Apple Tops Brand Rankings: What’s The Takeaway For Mobile?
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is still a ways behind companies like Samsung and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) when it comes to overall mobile market share, but it’… Read more »
Nokia Is Now Number-Two In Its Home Market, Thanks To Samsung and Apple
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Another milestone passed in the mobile industry: Nokia (NYSE: NOK), the reigning leader in mobile handsets, has now lost the number-one posi… Read more »
Apple iPad Still The Tablet Leader; Tablet Use Eats Into Other Device Usage
photo: Tom Krazit
A few stats and numbers released today underscore the dominance that the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad has among those that have purchased media t… Read more »
Graphic: Never Mind About Free Apps, Sales Will Grow 77 Percent This Year
Developers bemoaning the dominance of free apps in app stores like the Android Market: do not despair, there’s money yet in apps. According… Read more »
Fas-Fax: Major Newspaper E-Editions Circ Rose 20 Percent
It looks like the combination of the iPad, Kindle, iPhone and Android is quickly having a positive impact on newspaper e-editions, as the Au… Read more »
By The Numbers: An Online Snapshot Of Bin Laden’s Demise
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Osama Bin Laden’s death Sunday evening drove people to the web to find out more, and top sites are now disclosing just how many people visit… Read more »
Infographic: How Print Vs. Online News Consumption Compares
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Can online news revenue ever come close to print revenue? Scout Analytics looked at the differences in user behavior in print and online and… Read more »
NPD: iPhone 4 Is Currently The Best-Sellng Device In The U.S.
NPD has released its quarterly results for mobile phones sales in the U.S. among consumers: smartphones are now outselling feature phones, a… Read more »
Nielsen Survey: Apple Slips In Desire Stakes To Android
More on the trend of users tipping over to Android devices in the U.S., with smartphones built on Google’s OS not only accounting for the mo… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-25-11: Amazon; T-Mobile; iPhone @ Work; Android Fund
Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) looks at service and device bundles; T-Mobile reportedly testing iPhone… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 04-21-11: Nielsen Privacy Stats; Amazon/Samsung Tablet; Veer
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Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: as news of Apple’s tracking data emerges, Nielsen reveals some privacy stats; details t… Read more »
Internet Gobbles More Marketing Money In Weak UK Economy
The internet was the only medium to which marketers said they devoted more spend in the first quarter of 2011, according to the IPA/BDO Bell… Read more »
Magna: Cable, Digital Are Big Winners; Direct Response Remains Weak
Cable TV and online media will continue to outpace traditional media in the U.S. this year, as the ad recovery has produced a “return to nor… Read more »
IAB: Online Ad Spending Maintained Double Digit Gains Through Q4
The wider economy appears to be slowly improving, as wars and disasters continue to impede any chance at stronger growth, but you wouldn’t k… Read more »
Who’s Up, Who’s Down In Ad Buyers’ Estimation?
Haymarket, The Guardian and ITV.com are amongst the publishers with the most improved image amongst advertising buyers, whilst Microsoft (NS… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-12-11
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» NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) visits are off as much as 15 percent a day since the debut of its paywall. (paidContent)
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Study: NYT Visits Off As Much As 15 Percent A Day Since Paywall Debut
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In what is the first close-look at traffic to the New York Times’ website since the debut of its paywall late last month, analytics firm Exp… Read more »
Gartner’s Tablet Outlook: Rosy Picture For The iPad
photo: Tom Krazit
The counterpoint to last week’s data from Gartner that spelled out near and long-term victory for Android: in tablets, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) ru… Read more »
Zenith: Global Forecast Revised Down; But Display Remains ‘Invigorated’
The recent series of catastrophe’s that befell Japan in the past few weeks along with the economic uncertainty raised by the uprisings in th… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-08-11: iPad 2; GoldSpot; Camera Phones; Sprint/India
photo: Tom Krazit
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: question mark over iPad 2 sale numbers at Best Buy; mobile advertising startup GoldSpot… Read more »
PIB: Magazine Ad Pages Continue To Grow, Albeit Slowly
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Magazine ad pages grew 2.5 percent in the first three months of 2011 compared to the same period last year, a time when the ad recovery was… Read more »
Report: Motorola’s Atrix And Xoom Struggle To See A Sales Boom
The Xoom tablet has been largely thought of as the most credible Android tablet competitor to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad. But apparently, t… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-06-11: Symbian; Content Forecast; Moto Xoom Sales
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) schedules a Symbian event; some forecasts on mobile entertainment rev… Read more »
Macquarie: AOL’s Display Business Has Put The Worst Behind It
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AOL’s consistent double-digit display declines over the past year have surely tried its investors’ patience, but a report from Macquarie Cap… Read more »
Android Tops OS Ranking; Social Networking Is Fastest Growing Content Form
More numbers spelling out Android’s pole position in the smartphone market today in the U.S. Figures from comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) say that as… Read more »
Don’t Shoot The Messenger: Users Warm Up A Bit To Mobile Marketing
photo: Corbis / Mike Kemp
Mobile operators have largely been cut out of the mobile content ecosystem as it has been developed by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), but there are sti… Read more »
You Asked For It: The paidContent 50 On One Page
Earlier this week, we published our inaugural ranking of the most successful digital-media companies in the U.S. We got some great feedback… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 03-30-11: Google In-App Payment Users; Tablets; Three
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Google’s Android in-app payments service gets some early users — and maybe some confus… Read more »
The paidContent 50: The Most Successful Digital Media Companies In The U.S.
For all the endless debates about monetization, it’s easy to lose sight of which companies are actually generating significant digital reven… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-29-11
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» New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Digital Subscriptions: The Unofficial FAQ Updated (paidContent … Also, see our Staci D. Kramer on… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 03-24-11: Sprint; Bing; Best Buy; Smartphone Stats
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Sprint (NYSE: S) wants to take its AT&T/T-Mobile complaints to Washington; Bing updates… Read more »
Hedge Fund Is Betting That Twitter Is Wall Street’s Crystal Ball
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Twitter may not yet be in the frame for its own stock market debut, but some investors think they can make millions by using Twitter to pred… Read more »
E-Book Sales Soar Over Hardcovers
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New e-reader owners are apparently very busy buying e-books: The Association of American Publishers says that in January sales of e-books gr… Read more »
BIA/Kelsey: Local Online Ad Revenues Will Double By 2015
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Local online advertising is still considered a largely untapped market, but BIA/Kelsey expects that to change over the four years. The resea… Read more »
eMarketer: E-Commerce Expected To Grow Double Digits Through 2012
Like advertising, e-commerce sales recovered nicely in 2010, fueling greater hopes on the part of publishers for an additional revenue strea… Read more »
NAA: Newspaper Ad Spend Hits New Lows
Newspapers ended 2010 with the lowest amount of ad spending directed toward them since 1986, according to the latest figures from the Newspa… Read more »
Daily Mobile Lowdown: Verizon iPhone; HP TouchPad; NSN/Motorola
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Verizon’s stake of iPhone sales; some details leak out on HP’s TouchPad tablet; Nokia (… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-15-11
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» Facebook Said to Hire Google Executive for M&A
» Microsoft Adds Do-Not-Track Tool to IE
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Amazon Kindle: Bundled Free In UK, And The iPad Effect
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Looks like Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is looking to cast its retail net ever wider in the hunt for new Kindle users: the e-reading device is now be… Read more »
Daily Mobile Lowdown: 8 Billion Apps In 2010; Taptu; NSN/Motorola
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Our look at some of the stories today in mobile: ABI gives its post-mortem on app downloads in 2010; Livewire reports full-year results; Tap… Read more »
