The Morning Lowdown 01.10.11
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» Personal finance mag SmartMoney has unveiled its first major redesign, nearly a year after Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) acquired the r… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.05.11
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» If Arianna Huffington’s success with The Huffington Post parallels Mark Zuckerberg’s experience with Facebook, it’s that she to… Read more »
Tablets, Tablets Everywhere…
Judging by the newsflow in the lead-up to CES, tablets — especially those powered by Google’s Android OS — are going to be one of the bigg… Read more »
Kantar: Display Ads’ Gains Continued To Outpace General Market In 2010
Not that there was any doubt that display advertising dollars were surging last year, but new numbers from WPP’s Kantar Media put that that… Read more »
The Good News: Mobile Ads Will Grow. The Bad News: Mobile Ads Will Grow
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One more analyst house is adding a vote of confidence in mobile advertising: Enders Analysis says that after years of marginal numbers, 2011… Read more »
Report: Look For Venture-Backed Exits To Rise Further This Year
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With 2010 a wrap, industry watchers keep on predicting a hot 2011 for M&A and IPO activity. The latest is Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) VentureSourc… Read more »
JEGI: 2010 Media M&A Activity Was Up 39 Percent
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Fresh from its year-end work on the sale of interactive ad shop Blue State Digital to WPP, The Jordan, Edmiston Group offered up its view of… Read more »
JWT’s 100 Things To Watch In 2011
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We’ve already published our bets for 2011. Ann Mack, Global Director of Trendspotting for J Walter Thomson (JWT), includes plenty about medi… Read more »
Petsky Prunier: In 2010, Media M&As Rose Nearly 50 Percent
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As the advertising recovery took hold in the latter half of 2009, acquisitions activity in the media space were expected to pick up markedly… Read more »
Parsing Pew: What The Latest Online Content Buying Numbers Really Say
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You are about to see a host of references to a new batch of numbers from the Pew Internet & American Life project pop up all over the place.… Read more »
U.S. Mobile Video Momentum Amounts To More Than Just Price
Chris Hoerenz is chief marketing officer for the Fox Mobile Group, which was recently acquired by Jesta Group. FMG launched its on-demand mo… Read more »
Microsoft With Nokia: Maybe Not As Far-Fetched As It Sounds?
It has been a while since the last time we heard that Nokia and Microsoft might work together on a device — at least a few months. So perha… Read more »
Digital Now A Fifth Of UK Music Sales But 76 Percent Of Downloads ‘Illegal’
2010 was the year the music industry got its way, when the graduated-response method of dissuading piracy was adopted by parliament.
But no… Read more »
It’s Hard To Opt Out Of Behavioral Targeting? Really? Our Experiment
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The Federal Trade Commission’s recent report on privacy offered a pretty damning indictment of the ad industry’s efforts to give consumers a… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.17.10
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» Just as it’s inching closer to profitability and triple revenue gains this year, The Huffington Post is now the “number two” ne… Read more »
Doubt Cast On Research Suggesting Equal Time For TV And Online
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A Forrester Research report released Monday received a ton of attention for its suggestion that TV and internet usage in the U.S. had reache… Read more »
Ask.com Puts Mobile At The Heart Of Its Turnaround Strategy
Ask.com’s latest turnaround strategy, in the wake of layoffs and reports of selloffs by parent IAC (NSDQ: IACI), has seen the site return to… Read more »
Google’s Zetawire Purchase, And Adding The Magic Touch To NFC
One more acquisition for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) made public this week: the search, mobile and advertising giant has added NFC company Zetawire… Read more »
Chart: The Daily Ebb And Flow Of Media Use
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TV and radio still command most media users’ attention, with the spoils shared between day and night, according to this Ofcom Communications… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.14.10
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» Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) layoff rumors are surfacing again: the word now is 600 to 700 job cuts, way down from the 2,500 that were br… Read more »
Streaming As Kiosk Killer? Not So Fast
The logic seems pretty airtight: As digital streaming increases, the kiosks that deliver physical discs will face extinction. But there’s ma… Read more »
Leaked Data On Verizon Phone Sales: Bad News For RIM, Or Verizon?
