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Debunking the AP's Aggregation Aggravation
Online aggregators are financial vampires sucking the lifeblood out of the news business! You know — evil digital upstarts like the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and the New York Times. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by UmaGaleo: But the chart supports the newspapers' central complaint: Papers' sites would still get traffic without search engines. But those search... 2 Responses | Other threads
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recessionomics
You Call This a Downturn?
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has measured this recession against past ones and found it wanting. It will take more than twice as many layoffs before it counts as "harsh." Take that, doom-mongers!
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By Owen ThomasComment by eXXX: If it's not that bad then why does it seem like it? Are they only measuring with layoffs? 5 Responses | Other threads
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Facebook's new value: $1.3 billion?
With more than 120 million users, Mark Zuckerberg's social network continues to grow, kudzu-like. And yet it is worth far less today than the $15 billion it commanded a year ago. Why is that? -
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Why bad news isn't good news for finance sites
The market gyrations of recent weeks has nearly doubled traffic to financial websites. Bad news elsewhere should be good news for them, right? Wrong. Their most profitable advertising is sold in advance; neither publishers nor advertisers can anticipate swings in traffic, so the bumper crop of pageviews doesn't mean a windfall in ad sales. As Hamilton Nolan notes in Gawker, this is a good time for new sites like the Business Sheet and Big Money to attract readers — but a lousy one for them to build their own business.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Gawkmike: rolling 7 day would really make a difference for this unreadable chart... more » | Other threads
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Widgets are dead
One goal of the Facebook redesign was to kill pointless widgets that cluttered user-profiles. It's working. When Facebook launched its platform last year, AllFacebook's Nick O'Neil created your typical one-trick app: the Bush Countdown Clock. All it did was sit on a user's profile like a badge, and yet it attracted and maintained over 50,000 users. But with Facebook's redesign, O'Neill's widget and other simple badges like it were moved to a "boxes" tab on user profiles. After the redesign went permanent on September 11, traffic to the countdown clock dropped 60 percent almost overnight. Writes O'Neill: "Widgets have not survived the shift over and my guess is that within a matter of weeks we will see most top-performing widget applications practically disappear." In December 2007, VC Ross Levinsohn said 2008 would be all about "Facebook plus widgets." Maybe that sort of poor prediction explains why he and partner Jon Miller can't find their pot of gold?
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Comment by ShrigeetaEteocles: It's not down for all Facebook apps. I have one that has actually had traffic increase since the new... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Big in Japan! How Twitter jumped the Pacific
The digital revolution promised us that the nation state would wither away. But the spread of social networks show that however much the Internet connects us, quirks divide us. Take, for example, the inexplicable popularity of Twitter in Japan. Tokyo out-tweets New York and San Francisco combined. Pingdom, a website analyst, finds that Twitter is more intensely popular in Japan than in the United States. The conventional theories — Japan's high wireless usage, for example — fail to explain it. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Shadowlayer: I blame short "cellphone novels" that are so popular in japan. "simple services with good open APIs are not as common... more » | Other threads
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Worldwide visitors to Facebook up 153 percent in a year
Metrics firm ComScore reports that 132 million unique visitors logged onto Facebook in June 2008, up from just 52 million in June 2007. 117 million worldwide users visited MySpace during June 2008. Its Facebook's first definitive traffic victory, from a source advertisers actually pay attention to, over MySpace. Way down on the list at No. 6 — past the fast-growing Hi5, past still-kicking Friendster — there's AOL CEO Randy Falco's $850 million social network, Bebo, which saw 24 million visitors in June.
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Comment by raincoaster: I only joined up a week and a half ago. No WAY did I hit it that much! Maybe just... more » | Other threads
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The 250 shows supercharged viral growth, more than tripling to 806 in four months
Back in March, very special correspondent Paul Boutin revealed that the Olds were derisively referring to the insular San Francisco clique of Web hipsters — the sort of people who Twitter about how they wish FriendFeed had a better Plurk API — as "the 250." After learning that 806 people tuned in to watch Kevin Rose shave his head, live on the Internet, we are now revising that figure upwards by a factor of 3.224. With Rose's market-expanding efforts, we now have three times as many people to mock. Thanks, Kevin! -
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Google loses search market share to Yahoo, Microsoft
Reversing a long trend, one research firm says Yahoo and Microsoft have posted gains in search market share — at the expense of industry leader Google. ComScore reports that 61.5 percent of all U.S. searches went through Google in June 2008, 0.3 percent less than in May 2008. Yahoo saw 20.9 percent of the searches in June, up from 20.6 percent in May. Microsoft went from 8.5 percent to 9.2 percent. Does this argue for a Microsoft-Yahoo merger? Not especially, since those small, hard-won gains would likely evaporate while the combined entity fumbles for years in post-deal internal politicking.
