Breaking: Porn No Longer Popular February 23, 2007
Posted by David Kaye in : Adult, Stats , 8 comments
Netimperative reports that in January 2007, search engines accounted for 13.3% of all UK internet visits, while adult traffic comprised a mere 11.5%.
Heather Hopkins, Vice President of Research for Hitwise UK: “Search engines overtook adult websites in October and the lead has been growing ever since. This marks an important point in the maturity of the internet, with mainstream consumer activities overtaking the early attractions of the internet. It indicates that search engines have become the point of entry for the web, used to navigate to specific websites and to search for products and information.”
Whoa. Search engines have become the point of entry for the web and are being used to search for products and information. These and other simiarly banal revelations are available in the full article here.
MySpace Monthly Ad Revenues: $25 million February 10, 2007
Posted by David Kaye in : Social Networking, Stats , 16 comments
Mashable snags the most interesting tidbit from Rupert Murdoch’s keynote at the McGraw-Hill Digital Media Summit in New York: MySpace is currently doing $25 million per month in advertising revenue, at a growth rate of 30% per quarter.
How much of this is already accounted for as part of the $900m deal Google struck with News Corp is not immediately clear. Either way, that $580m purchase price is starting to look like more and more of a bargain as the months roll by.
