Google Ad Revenue to Surpass ITV

Further analysis by the Guardian after Google’s earnings statement uses some dodgy math (althought they do explain well what they did).  Anyway, if Google keep growing at their current pace, their ad revenue could over take ITV’s in 2011.  This more points to ITV needing to get itself together.

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YouTube Invests to Get Quality Content

Up to 25 individuals can win €25,000 (£22,000) to invest in their YouTube content, plus a place at a ‘Creator Camp’ – which provides a crash course in lighting, sound and production techniques. Just some of the plans that Google is putting in place to improve the content on YouTube.  In related news, YouTube revenue [...]

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Google Earnings Report

Everyone is hitting this in the press so just a link to point you in the right places from us: Google Turns in Mixed Quarter; Loses Search-Market Share from AdAge Google’s soaring costs send shares down, despite 20pc profit jump from the Telegraph

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iOko bought by KIT Digital

KIT Digital is paying $91.4 million for 100 percent of the stock in ioko365.   Click through for full article on PaidContent.

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Blinkx Buys Burst Media

A vertical integration of Blinkx’s online video aggregation solution and Burst Media advertising services.  However, click through and read the interesting point that Blinkx has recently reported a 90% year-on-year growth in revenue.  Pretty impressive.

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FTSE 100 Companies and Use of Social Media

The Telegraph bring us this article about how the FTSE 100 companies are not using Social Media enough and / or properly.  However, I think says more about the makeup of the FTSE 100.  All of these companies are 1) old, 2) asset heavy.  We should be complaining that there are not any social media [...]

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Week of News You’ve Probably Already Read

This week has tossed up some gems that you have probably already come across due to the extraordinary amount of coverage they are getting in both trade and consumer press.  For completeness and future reference, here are some of the week’s gems. After months of speculation (and no surprise to anyone – has Murdoch ever [...]

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News Corp / BSkyB Merger Summary

For those of you who were not paying attention when news of News Corp wanting to take over BSkyB and the resulting political and competition issues, the Guardian has supplied a summary where you can get up to speed on the legal implications and history in less than ten minutes.  Enjoy!

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Vodafone invests in Qype

Qype raised 6.5M euros today.  Vodafone invested 3.5M euros into the recommendations site. An interview with the FT and CEO Ian Brotherston posted today relating to the Qype funding round, competition and next plans for the platform. If you haven’t used Qype (17 million unique users per month already do!), you should give it a [...]

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Is Local TV Commercially viable in the UK?

Two different views on this topic popped up in the news this week. First is Sue Unerman from MediaCom who argues that there is a big difference between Birmingham Alabama USA and Birmingham UK not least of which is the BBC factor and that GDP per capita in the US is 40% higher than UK. [...]

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