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Comment by ThaiKitchen: Well, Google shouldn't worry... that .3% they gave to Yahoo, they are the ones offering ads, so the money hasn't... more » | Other threads
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YouTube blowing away competition as distribution platform
TubeMogul, a startup which allows content creators to post video clips to multiple sites at once and track aggregate views for the clip across sites, did a survey of over 200,000 clips and how much traffic they garnered after 90 days. The results? The average clip got more views on YouTube in three months (3,092) than on the next eight video sites combined (2,092). [NewTeeVee]
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Google and Yahoo's combined market share approaches 90 percent
Google and Yahoo lawyers are in Washington today, trying to argue that a deal to outsource much of Yahoo's search advertising business won't give Google undue control over the market. A new Hitwise report released today should make their task a bit more difficult. It reveals that in June, Google searches accounted for 69.2 percent of all U.S. queries; Yahoo, 19.6 percent. Together, that's 88.8 percent. Third-place irrelevancy Microsoft comes in at 5.5 percent — which isn't enough to make a dent in the search-ads market. Advertisers tell us that giving Google that much control over the market could ratchet up ad prices by 25 percent. -
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Which iPhone apps make the most money?
Tracking the number of reviews written for each iPhone application sold in the iTunes App store won't tell you how many times that application has been purchased and downloaded. It won't reveal that apps' volume writes Medialet's David Hill. But Hill contends tracking the number of reviews users give apps will give you a sense of each app's "relative volume" — the app's approximate share of of the App stores' overall volume. Multiply the number of an app's review against the app's price and Hill says you get an approximation of its revenue, or at least its "relative revenue," which is good enough for making comparisons. Doing this math, Hill worked up the chart above. What's Hill's chart reveal? That there's riches in niches. Check out ForeFlight mobile, an app for airline pilots that costs 70 bucks a pop, earning more more revenue than any other app but one.
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Comment by DanLar75: Looks like an opportunity for some lonely coder to make $$$ with a $4.99 hangman app! more » | Other threads
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Vimeo without founder Jakob Lodwick: quite successful
Is IAC's Vimeo, the video-sharing site founded by bizarrely charismatic (and just plain bizarre) New York entrepreneur Jakob Lodwick, missing its founder? In a word, no. Lodwick lost his job due to insubordination last November; his dare-you-to-sue-me funding of an IAC employee's music startup, in an apparent violation of his noncompete agreement, is right in line with the nose-thumbing he did while on the job. We heard IAC finally fired Lodwick because he would blow off meetings with upper management when it wanted to talk to him about things like marketing and growth. So who got it right — IAC chairman Barry Diller's suits, or the wannabe iconoclast? More »
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Comment by fluffy: Vinny is spot on. You have to look at the massive impact the closure of Stage6.com had on high-quality... more » | Other threads
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Google's prize: cheap Yahoo users who spend little online
New data from Hitwise plots the demographics who visit Yahoo Search against Google users. Groups in the top left are a particular strength for Yahoo; groups on the bottom right, for Google. Among America's "blue-collar backbone" and "struggling societies," Yahoo does particularly well. Google, on the other hand owns "affluent suburbia." The bubble sizes indicate those groups' propensity to spend over $500 online over a four-week period — the real prize for online advertisers. What does the chart tell us? More »
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Comment by macbeach: Note the scale starts at 80. So... for example "Aspiring Contemporaries" (whatever the hell that is) are just under... more » | Other threads
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While Microsoft and Yahoo talk, Google takes more search market
Why is Microsoft so desperate to acquire Yahoo's search business? According to ComScore, Google's video-sharing site YouTube and Google's other subsidiaries alone attracted more search queries than all of Microsoft's properties combined in April. Comparing total searches for each company is similarly lopsided; Google controls 61 percent of the search market to Microsoft's 9.1 percent, which is a decline from 9.4 percent in March. Problem is, buying Yahoo might not help. Yahoo lost search market share last month, too, dropping from 21.3 percent to 20.4 in just one month. -
