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The consumer electronics trend that had us shuffling out our perfectly good but perfectly bulky CRT televisions in favor of fancy-new flat s…
As companies like Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) make big investments into video content channels with name-brand film and television talent, they might…
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…
ComScore (NSDQ: SCOR) has released its first ad-verification tool since acquiring Seattle’s AdXpose for $22 million in mostly stock last Aug…
Since online video burst on the scene, there has been a demarcation between “premium” content and everything else. A common definition is th…
Digital advertisers hardly need to be reminded that video is the fastest rising spending category for online media, but that speed is impede…
Interpublic Group media research unit Magna Global has revised down its 2012 forecast, as the global economic volatility of the past few mon…
Following months of flat growth rates, magazine ad pages have dipped a bit from January to September, a sign that the wider economic problem…
Global ad spending will grow 3.6 percent this year, says ZenithOptimedia, offering its second downward revision this year from 4.1 percent i…
Despite growing fears about the economy and the impact on ad spending in general during the past several months, online ad dollars jumped 23…
There are two general rules when it comes to advertising spending these days: when times are tough, marketers tend to take money from brand…
Combined online and print newspaper ad revenues fell 6.9 percent to $5.9 billion in Q2, marking the 20th consecutive decline for the industr…
Throughout the past six months, global ad spending forecasts haven’t been revised down that much. Meanwhile, online ad growth has continued…
As Google’s stellar Q2 performance showed, the company is capable of beating even the rosiest of expectations and putting doubters to shame.…
As economic uncertainty deepens amid a continued European debt crisis and a potential one in the U.S., Zenith Optimedia has revised its glob…
Following the word that agency vet Tim Hanlon would be leaving his post as CEO of Mediabrands’ investment unit Velociter, the Interpublic Gr…
With forecasts of double digit ad growth for both online advertising in general — and display in particular — becoming more and more typic…
Newspaper websites’ revenue doubled for the third consecutive quarter, but it still isn’t enough to offset print losses, which were down alm…
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…
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…
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…
Haymarket, The Guardian and ITV.com are amongst the publishers with the most improved image amongst advertising buyers, whilst Microsoft (NS…
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…
Earlier this week, we published our inaugural ranking of the most successful digital-media companies in the U.S. We got some great feedback…
For all the endless debates about monetization, it’s easy to lose sight of which companies are actually generating significant digital reven…
Newspapers ended 2010 with the lowest amount of ad spending directed toward them since 1986, according to the latest figures from the Newspa…
If Hollywood had its druthers, we’d all be buying–not renting–movies and TV shows by the bushel. But some new research from In-Stat offers…
Not that anyone needed more proof that 2010 was a busy year for media deals, PwC’s look at M&A activity in the space finds that the amount o…
Google’s announcement today that Eric Schmidt will step down as CEO ends what has to be one of the most successful tenures for a chief execu…
Although advertising spending came back in 2010, the best consumer magazines were able to do was to arrest the erosion of ad pages, accordin…
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…
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…
2010 was the year the music industry got its way, when the graduated-response method of dissuading piracy was adopted by parliament.
But no…
TV and radio still command most media users’ attention, with the spoils shared between day and night, according to this Ofcom Communications…
The logic seems pretty airtight: As digital streaming increases, the kiosks that deliver physical discs will face extinction. But there’s ma…
Nothing like a hard dose of reality, administered by data. On Wednesday morning, media advisory Oliver & Ohlbaum bombarded guests at a brief…
KPMG surveyed a total 4,312 UK consumers from YouGov’s panel in September, for its Media and Entertainment Barometer (release).
Here are th…
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…
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…
Despite the insistence that there is no meaningful cable TV cord-cutting by media executives like Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s Jeff Bewkes and…
Not that there was any doubt, but it looks like online advertising’s comeback continued through Q3, according to the latest figures from the…
Online ad spending has decisively turned around last year’s slump, thanks in large part to much higher spending on display advertising durin…
Search-ad sales increased 19 percent year-over-year during the most recent quarter, marking the third consecutive quarter of double-digit gr…
For the second time in a row, magazine ad pages and rate-card-reported revenue posted quarterly gains, as the the ad recovery move on,albeit…
Ancestry.com is buying iArchives for $27 million, as the competition among sites in the genealogy space heats up. The deal comes three month…
The success of free, ad-funded services has made users the overwhelming beneficiaries in the internet economy, while those services themselv…
Traffic to dating sites on mobile phones have nearly doubled since the beginning of summer, putting a fun, new twist on the definition of “t…
The downward trajectory of consumer magazine circulation appears to have slowed in the first half of the year. While publishers weren’t able…
ZenithOptimedia has revised its ad spend forecast upward for the U.S. and Europe, while the internet is poised to grow 13.1 percent in 2010…
But how much are they willing to pay to access music from iTunes via the cloud? A survey by marketing researcher NPD Group estimates that a…
Search engine marketing firm Efficient Frontier says in a report to be released later today that search ad spending jumped 24 percent year-o…
A PewResearchCenter survey on the mobile habits of Americans shows a jump in the percentage of people who access the internet on their mobil…
While the economy remains unsteady, things have certainly been looking up for online media as M&A activity shot up significantly over the pa…
So how do online advertising sales compare in different countries around the world?
