Archive for June, 2009
Facebook Goes Twitter With a Real-time Comment Widget
UncategorizedIn a move that looks and smells strangely like Twitter’s status feeds, Facebook has launched a new widget that may actually be better than Twitter’s status feeds. The new tool, the Live Stream Box, is intended for installation on any website, but particularly sites which are broadcasting a major event in real-time. According to Facebook’s [...]
U.S. Ad Spending Sees Q1 Drop
UncategorizedOverall U.S. advertising for the first quarter 2009 was down 12 percent compared to the first quarter of 2008, according to a new report from Nielsen.
Preliminary figures show that U.S. ad expenditures declined $3.8 billion to a total spend of $27.9 billion in the first quarter.
All measured media showed negative growth in this challenging economy, [...]
Online Ad Revenue Hits $5.5 Billion
Ad NetworksIn a challenging economic environment that has hit other media sectors with greater force, Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. were at $5.5 billion for the first quarter of 2009, according to the numbers released today by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The figures represent a 5 percent decline over the same [...]