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NetRatings has announced the appointment of Kenneth Cassar as Director of Strategic Analysis. Cassar will oversee a team of senior analysts providing clients with value-added e-commerce and media measurement and analysis. More
Travelocity and Expedia are the most valuable brands in online travel, and their brand equity plays a key role in driving traffic to their sites, according to a new study released today by ACNielsen International Research. More
NetRatings has acquired a majority interest in Internet audience measurement specialists RedSheriff. The transaction will help Nielsen//NetRatings to satisfy industry demand for integrated panel-centric and site-centric measurement solutions. More
More than a fifth of active at-home US Internet users during September 2003 were between the ages of 2 and 17, according to data from Nielsen//NetRatings. Roughly 27m US Internet users between the ages of 2 and 17 logged on from home in September 2003, including 12m aged 2-11, and 14.9m aged 12-17. More
NetRatings and ACNielsen US have announced the launch of HomescanŽ Online, a new service designed to improve the effectiveness of online marketing for consumer packaged goods (CPG) marketers and Web publishers. More
Online ad spending is growing, with the biggest spending advertisers moving more dollars to the 'Net, according to recent figures from Nielsen//NetRatings. Business & consumer services sectors account for more than half the growth. More
The number of children online in Europe has grown by three million in the last 12 months, according to new research from Nielsen//NetRatings. There are now four million under-12s online, and nine million 12-17 year olds. Growth rates range from nought in Italy, to 58% in the UK. More
YupiMSN, the division of the MSNŽ network that delivers Spanish-language content and services to the US and Latin America, has this week selected NetRatings to provide media quality Internet audience measurement and online behaviour data for its US Hispanic consumers. More
VNU has reported its interim financial statement for the first six months of 2003, showing 'solid underlying results despite weak global economic conditions'. First-half organic growth was led by strong performances from ACNielsen and from the Media Measurement & Information business. More
AdLINK Internet Media AG, the leading independent provider of digital comms solutions in Europe, has signed up to Nielsen//NetRatings' online ad campaign planning tool, WebRF on a multi-country basis. The AdLINK network ranks in the top five domains in many European countries including the UK, Spain and Germany. More
Internet audience measurement specialist NetRatings, Inc. has announced the acquisition this week of NetCrawling S.A., the developer and marketer of LemonAd, Europe's leading online advertising monitoring service. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. More
Women make up only 42% of the European online population, according to the latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings. The proportion is growing but only slowly, and if current trends continue it will be nearly a decade before parity is reached. More
Will Hodgman has joined online competitive intelligence service Hitwise as the company's first US based board member. Will worked for Jupiter Media Metrix and NetRatings before taking up his current post of President and CEO of Sightward. More
Nielsen//NetRatings has signed a five-year agreement with media owner Univision Online to build an Internet audience measurement panel to improve the tracking and analysis of online behavior among Hispanics in the United States. More
Goldman Sachs, Harris Interactive, and Nielsen//NetRatings have this week revealed the first findings from the 2002 USA eSpending Report, showing that online shopping adoption continues, with customer satisfaction playing a key role in overall shopping for the second consecutive year. More
NetRatings last week acquired a controlling interest in NetValue, an international provider of Internet audience behaviour measurement services. More
Nearly 8 million Hispanics are thought to have accessed the Internet last month. This compares to some 6.7 million users during June 2001, making Hispanics the third largest ethnic group currently going online. This is according to new data just released by Nielsen NetRatings More
In a further move towards concentration in the Internet panels sector, NetRatings has acquired ACNielsen eRatings.com and in a separate transaction, Jupiter Media Metrix's contracts for European Internet audience measurement. More
China has taken second place in the race for the world's largest at-home Internet population, according to new Nielsen//NetRatings data. More
Web research giant Netratings has just increased its cyber-clout by purchasing AdRelevance, the online advertising spend monitoring business of competitor Jupiter Media Metrix. It is believed that the acquisition is worth USD8.5 million. More
Internet researcher Nielsen//Netratings has this week launched a new Web measurement system in the shape of its 'marketview' tool. This is designed to deliver competitive website analysis as well as media buying/selling intelligence. More
According to the latest Nielsen//NetRatings data, broadband usage out-paced narrowband usage for the first time in January in the USA, as broadband surfers logged 1.19 billion hours, accounting for 51% of the 2.3 billion hours spent online during the month. By comparison, broadband users spent 727 million hours online in January 2001, accounting for 38% of the total time spent online. More
NetRatings has appointed William Pulver, president and COO of the company, as CEO and a member of the NetRatings Board of Directors. Mr. Pulver assumes the roles from Dave Toth who is stepping down. More
American Internet researchers NetRatings and Jupiter Media Metrix have now decided to pull the plug on the acquisition agreement arranged last autumn. This is believed to follow extensive discussions with the staff at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the USA about the proposed move. More
Internet research agency NetRatings has reported financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 2001, showing revenues up by 15% for the year. More
NetRatings, Inc. and Jupiter Media Metrix, Inc. have jointly announced that they have modified certain terms of their merger agreement. This is in respect of the pending acquisition of Jupiter Media Metrix by NetRatings. More
NetRatings, Inc has announced the appointment of George Durney, Manish Bhatia, Sean Kaldor and Barbara Jarzab to its Executive Management team. More
NetRatings and Jupiter Media Metrix have received a request for additional information from the Federal Trade Commission in the USA (commonly known as a 'second request') relating to the pending acquisition of Jupiter Media Metrix by NetRatings. More
Goldman Sachs, Harris Interactive and NetRatings have announced a partnership to deliver a new eSpending Report tracking weekly US online shopping and buying attitudes. The study will be based on a national American survey of 500 online shoppers randomly chosen from Harris Interactive's panel of Internet users. More
Autometrics, a specialist in automotive e-commerce performance measurement, has teamed up with Nielsen//NetRatings to provide the automotive industry with a standard in Internet audience information throughout Europe. More
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Nielsen//NetRatings has received government approval to conduct Internet research in China. In doing so, the Nielsen//NetRatings service is the first and only service to be officially approved by the Chinese Government to measure consumers' Internet behaviour. More
Around the world, some 429 million people are now believed to have Internet access, according to a new Nielsen//Netratings survey. Within Europe alone, more than a quarter of all homes are connected via a home PC, compared with one-third of all homes in Asia Pacific and nearly half of American households. More
Nielsen//NetRatings has released the first set of data on the at-home surfing behaviour of Internet users in South Africa. This service represents the company's first attempt at tracking within Africa. The research covers the range of Internet user behaviour from data collected from randomly selected home consumer panels. More
Surprising new research just released by Nielsen//NetRatings shows that North America is unique in having a majority female Internet audience. This is in stark contrast to audiences in European countries, such as Germany, where men form the clear majority. More
NetRatings has appointed Rebecca Young as the new vice president of marketing. In her new capacity, Young is to focus on strategic branding and marketing for Nielsen//NetRatings' products and services. More
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