The Internet Advertising Bureau gave us these unseen st…
PriceWaterHouseCoopers’ annual tome on the outlook for the global media and entertainment industry includes a forecast for the future break-…
Crisis? What crisis?
Taking a slightly longer view, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2010 – 2014 projects UK en…
Two reports out today suggest big shifts in how people are interacting with online video content:
— eMarketer says that while online video…
While online ad spending has been looking a lot more healthy lately, Magna Global’s latest report that things will look even brighter by 201…
Despite several big investments in online companies (Notably Yelp and UStream) venture capital backing of internet and software firms was fl…
By Mark Sweney: The downturn took its toll on the European online advertising market last year as growth plummeted to just 4.5%, down from 2…
Despite worries about Europe’s financial problems over the past few weeks, expectations for online ad spending this year are continuing to r…
A look at the latest ad server market share figures from content monitor Attributor would appear to show some bad news for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO…
Mobile-phone subscribers in the U.S. spent nearly 60 percent of their time on the phone accessing a social networking site, making the categ…
Talk of recovery is in the air these days, and the latest ad forecast from Magna’s Brian Wieser is urther confirmation that things are looki…
Reflecting the forces in the general economic state of the country, magazines are still weak, yet showing signs of recovery, according to th…
As expected, online ad revenues rose significantly in Q4 after being pummeled for much of 2009, according to data from the Interactive Adver…
We all know how miserable 2009 was for newspapers; each quarter brought a new “historic decline” last year. But the latest figures from the…
In contrast to recent Nielsen figures that showed flat spending for display last year, Kantar Media — fka “TNS Media” before being acquired…
The term “flat is the new ‘up'” was heard a lot last year with regard to ad spending. Now that Nielsen says display ad spending ended 2009 w…
AOL (NYSE: AOL) has signed up for a three-year, $200,000 “consortium sponsorship” of the MIT Media Lab. After reorganizing its advertising a…
Hark, the herald angels sing! Total UK ad spend will rise this autumn, after nine consecutive quarters of annual decline, according to an Ad…
Some fantastic research by Hogeschool Utrecht researcher Piet Bakker shows you exactly when the momentum switched from free to paid…
Desp…
European technology investments fell below the
The Mobile Entertainment Forum has conducted a survey of 100 people from 80 different U.S. companies to gauge how confident they are about t…
The app market really heated up this year and shows no sign of stopping anytime soon, a report from Gartner says. But the revenue is going t…
While hopes have been high for AOL (NYSE: AOL) since its spinoff from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) last month, JP Morgan analyst Imran Khan is wa…
Fresh off its merger with fellow app analytics provider Pinch Media, Flurry has struck an alliance with comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) on a joint mob…
Google’s mobile operating system has come a long way in a short time. While iPhone users are more likely to use features like apps and web b…
European consumers lead Americans on nearly every aspect of digital music – except actually paying for it. In the U.S., only about 21 percen…
Looks like we kicked off quite a trend when we asked consumers whether they would pay for online news. The latest paying-for-content survey,…
By James Robinson: Putting up paywalls around online content will not on its own transform the finances of national newspapers, but a mixed…
Most online publishers (61 percent) refrained from reducing the price on their advertising rate cards, despite the ad downturn and rising we…
Online market researcher Vizu has raised $6.75 million in equity financing from iNovia Capital and Greycroft Partners. Previous backers, inc…
As part of its promise to highlight who’s benefiting from all the linking done to newspaper articles across the web, the Fair Syndication Co…
The final numbers for Q3 are in from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the main takeaway is that things may actually be looking up — o…
Newspaper websites’ ad revenue got progressively worse in Q3, as the declines reached nearly 17 percent to $623 million, according to the la…
After Tuesday’s report that private equity investors will fall back in love with media deals in 2010, more data is showing a mixed recovery…
UK media deals may have plummeted by 85 percent as liquidity dried up 2008 (PwC), but things are looking up…
Accountancy firm Grant Thorn…
By Mark Sweney: Online ad spend is set to buck the trend of the wider advertising recession in 2010 with a predicted 7.6 percent year-on-yea…
Demos may have this month published the second set of research this year to find that illegal music downloaders also buy more music – but th…
You don’t need a white paper to tell you that marketers aren’t satisfied with current online ad formats, but a study by the Interactive Adve…
The feeling that “things are getting better” is becoming pretty pervasive among the conversations online ad execs are having, but the recent…
There’s no doubting the appetite for online entertainment media. New research from Forrester has found that 25 percent of Europeans would be…
The investment downturn’s still here, but it’s slowing: Q3 tech VC outlay rose 23 percent from a quiet Q2 — the worst quarter on record -…
The Nielsen Company has been moving rapidly to counter the challenges to its ratings dominance lately and the latest step involves adding $2…
Every major media category is set to see global revenues shrink this year, as only online is poised to end 2009 on the plus side, ZenithOpti…
Scout Labs, which provides a web-based platform that companies use to monitor online chatter about their products, has raised $4 million in…
