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Click Here If You’re a German video editor and have yelled “Why? Why? Why?” at your NLE
A short survey on video software needs, with gift card prizes and a the results will only be reported in aggregate.Time to air all the grievances!
Chinese mobile-phone users love multimedia
The mobile phone is an extremely popular entertainment device in China. According to a current study by US market research company M:Metrics, multimedia applications such as music, photos and games are the favourites among Chinese mobile-phone owners.
Advertising and media industries expect a stable advertising market in 2008
The media and advertising industries expect the advertising market to develop steadily this year. Most communications managers expect advertising budgets in 2008 to remain at the previous year’s level or rise slightly.
One in Ten Sells Unwanted Christmas Gifts Online
Many Christmas gifts end up on the Internet. One in ten Germans (11 percent) intends to auction or sell unwanted presents online in the coming days.
IT and Telecommunications Industry Confident for 2008
The German IT and telecommunications industry expects rising revenues in the coming year: «Demand from business, government and private customers for modern information and communications systems will continue to grow steadily in the coming year».
83 Percent of German Broadband Users
83 percent of broadband users in Germany are interested in “Connected Life” services. With “Connected Life”, households can store, manage and access all digital media regardless of location and terminal device. More than half of broadband users in Germany would be willing to pay for “Connected Life” services – an average of five euros per month.
Palm Slips Deeper into the Red
Smartphone and handheld computer manufacturer Palm slipped deeper into the loss zone in the past second fiscal quarter.
US Video Game Industry Celebrates Record Year
Industry will generate around 19 billion US dollars in 2007.
The Future Is Online – Gameforge Has Shaped the Online Games Market for Four Years
Gameforge turns four and has every reason to celebrate: More than 40 million players worldwide have registered for the Karlsruhe company's free online games since its founding – and around 100,000 new ones are added every day.
Brighter and Cheaper: Upswing for Plasma Screens
As market researcher DisplaySearch http://www.displaysearch.com reports in a current analysis, the luminous efficiency of plasma displays is expected to improve significantly in just a few years. At the same time, both power consumption and production costs will be reduced.
IPTV Enjoys Ever Greater Popularity
By 2012, 38.4 million households are expected to receive IPTV. That would be more than six times as many as at the end of 2006. These data resulted from a study by Informa Telecoms & Media, the results of which were published today.
Internet Users Don’t Give a Damn About Television
More and more web users prefer the online world.
Integration Week on ZDF Set an Accent in the Social Discussion
ZDF succeeded in making the subject of "integration" accessible to a broad public with its programme focus "Shared Apartment Germany".
Media Year 2007 – Online Outstrips TV
Germany's media industry closes 2007 as a historic year: For the first time, consumers spent more time on the internet than in front of the television. This also confirms the forecast by media experts surveyed by MedienRat a year ago.
Online Shopping Conforms to Gender Stereotypes
Although the internet is repeatedly said to have revolutionary power, gender-specific shopping preferences seem to be so immanent that they also present themselves on the internet true to the typical stereotypes and defy any change.
Akamai and Quocirca determine 4-second tolerance threshold for web-based enterprise applications in Europe
Akamai Technologies, Inc., the world’s leading solution provider for accelerating online content and business processes, presents the results of an industry study on the efficiency and use of web-enabled applications by companies in Great Britain, France, Germany and Scandinavia.
Future of “Digital Living” at CONNECTIONS Europe
By 2010, the “Digital Living” industry forecasts an increase in digitally networked households worldwide from the current 80 million to 145 million. CONNECTIONS Europe 2007 shows exactly what this future could look like: Strategies for “Digital Living” markets.
Internet replaces romantic relationships
A quarter of Americans do not give a damn about a real partner.
Digital entertainment market in upheaval
Gloomy prospects for mobile TV - iTunes comes under pressure.
Apple: Very high satisfaction among iPhone users
In its latest survey, research company ChangeWave found exceptionally high satisfaction among iPhone (news/share price) users.
PC market grows strongly
Demand for notebooks is driving the market for personal computers (PCs) strongly. In the third quarter of 2007, worldwide PC sales grew by around 15 percent year on year, as the market research institutes Gartner and IDC reported on Thursday.
Is the market ready for “Next Generation TV”?
Deloitte study shows potential of IPTV / Interactive television not yet accepted by consumers / Content decides
Google undisputed world ruler of online search
A total of 61 billion Internet search queries in August.
US credit dilemma afflicts LCD segment
Price discounts intended to stimulate the desire to buy in the Christmas business.
