Posts tagged with 'Murdoch'
The BBC and Sky are dominating the nascent market for mobile video and TV services in the UK, according to a study by audience measurement group Telephia.
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by Richard Maven
26 October 2006 11:03am
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Social news bookmarking web start-up Digg has reportedly been in acquisition talks with several suitors - but instead opted to continue operating independently for now.
The San Francisco-based site, started by former TechTV host Kevin Rose and cohort Jay Adelson, has been talking with "a number of companies, including News Corp., according to multiple sources close to the negotiations", TechCrunch reports.
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by Robert Andrews
25 October 2006 10:50am
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Last Friday I wrote a post called “Are inbound links the best way to measure a blog’s influence?”, where I challenged a study published by Edelman and Technorati.
That study ranked the top blogs in the UK by influence, but rankings were determined solely by links from other blogs. My big issue is that the quantity of links doesn’t tell you very much, not when many blogs listed in Technorati are spam blogs.
In any case, I don’t believe that PR professionals or media planners would subscribe to this link-based methodology to measure influence (or very much else for that matter).
So I promised a closer look at the top blogs in the UK, ranked by a more suitable metrics: unique users and page impressions.
After the jump, the results...
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by Chris Lake
18 October 2006 12:20pm
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Users of social networking sites are becoming impervious to traditional ads and turning instead to their friends and colleagues for information and product recommendations, according to a new study.
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by Richard Maven
17 October 2006 08:55am
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MySpace has improved its low-key video sharing offering in what has been interpreted as a tactical response to Google $1.65bn purchase of YouTube last week.
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by Robert Andrews
16 October 2006 12:59pm
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Various reports indicate that Myspace-owner Rupert Murdoch will meet up with Google later this week -- a sign that the media mogul no longer wants to destroy YouTube. At least for now.
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by Richard Maven
12 October 2006 13:16pm
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Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP has made a series of investments in the online space this year, most recently the purchase of a 10% stake in Spot Runner, the US-based online ad agency which had also attracted the attention of Google.
He told us why...
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by Chris Lake
10 October 2006 12:21pm
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European consumers are now spending more time online than reading newspapers and magazines, according to a new study.
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by Richard Maven
09 October 2006 09:34am
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Michael Arrington has reported a rumour that Google “may be in the final stages” of a US$1.6 billion deal for video sharing behemoth YouTube.
If the rumour is true and the deal goes through it could be another coup for Google, though it might yet turn out to be a big headache for the search giant, as YouTube has some significant issues with regards to copyright and content control.
Nonetheless, YouTube is now a real A-list website among the world's internet users and surely it is just a matter of time before the founders accept an offer. The mooted valuation reflects the company's meteoric growth.
Google, for obvious reasons, told us that it couldn't comment on the rumour either way, as is company policy. YouTube is being reported as keeping schtum too.
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by Chris Lake
07 October 2006 02:23am
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More than 50% of Myspace’s US visitors are now over 35 years of age, according to a report that shows the site’s appeal to older internet users is increasing as its mainstream popularity grows.
The research, by comScore Media Metrix, shows the site’s teenage visitors form a much lower percentage of its audience compared to last year, while over four in ten Myspace users are now between the ages of 35 and 54.
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by Richard Maven
06 October 2006 11:18am
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