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10/04/01--12:30: PPAi Interactive Publishing Awards (chan 1440444)

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10/09/02--11:30: AOP Interactive Publishing Awards Dinner and Presentation 2002 (chan 1440444)

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10/14/03--11:30: AOP Online Publishing Awards Dinner and Presentation 2003 (chan 1440444)

The UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP) is committed to upholding and celebrating the highest standards in all areas of digital publishing, and the AOP Online Publishing Awards 2003, formerly known as the PPAi awards, aim to show both the consumer and the business worlds what high quality content, products and services can be found online.


01/28/04--16:00: Paid content (chan 1440444)

AOP hosted an interactive forum on 29 January 2004 on paid content, looking at both publishers aims and experience of charging for content and comparing these with online payment solutions specifically suited to publishers.


01/29/04--02:55: They will pay for content - but they demand choice (chan 1440444)

The half-day AOP forum aimed to facilitate knowledge sharing on areas such as subscriptions and micro-payments, looking at the different strategies implemented by both business-to-business and consumer online publishers, and comparing those to the products and services available in the industry.


03/29/04--16:00: Future proofing your online publishing business (chan 1440444)

AOP hosted an interactive forum on 30 March 2005 on making use of the latest technology to reach new audiences and mazimize advertising revenue.


03/30/04--16:00: Broadband to revolutionise web publishing (chan 1440444)

Broadband technology is set to revolutionise internet publishing, according to speakers at an AOP forum, future proofing your online publishing business, yesterday.


04/04/04--09:06: AOP joins Publishing Skills Group (chan 1440444)

AOP has joined the Publishing Skills Group (PSG), an alliance of trade associations and training organisations across the book, journal, magazine, newspaper and online publishing sectors. The PSG aims to promote and improve education, training and development and to anticipate future skills needs within the industry as a whole. It will act as a strategic forum to discuss the industry's training needs and provide a focus for best practice and exchange of ideas.


06/14/04--17:00: Accountability - why bother? (chan 1440444)

AOP hosted an interactive forum on 15 June 2005 on the business reasons for being accountabile in web measurement and what to measure, including ad serving.


06/16/04--17:00: Hesitation and laziness are holding back web standards (chan 1440444)

Speaking at the forum entitled Accountability – why bother on 15 June, Mike Seery, chief technology officer of the Economist group, said: "Advertisers need to be able to compare like with like and compare what they see. It is most important to have a universal set of metrics that are standardised."


10/21/04--11:30: AOP Online Publishing Awards Dinner and Presentation 2004 (chan 1440444)

An exciting black tie event that will witness the reward of outstanding innovation and success in all aspects of digital publishing.


12/09/04--16:00: Email is dead: long live RSS! (chan 1440444)

"RSS may be to the web what PVRs (personal video recorders such as TiVo or Sky Plus) were to digital TV," said Mike Butcher, online journalist and editor of Netimperative.com, introducing today's AOP forum, 'Making a success of RSS'.


12/09/04--16:00: Making a success of RSS (chan 1440444)

AOP hosted an forum on 10 December on RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Forty publishers met to hear from a panel of experts including Drew Cullen, editor of tech news site The Register, Angus Bankes, founder of Moreover Technologies, and Simon Brock from Wide Area Communications (the latter both providers of RSS feed solutions) on the relevance of RSS for publishers and the opportunities for reaching news audiences and increasing revenue.


01/25/05--16:00: AOP forum: Mobile content (chan 1440444)

With mobile phones in the UK set to shortly outnumber people, AOP urged publishers to grasp the developing opportunities that mobile content can offer, during a forum on mobile publishing on 26 January 2005.


03/15/05--16:00: AOP interactive forum: Geo-targeting - how and why (chan 1440444)

AOP held a forum for members on the subject of targeting content and adverts based on user location. Speakers included: Steve Sawyer, Quova UK, Ramesh Kannan from DoubleClick, Stephen Betts from BBC News Online, Tor Gisvold from Centrecore (News International) and Andy Flint from ABCE.


03/22/05--16:00: AOP urges online publishers to explore geo-targeting (chan 1440444)

AOP is calling for web publishers to make more of the benefits of targeting content based on location following an AOP briefing to address the applications of geo-targeting on 16 March.


03/26/05--16:00: Publishers mobilised at AOP forum (chan 1440444)

With mobile phones in the UK set to shortly outnumber people, publishers have been urged to grasp the developing opportunities that mobile content can offer, during an AOP forum on mobile publishing held this week.


05/24/05--09:03: BBC to offer online journalism bursary in honour of Ivan Noble (chan 1440444)

BBC News has announced a new bursary for journalists to work on its website in honour of Ivan Noble, the science and technology reporter who died of a brain tumour earlier this year.


05/24/05--17:00: Adding value with broadband content (chan 1440444)

AOP held a forum to explore the applications of broadband content and the factors that are influencing its growth and take-up on 25 May 2005.


05/25/05--17:00: Broadband advances (chan 1440444)

Broadband technology offers online publishers unique opportunities to charge for content, and broadband users tend to be exactly the audience that advertisers want to target, according to Alisa Bowen, head of Reuters.co.uk.


09/20/05--17:00: Blogs and user-generated content (chan 1440444)

AOP held a forum on the subject of blogs and user-generated content. Speakers included: Dave Killeen, head of communities, Associated New Media, Tim Dewhurst, operations manager, Chat Moderators, Will Callaghan, editor, Menshealth.co.uk, Daniel Mermelstein, product manager, BBC News and Al Tepper, head of online development, Caspian Publishing.


09/28/05--17:00: Blogs and user-generated content bring rewards for publishers (chan 1440444)

"All they do is chat: are they any use to us?" This was the typical reaction encountered by Dave Killeen, head of communities for Associated New Media, when he set about convincing his online editorial colleagues to let readers have their say on ANM's websites.


10/06/05--17:00: AOP conference 2005: Content Matters (chan 1440444)

The fourth annual AOP Online Publishing Conference took place on 7 October 2005 at the London Hilton Park Lane, bringing together some 250 of the most influential people in UK Online Publishing to explore the the technology and trends they must be aware of to win the battle for engagement.


10/06/05--17:00: AOP online publishing awards 2005 (chan 1440444)

The fourth annual AOP Online Publishing Awards took place on 7 October 2005 at the London Hilton Park Lane.


10/08/05--17:00: People will not pay for quality of information (chan 1440444)

claimed Bill Grueskin, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal Online, addressing 250 delegates from the online publishing industry at the AOP conference on Friday 7 October.


10/12/05--17:00: BBC online chief urges publishers to focus on functionality (chan 1440444)

Speaking at the AOP Online Publishing Conference 2005 on Friday 7 October, director of new media and technology for the BBC, Ashley Highfield claimed that a fundamental shift in mindset is needed if major media organisations are to flourish in the digital age.


10/21/05--08:11: AOP director advises future entrants to digital media industry (chan 1440444)

Alex White, director of AOPAlexandra White, director of AOP, represented online publishing employers at a conference for students on Monday 24 October, organised by the MediaGuardian.


11/01/05--08:17: US online content spend up 15 per cent year-on-year (chan 1440444)

The US Online Publishers Association (OPA) released its Paid Content US Market Spending Report, this week, covering Q1 and Q2 of 2005. The study, conducted by comScore Networks, found that consumer spending for online content in the US grew to $987m in the first half of 2005, an increase of 15.7 per cent over the same period last year. For the first time ever, in Q2 of 2005, quarterly sales of content topped half a billion dollars.


11/22/05--07:58: James Garner, Head of Production, Hearst Digital Interview (chan 1440444)

"Sometimes you come up against a lack of knowledge (fear?) and non acceptance of online from traditionalists and sometimes you find there is just too much jargon in this space! I'm also sorry to say it is easy to be ripped off"


11/22/05--16:00: AOP forum: Site monetisation (chan 1440444)

Sponsored by Google, this forum explored the growing significance of contextual advertising and the ways publishers can use search to maximise advertising revenue with case studies from Times Online and Travel Intelligence.


11/23/05--16:00: Making your website pay (chan 1440444)

Just a few years ago, contextual advertising was a vague concept and hardly available on the web. Today, contextual advertisements are pervasive across the internet, and publishers both large and small are taking advantage of the opportunities to drive new revenues via their online properties.


12/02/05--06:59: Kevin Madden, Group online publisher, Dennis Publishing Interview (chan 1440444)

What are the good things about working online? - "The people, on-going learning, collaboration (unlike most other media I’ve worked in)."


12/02/05--07:48: AOP B2B research revisits agencies (chan 1440444)

Following the enthusiastic industry response to the AOP research, The role of B2B websites, the association is to explore the impact the initial study had on the participating agencies, in a project that will also help to define the direction of subsequent AOP B2B research.


12/02/05--07:59: Europeans go online for new jobs (chan 1440444)

One in four European internet users visited a job web site between July and September 2005, up from around a fifth the previous year, according to new research from Nielsen//NetRatings.


12/05/05--16:00: AOP forum: Trust your numbers? (chan 1440444)

As online matures, media planners are under increasing pressure to justify their investment in the medium. AOP and ABC ELECTRONIC explored how publishers can use trust in online information to attract more spend at a seminar titled Trust your numbers? on 6 December.


12/07/05--16:00: Trust your numbers? (chan 1440444)

Fifty publishers met at an AOP/ABCE breakfast forum this week, to discuss how AOP members can use web audits and measurement tools to accelerate the growth of online advertising spend, and particularly their own share of it.


