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Ad spending in major U.S. media - especially national TV, newspaper, radio and B2B - has slowed down from earlier expectations, resulting in a half percentage point decrease in TNS Media Intelligence’s overall ad spend projection for 2006, reports MediaPost (via MarketingVox). But in its midyear update TNS revised upward its outlook for the internet, Hispanic TV, outdoor and spot TV.
TNS now expects internet ad spend to undergo 13.0 percent growth in 2006, an upward revision from its January forecast of 9.1 percent. Hispanic network TV ad spend is now expected to grow 12.9 percent rather than 10.4 percent.
Overall ad spend is expected to grow only 4.9 percent, to $150.3 billion, for full-year 2006, a downward revision from the January forecast of 5.4 percent growth.
Hyper-conservative Rush Limbaugh - heard weekly by nearly 20 million listeners on about 600 radio stations nationwide - renewed his contract with Premiere Radio Networks and Clear Channel Radio, continuing syndication of The Rush Limbaugh Show.
The deal also includes…
WSJ.com’s traffic soared an impressive 94 percent in June compared to the same month last year, according to the company’s internal traffic numbers.
Total page views ballooned 45 percent, to 150 million, compared to the same month last year, writes Mediaweek.…
Kozy Shack, maker of rice and chocolate pudding, is sponsoring the New York Mets, with tubs of the pudding being sold individually at Shea Stadium as well as being included in children’s meals. And the snacks are selling so well…
Though U.K. advertiser investment committed for 2008 is staying put, discretionary spending is becoming shorter-term, at or slightly short of budget; still, WPP’s GroupM forecasts 4 percent growth in 2008 and 3 percent in 2009 for the U.K., thanks to internet…
Email is the most popular form of direct response marketing, with 35 percent of companies using it - compared to 25 percent that use traditional direct mail - according to a new survey conducted by Direct Partners (via Adweek).
The survey…
Without spam protection, the average web user can expect to get 70 spam messages each day, according to a survey by McAfee, the BBC reports (via MarketingVOX).
For the McAfee spam test, 50 people worldwide were asked to web-surf without a spam…
