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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
No sale yet for Nielsen Business Media (NBM) but most of it is about two weeks away from being acquired by a consortium led by James Finkelstein’s News Communications, paidContent has learned from multiple sources. We have also learned that Lachlan Murdoch—yes, that Lachlan Murdoch— is considering joining the consortium. The parts being sold are the print and online, while events...
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Mark Evans (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
For many people, Twitter is like Cinderella – the belle of the ball who will suddenly become a servant-girl again at the stroke of midnight. It explains why there’s a steady flow of reports that Twitter has plateaued or that Twitter is in decline whenever a report from Nielsen, comScore or Compete is published. The latest [...]
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the church and postmodern culture: (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Cynthia Nielsen has published what looks to be an exciting article entitled "What Has Mozart to Do with Coltrane?: The Dynamism and Built-in Flexibility of Music" which can be found here in the Expositions journal. Here's an abstract: Although contemporary...
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Digital Lifescapes | by David H. De (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
According to the latest eMarketer assessment, consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies and social media marketing are not a logical mix. CPG companies tend to focus on attempting to reach a passive "mass audience" of docile consumers -- while social media is more focused on actively engaging independent-thinking people. "By looking at social media as a way to listen to consumers, respond...
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Internet News (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
New analysis from Nielsen points to growing popularity of social sites as video destinations.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Lindsay Nielsen scored two goals Friday night to lead the Seattle Thunderbirds to a 3-1 victory over the Kamloops Blazers at ShoWare Center.
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
From the Blog Post: The Nielsen Company today reported overall online video usage and top online brands ranked by video streams for October 2009. Year-over-year, unique viewers, total streams, streams per viewer and time per viewer were up, led by a 26 percent growth in total streams. What’s most interesting is who the number three provider of [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
President Barack Obama's November 17 meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao ahead of December's UN Climate Change Conference drove an increased worldwide interest in environmental topics, according to the Nielsen Company's Blogpulse analysis.
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Music News: Hollywood Reporter, Billboard among brands for sale -- According to a Paid Content report, Nielsen Business Media is about two weeks from selling its print and online properties to a consortium led by James Finkelstein's News Communications.
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
25-54 demographic: (L +SD) Total day: FNC: 420 | CNN: 149 | MSNBC: 116 | HLN: 142 Prime: FNC: 795 | CNN: 222 | MSNBC: 255 | HLN: 265 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p: FNC Beck: Baier: Shep: O'Reilly: Hannity: Greta: O'Reilly: 689 525 477 1069 744 571 519 CNN Blitzer: Blitzer: Tonight: Brown: King: Cooper: Cooper: 138 118 148 193 258 216 151 MSNBC Matthews: EdShow: Matthews: Olbermann: Maddow: Olbermann:...
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TechSpot (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you needed any more proof of just how large and important social networking has become, the following bit of news should convince you. When you think of online video, sites like YouTube and Hulu probably come to mind, but you should add Facebook to that list. The social networking giant is ranked number three for video streams worldwide, according to research by Nielsen.
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WebPro News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sometimes you just have to know when to call it quits, and a new report indicates that Bebo has decided now's the time to cut its losses in Australia. Bebo is supposed to end its operations in the country before the end of the year. Paul McIntyre , who was the first to report this potential move, noted today that nothing official's been announced. He then continued, "However, Bebo has already...
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Presidia Creative (Free subscription) | yesterday
Inga Nielsen is a digital artist and physics student from Hamburg, Germany. Aside from studying astrophysics and geophysics, she is also a masterful digital artist and prolific writer. She works frequently with Terragen, combined with digital painting to create some of the most stunning landscapes you’ll find. Her combination of fantasy landscapes with space art [...]
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Out of My Gord (Free subscription) | yesterday
One item in this morning's in box caused me to look twice - eMarketer, using numbers from Nielsen, stated that " Data on Twitter Decline Stacks Up ." Turns out it caught the eye of Jim Jansen at Penn State as well. After a quick and flurried Twit-Talk with my friend Jim, we both agreed the title's misleading. If you continue to read down to the fourth paragraph, you start to find the article...
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Out of My Gord (Free subscription) | yesterday
Originally published in MediaPost's Search Insider , October 29, 2009. A few years ago, I interviewed usability expert Jakob Nielsen about where search might go in the future. He shared an interesting insight: " I think there is a tendency now for a lot of not very useful results to be dredged up that happen to be very popular, like Wikipedia and various blogs. They're not going to be very useful...
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