In Contrast To The U.S. iPhone Tops Survey For Most-Wanted Device In Europe
Looks like price sometimes is not always the main consideration when people are buying products — or at least when people are thinking of b… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown: 6-24-11: Nokia Android; Apps vs Web; Google Mobile; Apple
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Android: A day after a video surfaced of Nokia’s first Windows Pho… Read more »
Online Now Commands Largest Share Of Auto Dealers’ Ad Dollars
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In the automotive space, the responsibility for advertising is shifting from car makers to car dealers, and that means significant boost for… Read more »
Study: Within Four Years, 70 Percent Of All Mobile Ads Will Be Local
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U.S. mobile ad spend is expected to balloon to $4 billion in 2015, up from just $790 million last year, according to the latest projections… Read more »
Corrected: Two-Thirds Of Tablet Owners Are Willing To Pay For Media Apps
Correction: This story inadvertently downplayed the interest in tablet users willing to pay for newspaper, magazine or TV content. While an… Read more »
Report: Men Respond Differently Than Women To ‘Paid’ vs. ‘Earned’ Media
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Trying to get beyond the notion that “paid media” (e.g., advertising) is naturally reinforced by “earned media” (news articles, Likes/retwee… Read more »
Study: Mobile Apps Have Overtaken Web Usage; People Consume Apps Like Tapas
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Looks like we might be at a tipping point in the market for mobile apps and how they are becoming the go-to place for digital content. A new… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-17-11: RIM/O2; iTunes Match; The Problem With Tablets
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Read more »
Pandora’s Down Day: Investors’ Remorse? Bubble Fears? Market Negativity?
Rather than outside forces such as volatility on Wall St. or bubble fears, it looks like concerns about Pandora’s uncertain ability to achie… Read more »
¡Hola, Nokia! Symbian Enjoys Huge Smartphone Lead In Spain, Says Nielsen
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If you can’t quite understand why it is that Symbian is still continuing to occupy a strong position in the overall worldwide smartphone mar… Read more »
Targeted TV Consortium Completes Study Cross-Platform Sales
The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement , the research initiative formed by major TV networks, agencies and advertisers two years ago… Read more »
Chart: Mobile Business Booms, Data Use Surges To 48 Percent
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We all know how significant mobile has become as a channel for online businesses that are not inherently mobile properties — we see that tr… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-14-11: Lodsys; Ericsson/Telcordia; Skype/Comcast; iTunes
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) settle their patent dispute; two more companies… Read more »
Kantar: Autos, Travel Boosted Display In Q1
With forecasts of double digit ad growth for both online advertising in general — and display in particular — becoming more and more typic… Read more »
Infographic: Trends In Mobile Marketing
photo: Corbis / Jose L. Pelaez
This infographic sketches out some consumer sentiments around some of the more popular of mobile marketing formats.
This data was collected… Read more »
Infographic: iPad Usage In The UK
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What’s the media diet of an iPad user? Digital marketing production house Imano surveyed 2,000 UK iPad users in May to find out… Read more »
iOS, Android Big With Developers; Mobile Web Further Along Than You Think
Android and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) have the greatest mindshare among mobile developers, but if you were wondering who is the strongest third pla… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-08-11
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» The $315 million merger between AOL (NYSE: AOL) and Huffington Post has brought a lot of negative scrutiny since the deal was s… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-8-11: Microsoft SkyDrive; Nintendo Wii U; Nokia Samsung?
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) details updates to its own mobile cloud services, SkyDrive; Ninten… Read more »
Variety Acquires Research Company TVtracker
Magazines aren’t just about editorial anymore. Case in point, the parent of Hollywood-focused trade mag Variety has acquired TVtracker, an… Read more »
Aegis In Talks To Sell Synovate Research Unit For $820 Million
More than two years after UK ad holding company Aegis first considered selling off its marketing and research unit Synovate, the company is… Read more »
iPhone 4 Is The Most Popular Phone…With Mobile Operators
Time (NYSE: TWX) and again, we hear of tensions between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and mobile operators unhappy with how the Cupertino giant, by way… Read more »
Crowdsourcing Firm Puts $20k Bounty On App Patents
An American commercial patent research company says it plans to seek out “prior art” to invalidate a patent being used by MacroSolve to sue… Read more »
NAA: Newspaper Sites’ Revs Double Again As Print Struggles Barely Ease
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Newspaper websites’ revenue doubled for the third consecutive quarter, but it still isn’t enough to offset print losses, which were down alm… Read more »
Apps Dominate Mobile Data, But You Can Also See The Cloud Appeal For Apple
Research released this week from Nielsen showed that Android is continuing its domination of the smartphone scene in the U.S. — it now make… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-1-11: WHO Cell Risks; Tapjoy; Moto; eBay; Apple iCloud
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: a scary cell phone warning from the World Health Organization; Tapjoy dishes the dirt on… Read more »
Online Ad Spend Continued To Surge In Q1; Google Overtakes Yahoo In Display
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Following last year’s dramatic comeback in online ad spending, the industry was expecting things to cool down this year. So far, that hasn’t… Read more »
New Stats: E-Reader Usage Growing Much Faster Than Previously Predicted
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Good news for the companies that announced new e-readers this week: The number of people in the U.S. who own an dedicated e-reader (not an i… Read more »
More UK & Ireland Tech VC In Fewer Hands In Q1
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The number of UK and Irish tech companies taking venture funding fell below 2009 to a four-year low, according to figures published by the i… Read more »
PwC: This Is Not A Bubble, Valuations May Be Justified
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Facebook for $80 billion? LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) at $9 billion?
“There does not appear to be a bubble forming for the technology sector as a… Read more »
Nielsen To Complete Purchase Of Brainwave Researcher NeuroFocus
Nielsen is set to acquire the remaining stake in NeuroFocus, a company that applies brainwave research to advertising, programming and messa… Read more »
Updated: paidContent Mobile Slideshow: The Nielsen Device Deck
Tablets are a killer device when it comes to media consumption today, but is that down to the form factor, or because they are only being us… Read more »
paidContent Mobile Slideshow: MTV Uses Mobile To Lift Brands
Some media companies, like Disney (NYSE: DIS) and News Corp.’s Fox, have invested a lot of time and money into mobile as standalone business… Read more »
Warning: We May Need To Move On From The Android vs. iOS Debate Soon
New research released at Wednesday’s paidContent Mobile from the app analytics company Flurry spells out the force of apps in the mobile wor… Read more »
@ pcMobile 2011: MTV’s Rush: Tosh.0 Represents The Twitter/TV Bridge
In addition to seeking third party help from sources, MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) has been experimenting with its own home-grown entertainment… Read more »
Warning: We May Need To Move On From The Android vs. iOS Debate Soon
New research from the app analytics company Flurry spells out the force of apps in the mobile world today pretty clearly: there are 500 mill… Read more »
Nielsen: Tablets Are Money Spinners, But Less Than 5% Use Them Today
photo: Apple
Of all the wireless devices that have hit the market in the past several years, tablets present the biggest commercial opportunity for media… Read more »
Sorry Foursquare et al., Most Mobile Users Haven’t Checked Out Check-Ins
Check-in services could either become the “killer app” to act a central hub for all location-based services business models; or they might e… Read more »
No Surprise: DVD Sales Plunged Over 40 Percent Last Year
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VOD services and streaming video rentals from companies such as Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) have been killing DVDs for the last three years, but 20… Read more »
Kindle Revenue Estimates Jump, As Tablet Talk Continues
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Calling the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle “the most compelling e-book device” on the market, Caris & Co. analyst Sandeep Aggarwal estimates in… Read more »