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MySpace's technical triumph
The conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley is that MySpace, based in Los Angeles, is a tech nightmare, blaring songs through a user's speakers while crashing all the time. Skilled engineers are in short supply down south, so the website must be falling over all the time, right? Not so. Pingdom, a website-monitoring service, has tracked how often some of the top social networks have gone offline. Twitter, based in Web-savvy San Francisco, has been down for 37 hours from January through April. MySpace has been up 99.96 percent of the time. That's 33 percent less downtime than Yahoo 360, and 60 percent less than Google's Orkut. Score one for the LA crowd. The chart: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by BobDope: MySpace is like a DDOS attack on your brain. more » | Other threads
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The developers driving Facebook's redesign do it "Just For Fun"
Makers of Facebook applications have seized control over the social network's latest redesign. So who are these mighty developers capable of bending the stubborn Mark Zuckerberg to their will? Among others, the makers of "You're a Hottie," which tops the "Recently Popular" list in Facebook's "Just For Fun" application category — the most popular on the site, according to this handy reminder from FlowingData. Here's CLZConcepts.com pitch for their popular app:Think your friends are hot? Let them know by adding them to your 10 Hottest Friends List! Get friends to add you to boost your own Ranking!
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108 million content creators to clutter the Web by 2012
eMarketer predicts the number of people who create so-called "user-generated" content will rise from 77 million in 2007 to 108 million in 2012. More baffling yet, the ranks of people who consume this content will only rise from 94 million in 2007 to 130 million by 2012. Why don't we just junk our computers, attach ourselves to IV drips and stare at mirrors instead? That seems more dystopian.
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Comment by netgarden: Makes perfect sense. Like isights notes, this is the information age after all. Consume AND generate/create. It also seems... more » | Other threads
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Why John Hodgman can afford to mock Twitter users
Daily Show correspondent turned Apple pitchman John Hodgman is on Twitter, and he's using it to mock the habits of Twitter users. His salvos include entries like " BATTLESTAR GALACTICA REFERENCE," "VAGUE SHOUTOUT ('Cheers, @SFslim!')" and "GRADE A NON-SEQUITIR." Normally, this would be a bad self-promotional strategy. But as you can see from this complicated (and very scientific) Venn diagram which illustrates the interlocking audiences gripped by Hodg-mania, all Twitter users already fall into fan bases generated by other media channels, so Hodgman can abuse them at will. Except, of course, for hobos. Never, ever mock hobos if you know what's good for you.
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By Jackson WestComment by raincoaster: @giania: Only Dave Eggers. There can be only one. more » | Other threads
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toogle many googlers
Google's executive rolls outpacing stock growth
When Google debuted on the stock market in August 2004, it had a lean 10 executives at the top. Over the last four years, the number of senior managers kept pace with the growth of the stock. Until recently, when for the first time in the company's history, the ratio of executives to stock price became less than 10:1. The opposite of lean? Bloat.
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By Jackson WestComment by Davion: Who was the departure that caused the slight dip shortly after the IPO? more » | Other threads
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Online advertising will grow 23 percent in 2008
Online advertising spending will reach $25.9 billion in 2008, up from $21.1 billion in 2007. Search marketing accounts for 40 percent of that amount. Video ads, about 10.2 percent of the market this year, will account for 18.5 percent by 2012. Display advertising's share, at 21.1 percent, will remain flat through next year. [paidContent]
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Comment by transparency: it will. that's why these emarketer numbers have been revised downward from earlier projections. carlson will tell you about in... more » | Other threads
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Why Digg should have sold already
Last week, Digg CEO Jay Adelson wasted no time debunking rumors that Google, Microsoft and two media companies were bidding $200 million or more to buy the social news site. It's too bad, because last week would have been a good time for Adelson and Digg cofounder Kevin Rose to sell. According to metrics firm Hitwise, traffic Yahoo's Digg competitor, Buzz, sends to news and media sites nearly caught up with the traffic Digg sends in just one month.
