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Spending on UK internet advertising surged in 2006, overtaking newspaper ads for the first time, a report says.

Online advertising expenditure jumped 41.2% to £2.01bn
during the year, the report by the Internet Advertising Bureau and
PricewaterhouseCoopers said.

In contrast, spending on national newspaper ads grew just 0.2% to £1.9bn, taking a 10.7% share of the market.

But despite online ads taking an 11.4% market shares, internet ad spending was just over half that for TV adverts.

TV advertising itself experienced a 4.7% fall in spending to £3.9bn.

“With almost all expenditure on traditional media in
decline, the upward momentum of the internet reflects a new era …
which is driven by high-speed broadband take-up and user-generated
content,” the report said.

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Five by Five have been commisioned to re-design and build the ‘Writers Room’ section of the BBC web site. This is the existing site
will be bought in line with a new style guide http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/

Five by Five have been shortlisted in the inaugural Travolution awards under the best agency for website design category.

We’ve been nominated for our work on the new site for Island Cruises and a microsite for Club 18-30, which were managed by our Travel and Leisure team.

Results are due in late April.

Travolution is a publication covering the online travel marketplace.

Following a competitive pitch The Caravan Club have appointed Five by Five to manage its email marketing activity. With a growing membership of over 360,000 households, 2007 is a particularly special year for the organisation as they celebrate their Centenary.  

Over the coming weeks we will be re-vamping the clubs current templates and on an ongoing basis we will be building and fulfilling a number of different campaigns each month.

Time to get those gadgets plugged in! If you don’t know what I am talking about give me a shout as gadgets are awesome!

Microsoft has announced that more than 20 million copies of Windows Vista were sold in the month after the new OS was released worldwide on January 30. That means Vista is selling at more than twice the rate of its predecessor - it took Windows XP two months to achieve sales of 17 million. The 20 million figure is comprised of Windows Vista licenses sold to PC manufacturers, copies of upgrades and the full packaged product sold to retailers, and upgrades ordered through the Windows Vista Express programme between January 30 and February 28.

Civil Protection! very very cool!

Kermit the Frog is left handed

Again totally awesome UGC and a great tune!

If you love Top Gear you will love this

Man this is soooooooooooooooooooo cool! I need more time to create stuff like this