Legal music downloads grow by 37 percent
The boom in legal music downloads continues. In the third quarter of 2007 alone, 9.3 million digital products were downloaded from the Internet, media control reports. "The past quarter was the strongest single quarter in history," says Ulrike Altig, managing director of media control. The increase corresponds to 37.1 percent compared with the same period of the previous year.
German gross advertising market rises significantly in the first nine months of 2007
The German gross advertising market continued to grow in the first nine months of 2007.
OGame Gameforge Classic Still One of the Most Popular Online Games
According to a recently published study by the market research institute Nielsen/Netratings, OGame is one of only three MMOG (Massive Multiplayer Online Games) - alongside “World of Warcraft" and “The Tribes" - to have made it into the top 10 most popular German online games.
German IPTV Forecast Reaches 2.5 Million
Goldmedia projects 2.5 million German IPTV households and €420 million in direct revenue by 2012, from about 100,000 users in 2007.
Industry Leaders in Shanghai at the Imaging Expo
When Imaging Expo/Interphoto Shanghai opens Its doors on September 26, 2007, visitors will not only have the opportunity to see the latest products in the imaging industry, but the trade fair also comes with a unique supporting program.
Revenue from Music Downloads Climbs to 60 Million Euros
The market for digital music is growing by 25 percent in 2007. Two thirds of revenue is generated with men.
Mobile Content Day Again in Hamburg
The fifth Mobile Content Day will take place on September 14, 2007 under the motto "Mobile Content for Publishers and Agencies".
Time Is More Valuable Than Money
For one of every two working Germans who took part in a Sony Ericsson survey, a lack of time is such a big problem that they would even pay something for more time.
Computer Games Market Grows to Two Billion Euros for the First Time
Sales have already risen to a combined 873 million euros in the 1st half-year.
An increase of 21 percent is expected for the full year.
Gameforge cooperates with Polish Internet portal
Strategic partnership with Onet.pl brings Gameforge subsidiary nearly 10 million unique visitors per month
Kino.de records significant reach gain
Kino.de, Germany's leading online service for entertainment, film and cinema content, was able to significantly expand its reach in the first quarter of 2007: This is demonstrated by the AGOF internet facts 2007-I data published last week.
Mobile phone market: “iPhone as opportunity for competition”
Nokia and Motorola stood out from the competition on the basis of their quarterly results. Nokia surprised with unexpectedly high profits; the struggling Motorola group also found no way out of the crisis in the completed second quarter. The market launch of the iPhone meanwhile shaped media reporting in the past quarter, but from which above all other smartphone manufacturers such as Sony Ericsson and Nokia benefited.
ZDF is market leader in July
With a market share of 12.6 percent, ZDF is market leader in July 2007. RTL is in second place with 12.4 percent. ARD is in third position with 12.2 percent, and SAT.1 remains in fourth place with 9.6 percent.
Games world is becoming digital at a rapid pace
While revenue from traditional board games hardly increased in recent years, digital games for computers, consoles and mobile phones generated record revenues.
Market for game consoles in Germany grows
The market is growing rapidly despite some initial weaknesses among the new generation of high-tech devices.
Simpsons disenchant Harry Potter
“The Simspons Movie” had the third-most-successful film opening of the year. As already indicated in the trend charts, the animated film enters the media control cinema charts directly at number one.
Customers poorly informed about high definition
High Definition" is a term that promises not only high-quality TV pictures, but also high profits for manufacturers. At present, however, the industry is split into two camps that are fighting for their format to prevail.
Simpsons: Rush on the cinema box offices
Germany is into yellow! After twenty years of life as a series, the Simpsons are now embarking on their first cinema adventure. More than 390,000 viewers saw "The Simpsons Movie" on the opening day, as media control reports.
Microsoft: Vista sold 60 million times so far
The world's largest software manufacturer Microsoft has so far sold its new Windows Vista operating system 60 million times.
New “Harry Potter” immediately number one in the book charts
The English original edition of the seventh "Harry Potter" novel "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" immediately took the top spot in the media control book charts after publication
Advertising customers avoid Tour de France
Advertising customers are juming ship from the Sat. 1 television channel because of its broadcast of the Tour de France.
Tarantino enters at number four with “Death Proof”
No fewer than five new entries shake up the Top 10 of the cinema charts this week. That has not happened for a long time. The most successful was Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof – Todsicher" at number four, as media control reports.
Music charts: New rules in effect
The official German music charts are now open to "download-only" titles. The revenues generated, rather than the copies sold, are now decisive in determining the positions.
