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After two months away from the top spot Guardian.co.uk is once again the most popular website of the audited national newspapers.According to data released by ABCe, the Guardian site crawled its way back in April gaining 2 million unique users to reclaim its number one position. The rankings have been fairly uncharacteristic of late, with… Continue reading ABCe April 2009: Guardian crawls back to top spot

Developed Asian markets such as Japan and Korea have stormed ahead of Europe and North America in mass uptake of mobile multimedia, according to a new report from TNS. The number of consumers using mobile TV features in Japan and Korea has more than doubled in the last year, rising from 14% to 32%, said… Continue reading Developed Asian mobile multimedia markets storm ahead of Europe

Daily Mail & General Trust has reported a 47% fall in adjusted pre-tax profits to £77 million for the six months to 29 March. The owner of the Daily Mail also suffered an 85% drop in operating profit at its regional division and a 59% fall across its national newspaper business. It said that the… Continue reading DMGT pre-tax profits fall 47%

Almost 90% of agencies have never carried out research into the effectiveness of online video advertising, according to new research.The survey of 150 video advertising media buyers, carried out by video advertising network BrightRroll, found that 56% of respondents would be more inclined to spend money if research existed.However, agency buyers said that if they… Continue reading Agencies not carrying out research into online video advertising effectiveness

Daily Mail & General Trust, owner of the Daily Mail, has reported a 47% fall in adjusted pre-tax profits to £77 million for the six months to 29 March.The publisher also suffered an 85% drop in operating profit at its regional division and a 59% fall across its national newspaper business.It said that the results… Continue reading DMGT pre-tax profits fall 47%

The north Kent free weekly title the Gravesend, Dartford & Swanley Extra, published by Kent Messenger Group, is relaunching as the Messenger Extra.Messenger Extra will be a single-edition title, replacing the two editions distributed in Gravesend and in Dartford and Swanley.The old door-to-door delivery distribution model will be replaced by a mix of free-to-home delivery,… Continue reading Kent Messenger Group to relaunch free weekly paper

The Daily Telegraph‘s website has seen a big boost in traffic following the MPs’ expenses scandal, according to new data from Hitwise.Hitwise said that 1 in every 756 page views in the UK last week went to a Telegraph property, with the newspaper’s market share of UK pages views (0.13%) the highest it has ever… Continue reading MPs’ expenses scandal boosts traffic to Telegraph website

Americans conducted 14.8 billion core searches last month, up 3% on March, according to April 2009 data from comScore. Google Sites led the US core search market for the month with 9.5 billion (64.2%) searches conducted. It was followed by Yahoo! Sites with 3 billion searches (20.4%), and Microsoft Sites with 1.2 billion searches (8.2%).… Continue reading Americans conducted 14.8bn online searches in April

Tuesday night’s TV saw BBC One come up trumps with its Holby City/New Tricks double-header from 8pm.Hospital drama Holby City, on for an hour from 8pm had a peak of 5.7 million viewers (a 25.9% share of the audience) with an average of 5.6 million tuning in for its entire running time.Following straight on was… Continue reading Tuesday night success for cops and docs

Google is integrating barcode scanning into its Android mobile phone operating system.The new application scans barcodes on products and allows users to find out how much the product retails for online, as well as providing links to other online information.Google wrote on its blog: “Today, barcode scanning works best for products like electronics, books, movies,… Continue reading Google launches Android barcode scanner