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Report: Mobile Video Adoption At Plateau10 hours ago The audience for mobile video is growing but remains limited to only about 5% of all U.S. cell phone subscribers, according to a new report from Nielsen Mobile. Holding back the spread of mobile video are factors including a lack of consumer awareness, high cost and a dearth...
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The audience for mobile video is growing but remains limited to only about 5% of all U.S. cell phone subscribers, according to a new report from Nielsen Mobile. Holding back the spread of mobile video are factors including a lack of consumer awareness, high cost and a dearth...
Some digital rights advocates cheered the appointment of longtime copyright-reform champion Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) as chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. Boucher is taking over for Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who will now head the Energy and the Environment subcommittee,...
NBC Universal counts on its cable networks as principal growth drivers. Bravo, which Nielsen says posted a 34% gain in ad revenue for most of 2008, is at the core. Will the recession slow the robust growth? Susan Malfa, senior vice president of ad sales, and Tony Cardinale,...
Arbitron's Portable People Meter radio ratings service has received accreditation from the Media Rating Council for quarter-hour ratings in the Riverside, Calif., market, marking another step forward for passive electronic measurement device. It's also an important validation of its "Radio First" phone-based sampling method....
Emmis Communications announced Friday that its radio revenues dropped 8% in the company's third fiscal quarter, which ended Nov. 30, putting it in the same boat as the rest of the radio industry, which saw total revenues fall 9% in the third quarter of the calendar year, according...
The effort, developed by New York-based Grey Group, features men and women pursuing their passions without pain: a mother spending time playing with her child, a wife doing the tango with her husband and a couple enjoying their time together, hiking in the woods. The ads reinforce that...
A campaign, which will encompass print, broadcast and online, is being developed. Pure Life bottles will bear the Best Life Seal of Approval "to help consumers identify the water brand as a healthy and convenient beverage choice." "Bob's simple, one-step-at-a-time approach to living healthfully fully captures the spirit...
Consumers have spent a few months realizing that the sky may not exactly be falling on them, says TNS Retail Forward's Frank Badillo, and "they've also been tempted by the deep discounts stores are dangling in front of them. The fact that spending and traffic did pick up...