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UK sales of games will outstrip music and video for the first time in 2008, says a report from Verdict Research. The report predicts spending on games will rise by 42% to £4.64bn in 2008, with sales on music and video at £4.46bn.
“A huge shift in consumer attitudes has turned video games into the UK’s most popular form of entertainment, say the retail analysts. The BBC has more details
Compared with the first half of 2007, online ad spending grew 15.2 % to $11.5 billion in the U.S., the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced Tuesday. The rate of Growth slowed forn from 27% in the first half of 2007 compared with the same period in 2006.
As a percentage of total revenue
Search advertising increased from 41% to 44%
Display ads (Banners, video & rich media) increased from 32% to 33%
Classified ads decreased from 17% to 14%
ICANN has just written to all the Goverments of the world seeking an expression of interest for IDN ccTLDs.
Each country manages its own ccTLD; the United Kingdom has .uk and China has .cn etc. The existing domain name system is predominantly ASCII based. IDN ccTLDs will allow part of a domain name to the right of the dot to be written in languages not based on the ASCII character set.
Some countries have been very keen to implement IDN ccTLDs and ICANN has been working on testing their implementation. ICANN has now reached the stage where it is seeking expressions of interests from Governments which would like to be included in the fast track process.
Once implemented this will be a huge step in the development of the internet and will significantly increase the number of domains the Domain Name system will be able to address.
The annoucement can be found here
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-02oct08-en.htm
Almost 16.5 million households in the UK now have internet access, an increase of 1.2 million since 2007, the latest official figures show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the new figure represented close to two-thirds of UK households.
The BBC has more
The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Google blog has just posted that now in 2008 they have crawled 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) unique URLS with several billion pages being added each day.
The top 10 British brands have been publish by YouGov in their Brand Index Survey today
1. Google
2. Microsoft
3. Mercedes-Benz
4. BBC
5. British Airways
6. Royal Doulton
7. BMW
8. Bosch
9. Nike
10. Sony
The British Guardian has more details
The Scotsman has a summary of the IMRG internet retailing report
“The e-retail sales index shows internet shopping has comprised 17p in every £1 of retail spending this year, compared with 15p last year. And is predicted to reach 50p in every £1 by 2014
Reuters.com has an intersting article on networking between small businesses
“Raisecapital.com is another specialized social networking site. It matches entrepreneurs seeking financing with potential investors. Guru.com links freelancers with companies in need of their services.
“Many small businesses use social networks almost exclusively to market their products, finding they offer a quick and inexpensive way to get the word out to large groups of existing and potential customers
Reuters article here
A while ago we noted Google’s ambition to be able to offer real time stock quotes for free. Today The Offical Googlel Blog has a post that real time stock quotes on NASDAQ securities are now available at Google Finance
GPM Group 