Italy's Paid Content Market Actually Seems Relatively Healthy
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Italians are twice as likely to pay for digital content as consumers in some other major nations. Read more »
The Internet's Population Growth Has Stalled
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The UK internet population actually fell by one percent in the year to July, according to Nielsen data in Ofcom’s International Communicatio… Read more »
France Telecom's Orange Looks To 3D And Xbox For New TV Bells And Whistles
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With the growth of over-the-top services that let users access the video they want over the internet (and often, for free), those companies… Read more »
Study: Video Ads That Have Special Effects Are More Successful
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Since online video burst on the scene, there has been a demarcation between “premium” content and everything else. A common definition is th… Read more »
Nielsen: Android And Apple Dominate The App Space But Mobile Browser Rules
Apple’s and Android’s stronghold on the U.S. smartphone market has been the case for many quarters already, and figures out today from Niels… Read more »
Smartphone Penetration Approaching Tipping Point As PC Usage Declines
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Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among… Read more »
Slide Deck: The Economist Sees The Rebirth Of Lean-Back Media
It may seem retrograde, but The Economist, like many publishers, is super-bullish about how digital tablets, more than websites, align perfe… Read more »
How Fast Is Local Ad Market Growing? Depends How You Define 'Local'
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So much that happens in the online space is dependent upon measurement. The ability to measure results also greatly influences the ability t… Read more »
Facebook's Video Views Rising, But Mostly For Discovery
Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video – but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social netw… Read more »
Surprise! Apple Forecasts Raised On Big Demand For iPhone 4S, But Not iPad
HTC and RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) may be cautioning investors about more choppy economic times ahead, but that is not the story, it seems, for all ha… Read more »
Zenith: Display Proves Resilient In '11, Looks Robust In '12
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The “quadrennial” events of the Olympics, the national U.S. political races, thew European Football Championship, along with the recovery of… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-30-11
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» FTC Announces 20 Year Privacy Deal With Facebook, Asks To Be ‘Liked’ (paidContent)
» Bets on Spotify’s news – radio… Read more »
Aussie Court Gives Samsung Galaxy Tab The All-Clear But Is It Too Late?
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A reversal of fortunes, of sorts, for Samsung in its ongoing case against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in Australia: today, an appeals court unanimous… Read more »
Black Friday Roundup: Strong Start, But Will Sales Hold?
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Despite warnings from groups like the OECD that Europe and the U.S. are heading into recession, the flurry of online and mobile activity tha… Read more »
Crunch Time For Apple's Rivals: iPhone Sales In UK Grew Again In October
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) acolytes will probably be saying “told you so” when they hear of this: sales of the iPhone, which had been in decline in… Read more »
To Buy Or Not To Buy: Nokia Struggles To Manage Lumia 800 Sales Message
So much hope has been pinned on Nokia’s comeback strategy — in which it has pivoted in the space of less than a year to develop a new line… Read more »
Windows Phone Marketplace Is Riding High On Free Content
Last week, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) revealed on the anniversary of the Windows Phone Marketplace that the app storefront now has some 40,000 a… Read more »
MPA: Majority Of Digital Magazine Readers Want In-App, E-Commerce Features
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Although advertising is the strongest part of print magazine publishers’ revenues streams, that area has been weakening for some time. In it… Read more »
Nomura: Amazon's Kindle Fire 'Devastating' For Other Tablet Makers
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The Kindle Fire, retailing for only $199, could be the Android tablet that sells in volumes and provides real competition against the iPad f… Read more »
45 Carriers Endorse Mobile Payment Standard, But Will It Make A Difference?
Near-field communications (NFC) is far from being a standard in mobile payments, but the wave-and-pay technology may have gotten its biggest… Read more »
Nokia Drops More Hints Of An Upcoming Windows 8 Tablet
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Considering all the issues and upheavals that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has had in its core business of mobile phones — what with the declining mar… Read more »
Borrell: After Two Years Of No Growth, Local Ad Spend Will Spike In 2012
The local online ad marketplace has experienced two years of fairly flat revenues, but Borrell Associates says that the space is on the verg… Read more »
Gartner: Android Now Over 50 Percent Of Smartphone Sales, The Rest Decline
Android may have some shortcomings, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has made enormous advances with manufacturers in terms of getting its OS on thei… Read more »
Are iPhone 4S Orders Being Cut Or Not? Facebook Stats Could Shed Some Light
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When Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched the iPhone 4S in October, some thought the device would be a disappointment to the market because it was no… Read more »
Spotifies May Steal Customers From Pandoras, With Facebook's Help
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Unlimited-access music subscription services will take almost a third of consumers’ digital music spending by 2015, analyst firm Gartner rec… Read more »
Nielsen: Android Grew Its Smartphone Marketshare; iPhone Stayed Flat
Some stats out today from Nielsen for Q3 show that Android is continuing on its growth trajectory in the U.S. but in the last quarter Apple’… Read more »
HTC Led Q3 U.S. Smartphone Sales, Nokia To Wait Until 2012 To Challenge It
Figures out from Canalys tracking smartphone shipments worldwide in Q3 have once again demonstrated that the flood of Android handsets on th… Read more »
Kantar: Android Was The Only OS Whose Sales Grew In All Markets It Surveys
We have seen time and again how the growing number of Android-based handsets from a plethora of OEMs — and the popularity of some specific… Read more »
Video Ad Gains Are Still Impressive, But Hurdles To Higher Growth Persist
Digital advertisers hardly need to be reminded that video is the fastest rising spending category for online media, but that speed is impede… Read more »
Research Digest: Social Media Boost Video Views, TV Engagement
Social referrals are driving up online video consumption, while TV viewers are increasingly multi-tasking, according to two separate researc… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-20-11
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» MSN U.S. Head Scott Moore to Depart Portal (AllThingsD)
» Why Rupert Murdoch Should Announce A New Direction For Ne… Read more »
Nielsen: Nearly Half Of Americans Are Watching Online Video
One of the reasons online video is the fastest growing ad segment is because nearly half of all Americans are watching some form of streamin… Read more »
Online Movie Choice In UK Pales Against DVDs
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Ahead of the coming connected TV opportunity, availability of movies through UK online services is still poor – and Lovefilm has amongst the… Read more »
RTB Ad Spending To Double In 2012 – But Is It A ‘Race To The Bottom’?
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While real-time bidding is a hot topic in online advertising circles these days, the amount of dollars actually flowing into these systems i… Read more »
Magna: Online, TV Ad Gains Hold Steady As Wider Recovery Slows
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Interpublic Group media research unit Magna Global has revised down its 2012 forecast, as the global economic volatility of the past few mon… Read more »
Xyologic: Android Will Overtake Apple In Monthly Downloads In June 2012
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The world of apps is only getting bigger, so it seems fitting that another company is jumping in to try to make sense of it all. One of the… Read more »
PIB: Magazine Ad Pages Fail To Hang On To Gains
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Following months of flat growth rates, magazine ad pages have dipped a bit from January to September, a sign that the wider economic problem… Read more »
Macquarie: Fall TV Promotions Lift Homepage Ads
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The three major portals and YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) sold more of the lucrative custom homepage ads in the second half of Q3, according to the l… Read more »
Mediabrands Acquires Social Marketer Spring Creek
Interpublic Group’s media agency and digital hub Mediabrands has acquired social marketing agency Spring Creek Group. The deal, terms of whi… Read more »
How Will Apple’s iPhone 4S Stand Up To Competition? Depends On The Market
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Quite a few commentators expressed a sense of deflation when Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) finally announced its newest device yesterday, the iPhone 4S… Read more »
