eBay Warned About Misleading Ad
A British advertising watchdog has told eBay to stop claiming it offers brand new items for 25 percent less than retail stores.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said Wednesday, that eBay’s posters claim a 25 percent discount was misleading because it did no provide enough details of how the comparison pricing was conducted.
eBay hired a third party company to compare prices on certain items sold on its site and at major British retailers Debhenhams and John Lewis.
Compete Looks at Homepage vs Domain Visits for Top Sites
Compete has shared some interesting data looking at homepage visitors at the top publisher sites. Here is the top 12 in terms of domain visitors. Look at how the homepage visitors compare to the percentage of site visitors who visit the homepage.
Even Getting Shot Can’t Save A Journalist’s Job
You know times are rough for newspapers when taking a bullet for the company isn’t enough to save your job. One St. Louis reporter knows that all to well—at least, he knows now.
Racy Facebook Pics Force Candidate Out Of Running
You could call it a learning experience, a far cheaper lesson for the rest of the world than for Ray Lam, a Vancouver political candidate who withdrew his nomination after racy pictures of him surfaced on Facebook.
Social Media And Video Lead To Increased Online Engagement
Online engagement by Internet users is increasing in part as a result of a shift toward video content and social networking, according to a new report by Nielsen.
Since 2003, interests of the average online user have shifted significantly. Categories that consisted of portal-oriented browsing sites, such as shopping directories and Internet tools/Web services, used to be the most popular categories for user engagement.
Report Looks at Ad Requests for iPhone vs Android
Mobile advertising platform AdMob has released its Mobile Metrics Report looking at statistics for the month of March. It highlights some interesting trends in smartphone applications.
AdMob serves ads for over 6,000 web sites and 1,000 apps and stores and analyzes the data from each ad request, impression, and click. The report is intended to provide insight into trends in the mobile ecosystem.
Wikimedia Enters Partnership With Orange
The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, is partnering with European mobile provider Orange. The partnership will see Orange devices carrying co-branded content for customers in France, the UK, Spain, and Poland.
Google Announces Mobile Product Search Results
Today Google announced Google Product Search for Mobile. Android and iPhone users will now be able to type a product query into Google.com and get Google Product Search Results formatted for their phones.
Steve Jobs To Be Back at Apple in June
Steve Jobs, who has on separate occasions been reported dead and to have had a heart attack (neither of which were true), said goodbye to Apple back in January. He took a leave of absence from the company due to well-publicized health issues.
Upon his departure, Jobs wrote a letter to the Apple staff. In it, he wrote:
Click Fraud Rate Declines In Q1
Click fraud declined in the first quarter of 2009 to 13.8 percent, according to Click Forensics’ Click Fraud Index.
That’s down from the all-time high of 17.1 percent reported for the fourth quarter of 2008 and from the 16.3 percent rate reported for the first quarter of 2008.