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Top News: iPad3 | Mandatory Facebook access | Google Plus image problem
iPad 3
What to expect at Apple’s event.
New iPad expected with faster chip, sharper screen.
How the iPad could give Microsoft a serious r [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 7th 2012
Top News: Uninvited ads on Android | Xbox TV platform debuts | Facebook buys Gowalla
Mobile Marketing:
Sneaky mobile ads invade Android phones.
Convergence:
Microsoft rolls out Xbox TV platform.
Social Media:
Facebook [...]
Posted: Monday, December 5th 2011
Disney Explores Cross-Platform Content Ownership
The Walt Disney Company appears to be poised to unveil a new technology that will help it recover from slumping DVD sales - a decline fueled in part by robust Web 2.0 content available to consumers, including illegal duplicating and trading of its own copyrighted material.
Code-named "Keychest," the service will give consumers lifetime rights to a piece of content - say, a movie or TV show - across multiple digital platforms such as a smartphone or on-demand cable service or computer, Media [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 22nd 2009
Google, NASA to Launch Singularity University
Google, NASA and a number of other science and tech giants are combining forces to start a school, Singularity University. Its objective will be to solve "humanity's grand challenges" -- a manifesto reminiscent of the ambitious one Ezra Cornell posed for Cornell University: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."
Taking after the International Space University, the school avails a number of cutting-edge tech [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 3rd 2009
Israeli Gov't Holds First Twitter Press Conference
On Dec. 30, microblogging service Twitter hosted its first governmental press conference on behalf of Israel's Defense Forces -- whose microblogging tag was @IsraelConsulate.
Questions and answers were limited to 140 characters, the standard length of a Twitter message or "tweet." So even answers to the most complex questions -- about which entire books have been written -- had to be short and swe [...]
Posted: Monday, January 5th 2009
Babelgum, MusicNation Host Online Music Video Contest
With help from MusicNation, video streaming site Babelgum drew 205 participants to its first online music video competition.
Tasked with creating their own music videos, 40 semifinalists will appear in a Babelgum app for smartphones, expected to launch December. Babelgum will also debut smartphone-ready channels designed that run short videos aimed at young audiences.
Entri [...]
Posted: Monday, October 27th 2008
Carat Revises Global Ad Spend Forecasts
Carat lowered its growth forecasts for global advertising expenditures in 2008 and 2009, predicting 4.9 percent growth in 2008 (vs. 6.0 percent it estimated in March) and a growth of 4.8 percent in 2009 (vs. a 4.9 percent estimate in March), [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 2nd 2008
Fans Worldwide Follow Olympics Online
Fans from the 10 countries* measured by Nielsen Online visited Beijing2008.cn, the official website of the Beijing Games, at a rate of nearly 930,000 per day, during the first week (Aug. 9-15) of the competition, Nielsen reported (pdf) - MarketingCharts writes.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 20th 2008
Canada Leads World in Online Banking Use
Canada is the world's most developed market for online banking. 67.1 of Canadian internet users banked online in April 2008, boasting significantly more penetration than other English-speaking countries, according to comScore, MarketingCharts writes.
Among the key findings:
Adoption of online bank [...]
Posted: Friday, July 11th 2008
Ad Spend Forecast: As West Slows Down, Developing Markets Propel Growth
ZenithOptimedia downgraded its forecasts for ad spend growth in 2008: from 3.7 percent to 3.5 percent for North America and from 3.9 percent to 3.7 percent for Western Europe, citing credit-crunch worries by investors, consumers and advertisers in Western markets, reports MarketingCharts.
High energy and commodity prices are stoking inflation, [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 1st 2008
Global Entertainment, Media to Hit $2.2T in 2012, Driven by Digital, Mobile
The global entertainment and media (E&M) industry will reach $2.2 trillion in 2012, growing at a 2008-2012 compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.6 percent, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers's "Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2008-2012," [...]
Posted: Monday, June 23rd 2008
Consumers Want More Mobile Web Service and App Choices, Control
Some 80 percent of consumers would prefer a service provider that gives them more choice in the applications and services available on their mobile device, according to a study titled "Go mobile, grow" from IBM's Institute for Business Value, MarketingCharts [...]
Posted: Friday, May 23rd 2008
Shoppers Primed for a New World of Shopping Experiences
Biometric fingerprint payments, intelligent shopping carts, holographic sales assistance, and interactive dressing rooms are among the top shopping experience innovations foreseen by shoppers, finds a TNS Retail Forward study, MarketingCharts reports.
[...]
Posted: Monday, May 19th 2008
Mobile IM Use May Overtake SMS, Mobile Email
SMS (texting) and mobile email may well be overtaken by mobile instant messaging (MIM), according to a TNS Global Telecoms Insight (GTI) survey of 17,000 consumers across 30 countries, MarketingCharts reports.
Globally, 11 [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 29th 2008
Internet Surpasses TV in Australia, Mobile Approaches Saturation Point
In 2007, internet use in Australia surpassed TV watching for the first time -- 13.7 hours per week vs. 13.3 hours.
Also, mobile use quickly approached saturation, according to Nielsen Online's 10th Australian Internet and Technology Report, writes MarketingCharts. [...]
Posted: Friday, March 28th 2008
Carat: 6.0% Global Ad Spend Growth in 2008, 4.9% in 2009
Carat issued revised forecasts for global advertising expenditures in 2008, lowering them marginally, to 6.0 percent from 6.2 percent in September last year.
Aegis's media-buying unit also published forecasts for 2009 and issued separate data on Canada, Central and Eastern Europe and th [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 18th 2008
Digital Music Sales Near $3B, Don't Offset Low CD Sales
Music sold online and via mobile rose from zero to an estimated $2.9 billion -- or 15 percent of industry sales -- in the last five years, making music more digitally advanced than any entertainment sector besides games, according to a report from the international music industry, writes MarketingCharts.
[...]
Posted: Monday, January 28th 2008
Mobile TV Subscriber Numbers to Shoot Up, Operators' Revenue Not so Much
The mobile TV market will be worth over €4.4 billion (nearly $6.5 billion) in 2011 in Asia, North America and Western Europe combined, and subscription business models will dominate the market, generating more than 90 percent of revenues in 2011, according to a Screen Digest forecast, [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 4th 2007
Freeloaders Outnumber Paying Downloaders of Radiohead's 'In Rainbows'
The release of Radiohead's In Rainbows album on a pay-as-you-wish basis has challenged the music industry's traditional distribution and sales model by allowing consumers to set the value of artists they revere.
A comScore study looks at downloads and online sales of In Rainbows, [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 7th 2007
Social Networkers Profiled, Primed to Go Mobile
US and international social networkers are more likely to own technology, consume more digital entertainment and own more mobile devices, according to an Ipsos Insight study, reports MarketingCharts.
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Posted: Friday, October 26th 2007