The Online Publishers Association’s Forum For The Future in London handed the task of engaging delegates after lunch to Geoff Ramsey, founder of digital research analyser eMarketer. He did the…

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More bad mojo for the music industry, courtesy of this Speakerbox study conducted by The Leading Question and MusicAlly. The percentage of music fans regularly buying downloadable tracks has actually…

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This’ll ruffle some feathers amongst rival editors. ComScore claims Sun Online is the UK’s most popular news website, with 4.29 million monthly unique users in March - ahead of Guardian.co.uk…

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Despite the routine lofty projections for IPTV growth, the latest, from Analysys Mason, reckons the sector’s development in western Europe will add only 3.2 percent more subscribers to pay-TV services…

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Just 1.7 percent of all UK mobile subscribers (812,000) used a mobile social network in Q108, according to new Nielsen research. Even so, the research firm said the space “could…

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Although WPP Group’s £1 billion ($1.9 billion) offer to acquire audience researcher Taylor Nelson Sofres was rejected over the the weekend, the UK ad holding firm is still pressing the…

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You’re reading it here first… The number of newspaper editors who believe news will become an entirely free commodity - both online and in print - is growing. This year’s…

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-- ABCe gap closing: Mirror Group Newspapers recorded four million unique users in March across its seven national news sites, its debut ABCe returns show. Guardian.co.uk held top place with…

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File under: “Unsurprising Research Conclusions”. Research firm TNS finds 51 percent of young adults consider downloading music and movies illegally online is nothing like as bad as stealing from the…

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-- CricInfo Widget for iPhone: ESPN (NYSE: DIS) subsidiary cricket site CricInfo has launched a mobile widget for the iPhone. Cricinfo Mobicast, created by widget tech firm Plusmo, provides iPhone…

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Economic uncertainty prompted companies to reduce their ad spend for the second consecutive quarter earlier this year - but online ad spend is still growing rapidly, according to the Institute…

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- Video metrics: Two years after it launched in the US, comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is bringing its Video Metrix web video tracking rankings to the UK, France, Germany and Canada.…

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Last.fm claims its 12-week-old free, full-track music streams have resulted in 119 percent more CD and download sales through its Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) click-through partnership. Some of that is attributable…

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UK online ad spend beat forecasts through 2007, growing 38 percent to £2.81 billion, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau’s latest annual survey with PwC. It grew nine times faster…

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UK digital publishers expect revenue growth to slow significantly this year, thanks to a worsening economic climate. In its 2007 census, a sample of the 160 members of the Association…

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So that’s why online publishers are scrambling to offer female-friendly content. Some 19.2 million women will go online this year - 6.7 percent more than 2007, eMarketer’s latest report reckons.…

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- BBC video: Switching from RealMedia and Windows Media Video to Flash video is giving BBC News a ten-fold increase in the number of times a video is viewed. Trialled…

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The music industry and internet service providers may be fretting over eventual legal sanctions of the three-strikes anti-piracy policy, but just one warning from an ISP would be enough to…

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Advertising circa 2012 will be a “three-tier market, with online at the top, TV in the middle and traditional media bringing up the rear”, Screen Digest’s latest forecast reckons. Traditional…

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UK music download sales will top £160 million this year - up 50 percent year-on-year - following the entrance of new retailers like Play.com and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), reckons the…

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- Games prediction: Ad-funded mobile games will be worth £600,000 this year and £41 million by 2012 in the UK, research for the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) says. The forum…

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Spanish ad holding company Havas is creating a digital media R&D division intended to synthesize the insights and capabilities of venture capitalists, agency executives, marketers and others whose roles intersect…

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Britons watched 800,000 free online TV streams and downloads in 2007 - but they will watch 1.5 billion this year and 2.8 billion in 2012, Screen Digest forecasts. The research…

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Recently introduced cheaper data plans are finally beginning to popularize the mobile internet in Britain. Over 17 million people - or 23 percent of UK mobile users - used the…

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The fall in radio audiences has long been blamed on the growth of online and iPods amongst younger listeners. In the week the latest Rajar figures showed further declines in…

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