The act of making spending predictions this year is as uncertain as the economic recovery. The consensus lately indicates that the painful d…
Details are scant, but another poll on consumers proclivity to spend online will hit the spot while the free-vs-paid debate rages…
KPMG’s…
While this past week’s h109 numbers from the Interactive Advertising Bureau served as a reminder of how bad the first six months of this yea…
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is merging three of its research groups to ramp up its efforts in “social computing.” The company’s Rich Media Labs,…
While the 5.3 percent decline in online ad spend recorded by the Interactive Advertising Bureau this week served as an unnecessary reminder…
Video metrics provider Visible Measures has raised additional — and undisclosed — funding for its third round from DAG Ventures, the compa…
The Interactive Advertising Bureau offered further evidence that online ads were not immune to the wider economic downturn, pointing out tha…
The latest ad spend forecasts contain some bad news and some good news for online ad spending, with this year still looking pretty gloomy as…
Seventy percent of Association of Online Publishers members say they plan to either retain or launch paid-content services over the next yea…
In answer to all the speculation about how much AOL (NYSE: TWX) is worth as Time Warner gets closer to spinning the unit off, JP Morgan anal…
Something of a watershed. Online ad spend grew to make up 23.5 percent of all UK ad spend between in the first half of the year, becoming th…
For the European Digital Journalism Survey 2009, 350 European journalists were asked what impact the internet had on journalism – and the ou…
Expectations for how much revenue Google’s fully integrated DoubleClick Ad Exchange will generate are running high. By the end of next year,…
There have been some signs of a thaw in the chill over display advertising the past few months, but two of the big spending trackers don’t q…
As newspapers increasingly mull methods of building paywalls, an American Press Institute study (via Reflections of a Newsosaur) suggests th…
By Mercedes Bunz: Can this be true? A recent study revealed that media buyers will be increasing their budgets for online video advertising.…
Nielsen is out with its latest Three Screen Report, which tracks American’s consumption of video content on TV, the web and via mobile, and…
Advertisers like Ford and *Microsoft* are slowly starting to include mobile video ad buys in their media plans, and there’s new research eve…
Newspaper company profits may have rebounded somewhat in Q2, but the Newspaper Association of America’s latest study show revenues continued…
The UK online ad market is still growing, but only just. According to the latest AdEx report from IAB Europe and Screen Digest, the country’…
Just as figures from Calibre One and our own H109 VC-spend-tracker showed a slight recovery in technology and online company investment in…
Mobile ad spending will exceed $6 billion worldwide by 2014, says Juniper Research, a slight revision upward from what it projected this pas…
U.S. mobile music consumption has doubled in the last year, but still only 10 percent of American adults listen to music on their mobile pho…
We might not be back to pre-recession levels, but statistics from US-based investment tracker Calibre One show UK VC, private equity and s…
The increasing availability of free applications will drive the number of U.S. downloads to reach 6.67 billion in 2014 from all applications…
Spotify, beware! Consumers’ willingness to pay for unlimited streaming music is waning because people want to “own” and copy their tunes, ac…
The conventional wisdom with online video is that viewing is generally light during the afternoons and then peaks in the evenings. But Yahoo…
The globe online ad industry won’t see signs of a turnaround until the middle of next year, says IDC analyst Karsten Weide, echoing some oth…
Gian M. Fulgoni is Executive Chairman and Co-founder of comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) Inc. Previously, he was President and CEO of Information Resou…
Bad news for publishers considering switching to pay-for content – at the consumer level, people are already reducing their spend on subscri…
Not too long ago, click fraud was the topic du jour, with a number of advertisers saying they were cutting back on pay per click ad spending…
The venture capital industry may actually — finally — be showing some signs of recovery, with total dollars invested up 15 percent compare…
More than a quarter of UK internet firms are in danger and could be sold off this year, a study says. Financial analysts Plimsoll Publishing…
Emarketer is expecting UK online ad spend to grow by just 0.9 percent over 2009 – basically nothing. “The worldwide financial crisis has bro…
Another week, another survey on attitudes to piracy. This latest, by Opinion Matters/Tickbox.net, has found some more sobering (if, it has t…
Some mixed, although not unexpected, news ahead of search-engine companies’ second-quarter earnings reports: Search-ad spending has largely…
Magna analyst Brian Weiser is telling ad agencies to expect a 14 percent decline to $161 billion in spending this year. The Interpublic Grou…
The proportion of music fans downloading illegally has fallen to 17 percent from 25 percent a year ago, as listeners switch to streaming ser…
A new study reemphasizes that in the troubled newspaper industry small and large circulation dailies have gone in different directions. The…
Citigroup tested 200 of the most common queries to determine which major search engine delivers what it considers to be the most relevant re…
Almost four out of five European media planners expect to increase their online spending this year, but the internet will attract less than…
Online ads are often targeted, but that doesn’t mean that people necessarily pay attention. A survey by AdWeek and Harris Interactive (via S…
Hip-hop lifestyle magazine Vibe is the 10th major publication in just the last six months to cease printing. (Four of those plan to soldier…
If case you needed confirmation, yes, it was a miserable first half of the year for dealmaking in digital media. There was $5.4 billion wort…
