Google To Overtake ITV In 2008: Online Catching Up With TV
There has been a flurry of results released this week, all of which seem to show that the march of online marketing is showing no signs of abating. Considering that a picture often is worth 1,000 words, I’ll point you in the direction of a lovely little bit of animation from The Guardian which maps […]
BBC, ITV & C4 Launch VOD Service: Is Joost Worried Yet?
A very quick post as TechCrunch UK has some great background, but essentially the BBC, ITV & Channel 4 have announced plans to launch a joint on-demand web TV service. As with all these things it has a stupid code name (Kangaroo apparently, possibly influenced by the marsupial nature of Google’s Platypus project), but I’d […]
Google Overtakes ITV Revenue: You Heard It Here First
A report by The Times has suggested that Google’s surge in revenues, which we reported recently, means that the search giant has overtaken ITV’s revenues for the first time. Whilst I wouldn’t like to boast, this is exactly what we predicted back in August when we suggested that 2007 would be the year that Google’s […]
Billie Piper, Blogging And Bondage. Oh My.
Last night, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, the television programme based on the blog Belle de Jour, aired on ITV2 for the first time. So what better subject for my maiden voyage on the company blog than the grooming of Britain’s sauciest blogger for telly? Which has involved an in-your-face print […]
Will 2007 Be The Year Google Overtakes ITV?
I wrote the other day about the various predictions for when online advertising would overtake print in the US & in that post I mentioned that it seemed like that line had already been crossed in the UK.
Well, it now looks like the UK could beat the US in crossing another major line: the one […]
