
We’ve heard about how the boom in smartphone popularity, the dropping cost of components and the rapid rise of Android, a “free” smartphone… Read more »
Interactive TV Advertising: Not Huge Now, Will This Be The Year It Grows?
photo: Falling Pixel
Last week’s CES event brought a clutch of announcements around interactive TV services — specifically around more content getting pushed to… Read more »
Can Facebook Control 5 Percent Of Online Advertising By End Of 2012?
While many of the top Internet companies faced a volatile ad market in the fourth quarter of last year, Facebook saw its share of the overal… Read more »
Challenges Ahead Before 2012 Is The Year Of Connected TV
photo: Shutterstock / Oleksiy Mark
Is 2012 the year of the Smart TV? Manufacturers would have us believe that. Read more »
Research: Small Screens Better For Content; Bigger Screens For Productivity
The tablet market is still in its relative infancy and has been largely dominated up to now — both in sales and basic concept — by the iPa… Read more »
U.S. Consumers Cool Somewhat On iPhone; Remains 'Most Wanted' Handset
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) at the moment is not leading the rankings of smartphone vendors when it comes to shipments, but when it comes to mindshar… Read more »
Research: One In 40 In UK Got The Gift Of E-Reader This 'Kindle Christmas'
photo: Amazon
In absence of detailed Kindle sales data from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), the consumer research group YouGov has taken a stab. Read more »
Happy App Year: Downloads Pass 1 Billion/Week, U.S. Way Ahead Of The Rest
photo: Pink_Sherbet_Photography
The smartphone and tablet buying rush over the holidays spilled over into a corresponding deluge of app downloads, with the total weekly num… Read more »
Linear TV Consumption Is Growing, But Is Ad Spend?
photo: Flickr / dhammza
When you consider the internet, on-demand services, games consoles, mobiles, apps and [fill in your personal favorite here], we have more wa… Read more »
Research: Internet Is UK's No. 2 News Source, But Only 3.8 Percent Pay
photo: Flickr / dslrninja
Online may be challenging TV to be UK consumers’ primary news source – but only 3.8 percent pay for it, new research says. Read more »
Online Video Sales Growing In China
photo: Youku
Online video is becoming a fast-growing business in China, as well as the west. Read more »
Mobile Data Use Expected To Grow 21x By 2015
photo: Getty Images / Oli Scarff
Mobile phone networks, get your houses in order. Here is how much mobile data consumption is expected to grow in the next four years… Read more »
Why Are Free Games More Popular On iPhones Than On Android Devices?
photo: Flickr
Some research out from Xyologic today on app store download trends in 2011 indicates that while games have remained a popular category acros… Read more »
Highlights Of 2011: The Year In Advertising, By The Numbers
photo: Flickr / Uriel 1998
This is the fourth in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we c… Read more »
The Most-Read Newspaper Websites In Europe
We often see national and international breakdowns of newspaper website popularity, but rarely by continent. Read more »
Distimo: Apple's App Store Still Beats Android On Revenues; Freemium Rules
Android’s Market and the App Store from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may be getting ever-closer to being level in the number of apps on offer, but whe… Read more »
