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New research by the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) shows that European online shoppers are now buying more from their browsing on the internet. The EIAA Mediascope Europe 2006 Study, managed by SPA and conducted by Synovate, explores the trends and spending patterns of Europe’s online shoppers. The research highlights the product categories with the… Continue reading European Online Shoppers Purchasing More

Web traffic to the blog pages of the top 10 online newspapers in the US grew 210% year over year in December, according to new research from Nielsen//NetRatings. The overall unique audience growth to these online newspapers was 9% year over year. Unique visitors to blog pages accounted for 13% of their December 2006 internet… Continue reading Online Traffic To US Newspaper Blog Pages Increases

A new report from eMarketer estimates that there will be 136.1 million Europeans online in the five largest European Union countries and advertisers will spend $7.5 billion to reach all Western Europeans, up 25% from $6.0 billion last year. The Europe Online Advertising report analyzes the many, diverse factors driving internet advertising growth throughout the… Continue reading Western European Online Advertising To Reach $7.5 Billion

By 2010 more than half (55%) of all the video content consumed online in the US will be user generated, representing 44 billion video streams, according to a new forecast from Screen Digest. Screen Digest says that the user generated online video market (UGOV) exploded in 2006 and by the end of the year, user… Continue reading US User Generated Content To Grow

High Street retailers such as Marks & Spencer, HMV.co.uk and Woolworths were among the top performers online in December, according to new analysis from Hitwise. Hitwise data also reveals that the share of UK internet visits to Marks & Spencer were up 25% year-on-year in December. Advertising and strong offers from Woolworths, Marks and Spencer… Continue reading Christmas UK Online Retail Traffic

Nielsen//NetRatings has announced that on the day after Christmas, US traffic to retail websites included in its eShopping Holiday Index grew 35% year on year, from 20.9 million in 2005 to 28.1 million in 2006. Nielsen//NetRatings says that shopping were going online to check out after-Christmas sales, redeem gift cards and spend holiday cash, or… Continue reading Christmas US Online Retail Traffic

According to a new report from The Diffusion Group (TDG), the number of broadband enabled TVs is expected to exceed 162 million households globally by 2011. TDG defines broadband televisions as those which are capable of directly or indirectly receiving broadband video content. Colin Dixon, senior analyst and author of the Broadband Video: Redefining the… Continue reading Broadband Enabled TVs To Exceed 162 Million

BT Vision has hired Paul Ridsdale, formerly head of marketing for Sky Sports, as senior marketing manager, sports advertising and sponsorship.Ridsdale will be responsible for marketing activities across all BT Vision’s sport programming. He will report to James Soames, BT Vision’s head of customer acquisition.BT Vision will launch its new sports service this summer. Following… Continue reading BT Vision Hires Sky Sports Marketing Boss

There will be 157 million US Internet video users in 2010, up from 107.7 million this year, according to a new report from eMarketer. The Internet Video Audience report analyses not only who’s watching video content online, but also what they watch and how they watch it. The report says that after virtually controlling video… Continue reading US Internet Video Users To Reach 157 Million

The UK (-1.88%); Germany (-1.03%); and Japan (-0.69%) each experienced a drop in the number of active home internet users in November over the previous month, according to data from Nielsen//NetRatings. Gains in the 10 countries tracked come to 6.1 million active home users, a 1.88 percent increase from October. The largest increases occurred in… Continue reading Global Home Internet User Numbers