“Fraudband” – what a great word “THE Fairfax Media chief executive, David Kirk, has labelled broadband in Australia “fraudband” because it is too expensive and slow. “ Sad to see Australia go through the same issues as we have here. “Mr Kirk said the problem was not government policy but the state of the market, …
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Wii winning
The Wii seems to be besting the XBox360, while the PS3 languishes well behind. While in Salt Lake City I dropped by a Best Buy – about 20 PS3’s were in stock and not moving – one every few days it seemed. Wiis were out of stock and would last 30 minutes each time a …
When will the penny drop? US Online Advertising 3-5 times here..
Just announced: 2006 US online advertising hit $16.8bn, showing a 34% growth rate over 2005. That compares to NZ’s $65m and 48% growth. One way to compare is by population – USA online ad spend was US$56 per person, and NZ online ad spend was $NZ$15.80 or US$10.80 per person. That US number equates NZ$81.60 …
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TVNZ’s new site – crippled
Go Tui – who managed to sneak a look at TVNZ’s new site. Read/Write web has also blogged about how TVNZ.com will be positioned as a third channel. The site seems lovely to look at (looks like there is some nice ajax action, and the download speed tester recognises the constraints we have here) Tragically …
eBay Homepage Design
eBay Homepages vary by geography – as Auctions is a fairly geographically and culturally constrained business. Still, it is interesting to see just how dramatic the differences are: Best homepage – the simplest by far, is Canada. The page is approaching Google simplicity, and it is abundantly clear what you have to do – enter …
Buffet on Newspapers…
Warren Buffet talks about the decline of newspapers in his latest missive. Some chilling words from the great investor. The money quote “Eventually, though, eroding fundamentals will overwhelm managerial brilliance“ The History “..when two or more papers existed in a major city (which was almost universally the case a century ago), the one that pulled …
Geekzone news…
Geekzone’s news feed seems stuck on Feb 27th… Hopefully they’ll fix this soon because it is a pretty good resource otherwise, though the signal/noise ratio can be a bit low.. Scoopit!
Who will buy TV3?
If PBL is part of a group that buys CanWest MediaWorks (Owners of TV3 and part-owners of Australia’s Ten network) then that lousy msn.co.nz site could get a whle lot better, as could TV3. However if Kerry Stoke’s Seven network wins then we’ll see interesting times online as the two rivals PBL and Seven will …
How we surf in NZ: Time online
There are lots of ways of measuring how popular a website is. The industry started with ‘hits’, before realising that a page could generate countless hits. The local industry moved to ‘Unique Visitors’ and, once the number of Unique Visitors exceeded the population of New Zealand, to ‘Unique Browsers’. Many sites and advertisers like using …
eBay Blogs
eBay Blogs: Who knew. Also available now in the UK, which is how I found it. Right now it is early days, but eBay seems to be tapping into a group of people that are fairly new to writing blogs. Time will tell whether this works or not – I just see lots of opportunities …
The lying profession…
So by 138 votes to 124 an audience to a PRWeek ethics debate decided against the motion that ‘PRs have a duty to tell the truth’. 3 comments. Firstly there is a great discussion about this at blogHerald and Strumpette (great blog name) Secondly – PRWeek just isn’t great at PR. I cannot actually see …
Measuring Yahoo!Xtra and msn.co.nz
From what I see (from the page sources) it appears that msn.co.nz is measuring traffic using Nielsen NetRatings, but that Yahoo!xtra is not. (I may be wrong). This will make things very “interesting” for Yahoo!xtra advertising sales teams. Corporate Yahoo! may not realize that the advertisers in NZ demand tracking from NetRatings, and the locals …
Complaining about advertising stats
Lots of complaining about the advertising stats. The (Direct) Marketing association says it spent $400m on creative and the reported $100m was just postage, the Internet Advertising Bureau says the $65m online spend excluded search (i.e. Google) and the long tail of smaller sites, and MediaEdge said that un-addressed mailouts were under-reported. The Direct Marketing …
Xtra Retardo Mail..
Jama weighs in on Xtra mail. Xtra didn’t integrate their ISP mail with Yahoo! mail, which is terrible for consumers, but the logical move for a monopoly seeking to slow its demise. If Xtra members were switched to Yahoo!, then even less would hold them to Xtra as an ISP. Given Xtra’s terrible performance at …
yahoo!xtra versus msn. Overall impact
MSN’s offering is woeful. The search is embarrassingly unusable and takes you off-site, the site itself looks like it was slapped together at midnight last night and the lack of advertising makes you feel like there is no local team nor reason for existence. About the only thing that MSN did well was getting their …
Lance Wiggs 