In the battle for the online personal finance market, free has become the status quo. Both startup Mint.com and rival Quicken Online have am…
Nielsen says its latest study debunks the idea that teens spend huge chunks of time glued to the web. According to the report, How Teens Use…
Whether you hate it or can’t live without it, there’s no denying that Twitter has gone from early adopter craze to genuine mainstream popula…
The online ad turnaround will have to wait. Online ad spend in Q2 began with some promise, says JMP Securities analyst Sameet Sinha in a res…
Spending forecasts for display ads have been particularly grim — but new ad sales data from Nielsen actually shows that some of the biggest…
Do you have what it takes to wait it out until 2011? PricewaterhouseCoopers is coming out with its omnibus annual entertainment and media se…
In a report today, Citigroup Analyst Mark Mahaney presents Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) as a “turnaround story” — and his thesis is premised on the i…
It was only two months ago that we noted that in just one month Twitter had added 5 million visitors to its site, doubling traffic. Now, dat…
It’s not a fun time to be selling ads for a local Sunday print supplement (ad spending down a whopping 37.7 percent) or a B2B magazine (ad s…
Search engines are aggressively trying to entice local advertisers with new initiatives. The findings in a new report from research firm Bor…
The consensus as of late seems to be that while ad sales have been down, they are stabilizing. Benchmark Capital analyst Clayton Moran says…
In a shift, online ad spending dropped 5 percent in the first quarter to $5.5 billion, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. That…
It’s not just relatively low retention rates that Twitter has to deal with. Turns out, according to a Harvard Business School study, that th…
In what appears to have been one of the worst advertising quarters for newspapers since the Depression, the Newspaper Association of America…
Ready for a bullish ad spending forecast? Despite game industry execs arguing that in-game ad spending forecasts from 2008 were probably too…
The total ad market appears to be stabilizing, says Bernstein’s Research, but with Q1 having been so brutal, stability isn’t feeling so good…
Over the past four years, the use of online classified ads by U.S. adults has doubled, according to a study from the Pew Internet and Americ…
Newspaper execs usually don’t like announcing job cuts, so there are some obvious built-in biases in this Associated Press Managing Editors’…
While it’s practically become cliché to say that web users would be willing to pay for financial news, a PricewaterhouseCoopers study finds…
B2B media companies had some good news and some bad news last year: revenue from online, conferences, trade shows and data were up significa…
The steady downward spiral of newspaper circulation continues, as the Audit Bureau of Circulation released figures for 395 dailies that show…
While ad spending in general craters, Interpublic Group’s Magna forecasts the U.S. market for online video will grow by 32 percent this year…
Here’s a slight balm for all the bad news about newspapers: websites tied to daily papers rose a collective 10 percent in Q1 to 73.3 million…
Last week brought word that Silicon Valley venture capitalists were feeling somewhat less gloomy about their industry’s fate over the next 1…
The latest in a series of downward ad-spend-forecast revisions comes from ZenithOptimedia. The Publicis Groupe media shop is predicting that…
Today brought has ratcheted back its predictions from overall online ad growth from 6 percent. Search, meanwhile, has been dropped from 20 p…
Although last year was a difficult one for all parts of the advertising business, online ad spending still managed to grow 10.6 percent to $…
How bad can it get for TV and radio broadcasting? How about revenue declines for at least the next five years? That’s what a new report bein…
— GroupM defends use of T&C’s: Last week, former Interactive Advertising Bureau head Greg Stuart took GroupM to task for publicly going off…
The figures are in, and last year was the worst in newspaper history: Ad revenues fell 16.6. percent to $37.8 billion in 2008, according to…
As Virgin Megastores get their “going out of business signs” pinned up, the loss of a major brick and mortar music retailer will certainly h…
With ad spending forecasts growing ever darker, the look back at last year isn’t any consolation… The Nielsen Company says that display ad…
Barclays Capital’s latest downward revision for 2009 online ad spending calls for a meager 2.3 percent increase over last year to $23.7 bil…
Despite all the predictions last year about online advertising’s solidity in the face of recession, the new thinking is that it will remain…
Most money spent on web ads is going down the drain because a majority of users (57 percent) rarely or never pay attention to them, says new…
The year is barely two months old and already, analysts are writing it off. UBS Equities didn’t wait long to revise its media ad spending fo…
With digital revenues still barely making up 10 percent of total revs, when it comes to magazine publishers, the latest figures from the Aud…
Web revenues once offered newspapers a slight glimmer of hope. Not anymore, says a report from eMarketer on the newspaper industry. Online n…
Even though 2008 was a slower year for digital media M&A, about $0.88 of every dollar of industry revenue growth flew to four growth sectors…
Another day, another ad spend downgrade… Online advertising will grow a paltry 6.1 percent to $25.1 billion next year, says Barclays Capit…
Growth trends for display ads have been shrinking since late last year, and through September, the category was up only 7 percent, TNS Media…
Another day, another online ad spending forecast revised downward. This time it’s for social networking: eMarketer says advertisers will on…
While WPP’s GroupM agrees precisely with rival media shop ZenithOptimedia that the world’s ad spend will be down 0.2 percent next year, it i…