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Comment by FiveStarEggRoll: @Tator Tot: I think your tater is half-baked (i.e. I didn't understand the words coming out of your fingers). Are... more » | Other threads
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Does Bebo brag prove AOL CEO's a liar, or just unable to read?
AOL CEO Randy Falco said the $850 million Bebo acquisition put his company in "a leading position" in social networks. Too bad his claim doesn't jibe with ComScore's chart comparing Bebo's traffic to social networks MySpace and Facebook, above. Where was "human computer" Ron Grant when Falco needed him to do some math? Below, more damning stats from Hitwise. More »
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Comment by Tiltawhorl: @bileblaster: 1. AIM and ICQ are instant messenging tools. Not Facebook or Myspace-type products. And they don't make money. 2. AIM... more » | Other threads
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Happy birthday, destroyer of hopes and dreams!
Eight years ago today, on March 10, 2000, the Nasdaq closed at 5,048.62, an all-time high. Then the bubble burst, Marketwatch notes. By October 2002, the Nasdaq was down to 1,114.11, a 78 percent drop in less than three painful years. In fact, we're still not over it. Check out the chart. The Nasdaq today stands 56 percent lower than 2000's bubbly high-water mark. -
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Forget news — Digg users in it for Lohan's latest nipple slip
As far as Digg users are concerned, Ron Paul, Steve Jobs and slobbering dogs have nothing on Britney's latest baby. Digg and StumbleUpon users click most on stories related to celebrity gossip, videogames, and online clips, according to clickstream data from metrics firm Hitwise. Digg accounts for half of all visits to to news aggregators. eBay's StumbleUpon comes in second with 24 percent of the market. Conde Nast-owned Reddit takes third place.
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While bloggers fret, Google's market share grows larger
Depending on which search-engine marketing firm you believe, Google either had a really good month monetizing is search traffic, or a really poor one. It's so confusing! Seeing HitWise's search market share numbers from the month, I bet competitors Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com are glad they didn't have to worry about having all that traffic. -
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Google clicks filling more shopping carts
The declining amount of clicks on Google ads may not forecast a recession. Check out this chart from Hitwise. It shows that the amount of traffic going from Google to retail sites continues to increase year-over-year, up to 13 percent in January. Searchers are shopping more than ever. So why the declining ad clicks? Reporting its fourth-quarter earnings, Google said it has gotten better at eliminating accidental ad clicks. One awaits the glorious future wherein Google deems any click not leading directly to a sale an oopsy-daisy.
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Comment by Magister: Throughout the coverage of Goog's slide, I've sort of been at a loss to make a connection between clicks and... more » | Other threads
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Bebo needs cash to keep its servers running
Now we know why Bebo's so eager for more cash. It needs more servers. According to Pingdom, Bebo has already been down for 12 hours and 28 minutes so far this year. Check out the full chart to see how 13 other social networks have fared so far.
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Comment by el_googlo: err.. who designed this chart? shouldn't linkedin go before reunion.com?.. and WTF is reunion.com? never heard of them. also, consumating will... more » | Other threads
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2008 has not been kind to tech stocks, especially the Valley's leading lights.
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Remember when Zuckerberg stole Christmas? Users don't
Here's a chart which records traffic to Facebook's privacy-settings page. What does that indicate? It shows just how little Facebook users seemed to notice the whole Beacon controversy. AllFacebook, which put together the chart using Compete.com, says the chart is evidence that users need better privacy education. We say users are just ready for a brave new world. -
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Google poised to drop below $500
Google is about to drop below $500 for only the second time since last August. The stock is off almost 30 percent on the year. Don't worry though: As long as you bought before last June, you've still made money. -
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The 15 biggest tech acquisitions since 1998
So Microsoft buying Yahoo for $44.6 billion is a big deal. No, it's a massive deal. Before Microsoft's share price dropped, it was to be the second-largest tech deal made in the past decade after AOL/Time Warner. Even more impressive? Like the AOL deal, this is a merger you can explain to your mom. Most people have never heard of the big tech companies. Hell, I've never heard of some of them. SDL? JDS Uniphase? Veritas? Aspect Development? I have no idea what they do. But you don't need to be a household name to be worth billions. Here are the 15 biggest tech deals since 1998. More »
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Comment by MKJ: There is a typo in your list - Symantec (not Seagate) acquired Veritas. more » | Other threads
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Online video ads to earn $6.6 billion in 2012
Ads placed in interactive video of all sorts — Web, mobile, TiVo recordings, and so on — should rake in about $12.6 billion in 2012, new research says. Online video ads will pull in $6.6 billion; mobile, $5 billion; and TV services like video on demand and DVRs, more than $900 million. Also in 2012, the Mayan calendar ends on December 21. So aliens will be getting all the profits anyway.
