Here is the current dilemma, for many a consumer online news publisher, summed up in a graph pair… In slides presented to investors today, Schibsted‘s Norwegian publisher Media Norge says: “Overall traffic levels may be reaching saturation and online ad prices are stagnating...”

Some intriguing details from NPR about when listeners tune in for its programming—and what platforms they use. For instance, the iPhone app is by far the most used mobile option, peaking during morning drive/commute time while the iPad app and the mobile site spike in the late evening. NPR.org‘s primetime…

Average February-to-July circulation for UK national daily newspapers slipped 5.59 percent from a year ago, according to *ABC*  figures for the period. Print decline is slower than in the U.S., where November-to-March circulations were down 8.75 percent, according to April’s *ABC* FAS-FAX.

The sector’s Periodical Publishers Association says latest figures show “an improving outlook for the UK consumer magazine sector”. Really… ?

Android is now the top-selling mobile platform in the U.S., besting both BlackBerry and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), according to The NPD Group, a market research company.

Apple’s Steve Jobs somewhat famously said in April that people aren’t searching on their phone, but instead, are using apps. He reasoned, apps on the iPhone “get you into every corner of the internet…This is a new phenomenon that is occurring on the iPhone for the first time in history.”…

The World Cup was shot in 3D, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is investing heavily in to 3D. But, despite all the hype, it’s connectivity, and not whizz-bang visuals, that will shift more TVs in the next few years, according to iSuppli. Worldwide, iSuppli reckons 27.7 million internet-enabled TVs will ship this…

The Audit Bureau of Circulations has modified its guidelines for counting sales of bundled and “hybrid” print and digital newspaper sales in the U.S. and Canada. In some ways, the changes reflect the the increasing adoption of e-paper editions on PCs and on mobile phones. But some observers feel that…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) acknowledges that its pageviews are dropping—but not as much as comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) has said they are. In a press release, the company says that comScore mistakenly underreported its U.S. pageviews by more than one billion and its duration metrics by more than 850 million minutes, meaning…

... Zero. Yes, zero, according to a study by the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California Annenberg School For Communication And Journalism. We already know thanks to several other surveys that consumers aren’t exactly rushing to pay for social networking online, but the Annenberg School’s…

Facebook says it officially now has 500 million users, a milestone that the company had been expected to hit for months. The timing of the announcement seems to indicate that Facebook’s growth has not slowed globally, even as its growth has tapered off in more established markets like the U.S.

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) still isn’t saying how many Kindles it’s selling, but that isn’t keeping the company from shouting how well it’s doing. The latest specifics and non-specifics from the company: “The growth rate of Kindle device unit sales has tripled” since it cut the price of the Kindle 2…

FrontierVille, the social game that Zynga launched just last month, has jumped to number three on its charts. Zynga tells us the game just passed 20 million users, putting it behind only smash hit FarmVille and Zynga Poker among Zynga titles and ahead of some other big Zynga games, including…

Despite the growing popularity of Google’s Android system among consumers, its attempt to erase Apple’s dominance with developers will have a long way to go, the latest figures from mobile ad net Millennial Media show. In June, 89 percent of developers were creating apps for a single platform and 11…

Search engine marketing firm Efficient Frontier says in a report to be released later today that search ad spending jumped 24 percent year-over-year during the quarter. That marks the second consecutive quarter of double-digit growth for the search ad market, following a deceleration last year.

The World Cup is over—and the final digital numbers are in from ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Univision, both of which made big plays for online and mobile viewers during the tournament; ESPN, for instance, live-streamed 54 of the World Cup games on ESPN3.com, while Univision streamed all 64 matches on…

It’s been clear since the end of last year that magazines were benefiting for the ad spend recovery, but looked as though the improvement was merely going to be less severe declines. The latest figures from the Publishers Information Bureau actually show that consumer mags made some small gains in…

Despite having grown for over a year since the bottom of the downturn, UK companies’ marketing budgets were revised down this Spring, as the likelihood of an Age Of Austerity dawned on folk, according to the IPA/BDA Bellwether for Q2. The cutback was equal to, and so cancelled out, growth…

With the World Cup final coming Sunday, ESPN (NYSE: DIS) provided us with an update on how much traffic its digital properties have generated from the tournament to date. In total, ESPN says that a staggering 110,000 people per minute have been using its online and mobile services to access…