12/08/05--07:00: EIAA points to fast-developing online behaviour (chan 1440444)

Europeans are spending 56 per cent more time online compared to 2003, according to the latest research from the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA).


12/12/05--06:56: UK ad spend moves online (chan 1440444)

Spending on UK press, radio and cinema advertising fell during the third quarter of 2005, while online ad spend soared by 46 per cent to £266m, according to the latest Quarterly Survey of Advertising Expenditure from the Advertising Association (AA).


01/13/06--06:45: Europe’s emerging internet markets – Nielsen press release (chan 1440444)

Nielsen’s 2006 research into ‘Netizens’ (online Europeans) reveals that home continues to be the most popular location among Europeans from which to access the internet.


01/19/06--04:40: Online spend increases amidst media budget cuts (chan 1440444)

20.9 per cent of companies have increased their online spending in a climate where marketing budgets are being revised down and media spend in general is being cut.


01/20/06--04:35: Online survey sees B2B spend increase (chan 1440444)

This year will see increased budgets, significant growth in online marketing and the launch of new ad campaigns in the world of b2b marketing, according to a survey by BtoB online.


01/23/06--16:00: AOP forum: Podcasting - what's the point? (chan 1440444)

‘Podcasting’ has exploded into the mainstream with media giants such as BBC, Guardian Newspapers, New Scientist, Telegraph Group and VNU Business Publications all embracing this new concept in content delivery.


01/27/06--06:53: Reuters to fund journalism institute (chan 1440444)

Reuters has announced it will provide £1.75m in funding for a new institute of journalism is to be established at Oxford University. The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism will receive five years of funding from the Reuters Foundation to establish and develop a research centre of excellence in the study of journalism.


01/31/06--16:00: Content in your pocket (chan 1440444)

‘Podcasting’ has exploded into the mainstream with publishing giants such as the BBC, Emap, Guardian Newspapers, Reed Business Information, Telegraph Media Group and VNU Business Publications all embracing this new concept in content delivery.


02/06/06--09:34: Soaring popularity of online member communities (chan 1440444)

The outstanding success of online member communities is the subject of the latest Nielsen//Netratings press release. The leading provider of internet research reveals that over half of the internet population visit member community sites every month.


02/07/06--09:29: Online spending has a new favourite (chan 1440444)

Online spending looks to have a clear preference in the form of search based advertising. Advertisers are increasingly choosing to appear during searches for terms rather than placing display ads.


02/10/06--09:15: Vehicle buyers ignore traditional media, says US study (chan 1440444)

The internet is the most important information tool for first-time vehicle buyers in the USA, according to new research from the Polk Center for Automotive Studies.


02/10/06--09:23: Half of UK publishers expected to launch podcasts in the next 12 months (chan 1440444)

More than half of publishers surveyed following a recent AOP event said their business intends to launch a podcast in the next 12 months.


02/22/06--09:08: UK mobile users disinterested in 3G (chan 1440444)

UK consumers are turning their backs on 3G mobile services because they find them confusing and too difficult to use, according to new research.


02/22/06--09:13: Broadband take-up rockets (chan 1440444)

Broadband now accounts for 64 per cent of all internet connections in the UK, according to figures for December released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS).


03/06/06--04:45: Does your age define your favoured online brand? (chan 1440444)

Twenty-somethings veer towards the powerful web giants and thirty somethings head straight for the retailers, but it's the forty-somethings and over who are the least exclusive internet audience.


03/08/06--08:05: Internet usage overtakes TV viewing (chan 1440444)

For the first time, using the internet has overtaken watching TV as the UK's favourite activity. According to research conducted by TNS, two thirds of users increased the amount of time they spend online over the last year.


03/09/06--07:42: Ofcom publishes media literacy audit (chan 1440444)

Media platforms are still considered by the public in 'traditional terms' and there are few signs yet of a widespread recognition of their wider digital functions, according to the results of detailed Ofcom research on the extent of adult media literacy in the UK.


03/14/06--07:32: US online paid content revenues top 2bn dollars (chan 1440444)

Annual US online paid content revenues jumped to an all-time high of $2bn, according to the US Online Publishers Association's (OPA) full-year 2005 Online Paid Content U.S. Market Spending Report.


03/21/06--07:16: Consumer demand for podcasts to rise, says new research (chan 1440444)

A quarter of all adult internet users will listen to a podcast in the next six months, according to a new study by market research agency BMRB.


03/21/06--07:26: Online ad spend reaches £1.1bn (chan 1440444)

The latest figures from the World Advertising Research Center (WARC) on behalf of the Advertising Association (AA) show that spending on internet advertising in the UK bucked a bleak trend in 2005 with an estimated 73 per cent increase.


03/23/06--07:04: IPA launches Touchpoints survey (chan 1440444)

The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) today launched the first part of its Touchpoints initiative, a multimedia research tool that has been three years in the making and cost more than £1m.


03/24/06--06:56: Media buyers demand independently verified traffic data (chan 1440444)

Ninety-four per cent of media buyers view the independent verification of website traffic figures as critically or very important to validate media owners' claims, according to new research commissioned by ABC ELECTRONIC.


03/30/06--06:53: Search dominates online ad market worth £1.4bn (chan 1440444)

The latest results from the Internet Advertising Bureau and PriceWaterHouse Coopers reveal that UK internet advertising reached £1,366m in 2005, taking a 7.8 per cent share of the overall advertising market.


03/31/06--06:48: One-in-four US web users view video content weekly (chan 1440444)

One-in-four US web users watch video content online at least once-a-week, while almost half of all US web users view video content online at least once-a-month, according to a new study by the US Online Publishers Association (OPA).


04/05/06--07:36: Free content drives ad revenue for AOP members (chan 1440444)

Results from the latest AOP membership survey, the AOP Census 2006, show that online advertising revenue continues to be the top source of income for most AOP member organisations. The findings also reveal that for the first time in the four-year history of the AOP Census the number of publishers charging for branded, quality content online has dropped, to 37 per cent compared with 63 per cent in 2005.


04/05/06--07:44: Online publishing skills gap widens (chan 1440444)

The AOP Census 2006, our latest membership survey, reveals there is a shortage of skills required by the online publishing industry. Seventy-four per cent of AOP members reported having unfilled vacancies in January 2006, compared with 58 per cent in 2005.


04/21/06--09:41: Thirty-seven per cent growth on the cards for AOP members (chan 1440444)

The AOP Census, a benchmarking survey of AOP member companies, revealed its members are expecting their interactive business to grow by a substantial 37 per cent during this coming year.


05/02/06--09:25: Media literacy by UK region revealed (chan 1440444)

Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, has published its fourth research report into the extent of adult media literacy, comparing media literacy within UK nations and regions. The definition of media literacy is stated as being “the ability to access, understand and create communications in a variety of contexts”.


05/02/06--17:00: Clifton on BBC’s Web 2.0 plans (chan 1440444)

Addressing more than 170 delegates at ‘Tomorrow’s web’, the PPAi/AOP conference on 3 May, Pete Clifton, head of BBC News Interactive, outlined the ways in which the site is responding to Web 2.0 by meeting the demand for more user participation and user-created content.


05/02/06--17:00: Tomorrow's Web - PPAi/AOP interactive seminar at Magazines 2006 (chan 1440444)

The ‘hype’ is back in hyperlink. The online industry is reinvigorated and in the midst of a web renaissance. What will this next phase of the internet mean for content providers? How can publishers position their businesses in a world of user choice and control?


05/04/06--17:00: Podcasting updates the brand (chan 1440444)

Podcasting and vodcasting (video on demand-casting) offer publishers an opportunity to update and reinvent their brands, and all media owners should be doing it, claimed Will Currie, head of online for Emap Performance, speaking at the PPAi/AOP conference on 3 May.


05/04/06--17:00: Personalisation not the Holy Grail (chan 1440444)

Personalisation can offer some added value when used appropriately, but demand has been over-hyped, claimed Peter Bale, editor of Times Online, speaking at ‘Tomorrow’s Web’, the PPAi/AOP conference on 3 May.


05/04/06--17:00: Video brings Vogue.com alive (chan 1440444)

“Video has enabled our magazine brands to come alive online,” declared Condé Nast Interactive commercial director Serena Privett, arguing the case for video advertising on a panel titled ‘Battle of the technologies’ on 3 May.


05/05/06--09:19: Internet rivals radio for news (chan 1440444)

Internet news sources are seen as being as important as radio, according to an international survey of attitudes to media commissioned by the BBC, Reuters and the Media Centre.


05/10/06--08:32: IPSOS survey uncovers media habits of US business elite (chan 1440444)

The internet has been identified as the most important part of a business title’s overall offering, according to a survey of north America ’s top business elite, published this week by Ipsos Media.


05/13/06--07:31: Blog, podcast and RSS advertising to reach $49.8m in 2006 (chan 1440444)

Combined spending on blog, podcast and RSS advertising is expected to grow 144.9 per cent to $49.8m in 2006 - up from $20.4m in 2005. The findings, released yesterday by PQ Media, a custom media research firm, are the results of more than six months of primary research.


05/16/06--07:41: TNS set to launch all digital Ad ID service (chan 1440444)

Adscope - an all digital ad identification service is to be launched in the US in June by TNS Media Intelligence. It monitors online, magazine, newspaper, TV and radio ad occurences and expenditure data for creatives used in a campaigns.


