Viewing User Generated Content seventh most popular online activity in UK …

Posted on March 21, 2007
Filed Under Advertising, Analytics, Mobile, Newspapers, Search, Technology, Tools and Services, Traffic, Travel, Trends, User Generated | Leave a Comment

iLevel Internet Usage statistics - the “Activities on the Web” category is quite interesting - UGC (I guess this covers MySpace etc. as well as reading comments on news sites etc.) is seventh most popular category:

Using e-mail 25.00 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Sourcing Info on Activities/Interests 21.27 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Making Travel Plans 17.05 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Looking at Cinema/Theatre/Concert Listings 14.88 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Listening to Music 12.12 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Looking at Job Opportunities 11.59 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Looking at User Generated Content 11.13 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Downloading Music (whether paid or free) 9.98 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
Instant Messaging 9.41 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
To watch video clips 9.30 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor
To play games 9.05 million Nov-06 BMRB Internet Monitor

Decline and fall of a music empire

Posted on January 4, 2007
Filed Under Advertising, Broadband, Copyright, Digitisation, Entertainment, Future, Music, Newspapers, Paid Content, Technology, Trends | Leave a Comment

The FT reports on MusicZone’s slide into administration.  There is upside for the industry in terms of the growth of digital revenues but this growth is no where near enough to cover the dramatic decline in the revenue from physical formats. This will all sound very familiar to newspaper executives.

The downward trend has been clear for five years but recent figures suggest that the decline in CDs and DVDs has accelerated. The IFPI, the music trade association, reported a 10 per cent slide in physical format sales in the first half of the year around the world.

Ged Doherty, the head of Sony BMG’s UK operations, predicted two months ago that CD sales would halve over the next three years.

“We predict digital growth of 25 per cent per year but it is not enough to replace the loss from falling CD sales.”

Mr Doherty warned that, if current trends continued, by 2010 the industry’s total revenues could be 30 per cent lower than they are now. He said: “We have to reinvent.”

Layoffs imminent at The Philadelphia Inquirer - expected to cut 17% of newsroom staff

Posted on January 4, 2007
Filed Under Advertising, Current Affairs, Journalism, Newspapers, Trends | Leave a Comment

Amounting to 68-71 employees. The International Herald Tribune reports that the move follows the sell-off of the title by Knight Ridder to McClatchy who subsequently sold to a group of local businessmen.  The move has been closely scrutinised to determine whether a local and privately held ownership (rather than centralised and corporate) could work.  

But things changed over the summer as advertising revenue for papers across the country plummeted and circulation continued its years-long decline. At The Inquirer, the consolidation of local department stores and telecommunications companies has meant fewer ads, with revenue falling 10 percent in September 2006, from September 2005.

Daily circulation fell 7.6 percent, to 330,000, in the last year. Sunday circulation was down 4.5 percent, to 682,000, in the same period.

Time Travel with ABC

Posted on February 4, 2006
Filed Under Future, Trends, WWW | Leave a Comment

The internet and the development of the information superhigheway as seen from 1995 via a number of video clips. Interesting to look back at the debate on whether it will have the power to change society, what shape it will take and also concern at the emerging digital divide.  Also weird to see the multimedia “kiosks” that were going to change our world which - even at the time - we knew were going to be rendered redundant by the world wide web. One commentator notes that in the future people will be able to “shop from home”.

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