Twitter Revamps, Search Feature Left Wanting
Today Twitter unveiled a redesign consisting of “mostly cosmetic changes.” Tabs were moved to the right sidebar and AJAX implemented for updates.
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Today Twitter unveiled a redesign consisting of “mostly cosmetic changes.” Tabs were moved to the right sidebar and AJAX implemented for updates.
Radio saw its sixteenth month of revenue declines, but four programming executives spoke of reason for hope at the National Association of Broadcasters radio show this week. Among other initiatives, they’re pinning hopes on the good moods of radio personalities and their ability to blog well.
The New York Times is picking up a daily business opinion column beginning next week, a week after The Wall Street Journal dropped it.
NBCU saw record traffic at three websites last week, thanks to three unrelated events: Tina Fey’s send-up of Sarah Palin on SNL was NBC.com’s most-watched viral video ever; NBCU began selling TV shows on iTunes again, pulling more than 1 million downloads for NBCU TV properties since Sept. 9; and the shaky state of Wall Street this week kept visitors streaming into CNBC.com, giving the site its largest audience ever, according to Omniture (via Adweek).
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The top 100 B2B advertisers spent an estimated $6.05 billion on B2B advertising last year, down 1.9 percent from $6.17 billion in 2006, according to a BtoB Magazine analysis of ad spending from TNS Media Intelligence, MarketingCharts writes.
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Mobile search use is growing more widespread and more frequent in the U.S. and Western Europe - 20.8 million U.S. and 4.5 million European mobile phone subscribers used search in June - up 68 percent and 38 percent, respectively from June 2007, comScore M:Metrics reports, MarketingCharts writes.
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It’s no secret that people often multitask while reading a magazine, watching TV or surfing the internet - but according to data from MRI’s 2008 MediaDay study, in the case of most major media many consumers exclusively focus on a single one (via MarketingCharts).
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August will mark the 16th straight month of radio revenue declines, with an expected drop of 8 percent to 9 percent, says Jim Boyle of C.L. King and Associates.
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Blue Christmas Holiday sales are expected to grow by just 1.5 percent to $527.5 billion this year - the smallest growth rate since 1991, when growth registered 1.2 percent, according to TNS Retail Forward.
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The struggling Sears division of Sears Holding Corp. has had a new CMO and vp appointed by controversial chairman Edward Lampert.
Nearly half (47 percent) of retail chief financial officers predict that the economy will experience a meaningful turnaround by July 2009, with the highest concentration (28 percent) citing the second quarter of next year as the most promising, according to a BDO Seidman, LLP study (via Retailer Daily).
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Former and current Los Angeles Times reporters are suing new Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell for recklessness in the takeover and management of the company. They are seeking to remove him and his close business associates from the company’s board.
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Radio, along with local television and pure-play websites, is poised to post the largest gains of all local media sites.
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Though both Generation X and Generation Y moms view the internet as a must-have tool for finding child-rearing information, there is a significant generational difference in their online behaviors and preferences, according to (pdf) a study from The Parenting Group and NewMediaMetrics, writes MarketingCharts.
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Today the Wall Street Journal unveils its redesigned web destination, which has remained roughly the same for the past six years, reports Ars Technica (via MarketingVOX).
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Best Buy announced plans to buy digital music service Napster for $121 million.
SheKnows.com, which claims to be one of the fastest growing online destinations for women, entered into a syndication partnership with Hearst Magazines Digital Media, a unit of Hearst Magazines, to feature select articles each month from Hearst magazine websites.
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Hearst’s SmartMoney is reaching out to readers in a more interactive way with a program called Text4More.
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eBay plans to lay off about 10 percent of its 15,000 employees, reports Barrons.
Arbitron plans to add cell phone-only households to its survey sample in 125 markets beginning with the Fall 2009 survey, the company announced today. The company’s goal is to sample cell phone-only households in all diary markets.