05/16/06--07:43: New ROI measurement revealed for brand awareness (chan 1440444)

The Post Office will be first to participate in a project which will apply a new method for measuring return on investment (ROI) for online ad campaigns.


05/19/06--08:21: India’s online population explodes into Top 10 (chan 1440444)

The publishing world’s burgeoning interest in India will be further fuelled by news that the country has entered the ‘Top 10’ list of nations with the highest population of internet users above the age of 15.


06/07/06--17:00: Mobile content can boost your brand (chan 1440444)

Mobile technology could present an opportunity for publishers to develop a ‘brand franchise’, and also drive traffic to other brand platforms, according to speakers at an AOP forum today (8 June).


06/07/06--17:00: AOP Forum: Maximising the potential of mobile (chan 1440444)

AOP held a forum on the afternoon of Thursday 8 June on the topic of mobile content, addressing the ways mobile strategy can interact with the rest of the business, the opportunities and benefits for publishers, and the potential hurdles.


06/15/06--05:32: AOP gives evidence to DCMS committee (chan 1440444)

Content publishers and Government should work together to raise public awareness of the growing threats from illegal or unauthorised use of copyright works, according to Andrew Yeates, intellectual property advisor to the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) in evidence to an influential committee of MPs chaired by Conservative MP John Whittingdale.


07/07/06--09:29: Publishers' digital strategies: Deloitte/AOP - Report (chan 1440444)

Digital publishing is delivering returns, with leading digital publishers predicting that by 2012 digital activities will contribute up to 40 per cent of revenues. This is according to a report launched today by Deloitte, the business advisory firm, and the UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP) in a survey of UK publishers.


07/14/06--05:36: Ofcom report advocates self regulation for web (chan 1440444)

Ofcom, the regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, has argued in a new report that self-regulatory initiatives, allied to effective media literacy initiatives and supported by general law, will continue to be the most effective way to deliver consumer protection in the online environment.


07/14/06--05:38: France approves anti-DRM law (chan 1440444)

France has passed a controversial law which could render Apple's iTunes illegal. The new law is designed to force interoperability between digital songs and devices that play them and has been labelled as the 'ipod law'. Under the drafting agreed by the National Assembly, Apple could have been forced to open up its iTunes catalogue to other brands of MP3 players.


07/14/06--05:41: Google victory in Germany (chan 1440444)

German publisher Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG) has dropped its case against internet company Google, over the Google Books Library Project (the Project). The Project aims to digitise 15 million books and make them searchable online.


07/28/06--05:47: Kazaa bows to music industry (chan 1440444)

Kazaa, one of the biggest peer-to-peer filesharing sites, has agreed to compensate the music industry $115m (£61m) after record labels took it to court for operating a pirate music site. Kazaa also paid an undisclosed sum to compensate the film industry. Kazaa will now become a legitimate paid-for service.


08/02/06--05:50: 15 yr old faces wrath of Yell.com (chan 1440444)

A listings website inspired by Wikipedia and Craigslist, created by 15 year-old Rosa Blaus with the help of her father Paul Youlden, has incurred the wrath of Yellow Pages.


09/18/06--05:53: Belgian court bans Google crawl (chan 1440444)

A Belgian court has ruled that Google should stop publishing stories by French-language newspapers or face fines of €1m (£675m) for every day the content stays live. The complaint against Google was lodged by Copiepresse, a company that handles the copyright for the Belgian French- and German-language press. The court ruled that Google was contravening copyright laws by including headlines and links to online stories from the Belgian press in its Google News service.


09/18/06--17:00: Usability demands emotional buy-in (chan 1440444)

Nichola Wilkinson, eCommerce manager, Incisive Media told delegates at an AOP forum on 19 September that usability is about the people, first and foremost.


09/22/06--05:56: AOP champions publishers' interests online (chan 1440444)

AOP representatives attended two crucial meetings yesterday (21 September) to represent publishers’ interests at UK and EU level, on issues regarding defamation and territoriality, and the regulation of audiovisual content online:


09/26/06--09:42: Search engine permissions project due to launch next month (chan 1440444)

Following the Belgian court decision against Google last week, a global taskforce headed by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has announced the imminent launch of a pilot project that it hopes will prevent future clashes between search engines and publishers.


10/04/06--12:00: AOP Online Publishing Awards 2006 (chan 1440444)

TopGear.com, published by BBC Worldwide, scooped the coveted award for Consumer Website 2006 at the AOP Online Publishing Awards on 4 October. The site was commended for strong growth in revenue and traffic to the site over the last 12 months, and judges described the site as “perfectly targeting an audience that is expanding at an incredible rate”.


10/04/06--17:00: Publishing 2.0: Tim O’Reilly at Content Evolution - AOP Summit 2006 (chan 1440444)

Tim O’Reilly, Web 2.0 pioneer, and founder and chief executive of O’Reilly Media, spoke about the ‘internetisation’ of everything at the AOP Online Publishing Conference, Content Evolution, on 4 October.


10/05/06--17:00: McCall: No divine right to success (chan 1440444)

“None of us has a divine right to success,” said Carolyn McCall, chief executive officer of Guardian Media Group, in her keynote speech at Content Evolution, the AOP Online Publishing Conference on 4 October.


10/18/06--17:00: AOP to host ACAP briefing (chan 1440444)

AOP has invited the project leader for the ACAP search engine initiative to come and hold a briefing for AOP members on the 15 November 2006


10/19/06--08:45: Internet gambling outlawed in the US (chan 1440444)

Friday the 13th was certainly an unlucky day for Internet Gambling companies in the US as President Bush signed the SAFE (Security and Accountability for Every) Port Act and as a consequence the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) section of the bill.


10/19/06--08:52: Universal sues for video copyright infingement (chan 1440444)

Universal Music is suing video-sharing websites Bolt.com and Grouper.com just a week after it agreed a partnership with YouTube to allow it to carry Universal artists' content legally. Universal said it plans to seek damages of $150,000 for each incident of copyright infringement as well as damages.


10/20/06--08:54: AOP responds to EU on Content Online (chan 1440444)

AOP has responded on behalf of its members to a consultation by the European Commission asking online content providers to help determine what policies at European level are necessary to help new business models develop.


10/20/06--09:41: YouTube removes Japanese video clips (chan 1440444)

YouTube has removed almost 30,000 video clips after an organisation representing the Japanese media industry complained over copyright concerns.


11/08/06--03:01: Latest TVWF text encouraging for media (chan 1440444)

The latest version of the European Council text on the proposed revisions to the Television Without Frontiers Directive is the most encouraging for publishers yet, according to director of legal and public affairs for AOP and PPA, Kerry Nielson.


11/15/06--07:00: Briefing on the ACAP search engine initiative (chan 1440444)

The Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) initiative surrounds creation of an automated enabling system by which publishers can grant permissions to search engines to recognise and use their content, bringing legitimacy to the current situation.


11/16/06--02:57: Crucial time for TVWF negotiations (chan 1440444)

The negotiations on the Television Without Frontiers Directive have reached a stage where they must be watched carefully to ensure no ‘behind doors deals’ are made.


11/21/06--03:04: US ruling finds libel hosts exempt (chan 1440444)

The California Supreme Court has ruled that bloggers and US internet providers are not liable for posting defamatory comments which are written by third parties.


11/30/06--03:07: Junk food advertising outlawed (chan 1440444)

Restrictions on children's junk food advertisements on the internet, radio and billboards are being considered by a group of Department of Health civil servants, following the news this month that Ofcom has announced a total ban on junk food advertising around all children's programming, on all children's channels and around all programmes that have a "particular appeal" to under 16-year-olds.


12/01/06--03:12: Online tools put press in touch with the public (chan 1440444)

Ian Reeves, former editor of Press Gazette, argued that developments such as online video-sharing, blogs and podcasting mean that the public is becoming the press, speaking at a PPA-sponsored House of Commons debate last Friday.


12/06/06--03:14: Gowers Reforms to strengthen IP enforcement (chan 1440444)

Andrew Gowers has published the long-awaited Gowers Review of Intellectual Property (IP). AOP welcomes the Report's recognition that the IP system, on which the digital publishing industry relies for its economic development, is not in need of radical reform. AOP supports the way that the Review has considered ways in which the system can better serve the interests of consumers and industry.


12/15/06--03:17: Gowers Review - AOP reaction (chan 1440444)

Andrew Gowers recently published the long-awaited Gowers Review of Intellectual Property (IP) law. The Report argues that in the modern world, the UK's economic competitiveness is increasingly driven by knowledge-based industries, innovation and creativity, and says that intellectual property (IP) - protecting and promoting innovation - has never been more important.


12/15/06--03:21: Agreement on TV rules by end 2007 (chan 1440444)

The first stage of the European debate on the reform of the Television Without Frontiers Directive has now ended with a vote in the Strasbourg Parliament.


01/15/07--03:28: EU law threatens ecommerce (chan 1440444)

Retailers are warning that a proposed European Union law on contracts will curb the growth of online sales and impose “serious” costs on businesses that trade overseas via the internet.


01/15/07--06:03: Viacom anger over YouTube clips (chan 1440444)

Viacom has accused YouTube of being "unwilling" to reach an agreement about the posting of music videos and clips from Viacom-owned shows. The media giant has demanded that YouTube takes immediate action to remove reportedly more than 100,000 infringing clips posted on the Google-owned video portal.


