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Nielsen//NetRatings has published the first results from its newly launched AdRelevance online ad tracking service in China. Results show the country's computer, automotive and FMCG industries investing heavily in online advertising, and a dramatic growth in overall spend. More
Nielsen//NetRatings has announced upgrades for AdRelevance, its competitive online media intelligence service, giving more data on rich media advertising. More
NetRatings has announced results for the quarter ended June 30. Revenues were $19.9m, up 17% on Q2 2005. Net income for the quarter was $931,000, turning round a $2.3m net loss in Q2 2005. The company has also appointed Louise Ainsworth as MD of its European business. More
Internet giant Yahoo! Inc. has appointed a data mining expert, Dr. Raghu Ramakrishnan as Vice President and Yahoo! Research Fellow. Meanwhile in Hong Kong, Business Developer Joseph Kam has left Yahoo! to join online measurement firm NetRatings. More
Google's second-quarter results, published yesterday, have beaten analyst expectations, with ad revenue and market share continuing to rise. Meanwhile its share of searches in the US rose to around 50% in May, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. More
Unica Corporation has announced that it has settled a dispute with online measurement company NetRatings, inherited when the former acquired technology company Sane Solutions on March 22 this year. Unica will license a number of NetRatings' patents on a non-exclusive basis for a one-time fee of $1.5 million. More
Following Nielsen Media Research's TV ratings announcement yesterday, sister company NetRatings has announced the expansion of its Internet measurement capabilities to address the growth of online audio and video content as well as the convergence of Internet and television content. More
Another milestone for Google, according to Nielsen//NetRatings – the search engine passed fifty per cent of all US Internet searches for the first time in April. Yahoo! and MSN searches made up 22 and 11% of the total, respectively. More
NetRatings has announced its results for the quarter ending 31 March, showing an 11% rise in revenue to US$18.3m. Net loss for the quarter came in at US$225,000 compared with US$1.6m a year earlier. More
Two of VNU's major shareholders could scupper the US$10.3 billion private equity buyout backed by the group's Board earlier this week. Fund manager Fidelity International, which owns 15% of VNU, said it was 'unlikely to support this offer', while FT reports suggest 2% holder KVAM is 'actively looking' for a Chief Executive to run VNU. More
In recent weeks both British Gas and Powergen have announced plans to raise prices, and recent research from Nielsen//NetRatings reveals how the UK online population has been flocking to energy sites over the last month. More
US online radio audiences increased 177% in the last year, according to the first figures from the joint Arbitron and comScore measurement service. Meanwhile, Nielsen//NetRatings says that community web sites such as Friends Reunited and MySpace are now visited by more than half the UK Internet population every month. More
One in four European Internet users visited a job web site between July and September 2005, up from around a fifth the previous year, according to new research from Nielsen//NetRatings. The study also shows the popularity of university web sites. More
Nielsen//NetRatings is introducing AdRelevance - its online ad measurement tool - to Australia. The service, already available in the US and Europe, will now track 250 Australian web sites and 4,000 URLs to gather information about who is advertising, where and how, and how much they are spending. More
Many Americans turned to the Internet to help hurricane victims last month, according to new data from comScore. However, not all new surfing was altruistic: online share trading and TV web sites also experienced significant growth, and the latest analysis from NetRatings finds that online shopping continues to thrive. More
US Internet measurement specialist Nielsen//NetRatings has settled its lawsuit against Visual Sciences, by entering into a licensing agreement with the company. NetRatings launched the lawsuit earlier this year, alleging infringement of some of its data collection and analysis patents. More
A study from the US Online Publishers Association (OPA) has found that different methods of compiling online audience figures lead to significantly different estimates of visitors to local web sites. The research is based on an analysis of measurement tools from Nielsen//Net Ratings, comScore, Scarborough and The Media Audit. More
Adult Internet users are increasingly going online to learn, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. Its latest figures show that use of educational reference web sites, such as encylopaedias and dictionaries, grew by 22% this year. Other new data from the company includes the top ten web sites, and top ten online advertisers. More
Nielsen//NetRatings has launched its Internet audience measurement tool Market Intelligence in South East Asia. MSN in Singapore is currently publishing visitor data as compiled by Market Intelligence, and several Hong Kong publishers have also committed to using the service. More
Nielsen//NetRatings has become the first online audience measurement provider to apply for Media Rating Council (MRC) accreditation for its methods - throwing down the gauntlet for others in the industry. The Council currently accredits measurement systems for all other major media, including TV, radio and print. More
Nielsen//NetRatings has developed a new method of measuring Internet audiences, integrating data from the two most commonly used approaches: data from consumer panels and site-centric measurement technology. Different methods can produce very different statistics, as seen in the latest search engine usage data from competitors Hitwise and comScore. More
Search-sponsored links to web sites comprised 34% of online ad impressions, according to Nielsen//NetRatings' new Sponsored Search Link survey, based on data for August. The new service incorporates search advertising insight into AdRelevance, the company's online ad intelligence product. More
Nielsen//NetRatings has opened a Brisbane office to complement its Sydney headquarters and its research and development centre in Melbourne. Greg Chamberlain, newly appointed Business Development Manager, will head the new office. More
Nielsen NetRatings has appointed Andrew Reid as Managing Director, Australia. He will be based in Sydney and report to Forrest Didier, MD of the company's Asia Pacific Latin America group. More
Nielsen//NetRatings has developed a service for telecoms providers enabling them to measure and analyse mobile content usage. Three major carriers are already using or trialling the system – Optus, Hutchison 3 and Telstra. More
Nielsen//NetRatings has announced a long-term partnership agreement with Singapore-based information & communications company StarHub, to boost its Internet measurement analytics service in the Asia Pacific region using StarHub's advanced Internet Data Centre. More
NetRatings has announced the appointment of Forrest L. Didier as MD of its Asia Pacific - Latin America region, effective 2 May. A Nielsen employee for 23 years, Didier played a key role in developing the company's Internet measurement business in the early days of ACNielsen eRatings.com. More
Internet audience specialist Nielsen//NetRatings has enhanced its Market Intelligence system for New Zealand. Expanded demographics about site visitors now includes geographic location and online purchasing behaviour. More
Nielsen//NetRatings has extended its Market Intelligence monitor to cover Australian web sites in two new categories, 'Business and Finance' and Sport; and has released the first results from the service. More
Millions of Australians have visited charity web sites in the aftermath of the tsunami, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. Oxfam and World Vision saw the number of unique browsers visiting their Australian sites increase by over 500 percent in the week commencing 26th December. More
Nielsen//NetRatings has this week announced the appointment of Andrew Eckford as Senior Analyst for Australia effective immediately. Andrew will be in charge of the largest online behaviour database in Australia. More
Nielsen//NetRatings has announced the further extension of its Market Intelligence Internet measurement rollout in Australia, this time to news and weather Web sites. ninemsn's National Nine News and Fairfax Digital's Sydney Morning Herald online publication top the rankings. More
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