Google insists it is not worried about News Corporation pulling its content, but as two more news groups start talking about doing the same the move towards paid content or pay walls means for certain that others will follow suit. And that could change things Media News Group and A.H. Belo have added...
The subject of our daily news digest, its ownership in the public domain and its value has long been up for debate. It’s no secret that news corporations from the BBC to News International have all struggled in the last decade to maintain control of their content, and effectively charge for it. Clearly...
Just a few days ago we were having a discussion in the office about Bing and its seemingly terminal beta status... Following a bit of a debate regarding the rationale for leaving something in beta in one market whilst you launch in another (in summary: it enables a test-and-rollout approach for both...
There’s already been a lot of coverage about the Twitter deals with Bing and Google announced in the last couple of days and waking up this morning the day after Windows 7 launched and Nick Griffin made an arse of himself on Question Time, just goes to show how important these innovations are. Trending...
Online commands respect : Another IAB Ad Spend report, another milestone for online – this time the big one We released the IAB Ad Spend results today, with the record breaking news that not only has Ad Spend grown again – as it has every half year since we launched the survey in 1998 – but we have finally...
For years I’ve known about my addiction to site stats. Watching that trend line fluctuate, hoping for an upward curve. Now I’m willing to step forward and come clean. I’m not alone with this affliction; the world is covered with web statsaholics. Alisa Bowman , Jason Jaeger and Geoffrey Golden being...
So, it seems that BING is making an impression in the US – comScore reporting as much as a 3% increase in the two weeks since its launch. It will be interesting to see if this growth is sustained, or rather whether the £100million investment rolls on and on to fuel the hype of the new ‘Decision Engine...
If you work in digital media you'd have to have been living under a rock for the past few weeks to not have heard about Microsoft's re-branded search offering, Bing . So called because Microsoft believes it represents "the sound of found" (yes, quite), it seems everyone loves to talk...
With the apparent early success of Bing, could we be seeing the beginning of a rival to Google that, in terms of marketing activity, receives a significant share of media agency’s attention? MSN and Yahoo search have historically been slightly neglected by media agencies (and some clients), even though...
It's been a big month for 'decision engines'. First we had the build-up and launch of Wolfram-Alpha as mentioned a few weeks ago and now we have the launch of Microsoft's own decision engine called ' Bing '. Bing went live last week, a couple of days early. The earlier-than-planned...
