Starbucks has apologised to its Irish Twitter followers after its “show us what makes you proud to be British” Jubilee promotion.
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The Times is thought to have sold an extra 100,000 copies on Monday with its Diamond Jubilee souvenir edition – an uplift of around 20%.
A chart from Mary Meeker’s latest presentation shows that print is still a big source of advertising revenue, despite the move towards digital.
According to the Newspaper Association of America, total ad revenues fell 6.9% from $5.5 billion in Q1 2011 to nearly $5.2 billion in Q1 2012.
The quality titles, both the dailies and Sundays, were the biggest losers in readership terms in the latest NRS release for April 2011 to March 2012 (the first release of 2012 data).
Mary Meeker, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers analyst, has released her latest presentation (link included) ‘About The State Of The Web’.
Affluent and younger viewers lead the way in a strong start to Channel 5’s 2012. Viewing figures for the first four full months show the largest growth to a terrestrial broadcaster in a decade, with 16 to 34-year olds increasing by 16%.
The Times and Sunday Times websites will be free to access over the Jubilee weekend for the first time since News International launched its digital paywall two years ago.
LoveFilm is launching high-definition streaming in the UK and Germany.
Marcus Rich, managing director of the Mail on Sunday, has joined the National Readership Survey (NRS) board as the representative for the Newspaper Publishers Association (NPA).