An IAB Nederland study reported by Digimedia confirms earlier reports in this blog on Belgian statistics, that the market is somewhat lagging behind. According to the study, spend per person online during 2004 in France was 54 Euros, in the UK 42 Euros and Belgium just 8 Euros. The number
The Dutch Interactive Advertising Bureau reports that the online advertising market grew by 34% in the first quarter of 2005 to 21.5 million Euros. Emerce, which brings us the report, explains that the bureau brings together 18 organisations including TradeDoubler, MSN, Ilse, Lycos and Wanadoo but doesn’t yet include Google
CEO of Ask Jeeves has revealed to Reuters plans to roll out the butler throughout western Europe. Following the IAC acquisition, Ask certainly has more capital at its disposal so it is not surprising to read speculation of a buy-out of Excite Italia from Tiscali, and Spanish expansion. Where next?
GroupWeb.com has opened a new Hungary newswire service at www.hungarynewswire.com. The Budapest-based GroupWeb.com runs GroupWeb Emailwire.com.
The Jerusalem Post brings us the news that Israelis are well connected to the internet with 73% of homes having a computer and 58% an internet connection. The survey was carried out by the Tel Aviv University’s Netvision Institute for Internet Research. Heavy users were found to be generally aged
Women are now in the majority of web users in Belgium who access the internet at least once per month – up to the age of 34 that is! Overtall men still represent 55% of regular users and women 45%. The difference is in the age group between 15 –
Russia’s leading homegrown search engine, Yandex, has launched a new pay-per-click service for Russia along the lines of the existing Google service. Thanks to Nick Wilsdon of e3internet which brought us this story – Yandex so far having issued no public comment – as soon as they do we will
The Kuwait News Agency – reported in the China-based online newspaper People’s Daily Online – is to launch an arabic language search engine to archive arabic sites on the web. The news was revealed by the Kuwaiti Director General of the country’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the world
Two organisations from Belgium – Insites and ISPA – which publish statistical information on the country’s web use, are to join forces to deliver better information for web marketers. Insites publishes the report known as the Belgium Internet Mapping twice a year. The latest figures – known as ‘BIM 12’
Ask Jeeves is reported to be on the verge of buying Excite Italia from Tiscali for 10 million Euros. Ask was recently purchased by IAC and may well have deep enough pockets now to expand its linguistic offering. It only recently entered the Spanish market with its own Ask brand