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How much does the average smartphone user spend on apps?

The app ecosystem is great for publishers - as long as they remember that selling mobile apps isn't much of a business model. What's the average amount UK smartphone owners have spent to date on apps, for their current phone? An average of just £8.98, according to a survey of 1,700 people conducted by uSwitch.

Jasper Jackson @ TheMediaBriefing Experts' Blog - 3 days, 5 hours ago
Are consumers right to block online advertising?

Adblock is a small piece of browser technology that blocks adverts. All those banners, popups, pre-rolls, interstitials and rollovers - after you've installed this, they disapear. You may not use it or even heard of it - but more than 200 million people worldwide have downloaded it. Should you be worried about consumers turning off your ads?

Patrick Smith @ TheMediaBriefing Experts' Blog - 4 days, 8 hours ago
Datawatch: Internet advertising gained £2.6bn since 2007 as print plummeted

UK advertising spend breached the £17 billion mark last year for the first time since 2007 - but my how things of changed in those five years. Publishers are growing digital revenues, but a look at the collapse of print ads over the last five years shows quite what a gargantuan task they face.

Jasper Jackson @ TheMediaBriefing Experts' Blog - 5 days, 6 hours ago
The Sun's £2 subscription package: What does it take to build a paid-for online video platform?

The Sun has unveiled its charging plans - £2 per week for what News International boss Mike Darcey describes as an "ever increasing bundle of products, services and offers". But is The Sun mistaking a good content package for a good product portfolio?

Jasper Jackson @ TheMediaBriefing Experts' Blog - 6 days, 2 hours ago
Johnston Press CEO Ashley Highfield on the digital future and returning to profit growth

Johnston Press has recorded its first year-on-year growth in operating profit in seven years - though it's not saying by how much. The regional newspaper group isn't out of the woods, but it's stopping the rot by managing costs and hanging on to its loyal readers - and that may give it time to build a large enough digital business.

Jasper Jackson @ TheMediaBriefing Experts' Blog - 6 days, 8 hours ago

Latest Media News
Google chief Eric Schmidt criticises politicians over tax row

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has urged the Chancellor to lead reform of the international tax system after his company was savaged by MPs for avoiding billions in British taxes.

Telegraph.co.uk - Media and Telecoms news - 3 minutes ago
Miliband promises action on Google tax avoidance

Labour leader Ed Miliband has said he will write new rules to tackle corporate tax dodgers if he wins the next election even if there is no international consensus for action.

Telegraph.co.uk - Media and Telecoms news - 5 hours, 24 minutes ago
Distort puts a new twist on slow-mo, and on Revision3′s production

Capturing epic events in slow-motion has been a YouTube staple for years and years, especially as video quality improved and the visual of a water balloon exploding or an egg shattering became something beautiful to behold. But it was never something you’d imagine working in a narrative sense — which is why the Revision3-distributed series Distort, produced and hosted by David Prager and Mauricio Balvanera promises to be intriguing.

Liz Shannon Miller @ PaidContent - 7 hours, 45 minutes ago
William Miles, Maker of Documentaries About Black History, Dies at 82

Among other topics, Mr. Miles, who specialized in unearthing lost material about forgotten subjects, made films about the history of Harlem and a black regiment that fought in World War I.

Bruce Weber @ New York Times - Media Decoder blog - 12 hours, 6 minutes ago
The internet will revolutionise SME lending in the UK

The internet is transforming our economy and our lives. More than nine out of 10 flights are now booked online. Digital music, almost unknown a decade ago, already makes up 40pc of total sales.

Telegraph.co.uk - Media and Telecoms news - 17 hours, 16 minutes ago
Stephen Fry backs new venture by Spitting Image veteran

Actor Stephen Fry and Peter Fluck, co-founder of Spitting Image, have invested in a new technology which creates digital, animated talking heads to broadcast spoken words to audiences over the internet.

Telegraph.co.uk - Media and Telecoms news - 17 hours, 16 minutes ago
At Sony, Investor’s Challenge Brings Unwanted Suspense

Sony Pictures is under pressure this summer, and not just to produce hit movies. Daniel S. Loeb, an activist investor, wants Sony to spin off part of its entertainment unit.

Brooks Barnes And Michael Cieply @ NYTimes Media - 18 hours, 36 minutes ago
Much ado about Angelina's body taboo…

Angelina Jolie announced her double mastectomy, and Romola Garai talked about her post-birth stitches. Here's to more….

Viv Groskop @ MediaGuardian - Newspapers & Magazines - 19 hours, 18 minutes ago
How to make Twitter the ultimate news ticker

It’s been a tumultuous several weeks for Twitter, Reddit and the social web, during which we’ve seen both its great potential and confounding dark side. There was the recent AP account hacking – which instantly (but temporarily) drained some $200 billion from the stock market – the mass confusion of the Boston Bombings (and tragic repurcussions), and, well, insert-specious-news-rumor-of-the-day here.

Paul Armstrong @ PaidContent - 21 hours, 2 minutes ago
Observer writer wins Ryszard Kapuściński award 2013

Ed Vulliamy won the prize for his book Amexica: War Along the Borderline, which documents the US-Mexican drug wars.

Tess Reidy @ MediaGuardian - Newspapers & Magazines - 23 hours, 2 minutes ago

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