Petmillions.com Goes Live!

The petmillions contest officially starts on the 1st November, but soon petmillions.com will be the website on everyones lips!

PRESS RELEASE:

Do you have a pet? Own a digital camera? Want to be a millionaire? If yes, then petmillions.com is just what you are looking for.

Petmillions.com allows you to enter each of your pets into an annual contest with the chance to win serious cash prizes of up to $1,000,000. All you need to do is get plenty of votes for your pet and you can go through to the petmillions.com Grand Final. You, your friends and family can vote online for all your pets, and there are plenty of ideas on the site to help you become a winner.

By entering your pets into the contest you will be supporting the animal charities of your choice, and you will be giving yourself a chance to win up to a cool $1,000,000! Entry fees start from as little as $1.50 and for every pet you enter, a percentage goes straight to charity!

Our supported charity partners include; WSPA, CatChat.org, The Dogs Trust, Rabbit Welfare Fund, Border Collie Trust, The Born Free Foundation, Mayhew Animal Home and more!

You'd be barking not to have a go! Get a head start and sign up now!

The UK Gets Digital!

At TigerStep we love our stats! Can't get enough of them, so have a looksie at these;

68% of the population are now online, with 84% of those being on a broadband connection.

43% of the UK population own an MP3 player or iPod.

More than half of the online population has downloaded music. Paid for Podcasts are failing to attract the audiences based on refusal to pay and as such only 8% of the online population download Podcasts.

Research conducted by The Guardian newspapers showed that 67% of the UK online population has tried some sort of digital activity above and beyond simple web surfing, namely reading blogs or downloading music.

Halloween - What The Kids Want To Wear!

According to Hitwise data based on a sample of 10 million U.S. internet users, "pirate costume" was the most searched for costume containing the term "costume" for the four weeks ending September 30, 2006. There were more than 10,000 terms containing "costume" for the four weeks ending September 30, 2006. Following "pirate costume" was "wonder woman costume" then "yoda costume".

For those of you wondering why pirates are so popular was due to the return of Jack Sparrow the infamous pirate from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Mans Chest shown this summer.

Battle of The Ad Networks

Advertising.com and Eyeblaster are battling over pole position based on the launch of their new video advertising networks.

In Stream is ad.coms new service developed by the company's acquisition of US technology company Lightningcast in March. They will allow UK advertisers to place both 15 and 30-second pre-roll and post-roll video ads on sites with video content represented by Advertising.com, sites include Disney, CNN and Reuters.

Meanwhile, Eyeblaster's network, Eb.media, will create, sell and serve video advertising on UK and European sites with video content, including its first exclusive UK client, ITV's news network ITN. The group is also set to announce further deals with Ford, General Motors and Twentieth Century Fox in the coming weeks.

Tesco V Gates

Tesco have taken on bookstores, consumer electronics, home furnishing and clothing markets. With £0.04p in every £1 recorded as profit for their business, they are set to make a record 2.8billion profit this year. With so many successes have Tesco now bitten off more than they can chew? Apparently not as Tesco have set their sights on taking on Microsoft. With the UK software market being valued at £8.5billion you can see why! They are planning on launching their own-brand PC software which from as little of £20 which includes office software, security systems and photo editing tools, they will certainly be offering an alternative to Windows office which is priced up to £300!

With the high-street loosing out on big brand prices, there is still speculation that Tesco need to be controlled, but fears are they have now gone too far.