According to the May edition of the Forrester research Online Retail Index, total US spending on online sales decreased from $4.3 billion in April to $3.9 billion in May. This was due largely to a seasonal drop in online travel bookings and a drop in the number of US households shopping online – down to… Continue reading Online Shopping Falls In US

Jupiter MMXI, suppliers of at home internet audience data for the UK since 1999, has announced that data will now be released from now on on a weekly, rather than monthly, basis. As calls for industry wide agreement on standards for internet audience measurement gather strength, the move will make it easier for advertisers to… Continue reading Jupiter MMXI Launches Weekly Internet Data Release

UK adspend broke the £17bn barrier for the first time ever during 2000, according newly released statistics from the Advertising Association. During what turned out to be the ninth consecutive year of growth for the industry, adspend increased by £1,594m from the 1999 total, an accelerated growth rate of 10%, or more than 7% in… Continue reading UK Adspend Tops

By 2005, Jupiter predicts, interactive TV shopping revenues will reach $4.3 billion and iTV shopping will account for 44% of all TV-based shopping. Despite this opportunity, iTV advertising will not be big business as the market and technology will be fragmented in the short to medium term. Advertising revenue from iTV, Jupiter forecast, will account… Continue reading iTV Revenue Will Fall Short Of “Grand” Expectations, Says Jupiter

The latest Advertising Confidence Index (ACI) report from economist and media analyst, Jack Myers, suggests that the advertising downturn may have hit its lowest point in the US, although full recovery could still be a year and a half away. The ACI shows that there was a slight increase in marketers’ confidence during March, suggesting… Continue reading Myers Report Suggests US Ad Downturn May Have Peaked

According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) British retail sales growth rose at the highest rate for almost four years in the three months to May 2001. In the period March to May the volume of sales recorded was 1.5% higher than for the previous 3 month period and 5.8%… Continue reading UK Retail Sales Growth Increases As US Fails To Live Up To Expectations

There are around 16 million internet users in the UK and this year 45% of them are women, according to the Annual Internet Survey from Which?. This is a 6% increase on last year and continues to narrow the gap between male and female web usage. There survey also shows that almost 8 million people… Continue reading Gender Gap Closes In Net Usage, According To Which?Online Survey

For the first time since the launch of digital TV in October 1998, BMRB reports that there has been no increase in the level of take up of services for four months.       Jan     Jun   Increase (%)   Increase (% points)  2000    15%    23%  53%  8  2001    29%    32%  10%  3  In a recent BMRB survey,… Continue reading BMRB Reports “Plateau” in Digital TV Take Up

Reports this morning suggest that talks between AOL Time Warner and IPC (see AOL Time Warner May Bid For IPC) have fallen through. The valuation of the company is thought to have been the reason for the breakdown as IPC and its largest shareholder, Cinven, deemed the offer price, of between $1.2 billion and $1.5… Continue reading AOL Time Warner Scraps Talks With IPC

Granada and Carlton Communications have hit a stumbling block in plans to bring their pay-TV businesses under the umbrella ITV brand (see Granada And Carlton Bring ONdigital Under ITV Brand), following discussions with some of the Network’s smaller franchise holders. Although all the parties involved have so far declined to comment on the talks, press… Continue reading Granada And Carlton Meet Opposition To ITV Brand Plans, Say Reports