The current ad recession could extend past 2009 and closely resemble the period during the 2001 downturn, when revenues were down 6 to 9 per…
US digital music sales will grow by 17 percent per year on average over the next five years, to make up 41 percent of sales by 2013, Forrest…
Here we go again … Citing severe deterioration in the economy, eMarketer has dramatically reduced its 2009 online ad spending projections…
Considering the economic meltdown of the past few weeks, the fact that online ad revenues grew 11 percent in Q3 would seem to be reason to c…
Local online ad spending, which Borrell Associates had previously expected to keep on chugging away before leveling off in 2012, is set for…
Since JP Morgan internet analyst Imran Khan lowered his expectations for online ad spending two months ago, the outlook has only gotten more…
Yahoo’s struggles are nothing new, and yesterday’s Q3 reconfirmed that the tough times will only continue. Aside from plans to lay off 10 pe…
Here’s some more evidence of how bad things are… The average price of a display ad was 27 cents in Q3, a nearly 50 percent drop from Q407’…
Veteran media analyst Jack Myers has come in with his ad forecast for this year and next and the good news is, it could be worse. Myers proj…
Will paid search ride out the recession? Ask execs from Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), or one of the many search firms out there a…
After the poring over the series of revisions that have gone into the latest ad forecasts this morning, the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s…
It looks like Wall Street’s chaos might just affect online advertising more than some thought a few days ago. Just in time for the financial…
Local newspapers sites still generate the highest ad revenues among traditional media, at an estimated $3.7 billion, but local radio and TV…
Today’s news about the fall of Lehman Brothers, Bank of America’s planned rescue of Merrill Lynch and insurer AIG’s debt problems isn’t goin…
JP Morgan internet analyst Imran Khan is lowering his online ad spend forecast into next year due to the worsening economy. Sensing that ma…
To stream, or not to stream? That is the video delivery question. The answer is definitely not streaming, if you belive Dr.…
Newly-launched QuarkBase makes the somewhat grandiose claim of providing “everything about a website.” But it turns out that this mashup of various…
Strategy Analytics has done a nice and simple comparison of revenues from a selected group of online media/Internet companies in Q208 (what…
Following our analysis of Social Media Deals, we’ve pleased to announce our first Online Advertising Deals Report, charting activity in vent…
The latest Pew biennial news consumption survey is out and, as usual, the results offer something to latch on to for just about everyone wit…
The economy remains in the doldrums and by all accounts online ad growth continues to slow. But total communications spending is projected t…
While newspaper websites drew nearly 66.4 million unique visitors on average — 40.2 percent of all internet users — in Q2 for a 12.2 perc…
Weakness in display advertising caused online ad company ValueClick (NSDQ: VCLK) to warn investors last week that earnings in the second hal…
It seems the tough economy is hitting ad networks after all… Pubmatic, which sells software optimization tools to ad networks, finds that…
Fitch is taking a jaundiced view of whether or not consumer magazines as a group can make the switch to digital with their profitability int…
The M&A activity for the media/marketing/information sector was cloudy for the first half of this year, but online and interactive services…
ZenithOptimedia’s optimistic predictions for online is holding steady. The Publicis Groupe media buyer’s latest forecast expects global inte…
Despite daily evidence of slowing online ad growth, internet revenues will represent the highest growth levels of overall media worldwide, a…
So much for the string of record quarterly gains for online ad revenues… The Interactive Advertising Bureau reported that internet ad revs…
Internet ad impressions grew by 14.7 percent in Q1, buoyed by search as the main driver and rich media, which gave display a boost, accordin…
Online ad spending in the U.S. will come in at $26.17 billion this year for a gain of 23 percent, forecasts Lehman Brothers analyst Doug Anm…
Online ad revenues may be getting squeezed by the law of large numbers and the dismal economy, local media sites are still expected to thriv…
Microsoft will hold its fourth Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Road Show at its campus in Mountain View, Calif., next Thursday, May 22.…
The Nielsen Company’s latest ad spend figures for 2007 confirms the findings of ZenithOptimedia, TNS Media Intelligence and eMarketer in the…
Local TV stations are expected to make more than $1.1 billion for online advertising this year, up 45 percent over 2007, according to a repo…
Comcast and BitTorrent Inc. have announced they’ll work together to ensure the popular file-sharing format works more smoothly over Comcast’s network. The…
As ad spending in the U.S. was essentially flat last year, display ads continued their double digit growth, according to data from TNS Media…
The economy may be faltering, but that will not prevent online advertising from continuing to grow a healthy 23 percent this year, according…
With Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick closed this week, it might seem like there’s no room for smaller ad netwo…
— Online Job Ads’ February Slowdown: There were 3.9 million web-based help wanted ads posted in February, for only a 3 percent gain year-ov…
Newspapers have been attracting larger audiences with their websites, partly compensating for the decreased readership of their print editio…
That’s where the jobs are…really. AdAge has done an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data, and come up with some interesting numbers…
With all the doom and gloom hovering over the economy right now, analyst reports heralding brighter days for the future of internet ad spend…