01/16/07--07:00: Building communities around content (chan 1440444)

AOP kicked off its 2007 programme of forum events for members on the topic of “Building communities around content”


01/16/07--16:00: Communities drawn to good content (chan 1440444)

Digital publishers should not lose sight of the fact that professional editorial (or ‘head’ content) remains their “centre of gravity”


01/19/07--03:34: Positive result for media lobby on defamation (chan 1440444)

A positive outcome has been achieved for the UK media lobby, with the European Parliament adopting a media- friendly final position on the Rome II Regulation - the law applicable to cross-border defamation claims.


01/31/07--08:11: Ignore Web 2.0 at your peril (chan 1440444)

research conducted by management consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton has found that 41 per cent of UK internet users currently access Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube, MySpace and Facebook, and that this figure is set to increase.


02/02/07--03:37: Ofcom proposes new Public Sector Publisher (chan 1440444)

Ofcom this week released a consultation asking for stakeholder responses to a proposal for a Public Service Provider (PSP) of online content. It argues that there is a gap to be filled and that quality web 2.0 content with a public service element to it could be provided by a future PSP.


02/04/07--16:00: ACAP trial partners revealed (chan 1440444)

The taskforce behind the ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) search engine initiative has announced the list of publishers participating in the pilot project, which commenced on 12 January.


02/09/07--06:09: PCC’s remit to include audio-visual material (chan 1440444)

The Press Standards Board of Finance Ltd (PressBoF) has announced that following industry-wide consultation it has agreed to extend the remit of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) to include editorial audio-visual material on newspaper and magazine websites.


02/09/07--06:15: Lords oppose new media directive (chan 1440444)

The UK's thriving new media industry is under threat from proposed European Commission rules designed to protect the business of television broadcasters against new competition, according to a House of Lords committee.


02/09/07--07:00: PCC’s remit to include audio-visual material (chan 1440444)

The Press Standards Board of Finance Ltd (PressBoF) has announced that following industry-wide consultation it has agreed to extend the remit of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) to include editorial audio-visual material on newspaper and magazine websites.


02/14/07--06:20: Belgians win suit over Google News (chan 1440444)

Copiepresse, the copyright protection group representing 17 mostly French-language newspapers, last week won its lawsuit against Google Inc. The Belgian newspapers had demanded Google remove headlines and links to news stories posted without their permission. The ruling, if confirmed, could set a precedent for how search engines link to copyrighted material in the arena of online news.


03/02/07--08:04: Are consumers the new brand managers? (chan 1440444)

Research from Booz Allen Hamilton has found that 41 per cent of UK internet users currently access Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube, MySpace and Facebook, and that this figure is set to increase. The management consultancy claimed that companies will need to take advantage of the social networking and video driven developments of Web 2.0 in order to win customers.


03/07/07--06:23: Microsoft criticises Google over IP (chan 1440444)

Addressing the Association of American Publishers at their annual conference, Tom Rubin, associate general counsel at Microsoft, accused Google of exploiting copyright and intellectual property through its search engine business.


03/12/07--17:00: Quality video will drive revenue (chan 1440444)

Matt West, product manager for Video at Yahoo! Europe, argued at an AOP forum on 13 March that monetisation of video will happen at the quality content, targeted audience end of the content spectrum, rather than at the less controlled, broad-reach, user-generated end typified by YouTube and DailyMotion.


03/13/07--06:30: Video killed the radio star? Harnessing the magic of video for your online properties (chan 1440444)

Presenting at the forum, moderated by Michael Nutley, editor-in-chief, New Media Age, were: Robin Smyth, executive director of Roo Media; Duncan Tickell, publishing director, VNU; Matt West, Video Product Manager, Yahoo; and Simon Cam, Head of SuperGlue, who discussed the many challenges raised by providing video content online.


04/11/07--07:26: Food ad rules to include online (chan 1440444)

The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) is releasing a revised code on the advertising of food to children under 12 in non-broadcast media such as magazines, paid-for ad space on the internet, newspapers, billboards and cinema.


04/18/07--02:54: AOP names JICIMS representatives (chan 1440444)

Senior research and commercial executives from the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Guardian Newspapers have agreed to represent the interests of AOP members on the Steering Committee of the Joint Industry Committee for Internet Measurement Systems (JICIMS).


04/23/07--05:13: Digital publishers see massive growth in 2006 (chan 1440444)

UK digital publishers experienced an average 60 per cent increase in turnover in 2006, and are predicting an average of 72 per cent growth for 2007 – double what they were forecasting this time last year.


04/26/07--17:00: AOP directors briefed on PSP proposals (chan 1440444)

Anthony Lilley, chief executive of Magic Lantern Productions, addressed 50 senior heads of the digital publishing industry at the first in a series of AOP Directors’ Dinners last night.


05/08/07--17:00: Delivering on the digital promise (chan 1440444)

Delegates cBreaking New Ground imageonvinced that digital lies at the heart of their company’s future joined the digital publishing conference hosted by AOP and PPAi, at PPA's Magazines and business media 2007 event on 9 May


05/09/07--17:00: Waldman calls publishers to action (chan 1440444)

Simon Waldman, AOP chairman and group director of digital strategy, Guardian Media Group, has called for the digital publishing industry to respond to three issues


05/18/07--06:30: Porous media and next generation user-generated content : dealing with the practicalities (chan 1440444)

Your organisation may have decided that user-generated content is the way to go, but how do you handle the practical issues?


05/22/07--17:00: Benefits of user input outweigh costs (chan 1440444)

McIntosh said that the mass market is less about the high end of creating and posting their own content, but more involved in adoption and collaborative filtering, and that this is where publishers should be focusing their attention


06/22/07--03:00: Measurement and web-metrics - the gold standard? (chan 1440444)

One of the web's unique characteristics as a medium is its measurability. We can track usage, behaviour and response in multiple ways, but which methodologies measure what? How can we compare figures from different sources?


07/16/07--02:00: Mobile - will it ever work for publishers? Content and tariff-play in the twenty-first century (chan 1440444)

The combination of flat-rate data access tariffs and the younger demographics increasing mobile usage means that publishers can seize new revenue opportunities, but they have to create new services and use new channels of distribution.


07/18/07--17:00: The future's bright, the future's video (chan 1440444)

The future for the mobile content business is in video, and there is a gap in the market for publishers to exploit, according to speakers at an AOP forum on mobile last Monday, 16 July.


08/07/07--03:59: Online preferred for access, speed, convenience (chan 1440444)

Newspaper and magazine websites are easier to access, faster for locating desired content, and are more convenient than their print equivalent, according to recent AOP research.


09/04/07--06:57: AOP Awards 2007 shortlist announced (chan 1440444)

AOP is pleased to announce the shortlist for the AOP Online Publishing Awards 2007. Please see the full shortlist below.


09/20/07--03:00: How to structure your business for digital creativity and profit (chan 1440444)

As publishers’ grip on web audiences becomes ever more important, the editorial and organisational structure supporting their businesses comes in for greater scrutiny.


10/03/07--02:00: AOP Online Publishing Conference 2007 (chan 1440444)

AOP held its annual Online Publishing Conference 'Making it happen' this year on 3 October, where the leading lights of UK online publishing will came together to discuss the most pressing issues facing the industry, and the next steps to be taken for digital businesses to ensure their continued growth.


10/03/07--12:00: AOP Awards 2007 (chan 1440444)

Established newspaper publishers were the big winners at the AOP awards 2007, demonstrating how far traditional publishers have developed content beyond the printed page.


10/04/07--08:55: AOP Awards winners 2007 in full (chan 1440444)

The AOP Awards 2007 were held on the evening of 3 October 2007, at the London Hilton, Park Lane. Congratulations to the following winners and special mentions: (Judges' comments in speech marks.)


10/18/07--07:28: US calls for online age verification (chan 1440444)

Regulators in the US are calling for social networking sites, including Myspace and Facebook, to introduce age verifying software in order to address and improve the safety of children online.


10/22/07--17:00: Why publishers need widgets (chan 1440444)

Whether you call them apps, gadgets, widgets or snippets, the "portable content format" is becoming "the revolutionary cadre of the internet", according to Ivan Pope, CEO and founder of Snipperoo, speaking at an AOP forum on widgets on 22 November.


11/22/07--06:00: Widgets like to work (chan 1440444)

Widgets Like To Work, explained and examined the potential of web widgets. The forum was chaired by an expert in the area - Mike Butcher, editor of TechCrunch UK and former editor of New Media Age magazine.


11/22/07--16:00: Personalising the mobile internet (chan 1440444)

Speaking at AOP's forum yesterday, covering mobile widgets, was David Ashbrook, David Ashbrook, senior research engineer, Devices Team, Vodafone Group R&D.


11/23/07--06:31: AOP members represented at ACAP (chan 1440444)

A scheme to give publishers increased control of their online content is set to launch in New York, where AOP members will be represented by legal executive James Evans.


12/07/07--06:33: ACAP: New York update (chan 1440444)

ACAP, a ‘toolkit’ to enable publishers to communicate their varying online content access and usage policies in a language that search engine crawlers can understand, was launched in New York last week.


01/03/08--06:49: Interview with Rob Willock, publisher, e-newsletters, RBI (chan 1440444)

"I joined Reed Business Information in 1994 as a recruitment sales exec, before being accepted on to the company's in-house trainee journalist scheme and working my way through the editorial ranks."


01/11/08--06:35: Online regulation big in 2008 (chan 1440444)

2008 is shaping up to be the year both UK and EU administrations switch their focus online - several new reviews have been announced. The Byron Review of online protection for children continues until April. AOP submitted a response to the original call for evidence stressing that...


