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Online classified ads will grow faster than any other form of online advertising this year in the US, Jupiter Media Metrix reported yesterday. Spending is projected to increase from $1.2 billion in 2002 to $2.3 billion by 2007 according to a new Jupiter report, Online Advertising Through 2007: Is the Worst Over?. The strong performance… Continue reading US Online Ad Spend Will Reach $16 Billion By 2007, Says Jupiter

The online advertising market continues to be difficult to predict, causing web companies to struggle with revenues, according to analysis by GartnerG2. Net giants such like Yahoo!, DoubleClick and AOL Time Warner are feeling pessimistic about the outlook for online advertising as AOL’s results this week show (see Box Office Success Offsets AOL Time Warner… Continue reading Online Advertising Will Pick Up In Q3, Says GartnerG2

Home internet access in the UK reached 39% of households in Q4 2001, according to the latest data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) released this morning. This is equivalent to 9.8 million households, or 25.6 million adults, says the ONS. Gender gap closes The data show that the gap between men and women… Continue reading UK Home Net Access Hits 39%, But Growth Plateaus

“Fast and free online magazines are not enough for Americans to sacrifice the convenience associated with traditional paper magazines”. According to a new survey by InsightExpress “Americans still demand that they be able to take their magazines to bed, into the bathroom or on their commute”. According to the survey there is no significant threat… Continue reading Online Mags ‘No Threat’ To Publishers, Says InsightExpress

The use of the internet to make telephone calls is set to rise in Western Europe, as internet service providers (ISPs) will increasingly seek to offer IP telephony to their customers (IP stands for internet protocol). This is according to a new report from IDC, which forecasts that user spending on IP telephony services in… Continue reading Internet Telephony To Show Strong Growth, Says IDC

Sweden leads the way in online shopping across Europe, with 27% of internet users using the web to buy products and services. This compares to 22% of UK users, accordint to figures released this month by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.

European countries are overtaking the USA in the race to roll out broadband DSL (digital subscriber line) to homes and businesses, according to data released this month by UK-based Point Topic. DSL is a broadband system of high-speed communications which uses standard phone lines to deliver internet access at speeds ten times faster than a… Continue reading US DSL Growth Starts To Lag Behind Europe

According to a survey conducted by The Survey Shop on behalf of Barclays, internet users say they save on average 63.6 hours per year by shopping online. Online banking saves users an average of 65 minutes per week (56 hours a year) amd almost half of those surveyed (43%) now bank banking online. The most… Continue reading A Shop Online Saves Time

Jupiter reports that whilst only 16% of online households in the US subscribe to broadband, more than 24% of all dial-up consumers are considering signing up for broadband services within the next 12 months. According to two new Jupiter Broadband Reports, dial-up consumers “favour utility over entertainment, even though companies catering to a broadband audience… Continue reading A Quarter Of All US Dial-Up Subscribers Are Considering Switching To Broadband

Overall US e-commerce will increase by more than 57% this year to reach $482 billion by the end of 2002, according to new report from eMarketer. The North America eCommerce: B2C & B2B study says that that more than half of the 123.4 million US internet users aged 14 or over – 68.9 million people… Continue reading US E-Commerce Forecasts Comparisons From eMarketer