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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We told you in December the music industry would this year start to shift blame for piracy on to ISPs. As of today - and buoyed by recent similar French…

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Mail Online, BBC.co.uk, Telegraph.co.uk and Guardian Unlimited and Times Online (in that order) got the majority of their traffic from outside their native UK in November, comScore reports. The Mail…

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Advertising over the next 11 years will be more of the same - online growth and a retreat from print - according to Advertising Association’s Long-Term Advertising Expenditure Forecast, compiled…

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- CNET: CNET (NSDQ: CNET) Networks may be facing a fight to control its board at home in San Francisco, but here in the UK the tech publisher’s flagship CNET.co.uk…

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VC money given to innovative European startups fell from 5.64 billion euros in 2006 to 5.27 billion euros last year. The final quarter saw 1.21 billion euros invested - that’s…

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Surprise, surprise; advertising works. Traffic for the BBC catch-up VOD website was up 14-fold between December 3 and January 5, ranking it the UK’s 80th-placed site, Hitwise reports (via release).…

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European digital music sales will finally make up for CDs’ shortfall in 2010, according to Jupiter Research’s latest forecast. -- Losses: While digital revenues grew 63 percent to a record…

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Despite what is projected to be a tricky financial sector in 2008, classifieds sites emphasising property search are going in to the year at full-tilt… - Globrix: We get our…

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Sweden will this year become the first country where internet ad spending will surpass that given over to TV ads, according to the This Year, Next Year 2008 forecast from…

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UK online music sales grew 47 percent from 52.5 million in 2006 to 77.6 million last year, according to British Phonographic Industry data. Sales during the all-important pre-Christmas week almost…

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