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Are Network TV Ad Sales Terrible? Or Just Bad? And When Will We Know?

Peter Kafka in Media on August 10, 2009 at 7:52 am PT

As predicted, TV ad sales are down. And as predicted, TV networks are hoping they come back sometime in the next year, along with the economy. In the meantime, what do cheap TV ad prices do for Web video sales?

Social Networking More Popular Than Email, More Profitable Than…Er…Um

John Paczkowski in News on March 9, 2009 at 8:55 am PT

Hard to believe, but social networking has eclipsed email in popularity. The latest Nielsen survey found that 66.8 percent of the global online population spends time at “Member Communities”–a category that includes both blogs and social networks. That makes social networking about two percent more popular than email.