28 January, 2009
About a year ago, IDC research reported that mature users with an internet connection at home spend more time online (32.7 hours/week) than on any other medium. This is almost half of the total time spent using all media (70.6 hours), almost twice as much time as spent watching television (16.4 hours), and more than eight times as much time as spent reading newspapers and magazines (3.9 hours). And there I was, wondering what “time spent online” actually means. How do these people spend their time online?
Wot, then?
So, now there’s a report from Mediamark Research & Intelligence, (MRI), which shows what people do most, and which activities have seen the most growth. The overall winners are Read on…
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13 January, 2009
I have to hand it to the good people at Emakina - they just had me spend about 10 minutes of my time on an ad for an ING bank account that I am completely uninterested in. What’s more, I had fun and I even remember the name of the account on offer AND the interest rate. ING Lion Deposit account. 4%. There.
Apparently Emakina has used a breakthrough in-house invention called Read on…
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3 January, 2009
The American year-end music sales figures released by Nielsen SoundScan show that while more music is consumed than ever, actual music sales have never been lower than in 2008. There was an increased number of paid downloads, but that failed to make up for the dive in the sale of compact discs.
Physical album sales fell 20 percent, while digital album sales rose 32 percent. The record of 65.8 million digital albums sold, still slowed down by DRM, could not compensate the loss of CD sales, and as a result total album sales were down 8.5 percent from 2007, for a new all-time low record. Again.
Singles drop revenue
Digital track sales were up 27 percent versus 2007, with over a billion units sold. This, also, is a bad trend Read on…
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