01/21/08--05:30: Harnessing specialised search (chan 1440444)

The potential is there for publishers to provide niche search offerings to users, thereby enhancing their online presence and providing new revenue sources. On 21 January 2008, AOP held a forum at IPC Media on specialised/vertical search.


01/22/08--16:00: How publishers can claim Google users (chan 1440444)

From a publisher with its own specialised search engine deployed across over 100 sites, the message is clear: “for Reed Business, the payback has already happened.”


02/07/08--06:41: Convergence Think Tank first meeting (chan 1440444)

Andy Burnham, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport launched the Convergence Think Tank this morning, announcing that the Government wants to encourage a converged content market which has low access barriers and gives universal coverage to all consumers.


02/27/08--06:00: Practical guidance on how to optimise digital partnership and sponsorship opportunities (chan 1440444)

On the afternoon of wednesday 27th February, AOP held a forum on how to optimise digital partnership and sponsorship opportunities.


03/03/08--16:00: Partnerships key to 'pull' marketing (chan 1440444)

With web 2.0 heralding a shift from 'push' to 'pull' marketing, publishers are uniquely placed to produce creative commercial projects. Lending editorial, cross-media or broadcast skills to partnership, speakers at AOP’s sponsorship and partnerships forum outlined how they are engaging users with quality sponsored content, for ‘joint kudos’ between media owner and client.


03/06/08--06:44: Dominic Young briefs AOP on ACAP (chan 1440444)

The Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) aims to enable a “more sophisticated debate” with search engines, moving towards an environment where “the idea of permission is enforced”.


03/07/08--07:03: Google/DoubleClick merger approved (chan 1440444)

European Commission regulators have approved the Google/DoubleClick merger, as suggested previously in an FT report. The EC made its approval without any major concerns about the impact of the merger on competition or user privacy.


03/18/08--08:07: PSP focused attention on digital (chan 1440444)

Ofcom has scrapped its idea for a Public Service Publisher (PSP). Chief executive Ed Richards stated that the idea had served its purpose by focusing attention on the importance of digital media in public sector broadcasting (PSB).


03/18/08--08:15: Google clarifies position on ACAP (chan 1440444)

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has announced his support of the Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP), an initiative providing publishers with more control over the use of their content online.


03/18/08--08:44: "Sea change" towards collaboration (chan 1440444)

The past two years have seen a “sea change” from an “us and them” mentality between media owners and pure online firms, to an increasingly collaborative approach. Emily Bell, editor-in-chief of guardian.co.uk, speaking at the Guardian’s third Changing Media Summit, stressed the increasing importance of such partnerships in the new media landscape.


04/04/08--08:19: Freedom to report without restrictions (chan 1440444)

Do your journalists attend large sporting or cultural events to report on them? Are you finding the terms of their access to these events increasingly restrictive?


04/07/08--17:00: AOP Census 2008 report (chan 1440444)

In its annual Census of members for 2008, AOP reports that digital publishers experienced a 52 per cent increase in total revenues in 2007 over the same period last year. Additionally respondents predict total business growth for 2008 will be 8 per cent, with digital expected to grow 31 per cent.


04/14/08--03:50: Families more engaged online (chan 1440444)

Research from the The European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) suggests a "massive opportunity" to engage with families online.


04/24/08--17:00: Tim Brown, Blue Lithium MD (chan 1440444)

Tim Brown is MD of data driven performance marketing firm BlueLithium, which was bought by Yahoo! in September 2007 to become part of The Yahoo Network.


05/01/08--17:00: Rupert Staines, Adviva VP Europe (chan 1440444)

Rupert, one of the founders of ValueClick, joined brand-focused ad network Adviva as vice-president, Europe in 2006. He was among the speakers at AOP’s forum on maximizing your relationship with ad networks on 15 May.


05/07/08--02:00: AOP Digital Seminar at Magazines 2008 (chan 1440444)

On May 7th, AOP/PPAi presented its one day Digital Seminar at the Magazines 2008 event. The seminar was be chaired by Andrew Walmsley, founder of i-level.


05/07/08--17:00: SEO core of Times’ digital operation (chan 1440444)

“SEO people have become the core of our digital operation” whose insight travels “through our entire business” said Times Online editor-in-chief Anne Spackman, speaking at AOP’s digital seminar session on search at PPA’s Magazines 2008 Conference.


05/08/08--17:00: Community is king, content is queen (chan 1440444)

Community sites are “taking real world sociality and turbo-charging it”, while a “selfish advantage” for getting involved never goes amiss.


05/15/08--07:00: Maximising your relationship with ad networks (chan 1440444)

As ad networks proliferate, AOP hosted a forum to discuss the part they will play in the future of online advertising, and optimising publisher opportunities in this evolving area.


05/15/08--17:00: Future growth in display, not search (chan 1440444)

Future growth in online advertising will be fuelled by display and targeted campaigns, according to Tim Brown, MD of Blue Lithium EU, speaking at AOP’s forum on ad networks.


05/21/08--17:00: Tangozebra founder James Booth (chan 1440444)

James Booth, founder of Tangozebra, and now video specialist Rockabox, gave us his thoughts on the current state of TV online:


06/04/08--17:00: Interview with Nancy Cruickshank, global CEO, VideoJug (chan 1440444)

Nancy Cruickshank, Global CEO of VideoJug, on how online video consumption is changing:


06/05/08--07:30: Interview with Robert Black, business development director, Utarget:FOX (chan 1440444)

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06/13/08--08:25: UK ad code for all digital media? (chan 1440444)

Do you know which of the advertising you carry on your sites is covered by the UK Code of Advertising Practice (CAP)?


06/18/08--07:00: Making video work for you (chan 1440444)

Nancy Cruickshank, global CEO, VideoJug, Telegraph digital media director Alison Reay, Robert Black of UTarget and Justin White, business director of Neo@Ogilvy all spoke at AOP’s Video forum on 18 June. Tangozebra founder James Booth chaired the event.


06/18/08--17:00: Making online video work (chan 1440444)

Publishers are making great strides in online video - an area with huge potential to engage and monetise viewers. This was the message from a panel of industry experts at AOP's forum on web TV.


07/10/08--03:41: Web boosts radio listening (chan 1440444)

The number of people listening to radio via the web has mushroomed to 14.5m, growing 2.5m since November, according to Rajar research. More people are also accessing web radio on a weekly basis - 9.4m, up from 8.1m in November 2007.


07/23/08--03:36: Mobile internet key for consumers (chan 1440444)

Web accessibilty is becoming a key consideration for mobile users, with 60 per cent of respondents saying mobile web access is important according to joint research conducted by AKQA Mobile and dotMobi.


07/24/08--06:11: Web holds strong, says Bellwether (chan 1440444)

All sectors of marketing saw budget cuts with the exception of the internet, according to IPA's Bellwether Report for the second quarter of 2008.


07/30/08--07:00: Behavioural targeting forum (chan 1440444)

Behavioural targeting can help deliver more relevant content, provide select audiences to advertisers, improve inventory management and increase revenues. But how can publishers realise the benefits while protecting their reputation?


07/30/08--17:00: Trust key to targeting’s future (chan 1440444)

Speakers at AOP’s behavioural targeting (BT) forum, held at IPC Media on 30 July, predicted a future where all online ads have a ‘behavioural’ element - but respecting user privacy and maintaining trust are absolutely key to its continued development.


08/04/08--06:09: Greater ad effectiveness on branded content sites, says OPA study (chan 1440444)

Across a wide range of advertising metrics, branded content sites outscored internet industry norms 41 out of 43 times according to research from the Online Publishers Association (OPA).


08/04/08--08:39: Greater ad effectiveness on branded content sites, says OPA study (chan 1440444)

Across a wide range of advertising metrics, branded content sites outscored internet industry norms 41 out of 43 times according to research from the Online Publishers Association (OPA).


08/07/08--05:52: Newspapers attract 95m online (chan 1440444)

National newspapers reached a total of almost 95m visitors online, said a report from the Newspaper Marketing Agency (NMA) pooling the web traffic data from its members' 16 titles.


08/20/08--05:49: UK embracing on-demand services (chan 1440444)

Ofcom research shows that the UK is embracing on-demand web TV services, backing publishers' push to offer these services online with rapidly increasing quality and volume.


08/21/08--05:45: Net newsers - emerging US media consumption pattern (chan 1440444)

A new generation of well-educated, technically-savvy young web users are shaping the media consumption habits of the US.


09/04/08--05:31: Rich spend more time online (chan 1440444)

The top fifth of US households by income spend more time online than the rest of the population, says research from Ipsos Mendelson. The survey also found that, as the rich get richer, they are online for even longer each week.


09/04/08--08:32: Local online media hold significant advertising advantage (chan 1440444)

Local media sites hold a distinct advantage when it comes to delivering results for advertisers, according to a report by the Online Publishers Association (OPA) in the US.


09/17/08--07:00: Mobile Content: creation, convergence and commercialisation (chan 1440444)

With a new generation of mobile phones and the growth of flat-rate tariffs, what opportunities does the mobile web now offer UK publishers? AOP's forum on mobile content, looked at the latest approaches to mobile content creation, and how to successfully scale your mobile business.


09/17/08--17:00: Creating "watercooler moments" with mobile (chan 1440444)

An effective mobile content strategy can create a real buzz around your brand, delivering "wartercooler moments" people will talk about and share.


