BBC World Service’s commentator Bill Thompson muses about why online advertising is so unmemorable. “I suspect nobody reading this will be able to recall a single web advert or campaign. They just don’t seem to stick in the mind.”
The U.S. federal government’s and states’ new ‘Do Not Call’ anti-telemarketing registries might be disastrous for the American newspaper industry, which Editor & Publisher magazines says uses telemarketing to generate 39 percent of all new subscriptions. When you consider that the average…
After Editor & Publisher Magazine’s Steve Outing wrote a Web site column today about how newspapers need to do more to attract college-aged readers, 22 year-old online newspaper whiz-kid Adrian Holovaty replied in his own blog that what newspapers really need to…
Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper has motived than a million subscribers to pay about US$1 per month to access its wireless Web site via cell phone, Japan Media Journal reports.
The number of paid subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal Online rose 3.9% when measured June-to-June, to 671,000. However, it’s actually shrunk since its all-time high of 679,000 at the end of last year.
Samsung is marketing a celluar phone that also receives regular VHF and UHF TV broadcasts.
Nielsen/Netratings reports that Hong Kong, with more than one million of its 2.4 million Internet users on broadband connections, is the city with the highest per capital broadband use, according to a story (paid-access web site) in the South China Morning Post.…
Only two of the 10 British national dailies gained circulation during the past 12 months. The Times dropped by over 10% to 631,653. The Daily Telegraph‘s circulation fell 8.8% to 915,206. The Guardian dropped 2.94% to 387,188. And the Financial Times lost…
Folks who think that video mobile phones are a thing of the future should read this month’s story in Japan Media Review about the Miura family of Tokyo. The ‘killer app’ of video telephony might just be family time.
“Leading figures from the world’s online journalism community gathered in Barcelona this week for the ninth annual NetMedia conference on digital journalism,” Journalism.co.uk reported about last week’s NetMedia 2003 Conference in Barcelona. Around 200 journalists, students and publishing professionals from across Europe…
BBC News Online won eight of 21 awards presented at the NetMedia 2003 Online Journalism Awards in Barcelona last week. Among the BBC’s awards was Lifetime Achievement to Mike Smartt, editor-in-chief of BCC News Online. Vincent Landon, science correspondent for Swiss Radio…