Well, it looks like they're going to give it a go. With display ad revenues not enough to make substantial, or indeed any, profit, according to a survey from the Association of Online Publishers, around 70% of online publishers in the newspaper, magazine or TV industries will pay for content online...
It has been another interesting few weeks for the music industry. In the same week that Spotify’s iPhone app has stormed to the number one spot of iTunes Top Free Apps within just 48 hours of Apple approving it, we have had Sony and EMI come out and slam Virgin’s plans to offer a subscription based music...
Amidst all the excited talk of Spotify iPhone apps and Apple tablet devices this week you just might have missed some interesting news from our friends at Google (and no, I'm not referring to the fire in their London office)... On Tuesday Google quietly announced on their AdSense blog that they plan...
Rupert Murdoch seems to think that you will. After the huge financial losses just announced by News Corp, Murdoch has decreed that, possibly from as soon as next year, he will charge for all his newspaper websites including The Times and The Sun. It isn't clear whether this will extend to broadcast...
Some hot debate about the importance, or not, of the click has been had this week. We've been mulling over why when no other advertising medium expects consumers to leave what they are happily doing in that moment to interact with a brand, online continues to value the click as the key sign of success...
The last few weeks have seen polar opposites in terms of luck for Phorm, the personalisation technology company. On one hand it appears as though both BT and TalkTalk have put their plans to implement their technology on hold (I say on hold as apparently the contracts are still in place). Yet on the...
Since its beta launch at the end of last year the music streaming service Spotify has quickly become a bit of a "fans" favourite, offering a wide catalogue of music to its users to listen to for free with relatively little interference from advertising. With an interface that ingeniously 'borrows'...
Virgin Atlantic have announced a Travel social network as part of their 25 th Birthday, aimed at the ‘inspirational' travel market. Much like the BA Metrotwin , which was specifically created for the to London-New York traveller, the vtraveller is aimed at frequent flyers. Now I am not about to go...
Going back a few weeks, I wrote about " who owns social media? " The answer to that particular piece being that social media cannot operate in isolation and to be successful, multiple different skills need to be blended together. To add some more fuel to the fire and to broaden this a little...
A patent filing uncovered by industry blog AppleInsider shows that Apple has plans to develop a series of wireless iTunes 'kiosks' or download hubs where users can load content on their iPods before travelling. The 19-page patent, filed in November 2007, reveals that Apple wants to develop an...
