Spending on cinema, mobile, videogame, branded entertainment, satellite radio and custom publishing advertising will grow a projected 20.3 percent in 2007 and an additional 18.4 percent in 2008 and 18.5 percent in 2009, according to Jack Myers Media Busin
Now, a majority of online Americans 12 to 64 are using online video once a week or more. In 2006 this number was 44 percent, and now it is 52 percent -- for a growth rate of 18 percent.
March saw Americans consume more than 7 billion video streams online, led by Google Sites with 1.2 billion (16.7 percent share of streams). Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 434 million streams (6.2 percent), followed by Fox Interactive with 421 million (
The U.S. box office rebounded in 2006 with $9.49 billion, a 5.5%gain. Box Office has grown $3.6 billion
Due to slower than anticipated rollout and take-up of IPTV in the US, eMarketer has revised its estimates down and now forecasts only 4.8 million IPTV subscribers in the US in 2011, up from 300,000 in 2006.
The average broadband download speed in the US is only 1.9 megabits per second, compared to 61 Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in South Korea, 18 Mbps in Sweden, 17 Mpbs in France, and 7 Mbps in Canada, according to the Communication Workers of America.
At the end of 2006, there were 281 million broadband subscribers world wide, up by 67 million according to London-based Point-Topic. DSL subscribers total 185 million, making it the most popular access technology for now, with a 65.7% market share, ac
The latest eMarketer estimates put total US Internet ad spending at $16.4 billion this year, a 30.8% gain over last year's $12.5 billion. The prime engine behind such strong growth is Google, whose US online advertising revenues are expected to be more th