Online advertising for the first nine months of 2007 was up 15.9 percent, according to Nielsen Monitor-Plus’s latest figures. While still th…
Display ad revenue grew 17.2 percent to $8.4 billion over the first nine months of 2007, according to TNS Media Intelligence’s latest findin…
Over the next five years, online ad exchanges, like the ones run by Google, (NSDQ: GOOG) Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and AOL, (NYSE: TWX) are expecte…
The outlook for technology companies looks fairly strong for at least the near term, though a the threat of a recession remains a serious th…
Media researcher Jack Myers has come out with his sixth annual “power rankings” of online sales organizations, with featured categories on “…
Online video and local search will drive the nearly 30 percent growth in global internet ad spending for 2007, nine times faster than the re…
The ad industry experienced signs of a downturn in the first half of the year, with TNS Media Intelligence reporting that total spending for…
Ad spending on newspaper websites is still growing at a healthy clip, but the signs of a slowdown are increasingly visible, according to the…
Fifteen percent of UK consumers now have a DVR box and, when asked whether they skip ads in recorded programs, 78 percent of them said they…
The British lads’ mag, with its 1990s formula of gadgets, cars and scantily-clad girls, is supposedly losing out to the web. Latest ABC figu…
As with all traffic data from third party sources, this is subject to suspect data, and then subjective analysis of that data..a new report…
Internet users are spending nearly half their online time accessing content, a 37 percent rise in the share of time they devoted for the sam…
Online advertising will be bigger than newspaper advertising in the U.S. by 2011, according to a new forecast. Veronis Suhler Stevenson’s (V…
Perry Reed of The Tablet PC Show has been conducting an evaluation of the Motion LE1700 Tablet PC. The LE1700 is probably…
It’s old data, but this new research study from City University, London, online journalism researcher Neil Thurman is the first to illustrat…
Newspapers’ online audiences are rising at twice the rate of the general internet audience, according to research by Nielsen//NetRatings for…
It once was, a user just had to avoid opening suspicious e-mail attachments or downloading dubious software. Now, spyware, malware and virus…
Newspaper publishers may get a little ammunition this fall when, for the first time, the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) includes online a…
Online ad spending rose 17.8 percent in 2006, as major marketers continued to reduce spending on newspapers, according to a study by Wachovi…
The internet will grow six times faster than traditional media between 2006 and 2009 and increase its share of the ad market from 6.1 percen…
Advertising and access fees are going to push spending on the internet to $78.4 billion by 2011, up from $47.2 billion in 2006, a 10.7 perce…
As The Nielsen Company prepares to complete its merger with online audience metrics firm NetRatings by the end of this month, the company is…
While the threat of an internet ad spending slowdown has been hanging over the industry lately (by that, we mean lower double-digit growth),…
Dot.com days are here again. Fashion e-commerce disaster Boo.com was resurrected earlier this month, now a new survey from retail analysts…
The Interactive Advertising Bureau says its dispute over audience measurement ratings with comScore and Nielsen//NetRatings has been resolve…
The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) opened its national convention today with the requisite study/press release: a custom analysis by…
While the $100 billion global classified advertising market is still largely the purview of newspapers (on the mainstream media side), thank…
Two respected analysts are moving on:
— Merrill Lynch veteran Lauren Rich Fine is retiring after 19 years; her coverage of advertising, new…
A new report from research firm Enders Analysis forecasts global music sales will fall to $23 billion in 2009 – 16 percent below last year’s…
Media research firm Kagan, which was bought by media PE firm MCG Capital in 2004 and merged with JupiterResearch which MCG bought a year ago…
A report by Screen Digest has found that massively multiplayer online games generated more than $1 billion in 2006 in the West (North Americ…
The last year seems to have been a very good one for internet ad spending
Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen raises an Emperor’s Clothes kind of point about Viacom’s digital revenue projections in her note on…
The two companies have made official what we first told you last Friday … Cymfony, the Watertown, MA-based social media market and intelli…
Consumer spending on video downloads will rise to $4 billion a year in 2011 from the current $111 million spent annually, according to a stu…
The latest report to try to nail down the future benefits of online TV projects downloads of TV shows and films will grow 10-fold in the nex…
Web traffic to major newspapers
There appears to be a significant disconnect between the amount of time consumers access online ad-supported content and the actual ad dolla…
Oppenheimer & Co., the investment bank, has come out with a 92-page digital media research report from its analysts, examining what they con…
While eMarketer is expressing some doubt as to mobile entertainment’s health this year, its forecast for online ad spending in 2007 is anyth…
So says some new research by Nielsen Media Research, and it says that audio is more popular than video, which is of course an obvious thing…
Juniper Research has issued some predictions concerning sports content on mobile phones. “The global market for mobile sports content and se…
Another big online ad spend report was unleashed earlier this week predicting growth, of course, but the milestone here is that spend in the…
Jupiter’s latest research into music consumption habits of iPod owners will make for uncomfortable reading. The tip of the iceberg is the iT…
Sites with classified ads recorded 47 percent more uniques in July 2006 than in the previous year, according to stats from comScore. Half of…
