This weekend brings the annual Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF) and MediaTel’s Newsline team are there to bring you all the latest news.

Aegis Group has reported a 10.8% dip in revenues over the past six months to 30 June.

Unauthorised and free copies of television programmes are now being viewed by tens of millions of television viewers, according to new research from Big Champagne.

After much speculation, Apple says it has now approved an iPhone application from Spotify.

Online advertising revenues and forecasts for the global, US and European markets.

Daily Newspaper MarketThe NRS figures for April to September 2008 show that Britain’s daily national newspaper market was down 0.7% year on year in September.However, in the daily Quality sector, the Guardian and the Times both added an impressive number of readers year on year, while the Daily Telegraph was also up.The Sun recorded a… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: April – September 2008

After a full and varied three days, this year’s MRG conference ended on Friday evening.In previous years, the MRG has attempted to set a theme for the whole conference, but this wasn’t always successful and papers tended to be “shoehorned” into that theme.This year the MRG committee decided not to set a theme, and this… Continue reading MRG Conference 2008: A Brief Review

Mark Howe, country director UK Sales for Google, presented day three’s Keynote speech at this year’s MRG conference in Lisbon. With Google now 10 years old, he took us through a whistle-stop tour of how Google has evolved over that time. The main focus of his presentation was how search will be more important in… Continue reading MRG Conference 2008:Surviving The Slump With Search

Rob Laurence from BMRB and Paul Goode from M:Metrics spoke at yesterday’s MRG Conference and gave a presentation on understanding and exploiting the mobile media opportunities that are around now.M:Metrics research has shown that 80% of 30+ people are now mobile media users while 20-30% of all mobile users are now using mobiles for more… Continue reading MRG Conference 2008:The Mobile Media Opportunity

Jim Kite, from Mediavest USA provided the keynote speech on day two of the MRG Conference in Lisbon, providing some insight into the US research market.Having spent the past five years in the States, he first tried to dispel some myths about the US market, such as US research lacking sophistication, that they are only… Continue reading MRG Conference 2008:Postcard from America