Some stories for this long holiday weekend in U.S.: -- Chinese online traffic exceeds U.S. websites during Olympics: So says WebTrends, citing its own analytics. To be expected, if only…

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I have post-Olympics blues, but that doesn’t stop some news and numbers: -- NBC’s final numbers online: NBCU has come out with some numbers for NBCOlympics.com: 75.5 million video streams…

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Great lessons in usability ... Almost as soon as Rafat posted about the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, we started getting queries from people who couldn’t figure out how…

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That’s the estimate from eMarketer: it says that the online video advertising on NBCOlympics.com will reach a relatively small $5.75 million, only 1.1 percent of this year’s online video ad…

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We spend a lot of time separating the wheat from the chaff around here so you don’t have to and the latest broadband release from NBC requires just that. The…

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We’re not going to ruin the results of Usain Bolt’s just-finished 200M run for you… Of course, NBCOlympics.com already has the results (spoilers) on its front page, without any video—just…

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The cauldron for the 2008 Olympics is still burning in Beijing and NBC has the next two locked in already but ESPN’s (NYSE: DIS) John Skipper is thinking ahead—and making…

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With the first week of the 2008 Olympics in the history books, we’re getting a better picture of NBCOlympics.com. Some of the stats through August 15: —31.2 million video streams…

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Michael Phelps who? In what is probably the greatest moment in this Olympics, Usain Bolt of Jamaica won gold 100m dash in 9.69 seconds, a new world record...and he didn’t…

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-- NBCU claims $10 million in Olympic ad sales: But that’s for TV and digital combined, as NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) reps declined to provide online’s percentage. Lehman Brothers analyst…

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NetEase.com, one of the big Chinese online portals, reported its Q2 earnings today, and the growth came ahead of analyst views. NetEase earned 438.2 million RMB ($63.9 million) compared with…

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While NBC faces criticism over its digital offering, over in the UK, the BBC is roaring on with an all-out, open strategy for its biggest ever interactive sports event, comprising…

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Five days into the Olympic Games, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) execs hailed the audience ratings results as “phenomenal” now that the first results from its “total audience measurement index,” or…

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We aren’t planning a daily traffic report of this but NBCU’s numbers through this afternoon are out and so far more than 1 million streams of the U.S. men’s unexpected…

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Whether or not you agree with it, NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) investment in acquiring the rights and producing Olympic multi-platform video provides at least some rational basis for controlling territorial…

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Update: Because people are asking this in the comments thread below: The DVD of the opening ceremony is now for sale...can be ordered here. Original post: NBC Universal (NYSE: GE)…

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While we are still awaiting the Olympics opening ceremony on TV on the West Coast (oh the misery), and pretend it hasn’t happened almost a day into it, NBCOlympics.com is…

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Was going to go with ‘let a thousand widgets bloom’ but we’re way beyond that with the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) has set up a…

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The Beijing Games begin in four days—and with them, the most complicated, intensive digital media Olympics yet. Perkins Miller heads that effort for U.S. rights holder NBC Universal (NYSE: GE)…

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YouTube has finally managed to get a piece of the action for the Olympics, though a minor one: it will show about three hours of daily coverage of the Olympic…

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Of the $1.5 billion that marketers are expected to spend on advertising tied to the summer Olympic games, only $100 million will go towards online, said Lehman Brothers internet analyst…

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The compulsion to get GE execs on the record about NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) future—maybe we can make it a drinking game during the Olympics—continues despite the recent reorganization keeping…

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Yes, I have been miffed at some of NBCU’s digital Olympics offering, but that doesn’t mean you can’t give them credit for the huge digital effort in putting this together.…

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Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T) are both going multiplatform for the Olympics Games in Beijing next month. NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), which has exclusive rights to the games…

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Some good news for Chinese office workers without a TV during the Olympics… Three top web portals, Netease (NSDQ: NTES), Sina (NSDQ: SINA) and Tencent announced together that they have…

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