09/18/08--05:28: EIAA predicts online ad spend growth (chan 1440444)

80 per cent of advertisers predict growth in online ad spend, according to new research produced by the European Interactive Advertising Agency (EIAA). The Marketers' Internet Ad Barometer highlighted that 81 per cent of advertisers state that their online ad spend has grown in 2008 and expect the trend to continue into the next two years.


09/24/08--02:32: Video Interview with Kevin Eyres, MD at LinkedIn Europe (chan 1440444)

Kevin Eyres, Managing Director at LinkedIn Europe was interviewed by AOP this week, as the site enjoys massive growth, attracting 2 new members every minute.


10/01/08--02:00: AOP Digital Publishing Summit 2008 (chan 1440444)

AOP's 7th. Digital Publishing Summit, held on 1 October 2008, was themed 3C – Content, Convergence and Creativity, bringing together industry leaders from around the world to share their views on the digital landscape.


10/02/08--01:38: AOP awards winners 2008 in full (chan 1440444)

The AOP Awards 2008 were held on 1 October at the London Hilton Park Lane. Congratulations to the following winners and special mentions: (Judges' comments in speech marks.)


10/02/08--17:00: Federico Grosso, Senior Vice President, Business Development, blinkx, video interview (chan 1440444)

Federico Grosso is a digital media veteran with more than a decade of international experience.


10/02/08--17:00: Annelies Van Den Belt, CEO of Sup, video interview at AOP Summit 2008 (chan 1440444)

Annelies joined SUP on June 1, 2008, to take the position of General Manager SUP Russia and CIS. In this role she was responsible for all of SUP’s activities in these markets and she restructured the business into SUP Media and SUP Russia.


10/02/08--17:00: Peter Cowley, Managing Director of Digital Media. Endemol UK, video interview (chan 1440444)

Endemol is an international entertainment production company, traditionally focused on the creation of TV formats, their production and exploitation.


10/02/08--17:00: Andrew Walmsley, i-level Founder video interview at the AOP Summit 2008 (chan 1440444)

Andrew co-founded i-level, the UK’s leading online media agency, in 1999. Winner of over 30 awards, the company has been Agency of the Year eight times in the last eight years, and in 2007 became the first digital agency to win a Queen’s Award for Enterprise.


10/02/08--17:00: Clay Shirky, author of 'Here Comes Everybody' video interview at the AOP Summit 2008 (chan 1440444)

Clay Shirky is a writer, educator, and consultant on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies.


10/02/08--17:00: Emily Bell, Director of Digital Content, Guardian News & Media video interview (chan 1440444)

Emily has worked for the Observer and then the Guardian for the past seventeen years, setting up mediaguardian.co.uk in 2000 and becoming Editor-in-Chief of Guardian Unlimited in 2001.


10/02/08--17:00: Dan Rutherford, Head of Marketing at Outside Line, video interview at the AOP Summit 2008 (chan 1440444)

Dan Rutherford, Head of Marketing at Outside Line, video interview at the AOP Summit 2008


10/02/08--17:00: Emma Jenkins, Head of Interactive Marketing, Procter and Gamble, video interview (chan 1440444)

Emma has spent 9 of her 11 years at P&G in digital marketing, focussing on P&G’s innovation efforts. She has worked across digital TV, internet and mobile campaigns for brands such as Pampers, Ariel, Pringles, Lacoste and Pantene.


10/03/08--01:31: Geoff Ramsey Video Interview (chan 1440444)

As CEO and co-founder of eMarketer, Geoff is on the cutting edge of new research statistics, trends and best practice, covering every aspect of marketing in the digital age.


10/03/08--02:14: Neil Perkin, Director, Marketing and Strategy, IPC Media video interview at the AOP Summit 2008 (chan 1440444)

Neil has been at IPC Media for eleven years having previously worked in B2B and contract publishing. In that time he has ran or worked in most of IPC’s advertising operating divisions. After several years with IPC Southbank working on titles such as Homes & Gardens and Livingetc


10/03/08--02:19: Richard Edgar, Head of Video, FT.com video interview at the AOP Summit 2008 (chan 1440444)

Richard Edgar was appointed as the head of video for the Financial Times in 2007 and is responsible for developing FT.com’s popular video section. Under his stewardship FT.com's video audience has more than trebled and new formats and strands have won awards around the world.


10/03/08--02:24: Exclusive AOP Summit speaker video interviews (chan 1440444)

Exclusive video interviews with speakers from the AOP Digital Publishing Summit are listed below. These interviews represent some of their key observations at the Summit and advice for the digital media industry:


10/04/08--05:34: Local online media hold significant advertising advantage (chan 1440444)

Local media sites hold a distinct advantage when it comes to delivering results for advertisers, according to a report by the Online Publishers Association (OPA) in the US.


10/09/08--05:19: UK online ad spend grows 21% (chan 1440444)

Despite economic pressures, online ad spend in the UK grew 21 per cent year-on-year in the first half of 2008, according to the latest figures from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB.)


10/15/08--05:16: Online bright point in Bellweather (chan 1440444)

The IPA's latest Bellwether survey shows online spending holding steady, as Q3 annual marketing budgets dipped in other areas.


10/18/08--02:26: Video Interview with Simon Waldman on the economy, publishing and the AOP Summit (chan 1440444)

Guardian Media Group Director of Digital Strategy and former AOP Chairman Simon Waldman was interviewed this week, giving his thoughts on economy, what publishers should be aiming at in the coming year and the AOP Digital Publishing Summit.


10/29/08--05:08: Men can't live without the web (chan 1440444)

Research from US-based Break Media shows that 18-34 year-old males are more engaged than ever on the web, and points to the strong brand-building effect online advertising has on this key demographic.


10/29/08--08:22: Men can't live without the web (chan 1440444)

Research from US-based Break Media shows that 18-34 year-old males are more engaged than ever on the web, and points to the strong brand-building effect online advertising has on this key demographic.


10/29/08--09:54: Carter says digital media key to economy (chan 1440444)

Digital media is more important to the UK economy than ever, according to the newly appointed Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting, Stephen Carter, especially in the light of the global financial crisis.


10/30/08--05:00: The future's bright, the future's mobile (chan 1440444)

Fifty per cent of consumers would substitute their internet usage on a PC for a mobile device. This is a key finding from IBM’s Institute of Business Value, expanding on its May 2008 "Go Mobile, Grow" study.


10/30/08--14:28: Sly Bailey Keynote Video from AOP Summit 2008 (chan 1440444)

Sly Bailey's keynote from AOP summit 2008 video


10/30/08--14:46: Geoff Ramsey, Founder of eMarketer - AOP Summit 2008 keynote video (chan 1440444)

Geoff Ramsey keynote video from the AOP Summit 2008


10/30/08--14:51: Clay Shirky keynote at AOP Summit 2008 - full video (chan 1440444)

Clay Shirky, acclaimed author of 'Here Comes Everybody' speaking at AOP's Summit on 1 October 2008. The title of his talk was 'Gin, Television and Cognitive Social Surplus'.


10/31/08--10:01: Book Publishers and Google reach landmark decision (chan 1440444)

A groundbreaking settlement has been reached which, if approved by the court, would settle the long running class-action lawsuit brought against Google by representatives of publishers and authors.


11/12/08--07:08: Digital information overload (chan 1440444)

Eighty per cent of UK internet users claim they suffer from information overload online while 88% filter out irrelevant messagingaccording to a study by Yahoo.


11/13/08--03:54: B2B websites "essential" to business decision makers (chan 1440444)

In the latest AOP research, released this week, business websites emerged as a highly valued and indispensable source of information for business decision makers. The survey, conducted in association with IPSOS Mori, revealed


11/13/08--03:59: Digital Information Overload (chan 1440444)

Eighty per cent of UK internet users claim they suffer from information overload online while 88% filter out irrelevant messaging according to a study by Yahoo.


11/13/08--07:11: B2B Websites 'Essential' to Business Decision Makers (chan 1440444)

In the latest AOP research, released this week, business websites emerged as a highly valued and indispensable source of information for business decision makers. The survey, conducted in association with IPSOS Mori, revealed:


11/20/08--06:00: "Who owns the content?" and "does it matter?" - AOP IP and copyright Forum (chan 1440444)

Effective management of both traditionally sourced and user-generated content will drive value for media owners in the future. But as web users change the way they source and consume content, what are the implications for publishers, their audiences and their revenue streams?


11/20/08--08:51: Is social media living up to the hype? (chan 1440444)

Developing communities around content was the focus of AOP 's forum on 11 December. Ahead of the event, we caught up with one of the speakers, Richard Cole, Head of Communities at Current TV. Operating across web and TV, Current offers an "innovative platform on which users can participate in shaping an ongoing stream of news and information."


11/26/08--02:14: “Social media is beyond the hype cycle” (chan 1440444)

On 11 December, AOP hosted a forum looking at developing communities in the digital age. We caught up with one of the speakers, Steve Semelsberger, SVP of Global Sales and Business Development, Pluck.


11/26/08--09:04: Behavioural targeting at Westminster (chan 1440444)

The detractors of ISP-based behavioural targeting (BT) technologies such as Phorm would like to turn the clock back to a “horse-drawn" internet, "seizing on BT as a convenient excuse” for a return to an elitist web, according to i-level Founder Andrew Walmsley.


11/27/08--02:53: 25-34 yrs key web demographic (chan 1440444)

Generation X-ers are active ’lifestyle’ users of the internet, with 49% regularly communicating via social networking sites, and 53% managing their finances and 56% booking travel and holiday arrangements, according to research published by the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA).


