Hit digital albums have lost market share to far less popular titles. But hit digital tracks have gained market share over the years.

2010 will be huge test, as new realities of consumer expression and cross-platform integration create a powerful new dynamic hovering over the largest single-spot ad spend on record.

Time spent viewing video on social networking sites increased 98 percent year-over-year as the number of online video streams viewed on social networking and blog sites increased 45 percent year-over-year.

Nielsen fielded its annual holiday retail survey at the beginning of this month to get an understanding of consumers’ holiday shopping plans.

New data from Scarborough Research finds nearly three in four adults, nearly 171 million, in the U.S. read printed news on a weekly basis.

On Friday, November 13, Nielsen’s Melissa Davies, Research Director, Healthcare, Online division, will present testimony at an FDA hearing surrounding the pharmaceutical industry and regulations surrounding social media.

The launch of the Droid by Motorola–which runs Google’s Android 2.0 operating system–is the latest smartphone to be tagged “a game changer,” and “the iPhone killer.”

If the Internet has truly “arrived” and is being taken seriously, why have we not yet seen significant brand advertising dollars follow?

There’s no place like home for penny-pinching consumers who are eating out less and spending more on perishables. It all adds up to $6 billion in potential market growth.

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