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Mobile search adspend to reach $2bn by 2013

Annual adspend on mobile search will reach $445 million in 2008 – representing more than 34 per cent of total mobile adspend – before rising to more than $2 billion by 2013, according to Juniper Research. The Juniper reports – Mobile Search and Discovery and Mobile Advertising – found that as operators abandon the 'walled […]

May 22, 2008

Dailymotion ad profits

YouTube rival Dailymotion said it expected to make more than E10 million in revenue this year, despite only selling ads since July 2007. Dailymotion CEO Mark Zaleski said. “We are in growth mode. We are past the start-up phase and now in the consolidation and monetisation phase.” Dailymotion's three founders own 21-22 per cent of […]

May 21, 2008

ITV battles advertising downturn

ITV has predicted that advertising revenue will not grow during the first half of 2008 as the UK economy slows. However, executive chairman Michael Grade said ITV would still beat the rate of growth in the UK ad market as a whole for the first time since 2000. The firm said first-quarter revenues rose, helped […]

May 16, 2008

TV and web combo ads more effective

Research from Thinkbox and the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) has shown that using TV and online together in advertising campaigns is significantly more effective for advertisers than using either in isolation. Their combined use produces major benefits for advertisers, including increased positive brand perception amongst consumers – some 50 per cent higher – as well […]

May 8, 2008

Spain face EC punishment over TV advertising rules

The European Commission has taken the next step in proceedings against Spain for not complying with television advertising restrictions. The infringement procedure, started in July 2007, is based on a monitoring report that found that the main TV channels in Spain, both publicly funded and commercial, failed regularly and by some margin to restrict advertising […]

May 8, 2008

Ad-supported free mobile TV for Oz

Australia is set to receive its first live free-to-air mobile TV network with the launch of Bluetooth broadcaster YoMo. Starting this month, the service, which will feature a video news and entertainment feed updated throughout the day, will be broadcast, using Bluetooth technology, to a network of transmission points in the eastern states. Anyone with […]

May 2, 2008

Increase in US measured advertising

Total US measured advertising spending is projected to increase 4.2 per cent in 2008, according to the full-year forecast released today by TNS Media Intelligence, provider of strategic advertising and marketing information. Measured expenditures are forecast to grow by 3.6 per cent in the first half of 2008 followed by a gain of 4.7 per […]

January 10, 2008

No more ads on French public TV?

From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris In a surprise announcement President Sarkozy said that the government is looking to drop ads from the public sector television and radio channels. These are currently financed by a licence fee of E116 a year, with advertising bringing in an extra E800 million, providing France 2 with 40 per cent […]

January 10, 2008

75% ad growth will come from search

Internet search is expected to contribute up to three quarters of all UK advertising revenue growth this year, while traditional media stagnates. WPP's GroupM predicts that advertising will grow by 6 per cent in 2008, but without the contribution from Google and other search engines, the rate of improvement across other media would be only […]

January 4, 2008

YouTube expands ad programme

YouTube is to expand its pilot advertising programme to a select number of amateurs, giving more users a shot to make money from their homemade videos. The site will accept applications from amateurs to become part of its programme that splices ads into online videos. The video makers will share in the resulting revenue. Until […]

December 13, 2007