11/27/08--03:40: Mobile web growing 8 x faster than PC-based web (chan 1440444)

Mobile web usage is growing eight times faster than PC-based web use according to the ‘Mobile Media View’ produced by Nielsen. The study highlights that almost 7.5 million Britons now access the internet through their mobile phones. As Kent Ferguson, Senior Analyst at Nielsen indicates: “the mobile internet is fast becoming a viable way for advertisers and publishers to reach important demographic groups.


12/03/08--16:00: Tom Rubin on copyright and search (chan 1440444)

“Policymakers understand little of what’s going on in online business, meanwhile, we’re still searching for a healthy symbiosis between media and tech firms, upon whom we’re dependent for both our audience traffic and monetisation.”


12/04/08--02:20: JICIMS structure change to move forward (chan 1440444)

Following a meeting of its board, the Joint Industry Committee for Internet Measurement Systems (JICIMS), has announced that it will be revising its structure in order to make progress in the establishment of an online audience measurement system. The initiative will now be led by AOP and the IAB, and is the result of extensive cross-industry consultation on the best solution for the current lack of a standard online planning system.


12/11/08--02:23: JICIMS relaunches as UKOM (chan 1440444)

The UK Online Measurement company established by AOP and IAB to drive progress in online audience measurement The Joint Industry Committee for Internet Measurement Systems (JICIMS) will be relaunched as the UK Online Measurement company (UKOM), with AOP and IAB as its two key stakeholders.


12/11/08--06:00: Developing communities around content - adding value through an engaged user base (chan 1440444)

How do publishers and media owners benefit from the social networking explosion and tie that in with their existing content and communities? These were the topics covered by AOPs Communities forum, which looked to advise and showcase examples of new publisher case studies and technology which can enhance the content, conversation and commercialisation of your user base.


12/12/08--02:32: Online Communities "pure business preservation" for publishers (chan 1440444)

Online Communities are "pure business preservation" for publishers, said FT Alphaville Editor Paul Murphy, speaking at yesterday's AOP forum on developing communities online, chaired by the Guardian's Head of Communities Meg Pickard. Murphy added: "Your readers will tend to be a unifiable, unique bunch: you have to listen to them and build a culture where you're responding to their needs."


01/08/09--03:10: Jim Mullen on online gaming and publishing (chan 1440444)

In January, AOP hosted a forum on how publishers can diversify their revenue streams from beyond the traditional ad-funded model. Ahead of the event, we caught up with one of the speakers, Jim Mullen, Head of Digital Commercial at News International, about opportunities in online gaming.


01/15/09--09:10: C4 CEO Andy Duncan on Digital Britain (chan 1440444)

Channel 4 CEO Andy Duncan said today that a C4/Channel 5 partnership would be like “mixing oil with water”. Speaking at Nesta, he gave his views on the government's forthcoming Digital Britain report, the future of Channel 4 and of UK media at large.


01/16/09--03:59: UK housewives lead the world for internet use (chan 1440444)

UK housewives are the most prolific internet users in the world, according to a report by TNS Global, ‘Digital World, Digital Life’.


01/21/09--09:18: Ofcom announces 2nd PSB recommendations (chan 1440444)

Ofcom has released its second public service broadcasting (PSB) report, with Chief Executive Ed Richards acknowledging that “The UK needs new ways to sustain the spirit of public broadcasting”.


01/23/09--04:22: Ad effectiveness on original content sites up in downturn (chan 1440444)

Analysis of Independent Data Also Shows Advertising on Content Sites Performing Better Among Young, Affluent Audiences


01/29/09--06:00: eCommerce and diversifying revenue forum (chan 1440444)

In the context of the current climate, have publishers become over-reliant on advertising revenue? TMG's Digital Director Brian Harrison, last year announced that eCommerce and non-ad-related revenue would be "crucial to a secure commercial future."


01/29/09--22:41: Publishers can be "more creative and have bigger ideas" than the competition (chan 1440444)

Publishers can be “more creative and have bigger ideas” than the competition, said News International Head of Digital Commercial Jim Mullen, in a bravado speech delivered at AOP’s forum on diversifying revenue on 29 January. Despite having previously worked in advertising for 14 years, he said he had never seen anything matching the creativity of his editorial team at News International.


02/05/09--05:49: Changing editorial workflow and technology for digital publishing (chan 1440444)

In February 2009, AOP hosted a forum looking at how new editorial technologies are shaping multimedia publishing. Ahead of the event, we caught up with one of the speakers, Diane Burley, Digital Industry Specialist at Nstein Technologies, to discuss how editorial process has evolved over the years, and what to expect from the future.


02/06/09--07:35: Advertisers to up CPA and CPL by over 60 per cent (chan 1440444)

Econsultancy has released its B2B Vertical Search Report for 2009, produced in association with Convera, which finds that advertisers will be increasing spend on performance-based ads in 2009, such as CPA and CPL.


02/10/09--08:36: AOP Organisation Census launched (chan 1440444)

Earlier this week, AOP began its first major research initiative of the year by launching the 2009 Organisation Census to member organisations.


02/11/09--23:13: Future CEO Stevie Spring's top tips for digital success (chan 1440444)

Speaking at an Olswang event yesterday 'free media - making it pay', Future Publishing CEO Stevie Spring gave a robust, no nonsense list of tips for digital success, in the month that Future's digital revenues reached 25%. AOP was there to hear Spring's advice.


02/12/09--08:44: New Report for AOP members - Digital Landscape Report (chan 1440444)

AOP is pleased to announce a new initiative aimed at delivering added value for members through providing more insight into the current and future digital publishing environment.


02/13/09--08:51: Consumers with spending power more responsive to ads on niche sites than portals (chan 1440444)

Only 12 per cent of consumers claim to often pay attention advertising on portal sites The majority of UK Internet users with spending power are looking beyond web portals in search of more dedicated content from specialist niche sites, according to The 2009 Online Advertising Attitudes Report.


02/17/09--11:46: Child father story brings record traffic to thesun.co.uk (chan 1440444)

The Sun's exclusive on 13-year-old father Alfie Patten prompted an extraordinary boost for the paper's web traffic - making it the most popular story in the site’s history.


02/19/09--11:44: Sun Online Editor Pete Picton on editorial technology (chan 1440444)

Speed: that’s the key to it. We’re now talking about a matter of seconds to be first to a story- which can make all the difference. If you’re first to a story, you’re the first to the search engines and aggregators.


02/23/09--11:41: Interview with Julian March, Executive Producer, Sky News Online (chan 1440444)

"Nowadays editorial teams have to deliver for multiple platforms simultaneously. That means a TV correspondent in Beijing having to file an online article and a radio piece at the same time as he files his VT."


02/25/09--08:56: Women's Space 2: UK women more engaged than ever online (chan 1440444)

The number of UK women regularly using social networks has grown by 53% in 12 months, according to Women’s Space 2, the IPC Media study exploring women’s use of the internet.


02/25/09--11:33: Times Online Assistant Editor Tom Whitwell on SEO (chan 1440444)

In an interview with AOP, Tom Whitwell, Assistant Editor, Online, at The Times said: “Commentators often make a simplistic connection between soft stories and high traffic.


02/25/09--11:38: AOP announces new co-Chair (chan 1440444)

AOP has announced the appointment of Tim Faircliff, General Manager of Consumer Media at Thomson Reuters, as the new AOP co-Chair to take up the role from March 2009 until March 2010, working with current co-Chair Alison Reay, who was appointed in October 2008.


02/26/09--06:00: Editorial technologies shaping multimedia publishing (chan 1440444)

With the shift towards 24:7 multimedia publishing, editorial teams are being unified, work places are being rationalised and editorial needs have changed. But is technology keeping up? How are the latest tools helping to streamline processes and speed up workflow and where are they falling down?


02/27/09--08:17: UKOM Update (chan 1440444)

Giving an update on UKOM (formerly known as JICIMS), UKOM General Manager Peter Bowman said: I believe we're on the way to providing what the online industry declared that it wanted at a milestone Summit last Autumn - an industry accepted planning system for online media.


03/02/09--11:27: Multimedia: "telling the story the way it was meant to be told” (chan 1440444)

“The reason I’m a digital journalist is that you can tell the story in the way it was meant to be told” said Guardian Blogs Editor Kevin Anderson. Speaking at AOP’s forum on editorial technologies. He stressed however that publishers' choice of multimedia must always fit seamlessly with the story.


03/05/09--09:45: i-level Search Director Judith Lewis on SEO and journalism (chan 1440444)

Ahead of AOP's March event on SEO, we caught up with the chair for the event, Judith Lewis, Search Director at i-level, to discuss how quality journalism and top search rankings can work in harmony.


03/11/09--03:36: AOP at WARC Online Research Conference (chan 1440444)

The WARC Online Research Conference 2009 last week touched on the key issues facing the online research industry, from harnessing social media for research and the shift in human communications caused by the growth of web consumption, to 'integrated insights' and improving the research experience. AOP's Head of Research Tim Cain attended, to keep up to date on the latest developments in the world of online research.


03/11/09--08:42: Drew Broomhall, Times Online Search Editor, on SEO strategies for publishers (chan 1440444)

On 25 March 2009, AOP hosted a forum looking at how SEO is shaping editorial content, and how to maintain editorial values while driving traffic. Ahead of the event, we caught up with one of the event's speakers, Times Online’s Search Editor Drew Broomhall, to discuss how SEO is affecting journalism and newspapers, and developing SEO strategies for publishers.


