Articles tagged with: media
U.S. Internet advertising spend up 8%
U.S. Internet display advertising expenditure rose by 8% during the first half of 2008, the second largest growth category year on year. National syndicated television increased 10.2%.
But, overall U.S. ad spending for the first half …
U.S. Internet display advertising expenditure rose by 8% during the first half of 2008, the second largest growth category year on year. National syndicated television increased 10.2%.
But, overall U.S. ad spending for the first half …
Online advertising slows as privacy issues are rising
It sounded like a winning proposition — free money — for Internet access providers.By tracking their subscribers’ personal Web surfing habits, they could help deliver ads targeted to the consumers’ interests, and claim a share …
June’s Top U.S. Online Advertisers and Ad Publishers
Fox Interactive Media, which owns MySpace.com (and is owned by News Corp. (NWS )), ranked as the top display ad publisher with 15.9% of all display ads viewed in June, and Microsoft was the top …
Brands Get Social for Olympics
With the Olympic Games just a month off, some brands are looking to extend their sponsorships with social media programs. Lenovo has created 100 athletes’ blogs in an attempt to align itself with some less …
Twitter UK traffic: up 485% this year, 70% higher than USA
UK Internet visits to www.twitter.com have increased by 631% over the last 12 months, with 485% of that growth coming this year. Twitter is more popular with Brits than Americans: last week the site’s share …
Social media sites, internet marketing of the future
Google recently commented that social media will become a “big part” of Internet marketing strategies in the future. New research from Deloitte suggests that before businesses implement such strategies they need to fully understand what …
Brazilian online market expanded by 43%
E-commerce in Brazil, like many other Internet activities in that country, is maturing quickly. Between the first half of 2005 and 2008, e-commerce revenues as reported in e-bit’s “Web Shoppers” study nearly quadrupled to reach …
WordPress 2.6: Fixes approximately 194 bugs now online
From the developer’s blog: “I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new …
China’s internet mobile growth
According to industry reports, in five years, more than 30% of mobile phone subscribers in China will be reading books and newspapers through their phones. The combination of greater 3G adoption and a marked increase …
What Next for Google’s Shares?
It’s been one of the most volatile stocks in the last 12 months, and has kept even the savviest traders guessing as to its direction. Could that volatility that confounds even the best and the …
Internet Advertising Slowed In First Quarter
In the first quarter of 2008, the growth in spending on Internet display advertising slowed to 8.5 percent from 16.7 percent growth last year, according to estimates put out today by TNS Media Intelligence. Even …
Google + Yahoo = Antitrust?
The Justice Department’s antitrust division has begun issuing civil subpoenas as it probes further into whether a planned Google-Yahoo partnership in search advertising is anticompetitive, a person close to a company that received a subpoena …
