“The world wide web is tightening up,” according to a new report from eMarketer, which shows that more and more websites are now charging for access to content and more and more consumers are willing to pay for it. Across the board, from financial data to news to music, the availability of free content is… Continue reading Days Of Free Web Content May Be Numbered, Says eMarketer
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Online shopping sales hit the £1 billion mark during November, as customers turned to the web in a bid to avoid the pre-Christmas high-street rush, according to the Interactive Media In Retail Group (IMRG). The retail monitoring group found that web spending was up 10% on the previous month when £860.5 million was exchanged online… Continue reading Internet Shopping Is A Billion Pound Industry, Says IMRG
NTL has announced that it now has half a million residential broadband internet customers. The cable company launched the new 1-Megabit service earlier this year, claiming that a combination of a powerful cable modem and NTL’s fibre optic network make the service twenty times faster than a normal dial-up internet connection. Commenting on the success… Continue reading NTL Reaches Half A Million Broadband Users
Pearson, publisher of the Financial Times, has said that it does not expect to witness an upturn in ad sales at the title next year. This follows news that advertising revenues at the FT were down 11% in the second half of 2002. The FT Group, which includes the Investors Chronicle and a number of… Continue reading Pearson Sees No Revival In Financial Sector
Joe Sinyor, chief executive of Trinity Mirror’s newspaper division, is believed to be stepping down following the appointment of Sly Bailey as chief executive of the group last week (see Bailey Leaves IPC To Replace Graf At Trinity Mirror). According to a report in the Sunday Times, Sinyor, who has been at Trinity Mirror for… Continue reading Sinyor Rumoured To Be Departing Trinity Mirror
US advertising will grow by 1.6% in 2002, leading the global ad industry out of two years of decline, according to a consensus of recent advertising forecasts. Growth is then expected to rise to around 3.6% in 2003, hit 4.2% in 2004 and fall back to 3.7% in 2005. These averages were taken from the… Continue reading Insight Analysis: US Advertising Forecast Comparisons
Internet usage has continued its inexorable rise in most countries and across the world, the web is increasingly regarded as an essential tool in everyday life. These are the findings of a new report by the global market research company Ipsos-Reid. For The Face of the Web 2002, citizens in twelve different countries were interviewed… Continue reading Internet Joins The Mainstream Media
The worldwide mobile phone handset market is set to rebound from what was its worst ever year in 2001, to show growth of 1.8% in 2002, according to Attack of the Phones: Worldwide Handset Market Forecast and Analysis, 2002-2006, a new report from IDC. According to the report, there is reason for optimism as shipments… Continue reading Global Mobile Phone Handset Market To Rebound From Worst Year, Says IDC
ISBA has today underlined the case for a Competition Commission review of the proposed merger of Carlton and Granada. A submission to the OFT outlines advertisers’ concerns over the impact that a merger would have on the market for airtime sales in the UK, and makes clear their belief that the proposals should be referred… Continue reading ISBA Urges OFT To Block ITV Merger
Third quarter advertising revenues fell by 2.5% at Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Mirror titles and a raft of regional newspapers. However, there has been some improvement in the first two months of Q4, with a slight growth of 0.3%, the group said in a pre-close trading statement this morning. There is currently a north/south… Continue reading Trinity Mirror Ad Revenues Pick Up In Q4