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The number of DSL (digital subscriber line) customers worldwide reached 10 million at the end of June 2001, according to a new report released last week by Point Topic. This represents growth of 354% over the last twelve months. DSL is a system of delivering high-bandwidth (broadband) data to homes and businesses via an ordinary… Continue reading Worldwide DSL Users Breaks 10m Mark

Access to the internet via a set-top box, whilst still relatively unusual at present, is set to grow from 6.9 million units to over 74 million in the US by 2005, according to research from Cahners In-Stat Group published in September. The research firm projects that, as broadband penetration rates and consumer requests for iTV… Continue reading US Set-Top Box Net Access To Grow 61% To 2005

Forty-one percent of online households in the US will subscribe to a broadband internet connection service by 2006, according to two US broadband reports released by Jupiter Media Metrix last week. The data show a fast rise in broadband Net access from the 9% of homes currently connected in 2000. The term broadband refers to… Continue reading US Broadband Internet Penetration To Reach 41% By 2006

A new report from Jupiter MMXI has highlighted the growth in internet usage since the research group began recording data at the end of 1999. The number of monthly home users in the UK has grown from 7.8 million in October 1999 to 13.5 million in January 2001. The number of minutes spent online each… Continue reading Jupiter Charts UK Internet Growth

According to Accenture, e-commerce is thriving in Europe despite the lingering threat of recession. “The Unexpected eEurope” published this week, found that 60% of senior European executives surveyed said that they planned to increase eCommerce spending by an average of 15% over the next year. A further 49% said that they expected to be exploiting… Continue reading U-Commerce, The Next Big Thing?

US e-commerce spend jumped by 54% in September to $4.7 billion, according to a report released yesterday by Nielsen//NetRatings and Harris Interactive. Just under 39 million people in the US bought something online last month, a new record according to the research companies’ Interactive eCommercePulse measurement system. However, spend was actually down 14.7% month on… Continue reading Number Of US Online Buyers Peaks In September

Online content producers that believe users will pay for their content because of its intrinsic value are wrong, according to Making Content Pay, a new report by Forrester Research, released today. The research firm claims that the user’s experience of web-based content is complementary to other media, rather than as substitute to them. For this… Continue reading Users Will Not Pay For Most Online Content, Says Forrester

In it’s 2000 Long Term Advertising Forecasts, The Advertising Association has predicted a rise of more than 40% in advertising expenditure over the next 12 years. The report covers expenditure trends to 2012 in nine media – television, national newspapers, regional newspapers, consumer magazines, business magazines, directories, outdoor, radio and cinema – and seven product… Continue reading AA forecasts 40% growth in ad expenditure

Despite the unstable state of the US economy, eMarketer forecasts a healthy outlook for for online shopping in its new eCommerce: B2C Report. The report analyses forecasts from over 100 researchers and, from this, eMarketer estimates that US B2C ecommerce revenues will grow from $38.3 billion in 2000 to $156 billion by 2005. US B2C… Continue reading B2C eCommerce Forecasts From eMarketer Shows Continued Growth In Online Shopping

The UK online advertising market is currently the fastest-growing advertising medium in history, according to new figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). Research published by the IAB today shows that despite the economic downturn and terrorist attacks in the US, the UK online adspend is growing faster than the online markets… Continue reading UK Online Adspend Growth Tops Europe