Media - Internet

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has announced the final advertising creative guidelines for broadband video commercials online. These creative guidelines were set after an extensive review of industry feedback over the past few months. The IAB has developed a compliance programme to assist advertisers in identifying those publishers and technology providers who are compliant with these...

The number of registered blogs in China has more than doubled since the beginning of this year, according to a market research firm in Beijing. China had 33.4 million registered blogs at the end of the third quarter, up more than 100 per cent since January, when it had 14.5 million blogs, said research company Analysys International. Blogs, or Web logs, are personal Web sites that are similar to...

More than 140 civil society organisations, including 13 IFEX members, have urged UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to launch an investigation into attacks on freedom of expression and other human rights during the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) which ended more than a week ago in Tunisia. The groups, in a letter to Annan, said that in the run-up to, and during, the summit, attacks...

Europe's love affair with the internet continues apace according to research announced on Tuesday by the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA). The research report demonstrates both the increasing time spent online and the increasing sophistication of internet use among European consumers. The average European internet user now spends 10 hours 15 minutes a week online compared to...

When Anita Campbell started her Web log about small-business trends two years ago, she thought it would simply be a service for her clients and help her consulting business grow. Instead, she said, the blog "just took off," attracting more readers than she had dreamed of. Then, companies offered to pay her to post advertisements and product mentions on her site. There were enough offers, she said...

NEW YORK (Business 2.0) - It can't be said anymore that blogging isn't a business. The problem now may be that blogging has too many business models to choose from. Andrew Sullivan kicked things off by announcing he would soon decamp with his proto-blog to Time.com. That was followed in short order by the launch of Open Source Media, then the confusion over whether Gawker Media had finally sold...

Less than a week after a hyped launch, an online venture designed to bring together top online writers, journalists and commentators under a single umbrella, has decided to change its name to avoid a trademark battle with an existing public radio show. Open Source Media, until last week known as Pajamas Media, will now be called Pajamas Media once again. OSM Media LLC returned to its old name...

Search engines have become an increasingly important part of the online experience of American Internet users. The most recent findings from Pew Internet & American Life tracking surveys and consumer behaviour trends from the comScore Media Metrix consumer panel show that about 60 million American adults are using search engines on a typical day. These results from September 2005 represent a sharp...

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - The Internet has given rise to profitable companies such as Yahoo Inc., Google Inc., eBay Inc. and others, but the industry is still in the early days and will be further fueled as even faster Internet access proliferates through the United States and other countries, executives said on Wednesday. "We are seeing the beginning of things," said Reed Hastings, chief...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has warned governments that plans for an information society based on democratic values would fail if they did not put media and free expression rights at the heart of policy-making. NO ENTRY: Robert Menard, head of the French press freedom organisation Reporters sans Frontieres (RSF), is interviewed by media upon his return at Roissy airport...