The number of UK internet users with broadband access has increased by 60% in the last six months, according to new survey from NOP. Approximately 8% of web users in Britain currently subscribe to broadband services and this figure is expected to rise to 15% by August 2003. This complements a recent report by Continental… Continue reading Britons Latching Onto The Benefits Of Broadband
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Multimedia messaging (MMS) has been overhyped and analysts need to be more realistic in making revenue predictions, says a new report from the Wireless World Forum (W2F). MMS represents the next generation of mobile messaging and involves the transfer of text, sounds, images and video between handsets. Some industry observers have forecasted that annual revenues… Continue reading Potential Impact Of MMS Has Been Overstated, Says Report
Three bidders have been confirmed as potential buyers of the insolvent German media group KirchMedia but Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation will take no further part in the auction process, according to reports in the German press. A consortium including the investment bank Lehman Brothers, German retailer Rewe and Saudi Prince Al-Waleed is believed to have… Continue reading News Corp Out Of The Running For Kirch, Says Report
Almost 10% of the worldÂ’s population now has access to the web according to a new report from Nua Internet Surveys. Based on data collected from a variety of sources, Nua estimates that the global internet audience had increased to 580.78 million users by the end of May 2002. This represents an increase of 36.58… Continue reading One-Tenth of The Global Population Now Online, Says Report
Cable is to be the leading broadband internet platform in the US until 2005, at which point DSL (digital subscriber line) will just steal the lead, according to new forecasts from Park Associates. There will be 40.9 million broadband households in the US by 2005, according to the projections; 17.2 million of these will be… Continue reading DSL To Lead US Mass Adoption Of Broadband
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has taken steps to boost the widespread adoption of digital television (DTV) in the country by requiring that new TV sets have a digital tuner built in to them. The FCC has imposed a deadline on electronics manufacturers to include the receivers in new sets by 2007 at the… Continue reading FCC Imposes Deadlines For DTV Sets
Global market research company, Ipsos Group, has acquired the assets of ACNielsen’s US-based strategic marketing research and product development consultancy, ACNielsen Vantis. Upon completion of the sale, the company will be known as Ipsos-Novaction & Vantis. Ipsos says that the Vantis suite of marketing products and services complements the product and service portfolio of the… Continue reading Ipsos Acquires US ACNielsen Division
Insolvency advisers have selected TF1 and Sony to enter the final stage of bidding for KirchMedia, the bankrupt broadcast and sports rights owner. It had been anticipated that the original list of seven bidders (see Seven Bids In For KirchMedia) would be reduced to three but a collaboration of German publishers, led by Axel Springer,… Continue reading Two Bidders To Compete For Kirch Assets
US advertising expenditure increased by 1.4% last month but total expenditure for the first five months of the year was still down on the 2001 level, according to the latest figures from CMR. Adspend in May totalled $902 billion bringing the cumulative total for the year to $4029 billion. This represented a 1.2% fall on… Continue reading CMR Proclaims Healthy Adspend Growth
Total US magazine advertising revenue for July increased by 8.6% year on year, closing at $1.1 billion, according to the latest data from the Publishers Information Bureau (PIB). Ad pages for July totalled 15,125, up 0.5% from last year. In the calendar year to date, ad revenue closed at $8.8 billion, a decline of 0.3%… Continue reading US Mags Revenue Rise In July Supports ‘Cautious Optimism’