ITV will exclusively show live coverage of England’s international football matches for the Euro 2016 and 2018 World Cup qualifying competitions as Sky Sports is awarded the rights to Home Nations and Republic of Ireland qualification matches for UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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From 1 August the Sun is to introduce a £2 per week charge, giving users access to Premier League football highlights.
The most public of spaces is merging with one of the most personal, and the impact on the consumer is going to be profound argued industry leaders yesterday during a debate on the marriage of out-of-home and mobile.
Trader Media Group has completed its transition to an online digital business and will publish the final edition of its entire magazine portfolio next month after huge declines in print sales over the last ten years – but with 11 million unique users to Autotrader.co.uk each month, things still look good for the business.
Channel 4 beats BSkyB and Channel 5 to sign an exclusive, three-year deal to partner for TV ad sales on three BT Sport channels.
CBS Outdoor, one of the UK’s leading outdoor media companies, has questioned whether London advertising should be up-weighted to match the vast economic differences between the capital and the rest of the country.
Tech giant Apple has seen the first decline in its profits in a decade, revealing an 18% fall for the first quarter of 2013 – yet still posted quarterly revenue of $43.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $9.5 billion.
Simon Fox, chief executive of Trinity Mirror has said that his publishing group will not place any of its content behind a paywall, choosing instead to expand the reach and quality of his publications, as Lord Rothermere, chairman of DMGT, has said that the MailOnline will also remain free, but the media wing of his business is experimenting with ‘freemium’ models with the launch of Daily Mail Plus.
Find out how the industry has reacted to the findings in the latest Bellwether report, with opinion from adconnection, MEC, Essence, G2 Joshua, Dialogue, Jaywing, Volume and Gekko.
Facebook has announced a new launcher application for Android devices which will take over the user’s phone home screen to provide a Facebook-centric experience – and opens up new possibilities for mobile advertising.