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Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, has seen its average visit time hit eight and a half minutes since its launch, according to new Hitwise data.Bing, announced by Steve Balmer on May 28 and officially launched on June 3, saw traffic peak on its launch date, when it was the eighth most visited website in the… Continue reading Bing average visit time hits eight and a half minutes

Raymond Snoddy discusses Digital Britain over coffee with Andy Burnham … and then he’s gone to tackle the NHS, leaving our new weekly commentator with the view that Digital Britain is unlikely to have much immediate effect on the marketing community, if anything happens at all …“We all know that Gordon Brown has a lot… Continue reading Raymond Snoddy on Digital Britain

Advertising budgets for mobile channels are expected to buck the downward trend and hit by $5.7 billion by 2014, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The report found that constraints on budgets, imposed in the wake of the global economic downturn, had resulted in an increasing migration of adspend from above the line… Continue reading Mobile advertising to hit $5.7bn by 2014

US mobile marketing budgets are predicted to rise 26% this year, according to a new forecast from the Mobile Marketing Association. Total spend will grow from $1.7 billion this year to $2.16 billion, although mobile will take just 1.8% of total marketing budgets. Half of brands and agencies polled by the group said they were… Continue reading US mobile marketing budgets predicted to rise 26% this year

Channel 4 is set to make all of its rights-cleared archived content available on the Channel4.com catch-up TV service 4oD.The broadcaster plans to add around 4,000 hours of archived content, including classic series such as Trigger Happy TV and Queer as Folk as well as old episodes of popular programmes like Grand Designs, to its… Continue reading C4 boosts website with free archive content

Mobile advertising may be an emerging market but it is certainly generating a lot of interest, according to Matthew Hester, research director at Ipsos MediaCT.In a presentation before the Mobile seminar at Thursday’s Media Playground conference, Hester said the potential of mobile advertising is gathering pace.Incentivated’s Robert Thurner, who also presented at the Media Playground… Continue reading Mobile Advertising is creating “a lot of interest”

The final episode of this year’s eventful Apprentice series pulled in over 10.4 million peak viewers last night.More than 9.8 million average viewers tuned in to see the two finalists, Kate and Yasmina, battle it out to become Sir Alan Sugar’s apprentice between 8pm and 9pm, securing BBC One with an impressive 38% average audience… Continue reading Overnights: The Apprentice final steals the show

Planet Rock has won the UK Digital Station of the Year award at this year’s Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards.In its tenth year of broadcasting, the UK’s classic rock radio station has been awarded its sixth Digital Station of the Year award, and its second award this year after winning at the Freesat Awards 2009.The digital… Continue reading Planet Rock takes digital gold at the radio awards

In his first monthly column for Newsline Jim Marshall, Starcom Mediavest’s executive director and chairman of the IPA Media Futures Group, sees a very different media world on the close horizon for buyers and sellers…“The Times They Are A-Changin’ “Television prices are currently at early 1980’s levels, press prices are significantly down versus last year,… Continue reading Jim Marshall on Value and Accountability

Mobile fits for all marketing campaigns as long as advertisers pick the right target audience, according to Todd Tran, managing director of Joule.Speaking at last week’s Media Playground conference in London, Tran said: “We can achieve lots of marketing objectives on mobile. Mobile fits for all but advertisers need to pick the right people and… Continue reading Mobile Marketing “fits for all”