Nielsen Online research shows that Facebook beat Google, MSN and eBay to become the most used web brand in the UK. Facebook has 12.7% of UK Internet related time - up by over 5% from April 2008. Time spent on Facebook rose by 3.8 billion minutes to 6.2 billion minutes. Read More
There were several media reports on Ernst & Young's annual survey that London remains Europe's top choice for foreign investment. London attracted 262 foreign investment projects last year making it top City in Europe for 11th year in a row. However, this was 14% down on 2007. The UK was Read More
Taking a random sample of recent press reports it seems that there is still no consensus about what is happening in the market: Savills, usually the darling of property performers, posted annual losses of £7.7m and cut its dividend. It reports a "very cautious" outlook for 2009. Sir John Ritblat Read More
Brandz Top 100 Most Valuable Brands report indicates that Google is the world's first $100 bn brand. The league table is now: 1. Google (£68.5bn) 2. Microsoft (£52.2bn) 3. Coca-Cola (£46.3bn) 4. IBM (£45.6bn) 5. McDonalds (£45.5bn) 6. Apple (£43.2bn) 7. China Mobile (£42bn) 8. General Electric (£40.9bn) 9. Vodafone Read More
Graham Norwood, with whom I co-wrote the book “Media relations in property” (EG Books) a couple of years ago has just had his latest book published. In the book, he sets out the signals that were appearing from 2005 and asks questions about why so few people spoke out as Read More