June’s results showed an
overall increase in market confidence from May, coming in at 123.0 (up 1.4%).While specific confidence
in current market conditions continued to slide - as did faith in the
economic environment in six months time - the overall index reflecting sentiment
about conditions in the future increased, up to 126.1 (up 4.4% on
To investigate this phenomenon, NESTA commissioned a major new piece of
research - The New Inventors: How users are changing the rules of
innovation. Join them to hear about the findings
and to discuss the implications for policy and practice.
In this seminar series we look at the wide range of research tools and methods available to measure, improve and track your web presence. In the first speech Adrian Porter, who is reputed to have looked at over 10,000 websites in his time.
May's results show another fall in overall confidence - a drop in the Digital Pulse of 3.87%. However confidence in future conditions, 6 months from now, has fallen less, by only 2.5%.
From the figures, it could be tempting to conclude that feelings within the digital sector are on the slide but the index of future conditions may point to some light at the end of the tunnel. Although it's dropped, the figure is quite low and may indicate a general slowing of business rather than a race towards the edge of a cliff. Let's hope so!
According to The Association of Online Publishers’ (AOP) annual census of revenue growth, online publishing is predicted to be down by 20% this year with a forecasted growth of 31% compared to 52% in 2007.
Despite this forecasted dip, online publishing still fared well compared to business growth in other sectors which is predicted to be 8% for 2008.