The newspapers will like this: Research by Veronis Suhler Stevenson reckons that traditional media companies are increasing their share of t…
Local online advertising is predicted to increase yet further in 2007, climbing 32 percent to around $7.7 billion. Borrell Associate’s Assoc…
European online music sales are forecast to generate Euro 1.1 billion by 2010, according to research by Screen Digest, rising from Euro 280…
More from the Scarborough Research white paper on how newspapers can build their audience share through online. I realize this is preaching…
Another report makes it harder for search portals to deny click fraud as a growing concern. According to the Click Forensics study, fraudule…
This report is creating more than a few ripples among the online portals, who have been coy till now to talk too much about click fraud in c…
So says a new report by Arbitron and Edison Media Research, up from 27 million a year ago. Some other findings:
— TV series on DVD and VOD…
Online ad revenues grew by an impressive 30 percent in 2005 to reach $12.5 billion, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC said in…
Bill Jennings joins Lightningcast’s Instream broadband video ad network as Chief Revenue Officer. Most recently, Jennings was VP-New Media…
The three well-off tech companies are funding the new $7.5-million Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems Laboratory at UC-Berkeley. wit…
Two new reports/estimates released today on online video revenues, both bullish:
— In-Stat: It expects worldwide revenue, on both a subscr…
The Morgan Stanley tech research team has come out with a Q3 2005 Global Technology Data Book, which besides other things, covers some good…
So says a new report by JupiterResearch…but it found adoption is up from last year, albeit 64 percent of adults still said they wouldn’t p…
The Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada estimates that online revenues will exceed $500 million in 2005. The bulk comes from from displ…
TNS Marketing Intelligence projected 11.2 percent growth for 2005, which means there’s some ground to make up during the second half the yea…
Here’s a shock — the second annual Personalization Survey shows that people want a highly personalized experience. But the same survey also…
Another day, another report full of projections and predictions about the future of content. This one, the 19th annual “Communications Indus…
Pay-TV, the internet and interactive games will be the winners in media during the next five years, with emerging technologies making inroad…
The latest survey on internet behavior by the Pew American & Internet Life Project shows increasing user awareness about spyware accompanied…
Yahoo is working with Revenue Science on cost-per-click text ads targeting user behavior rather than web site content; if successful, it cou…
Last week, we mentioned a Microsoft P2P research project in England called “Avalanche” that looks like possible competition for BitTorrent.…
PricewaterhouseCoopers has come out with its annual report on the state of the media and entertainment industry and outlook for the next fiv…
InfoWorld goes to open house at Microsoft’s research labs in Cambridge, England, labs and gets some background on “Avalanche” — the code na…
Or, as AP puts it, “One in five Web users reading papers use online editions.” Each is true, according to the Nielsen//NetRatings @Plan Summ…
Western European revenues for consumer online content will nearly double in 2005, reaching over Euro 3bn and up to Euro 16bn in 2008, accord…
One of India’s oldest PC companies, HCL has just launched a sub-$300 computer that is while skimpy is good starter machines for…
More drama: Market research aggregator eMarketer has filed a counterclaim against Jupitermedia on Wednesday, seeking compensation for its le…
(via MarketingVox): eMarketer has issued a statement defending its research practices. This follows a lawsuit by Jupitermedia against it……
Tech media and research firm Jupitermedia has formally sued eMarketer, a meta-research firm. It has sent cease and desist letters to eMarket…
So predicts Yankee Group….The forecast says that global broadband household penetration, 3.4% in 2002, will rise to 16% by 2008. The surve…
Online media services like music and video market will reach $7 billion by 2008, according to a new report by Digital Tech Consulting. Altho…
This is a vendor survey, so please take it as such…I’m always wary of vendor surveys. Anyway, the drift from the survey is that more consu…
Um, is that surprising? According to a new research by InStat/MDR, about 11.4% of US mobile subscribers are very or extremely interested in…
We have released out first Digital Media Deals report
I have just compiled the data on venture capital and M&A investments in digital media sector for Q1, 2004. The data and details are in the n…
Some data on M&A in digital media: I have just compiled the data on venture capital and M&A investments in digital media sector for Q1, 2004…
That’s according to a new research by Outsell Inc, though I am not sure if the actual size matters. The online paid content market is 35 tim…
() My dear friend Jak Boumans of Electronic Media Reporting and Acten (the EU content body) has written a report on the state of premium con…
Well, a Jupiter Research study says that ‘veteran’ Internet users are more likely to object to data capacity limits than those who have been…
A slightly simplistic view of how the open-source sharing ethic works fostering an online gift economy…the paper calls for formalizing som…
Boris Galitsky, a lecturer in University of London has published a rather controversial paper on developing a commercial links-exchange mech…
Online Publishers Association has released latest figures on online content sales…see the release and download the full report from OPA’s…
Australia’s online consumers are increasingly comfortable with the idea of paying for content…..yep, rejoice.
Video streaming is predicted to register a 40 per cent rise in uptake in 2003, and will continue to register double-digit growth until 2005,…
Another meaningless “survey”.
