Wednesday 26 December 2007

Ad-free social networking site to launch in the UK

Badoo, a social networking website which allows users to pay to be popular while banning all advertising, is going to launch in the UK market.

Though Badoo is now a relatively unknown brand, Google rated it on the second spot on its "fastest rising" list – only behind the iPhone and even ahead of Facebook.

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Worldwide media consumption grows and digitises

Media consumption worldwide has increased in hours, and since the 90’s, digital media has grown dramatically, and will outperform the traditional and become the mainstream, according to a study from Carat.

In the beginning of the last century, the average media consumption per week was merely about 10 hours; most of which was spent in print media. In 1980, the weekly media consumption worldwide was up to more than 50 hours, and exceeded 60 hours in 2000. It is expected to grow and achieve nearly 90 hours per week by 2020.

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UK leads Europe in digital media use

The latest report out of Britain's Office of Communications shows the United Kingdom is ahead of most other countries in Europe when it comes to use of digital media.

The “International Communications Market” report also covers France, Germany, Italy, Canada, the United States and Japan, and is designed to give international comparisons for the United Kingdom, according to an eMarketer report.

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China has more than 1.2 billion TV viewers

The television audience in China climbed to 1.205 billion people in 2007, an increase of 90 million people since 2002, and double the size it was in 1987, a survey released in Beijing has revealed.

According to a survey initiated by the China Central Television Station and conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics, about 99.89 percent of households in China own televisions.

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