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1 in 5 Teens Sends Sexually Explicit Pics Over 'Net

One in five teen girls (22%), nearly as many teen boys (18%) and one-third (33%) of young adults say they have electronically sent, or posted online, nude or semi-nude photographic or video images of themselves, according to (pdf) a survey by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and CosmoGir  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 7th 2009

Nearly Half of Women Would Give up Sex Before Internet

Some 65% of US adults say they cannot live without internet access, and nearly half of women (46%, vs. 30% of men) would rather give up sex for two weeks than give up the web for the same amount of time, according to a study conducted by Harris Interactive and sponsored by Intel Corporation.   [...]
Posted: Monday, December 22nd 2008

Depressed Dow Drives Americans into Arms of Online Dating

A handful of online dating sites are reporting activity spikes following September's global financial crisis. "On days when the US Dow Jones industrial went down [...] by more than 100 points, more people were likely to log in and spend more time on the site," stated Senior Research Scientist Gian Gonzaga in an interview with Reuters. "People seek out companionship in times of stress. Studies repeatedly show   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 10th 2008

Viewers Love Fey as Palin, Mostly on the Web

Tina Fey's portrayals of Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live have been seen more on the web than on TV, according to a survey by Solutions Research Group. The survey shows 51 percent of viewers that saw at least one of the skits watched it on the internet. About 23 percent watched on YouTube; 17 percent watched on NBC.com, and 4 percent saw the skit on Hulu.com. Following the   [...]
Posted: Friday, October 3rd 2008

Mobile Broadcast TV to Hit 120MM Users by 2012

Nearly 120 million mobile users in over 40 countries are may have broadcast TV services by 2012, compared with less than 12 million in 2007. And DVB-H will serve as the dominant transmission standard, according to a new report from Juniper Research, writes   [...]
Posted: Monday, October 1st 2007

Beckham Boosts Traffic to US Soccer Site to over One Million

Worldwide traffic figures to mlsnet.com, the official website of the leading US soccer league, attracted just over one million unique visitors in July - up 117 percent on the previous year - due in large part to the US arrival of former England captain David Beckham, who was signed by the LA Galaxy at the start of the year,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 4th 2007

Hottest Dating Sites Based on Religion, Ethnicity

The rise of social networking may have driven some users away from dating sites - one of the web's oldest businesses - but at least some niche players are thriving. Business is apparently brisk at some religion/ethnicity-based dating and matchmaking sites, even if sometimes it's parents who are placing their children's profiles online to find the "right" person,   [...]
Posted: Monday, August 7th 2006

Porn Leads in Spam Open Rate

Spam messages promoting porn are 280 times as effective in getting recipients to click on them as messages advertising pharmacy drugs, which are the next most effective type of spam, reports the New York Times, citing a report from CipherTrust (via MediaBuyerPlanner). The third most successful variety is spam advertising Rolex watches, 0.007  [...]
Posted: Friday, July 7th 2006

Online Dating Settles Down

Online dating sites, once growing at meteoric rates - in 2003, revenue growth was 70 percent annually - have matured and settled down, with revenue growth at 5 percent in 2005 according to Jupiter, writes eMarketer. The top five online dating sites, in terms of unique visitors in Dec. 2005, were Yahoo Personals, Match.com, Spark Networks, True.com, and Mate1.com, according to comScore. Yahoo's was far and away the most popular, with 24.  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 14th 2006

Yahoo, Starbucks Hook up for Personals

Starbucks and Yahoo Personals have agreed to cross-market each other's services until Valentine's Day, with Yahoo launching the "Espresso Dating Guide" co-branded site, writes MediaPost. Users can go to the site to get dating advice, find Starbucks locations, and receive a $10 Starbucks gift card for subscribing to Yahoo Personals - the m  [...]
Posted: Monday, January 23rd 2006

Feds to ICANN: Delay '.xxx' Domain

Citing "unprecedented" opposition to the establishment of .xxx as a new domain name suffix for pornography sites, the U.S. government has requested that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to postpone approving the new domain, writes the AP. Michael D. Gallagher, assistant secretary for communications and information at the Commerce Department, has called on ICANN to "ensure the best  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 18th 2005

Porn Still Dominates Online Traffic Categories

Reuters: Porn pulls more hits than searches For all the hubbub about the dominance of search on the web, porn remains the most trafficked online destination, accounting for almost one in five visits, according to Hitwise. The imbalance - with about 19 percent of traffic headed to porn and only about 14 percent headed to search engines - would appear even greater if the percentage of searches for porn were taken out of  [...]
Posted: Monday, June 7th 2004

Porn Pages Now Number 260 Million

IAR: Porn Pages Reach 260 Million A recent study by Internet filtering company N2H2 found the number of porn pages grew from 14 million in 1998 to 260 million in 2003. Seems there's no stopping this trend even as Microsoft attempts to do so by shutting down its chat rooms as was reported yesterday. Pornography is rooted in the basic human desire for sex, even if some porn is sick and twisted. Sex, or the need to   [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 25th 2003