03/12/09--07:49: CondéNet continues to innovate with wired.co.uk launch (chan 1440444)

At a launch event this week for wired.co.uk, set to launch in April, the CondéNet team explained the extraordinary history of the title. Founded in 1993, Wired foresaw the mass digitisation and sharing of culture online few of us could predict.


03/15/09--06:32: What makes an AOP Award-winning entry? (chan 1440444)

With the entry deadline for the AOP Awards 2009 rapidly approaching on 20 March, we look at some of last year's winners, and ask: 'What should I be focussing on to maximise my company's chances of success?', 'what to include?' and crucially, 'what to omit?' from entries.


03/15/09--07:27: Nancy Cruickshank joins Telegraph as Executive Director of Digital Development (chan 1440444)

Nancy Cruickshank has joined Telegraph Media Group as Executive Director of Digital Development, Brand Republic reports.


03/15/09--07:35: Econsultancy hires John Gaffney as US Editor (chan 1440444)

Internet research and training specialist Econsultancy has hired internet marketing veteran John Gaffney as US Editor to support its New York operations.


03/16/09--04:40: Emap relaunches Drapers online (chan 1440444)

Emap has relaunched the website of its fashion industry title Drapers, with a greater focus on audio-visual content, an enhanced community section and an all-new blogs area.


03/17/09--04:21: Burnham to create VoD regulator (chan 1440444)

Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has vowed to create a regulatory body for video-on-demand services which is "led and funded by the industry", PaidContent:UK reports. All media owners providing VoD will "need to notify the co-regulator they are providing a service".


03/19/09--04:07: BBC just "1st user" for iPlayer, to share tech with industry says Thompson (chan 1440444)

The BBC is just the "1st user" for the iPlayer, which has been developed "not for proprietary advantage, but for whole industry", according to BBC Director General Mark Thompson, speaking at last week's Guardian Changing Media Summit.


03/19/09--17:00: AOP Digital Landscape Report March 2009 (chan 1440444)

AOP is glad to release the second edition of the new monthly Digital Landscape Report, a digest of recent research, trend and forecast information available exclusively to our members.


03/25/09--07:00: Maintaining editorial standards while driving traffic (chan 1440444)

The role of journalists is evolving to include a greater understanding of search engine optimisation (SEO) and interpreting data. But in the effort to appeal to search engines, is quality journalism suffering? This forum brought together experts to examine the editorial impact of SEO and to look at what the future for news production might be.


03/26/09--03:44: Sun Online takes lead in Feb ABCEs (chan 1440444)

Sun Online grew its unique user base by an impressive 25% in February, reaching more than 27m, up from just under 22m in January. This user growth took the site from fourth to first place in the UK national news market.


03/26/09--09:20: Theorem joins AOP (chan 1440444)

A leader in data analysis, ad and search operations and web/email services, Theorem has joined AOP as an associate member.


03/27/09--00:35: Google: key to SEO is helping the user (chan 1440444)

Make your site structure as simple and clear as possible, and make good use of specialised site maps, advised Google Sales Engineer Jean-Laurent Wotton at AOP's SEO Forum on 25 March - Google’s spiders consistently reward sites which offer the most user-friendly design and taxonomy, he said.


03/29/09--23:58: AOP Census '09 predicts 16% growth (chan 1440444)

The results from the seventh annual AOP Census survey released today reveals that UK online publishers predict a 16% growth in their digital revenues in 2009 – with digital revenues defined as income generated from various sources including online advertising (eg: display, classified, search); subscriptions; paid content, eCommerce, Sponsorship and commercial content.


04/02/09--09:01: Sift CEO Ben Heald on B2B online communities (chan 1440444)

"The biggest opportunities are to gain market share by addressing the needs of advertisers, who only want one thing - ROI on their marketing spend. Digital offers a range of new ways of doing this, all more effective than anything offline."


04/02/09--09:28: FT.com launches new blogs, appoints Exec & Blogs Editors (chan 1440444)

The Financial Times has announced the launch of new blogs on FT.com, including a G20 blog that will cover the events of this week and ongoing dedicated energy, science and health blogs.


04/08/09--04:47: AOP Awards 2009: breakdown of entries (chan 1440444)

AOP has profiled the entries received for the AOP Digital Publishing Awards 2009, to identify how those entries shaped up. There are some interesting patterns emerging from the analysis and the results are shown below.


04/08/09--04:52: AOP Awards '09 - a note from AOP (chan 1440444)

Entries to this year’s AOP Digital Publishing Awards look set to rival the quality, breadth and creativity of previous years and will ensure another thrilling Awards ceremony on 2nd June.


04/08/09--06:53: 10% of marketing budgets now online says Bellwether (chan 1440444)

The latest IPA Bellwether Report shows an upturn in confidence amongst marketers in the first quarter of 2009. Overall, budgets have been reduced but the rate of decline is slowing and marketers have been less likely to reduce their online spends compared to other media, with online now accounting for roughly 10% of all budgets.


04/08/09--13:17: The Future of Media Research - MediaTel Event report (chan 1440444)

AOP attended the latest Mediatel Seminar on 2nd April to keep up to date with the debate around the challenges facing research in the current climate. The theme of the morning was how the media industry can maximise the contribution of research despite the budgetary pressures on investment.


04/09/09--01:56: "Time to make some bold bets" - Tony Hallett, CBS Interactive (chan 1440444)

"I believe strongly that now is the time to make some bold bets that will scale as we come out of the recession. We will see some interesting and creative revenue models emerge..."


04/23/09--06:01: Full details on next week's B2B Forum (chan 1440444)

Online communities are enabling business publishers to gain intelligence, forge closer relationships, build trust and keep...


04/23/09--09:17: AOP Digital Landscape Report Vol. 3 - April 2009 (chan 1440444)

AOP's Digital Landscape Report for April is now available for members to download.


04/24/09--07:14: Interview with Graeme Wood, Zed Media Director of Planning (chan 1440444)

Ahead of the iMedia Agency Summit, taking place in Brighton on 11-13 May, we spoke to one of the event's speakers: Graeme Wood, Head of Planning at Zed Media.


04/24/09--08:10: Introducing the new AOP website (chan 1440444)

We're delighted to present the new-look AOP website. The principle aim of the redesigned site is to provide our members with a more dynamic, effective, and usable resource...


04/29/09--02:59: AOP Awards 2009 Shortlist Announced (chan 1440444)

The shortlist for the AOP Awards 2009 is available - congratulations to everyone who made it on to the list!


04/29/09--05:01: AOP Awards Shortlist Detail (chan 1440444)

AOP has revealed the shortlist of nominees for its eighth Digital Publishing Awards. The most shortlisted nominations were...


04/29/09--07:00: B2B Forum - making business communities work online (chan 1440444)

As the online landscape continues to shift, communities are taking centre stage. Answering the needs of today’s empowered user, they enable businesses to gain intelligence, forge closer...


05/01/09--05:33: Communities key to diversifying revenues, say B2B publishers (chan 1440444)

Display advertising is just one of several important revenue streams for digital business publishers, said the speakers at AOP’s B2B forum...


05/07/09--03:40: Email service provider Pure360 joins AOP (chan 1440444)

Email marketing provider Pure360 has joined AOP - Pure is one of the UK's leading email service providers with a range of solutions from web-based email marketing software to bespoke, integrated, high-volume content management and distribution technologies. Its clients include FT.com, the Economist and AOP.


05/07/09--07:03: Rob Grimshaw & Tim Weller on maximising income from online content (chan 1440444)

Both developing paid online content models, and new innovative ways of generating revenue online were the hot topics at the FIPP Congress at Old Billingsgate earlier this week.


05/08/09--08:08: Country Life puts 100 year photo archives online (chan 1440444)

IPC Media's Country Life magazine has launched a new online Picture Library, making public a remarkable collection of images from over 100 years of architectural and garden photography, as well as high-quality images of contemporary rural life.


05/12/09--02:14: AOP elects Kurt Edwards as new Commercial Committee Chair (chan 1440444)

AOP has appointed Kurt Edwards, Head of Digital Sales at Bauer Media, as its new Commercial Committee Chair with immediate effect.


05/19/09--03:29: Should more publishers charge for online content? (chan 1440444)

Can and should more publishers charge for content online? We have put together a timeline of coverage, and summarise comment on the paid content debate...


05/21/09--02:58: AOP Digital Landscape Report Vol. 4 - May 2009 (chan 1440444)

The latest edition of AOP’s monthly aggregation of research, trend and forecast information is available for members to download from today. The May edition includes a new report from Forrester looking at the expected transformation of social networks and the impact on brands over the next 5 years. Ecommerce, affiliate marketing, search, social networks, B2B and email marketing are all also covered in this month’s report.


05/21/09--05:02: The future of newspapers in a Digital Britain: MTM Roundtable summary (chan 1440444)

Few doubt that the demand for news consumption is higher than it has ever been, or that the increase in real-time delivery online and the growth of citizen journalism has changed the rules of engagement for traditional publishers.


05/21/09--05:34: An inside look at AOP’s Digital Editorial Individual shortlist (chan 1440444)

For the first time, we will be announcing the winner of our brand new Editorial Individual award at the AOP Awards Dinner, on 2 June At Old Billingsgate...


06/01/09--06:00: UKOM moves into final stages of consultation with UK advertisers and agencies (chan 1440444)

The UK Online Measurement Company (UKOM) has moved into a critical stage of its dev