online media

No one wants to pay for news online? Paid content doomed to fail?

March 16, 2010 - 5:18am | Analytics | News

According to the research by Pew Internet Project while most of US consumers like reading news online just one in five is willing to pay for it. In those cases when a news site charges a pay for subscription or pay-per-article fees over 4/5 of readers are looking for other sources of information online.

The study confirms that it would be too hard for media entities to get online readers pay for news.

New York Times | online media | online news | paid content | pay per article

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Americans think local newspaper websites are most credible media sources

February 25, 2010 - 3:40pm | Figures | News

According to a new survey conducted by comScore for the Newspaper Association of America many people consider newspaper websites as the most valuable sources of credible and trustworthy local information.

The survey polled 3,050 respondents 57% of whom rated local newspaper websites as the top online source for local information. That figure is even higher for upper income households (63%) and for the college educated (60%).

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eBay determined to invade media market and jostle Amazon

May 11, 2009 - 2:26am | News | Other themes

As eBay earlier announced to its sellers now through the end of 2009 they can pay only 5 cents when they list books, music, movies, and video games on eBay.com in Fixed Price with product details. Their listings will be shown on both the new eBay product pages and in search results. Besides, sellers can also get Subtitle free with Fixed Price and Auction-style listings in these categories when they list with product details.

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Microsoft tries to catch up in advertising business over 1 day with Discovery

April 14, 2009 - 5:01am | News | Other themes

In a move to regain some portion of advertising revenues Microsoft lost to Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. the software giant sold more than 90 percent of its advertising inventory across its web, mobile, and video game businesses to the Discovery Channel for a one-day campaign to promote the television series "Deadliest Catch”, as reported by Reuters.

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Will YouTube be more successful partnering with Universal Music Group?

April 10, 2009 - 8:51am | News | Other themes

YouTube and Universal Music Group have announced they would be partnering with the aim of launching an online music video venture, reports the Associated Press.

The venture is expected to launch later this year with Universal's entire catalog of almost 10,000 music videos. It is also projected that the companies will share ad revenue on the Vevo.com site, on a Vevo channel on YouTube and on a tailor-made video player that can be placed on social-networking pages and other sites.

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Illegal online media downloading is not prohibited in France

April 9, 2009 - 8:47am | Articles | Law aspects

According to the report from Associated Press French lawmakers declined to pass the bill that was developed to prevent Internet subscribers from illegal downloading music or films by cutting off their connections. As the edition notes the rejection on the part of the government was unexpected.

film download | France | internet | music download | online media

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Germans like to purchase media on Amazon

April 3, 2009 - 7:32am | News | Other themes

A new survey published by Strategy Analytics showed that Amazon was the first or the second preferred brand for online media purchases in Germany.

The “Digital Media Survey: Germany Country Profile” report asked broadband users in Germany which sites they preferred to make purchase downloaded music, video and games. Amazon was the first or second preferred brand within each category and the most preferred brand across all three categories followed by Apple iTunes, MSN and eBay.

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