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New data published by ComScore shows that Facebook has overtaken MySpace in terms of global unique users.
In May 2008, Facebook had 123.9m unique users, compared to MySpace’s 114.6m. Over the past year, Facebook’s unique users grew by 162%, whereas MySpace only grew by 5% during the same period.
The latest research compiled by IAB Europe and analyzed by Pricewaterhouse Coopers has shown that European online ad spend has grown by 40% over the past year, reaching €11.2bn/£8.9bn (from €7.2bn/£5.7bn)
Predictably, the UK, Germany and France were the key markets – accounting for two-thirds of the spend. However, other markets are growing significantly – Greece ... Read more
New research by the Advertising Association and the World Advertising Research Centre (WARC) has shown that the total online ad spend in the UK reached a record high of £3bn for the first time over the last year.
Online now accounts for 16% of the total UK advertising market, growing 39.5% last year and remaining the ... Read more
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The Yahoo! and Microsoft acquisition talks have finally come to an end – and Google seem to have come out of it as the clear winner.
After a long-running discussion, Yahoo! have decided to partner with Google, building on their recent ad partnership. Yahoo! will now display Google ads next to its search results in the ... Read more
YouTube is about to get clever with the addition of video annotations. These are a new way to add interactive elements to your videos. Add background information, create stories with multiple possible endings or link to related content. You control what they say, where they appear, when and for how long.
The possibilities are endless, and ... Read more
Facebook has been forced to shut down two of it’s top applications this week after ‘privacy violations’.
Top Friends (which I’m sure most of you have heard of) was created by Slide and lets you to rank your friends in order of how much you like them. It was Facebook’s forth biggest application, but had to ... Read more
New research by the IPA has shown that almost a third of people between the age of 15 to 25 have watched TV via the internet. And around 18% of people aged between 25 and 64 (a very broad ‘old people’ category or what?!) had too.
The IPA Touchpoints report surveyed over 5,000 people and ... Read more
A collaboration of artists and scientists have created robots which have been designed to love punk music, and show their appreciation of it through dance.
One of the creators, Professor McOwan, from Queen Mary University, said he built the machines because of his fascination with human-computer interaction. They made their dance debut at a 3 day ... Read more
TokBox, the web-based video chat tool is bringing video chat to Facebook via their TokBox Facebook application. TokBox’s current app is just like any other chat facility, but their new functionality takes them into a new league – enabling users to have a video chat within their Facebook chat.
TokBox’s web-based platform is a Flash-enabled browser ... Read more
Bored with Twitter? Fed up with Twinkle? Step it up a level and stream video direct from your mobile phone to the web using Qik!
The core idea is that you download a small application onto your phone, sign up to qik.com and then simply stream whatever you fancy direct to the Internet. Videos can be ... Read more