Internet penetration across Europe may have reached a plateau, according to a European Commission report – eEurope 2002 – released this month. Internet penetration in European households rose from 18% in March 2000 to 28% in October 2000, 36% in June 2001 and reached 38% by December last year. This suggest that the rapid take-up… Continue reading European Net Penetration May Plateau Below US, Finds EC

A new report from Andersen, focusing on mobile applications using digital content, forecasts a market worth E18.9 billion by 2006. The report, commissioned by the European Commission DG Information Society, forecasts that the mobile digital content market in western Europe will rise to E18 billion over the next 4 years. Currently the mobile market is… Continue reading Mobile Digital Content Will Be Worth E18.9 Billion By 2006

Parks Associates estimates that by the end of 2005, US households will have more than 80 million connection points for entertainment-specific applications. “We believe that digital content in the form of video and high-quality audio files will drive certain home networking applications, especially if that content can be aggregated on a platform and sent to… Continue reading US Homes Will Have 80m Entertainment Network Connection Points By 2005

The top seven countries will have a third of the global digital TV homes by 2006, according to data from Informa Media Group. The fourth edition of Digital Broadcasting Revolution forecasts that these countries will have 148 million digital homes by 2006, representing 55% penetration. The top seven recorded 41 million digital homes at the… Continue reading Over 450m Digital TV Homes Worldwide By 2006, Says Informa

The European online travel market will be valued at more than E20 billion by 2006, according to a new report from Jupiter MMXI, with the UK currently leading the way with almost six million unique visitors in January 2002. Germany and France follow the UK with 5.1 million and 2.5 million unique visitors in the… Continue reading European Online Travel Market To Be Worth E20bn By 2006, Says Jupiter

US network and spot television spending for the 2002 Winter Olympics will total approximately $700 million, up 11.6% on the $627 million grossed in the last Winter Olympics, according to data released by CMR yesterday. During the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, network television grossed $480 million, while spot television totaled $147 million. In 2000,… Continue reading Winter Olympics US TV Revenue To Rise 12% On 2000’s Event

Video on demand (VOD) services could prove to be pivotal in the fortunes of cable companies in 2002 and 2003, with many operators relying on VOD revenues to enable them to reach their forecasts. According to Jack Myers’ analysis of the state of the cable industry in the US, it is the delivery and marketing… Continue reading Timing Video On Demand Launches Could Be Crucial For Cable Companies, Says Myers

Capital Radio and UBC Media Group have announced the formation of a joint venture to develop digital radio data services in the UK. Capital owns regional and local digital radio licences and UBC controls data capacity on the digital multiplexes owned by the MXR consortium. Under the terms of the new venture, Capital and UBC… Continue reading Capital Radio And UBC Team Up To Push Digital Radio Multimedia Content

French advertising group, Havas, has posted a 24.9% increase in revenues and net new billings worth E2.1 billion for the year ended December 2001. The final quarter of the year saw the group – the world’s fifth largest advertising network – pick up E600 million of new business, up from E400 million in Q3. New… Continue reading Havas Revenues Strong, Global Outlook Remains Cautious

Media stocks reacted positively to the full-year results posted by French advertising group Havas this morning, with WPP, Aegis and United Business Media (UBM) all showing strong gains. Havas posted a 24.9% rise in revenues for the year to December and despite a cautious outlook from chairman Alain de Pouzilhac, shares in WPP had rallied… Continue reading Media Shares Boosted By Havas Results