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Comment by sbroomfield: I don't know if I believe $6B. I do, however, know it will be huge. What would make... more » | Other threads
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Microsoft and Yahoo employees eye exits on Facebook
In November, First Round Capital VC and blogger Josh Kopelman bought a pair of ads on Facebook targeted to the Yahoo and Microsoft networks, asking "Leaving Yahoo?" and "Leaving Microsoft?" Clickthrough rates were low. Only 0.3 percent clicked on the Yahoo ads, and the Microsoft ads drew no clicks at all. But after Microsoft's recent $44.6 billion offer to buy Yahoo, the companies' employees seem more eager to leave. Now, 0.86 percent of Facebook users who saw the Yahoo version of the ad clicked, and 1.19 percent of Microsoft employees targeted clicked on their ad.
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Comment by tiffany98121: i didn't even realize they had ads. that's what you get with adblock i guess. more » | Other threads
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Why Google's unstoppable
Microsoft is trying to buy Yahoo because it believes online advertising will be a much bigger business than it is today, and it wants to have a piece of the pie. Yahoo has a massive number of users, and the second-largest share of Internet searches. But usage, by itself, just means you have to open up pricey datacenters and hire expensive engineers. What matters is revenues. And on that score, Google utterly rules the lucrative search-advertising market. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by DaveMcClure500Hats: @neef: actually you're right, my PC analogy is flawed. PC growth stalled out years ago, and has been flat... more » | Other threads
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HealthCentral takes cash from Barry Diller, Michael Moritz
HealthCentral just announced $50 million in funding. The round included a major investment from IAC and smaller contributions from prior investors Sequoia Capital, Carlyle Group and Polaris Venture Partners. HealthCentral operates several health-related websites, including the long-troubled DrKoop.com, which was once a publicly traded company a bubble or two ago. Here's how their traffic looked last year, according to Compete. It's nice and all, but stick around for the one comparing HealthCentral to WebMD. If I used the word pwnage, I would. But I don't. More » -
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No surprise: people stop watching video when ads play
Online video ads command sky-high rates — a $30 CPM, or cost per thousand viewers, is typical. Yet more than half of all Web users will stop watching an online video as soon as they see an in-stream advertisement, BurstMedia reports. A full 78.4 percent say in-stream advertisements in online video are "intrusive." And it's not really worth it to you if they do stick around, anyway. Only 21.4 percent of respondents say they remember video ads any better than other advertising forms. That old adage about half of advertising being wasted — we just don't know which half — still rings true.
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Comment by Eac_o_System: Batter watch the ads or they'll implant you with the ads... more » | Other threads
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Why a little Bebo wouldn't be so bad for MySpace
Yesterday, we reported that MySpace continues to beat Facebook soundly in traffic. But some, including Silicon Alley Insider's Henry Blodget, reject the U.S. numbers we cited from Hitwise, saying worldwide traffic indicates "Facebook is coming up behind MySpace like a Ferrari about to blow past a bus." And how could we ignore such a simile? It's totally awesome, dude! So here's a chart comparing worldwide traffic for Facebook and MySpace, from ComScore. More »
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Comment by Ron-Mexico: Bebo's layouts have too much personality. We'd much rather have the cold, sterile-looking, MS Office-like layout of Facebook any... more » | Other threads
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MySpace still slapping Facebook around
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg may be getting all the money and media attention lately, but News Corp.'s MySpace still dominates when it comes to traffic. The site commands more than 70 percent of visits to social networks, according to this latest chart from Hitwise. Still, its share declined 8 percent in the last year. Which might explain why News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch was rumored to be poking around runner-up social network Bebo recently. Oh, and by the looks of things, maybe Barry Diller should have acquired MyYearbook for IAC back when he reportedly expressed interest.
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Comment by macbeach: I couldn't find a world view of this. I'd be interested to know how that stacks up considering Orkut... more » | Other threads
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