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Web 2.0 News and Trends: Rumor has it that Google will launch a music initiative called One Box to offer song previews, artist bios, graphics, and video - but no downloads or subscriptions. One Box won't be limited to music, according to CNET's Stephen Shankland. There are several different kin  [...]

To Protect Economy, China Sets Limits on Virtual Currency

Online transactions with virtual currency in online gaming has become so widespread in China that the government fears it will affect the actual economy, The New York Times reports. The country is currently one of the world's largest markets for massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs) like World of Warcraft; tens of millions of youth are reportedly trading virtual goods for real money or  [...]

GOOG, Record Labels Plot to Dethrone Baidu, Scoop China

In an ongoing attempt to bait advertisers and a broader slice of the Chinese audience, Google's Chinese arm has formed an alliance with a number of music labels, including EMI, Warner Music Group and Vivendi's Universal. The labels will work in tandem to provide free music downloads to anyone in China. usic, said they would seek to profit here by working with Google and offering free downloads of music to anyone inside China. At present, China host the   [...]

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Typical SocNetters Address 110 People/Week; Spend $101 Online/Month

With 40 million active users in the US, social networking has grown 93% since 2006 -- and is poised to play a vital role in the current economic downturn, according to a trend report from Netpop Research LLC. Crucially, Netpop also predicts a related increase in social media advertising opportunities, MarketingCharts   [...]

Nintendo Explores Downloadable Video for Wii

Nintendo hopes to leverage the global success of its Wii by selling videos on the console -- first in Japan, and perhaps elsewhere, if all goes well. Ad agency Dentsu will help market the model to the Japanese. Dentsu's anime production firm, Pioneer LDC, is developing content for the medium. (Pioneer, which can loo  [...]

Nearly 40% of Online Japanese Visit Music Sites

Nearly 40% of the Japanese online population visited an entertainment music site in August 2008, and Japan had the highest penetration of users of Apple iTunes software for the month when compared with other countries, according to a study of music-related sites in Japan by comScore, MarketingCharts   [...]

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China, US Compete for Visitors to Beijing '08 Olympic Site

After a tight race with the US, China walked off with the gold for the most visitors to Beijing2008.cn, the official website of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, according to a comScore study (via MarketingCharts). Beijing2008.cn attracted 16.5 milli  [...]

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.   [...]

Entertainment Drives Mobile Web Growth in BRIC Countries

Entertainment-themed websites are the most popular with mobile internet users in the growing mobile markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC), according to Nielsen's latest Mobile Media Marketplace report (PDF), writes MarketingCha  [...]

Digital Spurs China's 20% Ad Growth

Total ad spend in China will jump 20 percent from 2007 to 2008, reaching $32 billion, according to a GroupM report (via ClickZ). The report, titled "This Year, Next Year: China," attributed the growth to the rapid development and popularity of online and mobile ad formats. Highlights from the report: Automotive, IT, real estate, and network services attract the biggest spend. Together, onl  [...]

Social Networking Takes Globe, Facebook Up 153%

Growth in social-networking users in North America is beginning to level off, but their numbers are burgeoning in other regions around the world -- with Facebook leading the way -- according to a comScore study of worldwide usage of social networking sites, writes MarketingCharts. During the   [...]

Olympics-Related Site Traffic Takes Off

NBC's and Yahoo's Olympics sites lead the US internet-audience race among the top 10 most-visited Beijing Olympics-related content websites -- and NBC's online-video offering have also gained momentum, according to (pdf) Nielsen Online, writes MarketingCharts.   [...]

Facebook Audience Triples in Japan, but It's Only Fourth Largest

Facebook's Japan audience more than tripled in the past year, while Mixi.jp was the most-visited social networking destination in Japan with 12.7 million visitors, according to a study based on data from the comScore World Metrix service, MarketingCharts reports.   [...]

Google Takes on Music Search in China

Hoping to trump Baidu's competitive advantage in China, Google plans to launch its own music search site. google.cn/music is currently only available to Chinese users. And unlike Baidu, which points users to a number of illegal music downloading resources, it will only point users to free or legal-to-distribute tracks. The ad-supported service has  [...]

Tech Tools Packed with Growing Media Array

US consumers store an average of 907 songs, 924 photos, 25 movies and seven games on their ever-growing array of digital devices, according to (PDF) a recent study by KRC Research and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) - via MarketingCharts.  [...]

More People Use Internet in New Ways, Embrace Web 2.0

Nearly a quarter of the world's population (some 1.4 billion people) will use the internet on a regular basis in 2008. That number is expected to surpass 1.9 billion, or 30 percent of the world's population, in 2012, according to IDC's Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast, MarketingCharts reports.   [...]

'OK' Invades Japan with International Online Edition

OK magazine arrives in Japan this fall with a web-only launch of its international edition, writes MediaBuyerPlanner. A launch date has not been announced, but a teaser site is already up and running. OKjapan.jp will include translated articles from the other 21 editions of OK, along with new content for Japanese readers. An OK-branded café will publicize the new site and a beauty  [...]

Video, Social Networking to Fuel Sixfold Increase in Global IP Traffic by 2012

Global IP Traffic is expected to reach more than half a zettabyte* in 2012, increasing by a factor of six from 2007 to 2012, according to Cisco, which said the growth would be driven by online video and Web 2.0 social-networking and collaboration applications, MarketingCharts writ  [...]