CBS’s “Two and a Half Men” and “CSI Miami” were the number one- and number two-ranked primetime telecasts on broadcast TV for Monday, July 14, 2008.
ABC’s back-to-back telecasts of “The Mole” claimed the 8th and 10th spots, while two Univision programs, “Fuego en la Sangre” (#7) and “Cristina” (#9), also made the top ten.

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
TWO AND A HALF MEN
CBS
8,390,000

2
CSI: MIAMI
CBS
7,669,000

3
HOUSE-MON 9P
FOX
7,432,000

4
DATELINE NBC-MON
NBC
6,316,000

5
NASHVILLE STAR
NBC
5,935,000

6
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
CBS
5,138,000

7
FUEGO EN LA SANGRE MON
UNI
4,246,000

8
MOLE, THE
ABC
3,599,000

9
CRISTINA MON
UNI
3,045,000

10
MOLE, THE-7/14(S)-07/14/2008
ABC
2,888,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (July 14, 2008)

Overall, FOX edged past CBS to win the night — with …

Google and Yahoo! were the number one- and number two-ranked Web brands in June, according to Nielsen Online.

Rank
Brand
Unique Audience

1
Google
120,496,000

2
Yahoo!
113,187,000

3
MSN/Windows Live
99,747,000

4
Microsoft
93,786,000

5
AOL Media Network
91,167,000

6
YouTube
71,398,000

7
Fox Interactive Media
70,039,000

8
Wikipedia
52,747,000

9
eBay
52,509,000

10
Apple
49,911,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (June 1 – 30, 2008)

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RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
NBC
12,729,000

2
WIPEOUT
ABC
10,598,000

3
BACHELORETTE, THE-7/7(S)
ABC
9,990,000

4
CSI
CBS
9,857,000

5
BACHELORETTE, THE
ABC
9,530,000

6
GREATEST AMERICAN DOG
CBS
9,528,000

7
TWO AND A HALF MEN
CBS
9,139,000

8
SO YOU THINK CN DANCE-WED
FOX
8,934,000

9
HELL’S KITCHEN
FOX
8,913,000

10
CSI: NY
CBS
8,895,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (July 7, 2008 – July 13, 2008)

CBS’s “Flashpoint” and “Numbers” were the number one- and number two-ranked primetime telecasts on broadcast TV for Friday, July 11, 2008.
NBC’s back-to-back telecasts of “Most Outrageous Moments” claimed the 6th and 7th spots, respectively.  Two Univision programs, “Al Diablo Con Guapos” (#8) and “Fuego en la Sangre” (#10), also made the top ten.

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
FLASHPOINT
CBS
8,131,000

2
NUMB3RS 9PM
CBS
6,666,000

3
DATELINE FRI
NBC
6,182,000

4
20/20-FRI
ABC
5,334,000

5
GHOST WHISPERER
CBS
5,279,000

6
MOST OUTRG MOMENTS 830P
NBC
5,230,000

7
MOST OUTRG MOMENTS 8P
NBC
4,489,000

8
AL DIABLO CON GUAPOS FRI
UNI
3,868,000

9
FRIDAY NIGHT SMACKDOWN
CW
3,719,000

10
FUEGO EN LA SANGRE FRI
UNI
3,685,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (July 11, 2008)

Overall, CBS won the night — with a 2.3 rating and 6,692,000 …

Inflation has reached a 13-year high in India, but consumer spending has not declined, The Economic Times reported Thursday.
Instead, industry data show that sales of fast moving consumer goods and consumer durables are actually growing.
Amita Shetye, Director of Client Service, Nielsen, told the Times that Indian consumers have remained cautiously optimistic, despite the flagging economy.
“Indians are positive that the hard times will pass and hence they have not started cutting down on these purchases,” Shetye said, but added: “If this scenario continues for long, we may see consumers revising their household consumption rate.”

RANK
NAME
NETWORK
VIEWERS (P2+)

1
AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
NBC
12,044,000

2
WIPEOUT
ABC
9,457,000

3
CRIMINAL MINDS
CBS
9,128,000

4
SO YOU THINK CN DANCE-WED
FOX
8,756,000

5
CSI: NY
CBS
8,495,000

6
TWO AND A HALF MEN
CBS
8,485,000

7
60 MINUTES
CBS
8,213,000

8
HOUSE-MON 9P
FOX
8,058,000

9
CSI: MIAMI
CBS
8,032,000

10
HELL’S KITCHEN
FOX
8,030,000

Source: The Nielsen Company (June 30, 2008 – July 6, 2008)

With Apple’s new iPhone 3G scheduled to go on sale worldwide this Friday, Nielsen Mobile released penetration, demographics, and usage data for the current iPhone:
How many iPhones are already out there?
-Nielsen Mobile estimates that there are 2.3 million U.S. mobile subscribers using an iPhone
-The iPhone accounts for 1% of all embedded mobile phone users in the U.S.

Who is using the iPhone already?

-Two-thirds (67%) of U.S. iPhone users are male (compared to 48% of all mobile subscribers)
-55% of iPhone owners are under the age of 35 (compared to 34% of all …

In 2007, U.S. advertisers placed $5.78 billion of advertising in Spanish-language media, according to a report issued Thursday by Nielsen’s Monitor-Plus advertising service.
That’s a 3% increase over the $5.63 billion spent on Spanish-language media in 2006.  Overall in 2007, U.S. advertising spending rose 0.6% over 2006.
Broadcast Media Partners Inc. (Univision’s parent company), which spent $205.9 million on advertising in 2007, was the largest advertiser across all Spanish-language media.  Lexicon marketing, which increased its ad spending by 38% from 2006 to 2007, showed the largest percentage increase.
The Automotive category, which spent just over $659.4 million …

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that mobile Web surfing is a big hit with U.S. wireless subscribers, according to a new report by Nielsen Mobile.
The report found that mobile Internet penetration is highest in the U.S., where 15.6% of wireless subscribers use the Internet on their mobile devices. The U.K. followed, with a 12.9% mobile Internet penetration rate, while Italy took the third spot with an 11.9% penetration rate.
Those rates indicate that the mobile Internet market is mature enough to attract advertising, but it may take time for advertisers to migrate …

Digital Response Media reported last week that British Internet users favor MSN Messenger, eBay, and Facebook, according to a recent study conducted by Nielsen Online. The three ranked as the most used websites and applications among Brits in the 12 months ended in May.
The research shows Brits spent an average of more than one billion minutes per month using MSN Messenger, eBay, and Facebook during the last year, while Facebook, YouTube, and Second Life saw the most growth in user minutes.
“Whilst the social media wave continues to have the biggest impact on …