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U.S. online users conducted more than 5 billion searches in August - an increase of 4.8 percent from July’s 4.8 billion - and 1.4 million more people used search engines in August (132.4 million) than in July (131 million), according to new data from comScore, reports MediaPost (via MarketingVOX). The searches came on top of search increases in July over June.
Google accounted for most August searches - 37.3 percent, up slightly from 36.1 percent a year ago. Yahoo’s share dropped a tad to 29.7 percent from 30.6 percent.
MSN’s share increased to 15.8 percent from 14.4 percent last year. AOL/Time Warner Network’s share of searched decreased to 9.6 percent from 10.6 percent, and Ask Jeeves accounted for 6.0 percent, up from 5.9 percent last year.
CBS Radio and Yahoo, two of the largest online radio providers, are combining their online radio stations, beginning early next year.
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Cox Enterprises, Inc. announced today that the company is bringing together its three media units - Cox Newspapers, Cox Television and Cox Radio - under a new organization named Cox Media Group, Inc., effective January 2009. The subsidiary will be headquartered…
Target is one of the first brands to create an iPhone application. The Target “gift globe” allows iPhone users to shake their phones to launch a snow-fall effect.
When the snow clears, a gift idea from Target is revealed. Users…
ABC is set to launch a slew of new series in a midseason shuffle. Primetime: What Would You Do? returns Tuesday, Jan. 9, in the 10pm time slot. The show is a hidden camera experiment in which actors stage scenarios…
Only 28% of the audience of an average news program, website or magazine gets valuable information about products and services advertised there, making news venues less effective at conveying ad messages than all forms of media combined (see chart), according…
Effective immediately, any telemarketing call that delivers a prerecorded message must include a quick and easy way to opt-out of receiving future calls. The opt-out must work both for consumers who answer these calls in person and for those whose…
