Almost four out of five European media planners expect to increase their online spending this year, but the internet will attract less than a quarter of all ad spend, according to figures from 14 countries compiled by Neo@Ogvily/Planetactive and SKOPOS (via WARC.com). The planners predict online will take 24 percent…

It’s got a long way to go to become the standard method of radio listening, but the number of regular internet radio listeners is growing fast according to the fourth installment in Rajar’s MIDAS survey into online radio, carried out over the last six months with 1,153 respondents…

We knew Russia’s online media were exploding; now comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) data shows the country’s internet users visit social networking sites more than anyone else in the world - an average of 6.6 hours and 1,307 pages per visitor per month. Release.

There aren’t many advertising surveys for 2008 left to report—and given the sad tale they tell about the UK advertising market, most of us will glad to see that back of them. The latest is from the Advertising Association Statistics Yearbook 2009, via the World Advertising Research Centre, which shows…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is selling a chunk of online surveys operator Greenfield Online to Paris-based online research panel provider Toluna for $40 million. Zelnick Media had planned to buy last September, but the deal collapsed. Microsoft acquired the group for $486 million last year, but mainly wanted its European shopping…

The sudden interest in the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett was apparently too much for Twitter’s search engine, which quickly got overloaded and returned results that were increasingly delayed—when it returned them at all. Later Thursday evening, Twitter said it had disabled the search field on users’ home…

Western Europe annual ad spend will be down 11.1 percent for 2009, but a “mild recovery” in 2010 will turn the decline to just 3.5 percent, WPP’s Group M forecasts - consistent with earlier predictions by CEO Martin Sorrell but more optimistic than last week’s PwC report. The company says…

Whether you hate it or can’t live without it, there’s no denying that Twitter has gone from early adopter craze to genuine mainstream popularity—according to the latest figures from Hitwise it was the fifth most visited social nework in the UK and the 38th most visited overall in May after…

More than 60 percent of mobile users still use their handset for only voice and text, according to a KPMG survey. KPMG director Mark Harding, who surveyed 4,190 consumers in 19 countries, called that an “opportunity” as he detailed the stats at the Mobile Entertainment Forum’s big Mobile Entertainment Market…

How much of a problem is illegal, online video downloading in developed countries? Perhaps not as much as most people think, according to a new study from research firm Futuresource Consulting. It found that just eight percent of consumers in the UK, France, Germany and the USA admit to downloading…