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comScore released findings this week from a study of the online habits of Portuguese Internet users. Interestingly, they found that the Portuguese…
comScore Video Metrix has released its monthly look at the performance of online video content properties. As usual, Google sites dominate the picture, largely because of YouTube, which gets 99% of Google's video views. The real story, however, is that Hulu is achieving record numbers. The site ranked number 2 (though significantly behind Google with 3.1% market share compared to Google's 37.7) during the month…
We'll admit it: so far, most conversations concerning the Microsoft-Yahoo deal and antitrust issues have related to the U.S. and Europe. Still, two potential roadblocks were eliminated yesterday when the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Canadian Competition Bureau signaled their intent not to oppose the partnership.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers released their latest Internet advertising numbers for the third quarter. According to the organizations, Internet advertising revenues reached nearly $5.5 billion for the quarter. That is an increase of 1.7% from the second quarter. The numbers are still significantly down from the same period last year, but any increase is a good sign of things to come. There…
The companies behind search engines sometimes try to attract more traffic by advertising. Establishing a partnership is another strategy, as is improving the actual search results. Microsoft might be ready to try something a little different, however, as a new report's indicated that the company is interested in making Google's results worse.
New research from Nielsen finds that during the last weeks of October and the early weeks of November, the number of unique visitors to the top websites offering previews of Black Friday deals (like bfads.net for example), has been increasing rapidly. No surprise there. Week-over-week, however, traffic to these sites has increased by as much as 87%, from 3.8 million unique visitors during the week…