This time by Jupiter Research, to coincide with the Jupiter Online Media Conference. According to the report, consumers are warming to the n…
Traffic Tools Track Web’s Prime Time: Web researchers and competitors Nielsen/NetRatings and ComScore Media Metrix are starting to measure I…
Study: Sponsorship Pays Off: “Content sites have dabbled with the sponsorship model. Women-focused site iVillage has touted its sponsorship…
The Emerging Digital Consumer: A comprehensive report on the online streaming media consumers, released today by Arbitron and Edison Media R…
comScore MediaMetrix Erred in Measuring Web Site Use: And yes, we are all really surprised, really. comScore discovered flaws in the methodo…
At Work Audience is Elephant in the Room: The office audience has been under attack of late, by researchers, that is. It is an extremely luc…
OPA Releases White Paper on Online Dayparts: The study echoed the OPA’s long contention that the Internet content sites are the best place t…
European Mobile Gaming Worth Over E3bn by 2005: Mobile gaming will generate E500m in Western Europe in 2003 and over E3bn in 2005, a new stu…
Audio and Video Material the ‘Carrot’ for Home Networking: Audio and video material is likely to be what draws the average consumer into hom…
Online, Wireless Gaming Gaining: Analysis from Jupiter Research reveals that online PC game subscriptions are expected to reach $600.7 milli…
The number of peer-to-peer, or P2P, webpages rose more than 300 percent to 89,000 in the last 12 months, according to Websense. In addition,…
Paid Content: Still Struggling for Web-Wide Acceptance: This Newspaper Association of America (NAA) study reports on the paid content effort…
Consumer Stance on Paid Content Shift in Western Europe: Categorize this under your “lame research” category: 41 percent of European Interne…
Market for Paid Online Content in the U.S. Grows to $361 million in Q3 2002, According to OPA: Perhaps the worst time to release an industry…
The venerable research agency Gallup, which has launched an online subscription scheme at Gallup.com, is looking to cash in on a growing mar…
Content Aggregators And Distributors Turn to Technology and Services to Retain Market Share: Revenues for the 57 companies in the $21.2 bill…
More on the Online Content Report: Vin Crosbie gives more details of eMarketer’s Online Content Report, which of course, I reported on in so…
(second item): Online subscription services do open some doors, as opposed to critics who have been crying foul about closing doors on the w…
Ten Percent of All U.S. Internet Users to Pay for Content Online in 2002: This according to a new report on the online content market by eMa…
Americans Continue To Embrace Potential Of Digital Music: A new study by Ipsos-Reid on digital music distribution in U.S. “In June of 2002,…
NetRatings To Report on Market Share of Non-Browser Based Internet Apps: This kind of expansion of Internet metrics will be important, espec…
International Content Spending to Increase to $50 Billion This Year: Spending for online content will surpass $50 billion worldwide this yea…
Revenues From Wireless Content: An analysis of whether wireless content will be the biggest revenue generator in the future. The economics o…
The Most Confusing (or Confused?) Study of the Year Award: “The Online Publishers Association (OPA) announced today the results of an audien…
Online Gaming Set to Take Off in Singapore: Singapore’s market for Internet-based gaming is set to reach $9.2 million by 2005, from just $1.…
Average Revenues Per User for Wireless Predicted to Decline: A new survey ARC Group says that the average revenue per user (ARPU) is set to…
OPA Report Needs Some Drastic Improvements: Anne Holland touches upon some very legitimate concerns on the Online Publishers Association’s r…
Audience Increases to Paid Sites: Following up on my earlier posting about traffic to the MLB.com website, CBS MarketWatch does a story on t…
Major League Baseball’s Subscription Site Gets a Traffic Boost: According to a new report by NetRatings (not available online as of now), tr…
Perhaps the most comprehensive study on online content market and revenues over the last five quarters. Done by Online Publishers Associatio…
New Study: Subscription Sites Gaining Traction: Subscription-based websites are gaining more traction with customers, according to a survey…
European Music Spending: According to a survey by Screen Digest, subscriptions to music libraries, which can be accessed via different digit…
Mobile Gaming Hinges on Micro-Billing Systems: A new study from Frost & Sullivan reveals that the mobile gaming industry worldwide generated…
Revenues from Content Distribution: The online digital content distribution market is becoming increasingly important to the revenue prospec…
Streaming Sites Favor Ad Model, But How Long?: Streaming media content sites favor streaming advertising over subscription by a 60 percent t…
Another “pasty white” story on how users are unwilling to pay for content, this time from Ireland. Just 18 per cent willing to pay for daily…
Do you want for broadband penetration to reach a critical mass before jumping in ? Aren’t we there already? Pew Internet’s latest research c…
Japan’s Streaming Content Market: Japan’s market for streaming content, including music and video clips, will expand to $1.35 billion in 20…
How P2P Will Change Content Delivery: A research report ($$) outlining the future of P2P content delivery networks. Key takeaway: P2P Conten…
Yet more research on how consumers are using the web: Accenture has some global data saying that almost 40 percent of web users watch video,…