In a recent study by Auna, eEspaña, mentioned in an earlier post, blogging received its share of attention in a special section entitled eSociedad (eSociety). Spain already has 68,000 blogs, but of course only half of them are actually active. It’s not difficult to get excited about writing a blog
Alright, so yesterday’s news of TPI’s upcoming Noxtrum search engine adventure, took more than a few by surprise, after they signed an agreement with MSN just 10 days back to provide MSN Paginas Amarillas (MSN Yellow Pages). But when that seemed to be the peak, today’s developments proved to put
Let’s get back to MSN for a minute. Now here are some remarkable news: the use of MSN Spaces in Spain literally sky rocketed since it was launched on April 7th. That’s a million active users. Not too shabby. But to put that in perspective, for anyone who is still
If you thought search in Spain wasn’t exciting enough, think again! TPI (Telefónica Publicidad e Información), reaching 11.89 million in benefits last quarter, is about to throw some spice into the mix, where Google, MSN and Yahoo are running the show and other, determined newcomers (Seekport) are playing to win
In an interesting move last week, MSN Spain, the leading portal in Spain and TPI (Telefónica Publicidad e Informacion), the principal business directory in Spain, have signed an agreement to integrate TPI’s yellow pages listings into a brand new channel of information, MSN Páginas Amarillas (MSN Yellow Pages). The joint
As published in an earlier post, “Spanish E-Commerce: Optimistically on the rise,” there are now 4 million Spaniards who rely on e-commerce. With 1,000,000 users in Spain, eBay announced that it has now reached 25% percent of the growing number. The number also indicates a 15.8% of the 9,000,000 Spanish
On June 20th, Yahoo launched Yahoo! Música Radio (Yahoo Music Radio) in Spain, a service already available and successful in other European countries, but a newcomer to Spain. With more than 4 million users, Yahoo! Music is the top online music destination in Europe. It’s no surprise that Yahoo will
Have plans for June 22nd-23rd? Well, if you are serious about online marketing in Europe, you should be booking to Mallorca, Spain, to take advantage of the first Online Marketing Europe (OME), an International Congress and Exhibition for online marketing. According to OME’s website, the conference “caters for many different
According to the Internet User Association (AUI), at the end of May, Spain reached 4,034,317 internet users with high speed internet connections; 3,124,517 users opted for DSL and 873,000 rely on cable connections. Not surprisingly 80% of these connections originate from urban locations and 50% off all connections come from
Two weeks ago, PayPal took on yet another frontier, as they launched their services in Spain. 250,000 Spanish users were already taking advantage of this practical payment method in English. Now they will be able to enjoy the service in their own language (www.paypal.es), much like in the U.K., Germany,