Online ads surge 40 percent in Britain -- trade group
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Online advertising spending in Britain  surged 40.3 percent to 917.2 million pounds ($1.72 billion) in  the first half of 2006 compared to last year, giving it a  market share of 10.5 percent, new data showed on Wednesday.
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The world's most popular internet search engine, Google, says profits and sales more than double in the third quarter on strong ad demand.
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Shares in Havas rose sharply in early trade, extending last week's gains, on persistent speculation that the French advertising company could become a takeover target of British group WPP, dealers said.
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Three of Britain's largest Internet  Service Providers (ISPs) have signed up to use a new  advertising platform that will give them a slice of the growing  online targeted ad market.
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The deal combines the No. 3 and No. 5 players in the market and will produce a company with about 40 million customers, including affiliates.
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Internet advertising is continuing to increase with the latest US figures showing the medium generated $4.6bn in the first six months of 2004 -- a 40 percent increase over the first half of 2003.
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A ComScore Inc. survey found that more than 40% of North American Internet users visited a site containing widgets in April.
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The price of shares in BSkyB surged here on Wednesday after the British satellite broadcaster revealed impressive fourth-quarter subscriber growth, dealers said.
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Internet Explorer users are at least four times as likely to click on Web ads than Firefox users, a German advertising technology company said last week.
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NEW YORK -- Internet advertising revenues jumped 40 percent in the first half of this year, driven largely by the growing popularity of keyword ads tied to search results.
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Nearly 90 percent of all companies  polled in a new study will use part of their marketing budgets  to advertise in video games, virtual communities or other new  media.
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A group led by investment bank Goldman  Sachs  raised its bid for Associated British Ports   to 2.58 billion pounds (&#36;4.75 billion) on Thursday,  after a rival team said it might make a counterbid.
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The UK was today on course to become the second largest market for clothing retailer Hennes &amp; Mauritz after turnover climbed 16% over the summer.
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The market for search advertising has been growing rapidly, and the competition has increased among search engines.
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BSkyB's profits rise after a major advertising campaign leads to a strong-than-expected rise in subscribers.
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Shares of online retailers rose nearly 80 percent last year, among the best performances in the entire stock market.
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British retail sales rose more than expected in October and at their sharpest pace in three months. The Confederation of British Industry said 37% of firms in its monthly distributive trades survey saw sales