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Starpulse News Blog - Gaming News (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Sylvester Stallone's busty ex Brigitte Nielsen wants to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her Playboy magazine cover - by baring all for the men's magazine again.[...] Read more!
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tampabay.com blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
The experts in crunching pop culture entertainment data, the Nielsen Company (yes, they do the TV ratings, too) have come up with a raft of Idol-focused data dissecting this TV-fed pop culture phenomenon -- probably to help those of us...
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Research Brief (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The Nielsen Company reported that product placements for the first quarter of 2008 rose 6% on primetime programming for the 11 measured networks on broadcast. Broadcast television placements rose 39%, while cable television was essentially flat at -1%. There were 117,976 brand occurrences on cable and broadcast networks in the first three months of the year, according to Nielsen Product...
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TotalF1.com - Recent Formula 1 News (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
According to the French magazine 'AutoHebdo', Takuma Sato will get a shoot out test this summer at the Renault F1 Team. We already reported that Steve Nielsen wants Nelson Piquet Jr. to up his game, but it now appears that the shoot out should decide on the replacement of the Brazilian. The magazine also reports that Romain Grosjean, one of the test drivers of the team, will participate in the...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--U.S. consumers kick off the summer season with Memorial Day celebrations -- and beer. According to The Nielsen Company:
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TV Squad (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Filed under: Industry , Programming , Ratings , Reality-Free Here are the weekly cable ratings, by number of viewers. OK, I know that everyone is really excited about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , but I'm still surprised that a repeat of an almost 30 year-old movie grabbed the number one slot in the cable ratings this week. Not only that, but the sequel, Indiana Jones and the...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
PermalinkTo save a permanent link to this news, right-click the dateline (Ctl-click on a Mac) to copy the link.W. Robert Gold and Walter W. Nielsen Join FOCUS’ Chicago Office as Managing Directors CHICAGO & WASHINGTON--()--FOCUS LLC, a national middle market investment banking firm providing merger, acquisition, divestiture and corporate finance services, announces that W. Robert Gold and Walter...
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The Smug Cloud (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
That would be us. Apparently, word got out that we have excellent taste. Nielsen Ratings called me a few weeks ago, and asked us to give them our valuable opinions on what makes for good television. For one week starting today we have to keep a record of everything we watch. It's gonna be awesome fun! And, the best [...]
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Photo: WireImage Donny Deutsch's show isn't doing so hot. Its ratings on CNBC are down 15 percent from last year, and sometimes his viewership is so low it doesn't even register on the Nielsen scale. So it would be a good time for the Big Idea host to agree to a fluff profile, right? Maybe in the alumni magazine of his alma mater, the Pennsylvania Gazette . They're sure to say something nice....
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Fred Destin (Free subscription) | yesterday
Big is not necessarily beautiful, but two of the companies I am involved with, DailyMotion and PriceMinister, show up in Nielsen's April 08 audience measurements for France. Nice, both because DailyMotion is still edging ahead of the YouTube behemoth (look!...
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IntoMobile (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nielsen Mobile has just released stats showing that the UK leads Europe in mobile social networking - apparently 810,000 subscribers visited social networking sites on their handsets in Q1 2008! Facebook was the most popular SN site in the UK, with myspace in second place - which is the opposite to what was found in the [...]
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TotalF1.com - Recent Formula 1 News (Free subscription) | yesterday
After being defended by the team management in the beginning of the season, Nelson Piquet Jr. gets criticism of Renault's Sporting Manager, Steve Nielsen. As the young Brazilian has not scored a single point for the French outfit, Nielsen warns him to up his game.
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SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nielsen Online has released data showing that Wikipedia's 8,000% growth in the past 5 years is attributed to search. Really? Is that what happens when Google ranks all of your pages as #1? I had no idea. Breaking down the not-at-all suprising data: Google sent the most search traffic to en.wikipedia.org with 61% of searches on home computers and 66% of work computers. Yahoo came in second at...
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Enrico Giubertoni | 01/30/2008
… ecommerce and Internet are no longer a niche technology. They are leading global media … and Visa is the Most Popular Credit Card Payment Method. (Nielsen) More than 85 percent of the world's online population has used the Internet to make a purchase , increasing the market for online shopping by 40 percent in the past two years. These are the results of the latest Nielsen Global Online Survey on
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nirajperipleko | 01/28/2008
Search Engine Optimization Services Nielsen's latest search-tracking numbers had good news for Microsoft and mixed news for just about everyone else. According to Nielsen, Microsoft had a small gain in search traffic, edging up to 13.8 percent of the total U.S. market in December from a previous 12-month high of 12 percent. Google and Yahoo saw their shares of the U.S. market drop to 56.3 percent...