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comScore has released its December rankings of the largest and fastest-growing internet properties and site categories in the UK, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. “The Christmas season had a significant impact on the prevailing traffic trends in December,” said Bob Ivins, EVP of European Markets for comScore. “Eight of… Continue reading Fastest Growing Internet Properties In December

GCap’s ‘indie’ station, Xfm, is to launch a music podcast featuring 30-second clips of 10 new songs before they are available to buy online.Users will be able to download the clips as part of the New Music Rising podcast every Saturday morning.The service follows a deal struck last year between commercial radio and the PPL,… Continue reading Xfm Launches New Podcast

Sheryl Norman, digital director at Omnicom Media Group, has been confirmed as a panellist for MediaTel Group’s forthcoming ‘Future of Online’ seminar, to be held in early February.Norman will be joining Adam Freeman, commercial director at Guardian News and Media, who was confirmed last week.Chaired by the BBC’s media correspondent, Torin Douglas, with media journalist… Continue reading Omnicom Media Group Digital Director Joins Seminar Panel

The music and download company behind Bebo and Last.fm’s music services, 7digital, has secured funding of £4.25 million.The digital media delivery company, based in the UK, has received backing from investors Sutton Place Managers and Balderton Capital.It is understood that 7digital will spend the money on expanding beyond the UK, possibly into the US and… Continue reading 7digital Secures £4.25m Funding

UK Internet traffic to newspaper websites reached its highest level in over two years last week off the back of a number of big news stories, according to the latest figures from Hitwise.For the week ending 26 January 2008, 1.48% of all UK internet visits went to websites in Hitwise’s News and Media – Print… Continue reading UK Internet Traffic To Newspaper Websites Reaches High

Average monthly unique audience figures for US newspaper websites grew by more than 3.6 million in 2007, a year on year increase of more than 6% over 2006 numbers, according to new research from the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). Monthly unique visitors to US newspaper websites averaged 62.8 million in last year’s fourth quarter,… Continue reading US Online Newspaper Viewership Reaches Record In 2007

More than 85% of the world’s online population has used the internet to make a purchase – increasing the market for online shopping by 40% in the past two years – according to the latest Nielsen Global Online Survey.Among internet users, the highest percentage shopping online is found in South Korea, where 99% of those… Continue reading Global Market For Online Shopping Increases 40%

Almost 12 million people have listened to the radio via the internet, while 4.3 million have downloaded a podcast, according to new research from RAJAR.The figures are from RAJAR’s first Podcasting and Radio Listening via Internet Survey, which was conducted last autumn by Ipsos Mori.It found that In any given week, 8.1 million people listen… Continue reading Almost 12m Listen To Internet Radio

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, and social networking site MySpace are launching a partnership to bring new and archived short form BBC content to MySpaceTV.The announcement marks the first global agreement of this type between MySpaceTV and a major broadcaster.Under the partnership, the best BBC video content will be made available online… Continue reading BBC Worldwide In MySpace Content Deal

More than 85% of the world’s online population has used the internet to make a purchase – increasing the market for online shopping by 40% in the past two years – according to the latest Nielsen Global Online Survey. Among internet users, the highest percentage shopping online is found in South Korea, where 99% of… Continue reading Global Market For Online Shopping Increases 40%