Earnings: TVGuide.com’s Q1 Revs: $2.7 million; ‘06 Mobile Investment: $3 Million: "In Gemstar-TVGuide’s Q1 earnings call last week, some details on its digital media efforts. Among them, TVGuide.com earned about $2.7 million in revenues for Q1, up 41% over the same quarter in 2005.
The transcript: Based on Nielsen data, our average quarterly unique users were 3.2 million in Q1 an increase of 23% over Q1 2005. With the addition of our recently announced activities such as the new blogging community, we expect that unique will continue to increase. Also we expect referrals from Google and Yahoo Search to increase. In this past quarter they were up 37% and 25% respectively vs. Q4 2005. In addition, page views also continued to trend positively for tvguide.com as website visitors in Q1 2006 yielded 158 million page views up 26% over the same quarter a year ago.
Our page views per unique at 16.5 ranked second only to Yahoo TV on the TVs website category. The number of search queries on our site were up by 34% and lastly the average amount of time users spend on tvguide.com or stickiness was nearly 17-minutes and ranked first in the peer group of TV websites in the 1st quarter.
Meanwhile, on the mobile side, where it just launched TV Guide Mobile and EPG system, it will spend $3 million on the sector, of which $817,000 was incurred in Q1.
(Via paidContent.org.)