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- Nielsen: Average Apple.com visit lasts 74 minutes
- Nielsen: Average Apple.com visit lasts 74 minutesApp Store / iTunesI'm willing to bet that "apple.com" includes the iTunes and App Store areas.I know Apple.com is a great looking site, but over an hour per visit? Come on.RE: Nielsen: Average Apple.com visit lasts 74 minutesGreat questions, what exactly are the people...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Apple Inc., roach, Nielsen
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- Another former Softie joins VMware
- A year ago when I wrote that former Microsoft manager -- and current VMWare CEO -- Paul Maritz was getting the old band back together, I had no idea how many members would end up reuniting. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Maritz, Nielsen, Corporate Law, Productivity, Development Tools, Middleware, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-01-06
- Just Bought An HDTV? Are You Now Ready To Buy a 3DTV?
- Just Bought An HDTV? Are You Now Ready To Buy a 3DTV?Considering TV viewing is dropping..like a rock, I think most people would probably agree that a 3-d turd is still a turd.How about better TV content?One reason why I didn't buy HDTVsI knew that 3d TV will be coming,...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, turd, TV, HDTV, TV Content
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks Customer
- I recently had the opportunity to speak with Nick Portolese, Senior Manager of Data Center Operations for Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Nick's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what...
- Tags: Network, Environment, Network Security, Server, Virtual Machine, Tool, VMWare ESX, Nielsen Mobile, Altor Networks, Nielsen, Productivity, Data Centers, Ip storage, Networking, Security, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Blu-ray ix-nay?
- Nielsen's VideoScan service found Blu-ray's video disk market share dropped 13.4% the week of September 14. Is this the beginning of the end for Blu-ray? No, the Blu-ray problem is fixable. The question is, will Sony have the guts to do what it must? Sadly, that...
- Tags: Blu-ray, Nielsen, Current Pricing, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- The customer is not always right
- The customer is not always rightCound not have said it better myself. Customers will ask for the dangdestthings that they will never use. They also never really know what they want until AFTER they have had some time with initial versions. Then, they will start thinking of all kinds of...
- Tags: Marketing research, Nielsen
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- Can Eluma break Nielsen's 1/9/90 rule? Try it and decide
- Can Eluma break Nielsen's 1/9/90 rule? Try it and decideBreaking the 1/9/90 rule?I believe that there will be very little that will cause this rule to be broken. Bent perhaps but not broken.The entry, sharing, aggregation, and ingestion of information is laborious to the end user in the new information...
- Tags: Eluma, TRY IT, Nielsen
- Discussion threads 2008-03-27
- Nielsen to track digital consumer with 'Anytime Anywhere' media measurement
- Nielsen to track digital consumer with 'Anytime Anywhere' media measurementre:nielsenhttp://www.analogstereo.com/wp/making_the_transition_to_multiprotocol_label_switching_mpls.htmRE: Nielsen to track digital consumer with 'Anytime Anywhere' media measurementhttp://www.analogstereo.com/wp/making_the_transition_to_multiprotocol_label_switching_mpls.htm
- Tags: Anytime-Anywhere, media measurement, digital consumer, Nielsen
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Report: Nielsen to unveil Web piracy remedy
- Report: Nielsen to unveil Web piracy remedyHas anyone talked to the Writer's Guild?Because I am sure they would love to get a few extra dollars from this as people probably won't care for this matter in the slightest.P.S. Did not RTFAIt sounds like the content...they are talking about is...
- Tags: Channel management, piracy remedy, Nielsen, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-12-05
- DVRs short change your favorite programs?
- Nielsen, the measurer of all things media, released a report last week on the impact of digital video recorders and, at the same time, introduced a new ratings service to report on actual viewership of programs and commercials that have been recorded for playback on TiVo and other time-shifting devices.The...
- Tags: Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Nielsen adds ad-tracking
- Nielsen adds ad-trackingAdvertisingOn a related note I have not gotten over my grudge with the cable companies. When cable started we were told if you pay a small fee you can get your television without commercials. After the cable companies got Americans hooked on 100 channels they snuck...
- Tags: advertisement, Nielsen, cable
- Discussion threads 2006-07-11
- Nielsen adds ad-tracking
- The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that Nielsen Media Research will begin reporting on viewership for individual TV commercials within television programs. It will shatter a variety of myths relating to the effectiveness of, and people's engagement with, advertising. No one doubts that commercials are...
- Tags: advertisement, TV
- Blog posts 2006-07-11
- Album sales hit nine-year low in 2005
- Album sales hit nine-year low in 2005It's all junk...that's why!It is for a lot of reasons.Media is expensive.Music is awful.Pirates are plentiful.Drop the price of your music to about 7 - $9 a CD and 12 - $14 a DVD. Use volume discounts.Quit throwing those fruitcakes on stage sounding like...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Soundscan, piracy, sales, illegal download, music, UPC, Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen
- Discussion threads 2006-01-05
- Music CD sales down 7% in 2005
- According to Nielsen SoundScan, sales of music CDs in the US are down almost 7% from 2004. Album sales in 2004 totaled 480.6 mln; sales through October 2005 reached 446.9 mln. Paid download sales grew 175% the first half of 2005. Nielsen reported digital sales of 101 mln for entire...
- Tags: sales, Nielsen
- Blog posts 2005-12-21
- Nielsen's mobile-TV challenge
- Nielsen's mobile-TV challengeRENTRentrac will beat Nielsen in this area.NASDAQ.............RENTRatingsTrack the "Mute" switch for a more accurate sense of what's being watched.
- Tags: Nielsen, mobile-TV
- Discussion threads 2005-12-12
- Online music products generated $500 mln in 2004
- Music-related products for PCs and mobile phones are on pace to deliver as much as $500 million in combined revenue in the United States for 2004, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures and analysts' projections. Individual song sales online monitored by Nielsen SoundScan are on pace to top 130 mln units...
- Tags: Nielsen, Nielsen SoundScan, sales
- Blog posts 2004-12-18
- Online music products generated $500 mln in 2004
- Music-related products for PCs and mobile phones are on pace to deliver as much as $500 million in combined revenue in the United States for 2004, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures and analysts' projections. Individual song sales online monitored by Nielsen SoundScan are on pace to top 130 mln units...
- Tags: sales, Nielsen, Nielsen SoundScan
- Blog posts 2004-12-18
- Nielsen estimates DVR penetration at 4-5%
- Nielsen, the TV ratings analyst, estimates that 4-5% of US households that own a television own a DVR, while in some places the DVR penetration reached 10%. In April 2005 Nielsen plans to start reporting on TV watching habits among DVR owners.
- Tags: digital video recorder, Nielsen
- Blog posts 2004-11-11
- Nielsen surveys 37K users, comScore 1.5 mln for audience measurement
- Wired News describes the Web measurement market. Both Nielsen/NetRatings and comScore employ panels of web surfers - in Nielsen's case, about 37,000 people; comScore, 1.5 million - who allow the companies to install monitoring software on their computers to track the websites they visit. There are also incentives: Nielsen promises...
- Tags: Nielsen, ComScore Networks Inc.
- Blog posts 2004-10-06
- Online and offline music sales
- More than 19.2 mil digital tracks were sold online in the last six months of 2003, according to Nielsen Soundscan, helping to narrow the music industry's losses last year. Overall North American music sales were down 0.8% last year over 2002 while album sales, which includes cassettes and other formats,...
- Tags: sales, Nielsen
- Blog posts 2004-01-12
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