NEW YORK, March 17: Total advertising expenditures in the U.S. fell by 12.3 percent to $125.3 billion last year, reports Kantar Media, but the decline did slow towards the end of the year, with Q4 ad spending down just 6 percent on the year-ago period.

ROME, March 15: A new report from ITMedia Consulting predicts that online video revenues in Western Europe will reach 2.7 billion euros in 2013.

NEW YORK, February 25: Advertising spending fell by 9 percent in 2009 to $117 billion, according to The Nielsen Company, but the research firm notes that the rate of ad decline appears to be slowing.

LONDON, February 11: In Europe and the U.S., almost £90 million will be spent on the production of made-for-broadband content by 2013, according to Content Economics Research, up from more than £30 million last year.

NEW YORK, February 9: Super Bowl XLIV on CBS on Sunday night scored 106.5 million viewers in the U.S., becoming the most-watched program of all time and delivering a major ratings boost to Undercover Boss, the new show from ALL3MEDIA's Studio Lambert.

NEW YORK, February 9: Merger and acquisition activity in the U.S. entertainment and media (E&M) industry could potentially rebound this year, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, following a 49-percent decline in 2009.

DALLAS, February 4: Less than 8 percent of U.S. broadband homes—about 5.5 million homes—are considering canceling their pay-TV subscriptions in favor of online video, a Parks Associates report indicates.

BOSTON, February 2: A new report published by Strategy Analytics has found that 68 percent of U.S. pay-TV customers would switch to a different platform if given a discount of 20 percent on their monthly fee.

NEW YORK, January 29: U.S. advertising revenues will rise 3.5 percent this year following last year's decline, according to Barclays Capital, increasing to an estimated $167.6 billion.

NEW YORK, January 26: The Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief event on Friday night, which aired across numerous networks in the U.S., attracted 83 million viewers over the course of the two-hour broadcast, as well as 5.8 million video streams over the weekend.

NEW YORK, January 26: The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) now has a total of 21 members, following the additions of Microsoft, PepsiCo, Hearst, Belo, Gannett and ConAgra.

WASHINGTON, January 20: The Kaiser Family Foundation has found that 8- to 18-year-olds in the U.S. devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes to using entertainment media in a typical day, stacking up to more than 53 hours per week.

LOS ANGELES, January 19: The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards on NBC on Sunday night, hosted by Ricky Gervais, brought in 16.9 million viewers, a 14-percent gain on last year's show, according to figures from Nielsen.

PARIS, January 15: A new report from Euroconsult has found that the number of satellite TV platforms worldwide rose to 113 in 2009, a 38-percent gain over a three-year period.

LONDON, January 15: By 2013, movie-on-demand revenues for pay-TV operators will reach $2.4 billion in the U.S. and 430 million euros in Western Europe, Futuresource Consulting indicates in a new report.

STRASBOURG, January 13: Despite the global economic downturn, more than 245 new channels launched in Europe in 2009, according to the European Audiovisual Observatory, while 220 services were shuttered.

SCOTTSDALE, January 12: A new report by In-Stat sees strong potential for 3D viewing in the home, with 64 percent of consumers indicating an interest in the technology, while the number of 3D TV shipments worldwide is set to reach 41 million by 2014.

LONDON, January 12: The Walt Disney Company EMEA has released some of the findings of what it is calling the biggest-ever pan-European survey of tweens, exploring the media habits of more than 3,000 8- to 14-year-olds in six key markets.

NEW YORK, January 11: Over the past two decades, the Super Bowl has generated $2.17 billion in advertising spending in the U.S., according to TNS Media Intelligence.

DALLAS, January 6: The number of households worldwide that will be able to watch broadband content on their TVs is expected to reach more than 360 million by 2014, according to new research from The Diffusion Group (TDG).

MONTEREY, January 5: American consumers spent more money going out to the movies than they did on DVDs last year, according to Adams Media Research, with home-entertainment sales dropping 13 percent in 2009.

NEW YORK, December 22: As the year comes to a close, World Screen Newsflash takes a look back at the biggest stories of the year, and identifies some of the hot topics to watch in 2010.

SINGAPORE, December 16: The number of global pay-TV subscribers is expected to reach more than 730 million by the end of 2011, according to new data from ABI Research, with telco-TV services as a key driver of the growth.

NEW YORK, December 15: The number of Americans choosing TV as their favorite type of media increased by 26 percent this year, according to the new Deloitte State of the Media Democracy survey, with the recession seeing consumers turning more to in-home entertainment.

LONDON, December 9: As at the end of the second quarter, there were more than 26.3 million IPTV subscribers worldwide, according to Point Topic, reflecting a year-on-year increase of 53 percent.

LONDON, December 8: GroupM and ZenithOptimedia have both upgraded their advertising forecasts for 2010, predicting growth of just under 1 percent following the declines of this year.

NEW YORK, December 8: Advertising expenditures in the U.S. fell 14.7 percent in the first nine months of this year, according to TNS Media Intelligence, with a 15.3-percent decline in the third quarter alone.

NEW YORK, December 8: The recently formed Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) has appointed Jane Clark to oversee all day-to-day activities as managing director.

NEW YORK, December 7: Nielsen's latest Three Screen Report reveals that while 99 percent of video content in the U.S. is viewed on traditional TV, DVR usage is up by 21.1 percent since Q3 2008, while online video usage is up by 34.9 percent.

LONDON, December 4: GroupM has issued a revised advertising forecast for the U.K. market this year, predicting a smaller decline than previously expected, while upgrading its projections for 2010.