Edelman, the world’s leading independent public relations firm, has acquired MH Group Communications and merged it into Edelman’s Digital practice.
Please visit www.dispatchesfromchina.com for blog posts from Mark Hass, who now works as President of Edelman China while also overseeing activities involving former MH Group clients.
In another example of how social media is enveloping the “web 1.0” internet, this week Twitter enhanced their new “Twitter Lists” feature with a new widget that allows you to embed any twitter list elsewhere on the web, where the widget will update in real-time as new tweets come in.
The Nielson Company released some interesting new numbers this week on the use of online video in the U.S. The survey found some extraordinary year over year growth in online video use, with both total video streams and time per viewer increasing 25% for the month of September ‘09 vs. September ‘08.
Although Internet video is still a small portion of all video consumed — around 2%, according to recent estimates – this report indicates that activity still grows at a healthy double-digit percentage clip. With Nielson finding over 139 million unique viewers spending 195 minutes each watching a total of 11.02 billion video streams in the month of September alone, we are now talking about some real audience numbers here. (more…)