BlackBerry and its manufacturer RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) had a little boost of confidence the other week from some figures that indicated that in th… Read more »
Survey: iPad Newspaper Apps Could Slash Print Subscriptions
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Wasn’t the iPad supposed to save print journalism? A Reynolds Journalism Institute survey of 1,600 iPad users this fall says that more than… Read more »
Analyst: Apple’s Closed iAd System Gives Android Room To Grab Market Share
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As mobile ad spending is becoming a more serious business, Apple”s combination of “high pricing and lack of transparency” appears to be a st… Read more »
O&O: Media’s Recovery Is An Indian Summer Before The Winter
Nothing like a hard dose of reality, administered by data. On Wednesday morning, media advisory Oliver & Ohlbaum bombarded guests at a brief… Read more »
Mobile Video On The Rise, But Still Only A Fraction Of All Usage
Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) has called it a day with its Flo TV mobile TV venture, gaining only 1 million sign-ups – but not necessarily permanent… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.07.10
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» As Newsweek merges with The Daily Beast, Tina Brown has turned to Bloomberg BusinessWeek managing director Ciro Scotti to help… Read more »
Which TV Channels Can’t Cord-Cutters Live Without?
If the never-ending stream of data on cord-cutting has faded into a blur, here’s one new finding that may be of actual interest. In her late… Read more »
Forecast Wrap-up: WPP Is Bullish On Display; eMarketer Revises Upward
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The major ad holding companies released their respective spending forecasts today, so here’s a wrap-up: WPP is expecting display to rise 13.… Read more »
Deloitte: UK Tech Firms Don’t Think 2011 Is The Year To Go Public
Deloitte’s biannual survey of UK technology companies shows heightened optimism for mergers and acquisitions in the year ahead, with cloud s… Read more »
KPMG: 18-34s More Likely To Subscribe, But Not On Web
KPMG surveyed a total 4,312 UK consumers from YouGov’s panel in September, for its Media and Entertainment Barometer (release).
Here are th… Read more »
Magna: Global Online Ad Spend Will Overtake Newspapers By 2013
Although the newspaper industry in the U.S. has been able to arrest its severe advertising decline of the past three years, Magna Global pre… Read more »
Google Widens Its Lead In Mobile Ads; Bulk Of Money Is Online, Not In Apps
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) announced in Q3 that it was on track to make $1 billion in mobile advertising this year; now figures just out from IDC r… Read more »
Slide Deck: Hard Stats On Monetising Online News
Media advisory firm Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates’ CEO Mark Oliver presented these fascinating survey results, detailing the challenge of char… Read more »
Research: 14 Percent Of Times Readers Have Subscribed
More than a tenth of The Times’ core readers who have internet access have now paid to subscribe to the paper’s website or its web-and-prin… Read more »
Proposed FCC Net Rules Would Cripple Video Consumption
FCC commissioner Julius Genachowski has finally put together proposed network neutrality regulations, and made good on his intent to protect… Read more »
Local Will Be Prime Driver Of Rise In Mobile Ad Spending
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Analysts are feeling ever-more confident in the growth of mobile advertising. The latest comes from BIA/Kelsey, which is predicting that the… Read more »
Advertising M&A Activity Enters The Holiday Season
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There’s been a great deal of M&A deals getting done in the online advertising and analytics space this past year and a number of companies a… Read more »
BlackBerry Users Now Consume More Mobile Data Than iPhone And Android Users
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Here’s some interesting stats that once again show mobile still to be very much an open game, there for the taking: turns out that in the mo… Read more »
Gaming: In-App Purchases To Overtake Download Revenues On Sales Of $11bn
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It’s no secret that gaming is one of the most popular, and money-spinning, forms of mobile content in the market, whether they are casual ga… Read more »
