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Top markets, days for candy sales revealed
Halloween is the season of ghosts, goblins, and most of all, candy. According to The Nielsen Company, U.S. consumers are expected to purchase more than ...Lycos list shows Stern most popular talker with web users, again
Lycos announced its seventh annual list of the most popular talk radio personalities with web users, based on Internet searches. For the seventh straight year, ...Scarborough analyses top blogging markets
Scarborough Research finds that Austin, TX, Portland, OR, San Francisco and Seattle are the top markets for people who read or contributed to blogs. 15% ...Consumers gear up for Holiday shopping season
With the holiday shopping season right around the corner, retailers are preparing for this year's influx of holiday shoppers. Despite the current lull in the ...More color on industry contributions
Stats compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics are showing an undeniable shift in corporate giving toward Democrats this campaign cycle. Out of the top ...Week three: ESPN scores big with football
Broadcast networks had 96 of the top 100 TV shows for the most recent week in the big money 18-49 demo. But the weekly crunch ...Nielsen, ESPN team for cross-platform study
ESPN and The Nielsen Company announced a new collaboration to measure how consumers use media across a variety of platforms including television, the Internet and ...TV tune-in remains strong
Nielsen is out with its annual report on TV viewing for the entire season and found that viewing for 2006-2007 remained just a hair off ...Cyber Monday tracking 3X higher than 2006
If the traffic on CyberMonday.com is any indication, shoppers have returned in full force from their Thanksgiving holidays and are looking online for great deals. ...Black Friday traffic grows 10%
Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company, reported today that at home Web traffic to the Holiday eShopping Index grew 10% year over year ...Natixis Media & Entertainment observing slower video sales
Natixis Bleichroeder's Media and Entertainment division reports blockbuster films are generating fewer DVDs unit sales than in previous cycles-further complicating the numbers for movie studios ...Consumers to take cautious approach to Holiday shopping
Though shoppers still plan to spend more on the holidays this year than last, consumers say their spending will be a bit restrained this holiday ...Consumers to take cautious approach to Holiday shopping
Though shoppers still plan to spend more on the holidays this year than last, consumers say their spending will be a bit restrained this holiday ...Black Friday promotions
Promotions stoke sales of electronics, jewelry, clothing, toys. As retailers rushed to put the final touches on their stores before pre-dawn openings on Black Friday, ...More consumers are watching TV broadcasts online
Close to 16% of American households who use the internet watch television broadcasts online, The Conference Board and TNS reported. The number of consumers viewing ...Log in
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As always, John Gorman tells it like it is, whether we want to hear it or not. How sadly ironic that radio's success has been ...
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The announcement from Nielsen came as a surprise. ...
As a 2-book Condensed Market that doesn't even get trends from Arbitron, one can foresee some real struggles with some particularly aggressive agencies. Since ...

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