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Top News: Ad market growth in 2012 | Ad network legal issues | Email pollution

Online Ad Industry: Quadrennial events to help ad market grow in 2012 despite economic troubles. Legal/ Regulatory: Publishers can't just blame ad network for having ads on a site that   [...]

Marketing Data RoundUp: Doctors go online for health data too

Following are recent findings by various studies on marketing and advertising-related topics. For a more in-depth look at some of these subjects, visit our sister site, MarketingCharts.com. Physicians Go Online for Health Data Physicians are increasingly turning to digital media as a source of health-related information to supplement their practice,   [...]

Competing Groups Vie for .Gay Web Suffix

Two for-profit groups are planning to start the application process to create a top-level website domain, “.gay,” adding another suffix to a growing list that includes “.com,” “.edu,” “.org,” and “.net,” the New York Times reports. The petitions for the new gay-focused domain reflect a growing adoption of top-level internet domains by various causes - such as the en  [...]

LinkedIn Reaches 50 Million Milestone

LinkedIn, the social networking site for business professionals, announced Wednesday that it has reached 50 million users worldwide.  In a post on the company’s blog, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner said that while it took the social network more than a year to reach one million users after its founding in 2003 - it took only 12 days to attract the last million users to reach this new milesto  [...]

Mobile Search in W. Europe to Hit 2.3B Euros by '13

Mobile search ad revenues in Western Europe will grow from €39 million in 2008 to €2.3 billion in 2013, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 125.4%, according to a report from BIA's The Kelsey Group (via MarketingCharts).   [...]

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Online Growth Slows in Europe's Top Markets; Continues Elsewhere

The European online advertising market was worth €12.9 billion and grew 20% in 2008, according to the 2008 AdEx report, the latest from Europe's Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB Europe) and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (Pw  [...]

Email, IM, SMS Use Vary By Country; Spam Universal

North Americans and Europeans are much more likely to use email as their primary form of communication than those in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, where instant messaging is more popular, according to a oglobal email study from Epsilon. The   [...]

Germany's Online Audience Europe's Largest; Turkey's Most Engaged

Of the 17 European countries individually tracked in April 2009, Germany's online audience was the continent's largest, racking up 40 million unique visitors during the month, according to data from comScore World Metrix service (via MarketingCharts).   [...]

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Foreign Visitors Flock to UK Newspaper Sites

Great Britain's tabloid The Sun is the most popular online newspaper among the nearly 16 million people in the UK who visited a newspaper website in March 2009, according to data from comScore World Metrix service, which also reported that many of the UK's other top online newspapers also draw significant numbers of v  [...]

One-Third of UK SocNetters Peeved by Constant Invites

Nearly one-third (31%) of social networkers in the UK say they dislike constant requests to join groups and invitations to download applications, according to new research from the UK's Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). On the other hand, the study of nearly 2,000 internet users found that 28% would be happy to join a group  [...]

US Overtakes UK for Most Mobile Browsing, Buying

The US now has 29% of the world's mobile web browsing traffic, and has knocked the UK out of the #1 spot on the list of countries with the most mobile web use, according to February data released by Bango (via MarketingCharts).   [...]

Social Networking Attracts 75% of Online Europeans

Of the 282.7 million European internet users ages 15+ who went online from a home or work computer in December 2008, 211 million visited a social networking site, representing a penetration of 74.6%, according to data from comScore's World Metrix (via MarketingCharts.   [...]

European Ad Spend on Positive Growth Trajectory

Forrester Research estimates that growth in European online ad spend will slow to 10% in '09, down from 30% annual growth in '07. The "European Online Advertising Through 2013" report is somewhat more optimistic than forecasts from other firms, including E-Consultancy, Enders Analysis and GroupM, which projected growth in the market under 10%, reports MarketingCharts.   [...]

Femmes Fuel European Mobile SocNet Growth

Mobile social networking is rapidly expanding in Western Europe, with 152% growth from November 2007 to November 2008 and racking up 12.1 million users during that time in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, according to M:Metrics data from comScore, Inc. (via MarketingCharts). The UK boasts the highest  [...]

British Gov Drafts Eco- and Industry-Friendly Digital Plan

Yesterday the British government revealed a plan to boost its digital and communications industry, part of an effort to make the UK a competitive low carbon economy in the next 5 to 10 years. In the interim report, Digital Britain Lord Carter, the British minister for communications, technology and broadcasting, listed 22 recommendations based on an analysis of broadcasting and the UK's digital infrastruc  [...]

Study: File-Sharing May Benefit Industry Over Long-Term

File-sharing -- a process whereby users avail their files, including music, TV shows and movies, to other users for downloading -- is not necessarily tantamount to piracy, according to a recent study of P2P (peer-to-peer) users in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, the act of uploading copyrighted music and movies is against the law. Most unpaid downloads consist of officially licensed promotional content. Research commissioned by the the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affair  [...]

PC Market Growth Plummets in Q4

Following roughly six years of growth, with the last five averaging 15% increases, worldwide PC shipments fell 0.4% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2008 (4Q08), according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, reports Retailer Daily. The slowdown was enough for a sequential decline of 2.5% from  [...]

UK Shoppers Flock to 'Net before Christmas

UK online spend last month surged 26% from October -- and 16% from November of last year, according to figures released from the Interactive Media In Retail Group (IMRG) Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index on Tuesday. The 26% surge in November sales was the highest of the year,   [...]

GroupM: Global Ad Spend to Fall 0.2% in 2009

Ad spend in measured media worldwide is forecast to drop 0.2% to $458 billion in 2009, compared with 2008, when spend shall rise 2.6%, according to a study from WPP's GroupM, writes MarketingCharts. The projected decline is the first such decrease in global advertising since the 3% fall in 2001 aft  [...]

Britons Rank Highest in 'Promiscuity Index'

Men and women in Great Britain rank first among industrialized western nations on the international "Promiscuity Index," a measure that incorporates their total number of sexual partners and one-night-stands, according to Bradley University, as reported in London’s TimesOnline. Germany, The Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Australia ro  [...]