Nielsen executives began a series of industry briefings on their new Online Campaign Ratings (OCR) service last week. Online Campaign Ratings is a new measurement system that provides GRPs for online advertising campaigns, enabling consistent cross-platform reach and frequency metrics for the first time.

The Financial Times now earns more from consumers through subscription revenue than advertising, delegates at the Ignition conference were told.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO was on stage to launch day two of the Ignition conference in New York. One of the key questions posed to her was, will Facebook be bigger than Google?

New research launched today (1st December) by IPC Media has found that 50% of consumers think that advertising on premium content sites is well matched to the sites. This compares to 28% for portal sites and 30% for social networking sites.

This Saturday (3rd December) sees the airing of the first industry wide connected consumer campaign to promote digital radio.

Expect Apple TV to launch in a big way late in 2012, says Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, speaking at the Ignition conference in New York today.

Opening the Business Insider Ignition conference in New York today, Adam Bain, chief revenue officer at Twitter, said the business’ goal for next year was “all about scale.”

Newsline is currently attending the Ignition: Future of Media conference in New York. The theme is “The Money is Back”.

The quality market titles, both the dailies and Sundays, were the biggest losers in readership terms, year on year for the 12 months ending September 2011.

Maureen Duffy, the out-going Newspaper Marketing Agency (NMA) boss, is to become UK chief executive officer at TNS.