IP Deutschland Managing Director Florian Ruckert is AGF board member
Florian Ruckert, Managing Director Marketing at IP Deutschland, was appointed to the board of Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fernsehforschung (AGF) as representative of the RTL channel family and as deputy chairman effective July 1.
Nielsen Media Research publishes gross advertising expenditure of non-classical media
Nielsen Media Research now also reports the advertising expenditure for the cinema, Transport Media and At-Retail-Media media in the first six months of 2007.
Sat.1 establishes central magazine editorial office
Sat.1 is immediately beginning to build a central magazine editorial office under the direction of Nik Niethammer (45, Head of Magazines), from which both the "Sat.1 Breakfast Television" and a relaunched form of the boulevard magazine "BLITZ" are to be produced in future.
Regional profile on television is sharpened
The Baden-Württemberg Regional Broadcasting Director of Südwestrundfunk (SWR), Willi Steul, announced at the meeting of the Baden-Württemberg Regional Broadcasting Council on Friday, July 20, 2007, in Mannheim that the Baden-Württemberg share in the early evening on SWR television would be optimized. The regional profile would be sharpened further.
500,000 watch “Tour de France” on Sat.1
Since Thursday, private channel Sat.1 has taken over the broadcasting rights to the 94th "Tour de France". With an average of 500,000 viewers aged three and over, the Berliners started the second half of the cycling tour. According to media control, the market share of the eleventh stage was 4.7 percent.
Sat.1 changes its programme schedule
After the programme schedule is changed at the end of August, the share of information programmes on Sat.1 will be 23 percent. At the last license renewal by LMK (Rhineland-Palatinate State Center for Media and Communication) in 2000, Sat.1 had an information share of 19 percent. From the channel's perspective, there is therefore no reason for the license as a full programme to be at risk.
After relaunch, RTL.de increases page impressions by 18 percent
The relaunch of the RTL.de website is apparently being well received by Internet users. This is demonstrated by the official access figures from IVW. According to them, RTL.de achieved a monthly average of 417 million page impressions (PIs) in the first half of 2007, an increase of 18 percent compared with the same period in the previous year.
More than 830,000 viewers flocked to “Harry Potter”
Harry Potter, the best-known of all wizard apprentices, is back in cinemas. 834,000 viewers stormed into "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" in the first two days, 377,000 of them on Wednesday at the various previews.
Around 22 percent growth in console games
Revenue from console software rose by more than one fifth to around 203 million euros in the first half of 2007. media control announces this.
CNN sales team is top in Europe!
CNN International's sales team enjoys the best reputation in Europe. This is the conclusion of a survey of leading advertising and media experts.
n-tv.de on Course for Success
n-tv.de is growing continuously. The news channel n-tv's information portal recorded 110,473,115 Page Impressions (PIs) and 13,446,985 visits last month. In terms of PIs, this is the third-best month since n-tv.de launched eight years ago.
Telecommunications Providers Lead the Product Ranking
With an increase of 3.1 percent to 271.2 million euros in advertising revenue, consumer magazines and TV together close calendar week 26. While consumer magazines had to record a reduction in their advertising proceeds, advertising television posted an increase of 32.5 percent to 137.4 million euros.
Study: Mobile Phone Television as a Future Cornerstone of the Media Industry
Mobile TV in Germany with revenue potential of more than half a billion euros in 2012
Multimedia Industry: Revenue and Employee Figures Grow by Double Digits
German Association for the Digital Economy sees increasing shortage of qualified employees
Study Finds 13% Interested in Mobile TV
An ARD/ZDF survey found 13 percent of Germans interested in mobile television, with preferences varying substantially by age.
Philips Study: HDTV Prospects Convinced Only by the Picture
Consumer electronics provider surveys consumer acceptance
Study: HDTV Boom Through Football World Cup and Video Games, Mobile TV Disappoints
Market researchers at Deloitte see HD breakthrough this year, but only restrained response to mobile TV offerings
Study: Digital Television Brings Digitalization Breakthrough in Europe
DTV is to overtake broadband Internet by 2010 / Investments of 100 billion euros expected
Mobile TV: Study Sees Consumers Ready for Mobile-Phone Television
Goldmedia Finds Willingness to Pay, Forecasts 450 Million Euros in Revenue in Germany in 2010
Evening Television Creates Family Conflict
A 2003 FLIMMO survey examined how families handled prime-time television and advised parents on age-appropriate evening viewing.
Sedo Study Finds Weak Uptake for New Top-Level Domains
A 2003 Sedo study found low active use and little resale demand for most newly introduced domains, with .info the notable exception.