Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company, has revealed that five of the ten fastest growing online brands over the last year in the UK relate to social and professional networking. RockYou! – providing applications and widgets for social networks – was the fastest growing online brand over the last year; its audience increasing… Continue reading Social Networking Dominates UK’s Fastest Growing Online Brands
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The controversial documentary series looking behind the scenes at the Queen got off to a pretty good start last night, picking up a peak of seven million adult viewers (a 28.4% share of the audience), but this was not enough for it to defeat I’m A Celebrity….On for an hour and a half from 8.30pm… Continue reading I’m A Celebrity… Beats Controversial Queen Doco
BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 are joining together to launch an on-demand service from next year, with the working title of ‘Kangaroo’.The UK service will carry a broad range of programming and will be a rich entertainment site where consumers can catch up on recently aired shows and watch old favourites.The joint venture will… Continue reading BBC, ITV And Channel 4 To Launch Joint On-Demand Service
Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company, has revealed that five of the ten fastest growing online brands over the last year in the UK relate to social and professional networking.RockYou! – providing applications and widgets for social networks – was the fastest growing online brand over the last year; its audience increasing 2,106%… Continue reading Social Networking Dominates UK’s Fastest Growing Online Brands
Online networking is now firmly established as an essential element in the working lives of UK marketers, according to the latest Marketing Trends Survey, from The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). Over half of marketers taking part in the survey (55%) say that their organisations use business networking regularly, while over a third (37%) claim… Continue reading Marketing Trends Survey Finds Digital Technology Now An Essential Tool
The increasing popularity of casual gaming, combined with a steadily increasing variety of gaming-friendly handsets offering high quality 3D graphics aimed at core gamers, will help to push end-user generated revenues from mobile games to nearly $10bn by 2009, according to a new report by Juniper Research. In total, more than 460m mobile users are… Continue reading Mobile Games Market Predicted To Reach $10bn by 2009
The number of broadband customers in the UK will continue growing steadily, but at a lower rate, to reach about 21 million by the end of 2012 (19 million consumer lines and two million business ones), according to the latest forecast from Point Topic. The online analyst predicts that the current downward trend in growth… Continue reading UK Broadband Customers Will Continue To Grow, But The Rate Will Slow
Tiscali is expanding its online video presence with the launch of Real Estate TV on its portal.The deal follows last week’s announcement that sports broadcaster Setanta is to launch a range of internet TV services on the portal (see Tiscali Boosts Online TV Offering With Setanta Deal).Real Estate TV will make broadcast content available on… Continue reading Tiscali Expands TV Service With New Channel
AOL UK has launched a mobile portal service that gives users access to content channels, email and AOL Web Surf, with targeted mobile banners available for advertisers.The company said the portal would offer users the most “realistic interpretation of a full online experience” on a mobile to date.The portal gives users 30 days of continuous… Continue reading AOL Launches Mobile Portal Service
Ad-based revenue models are going to have a profound long-term impact on the development of the mobile industry, according to a new report from the telecom analyst firm Berg Insight. Berg Insight’s Johan Fagerberg said: “Traditionally, telecom operators have focused their attention on maximising revenues by managing network traffic. “Now we have a different breed… Continue reading Ad-Based Revenue Models To Have Profound Impact On Mobile Industry