According to the Austrian Web Analysis (ÖWA) for June 2008, the broadcaster’s ORF.at website achieved an all-time high of 207 million page impressions for editorial content.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
While revenue from traditional board games hardly increased in recent years, digital games for computers, consoles and mobile phones generated record revenues.
“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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.