New Ofcom data shows that 97% of premises and 66% of the UK landmass can receive a 2G signal outdoors from all four 2G networks. This means that approximately 900,000 UK premises do not have a choice of all four 2G mobile networks.
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The Outdoor Media Centre has announced that UK outdoor revenues for July to September 2011 reached £214.4 million, up 1.1% year on year. Six out of the last seven quarters have now recorded positive growth.
Aegis has reported organic revenue growth of more than 11% year on year in the third quarter.
Channel 4’s much-talked about Top Boy debuted with a peak audience of 1.3 million viewers last night.
Google has released its Google TV update today. Sony internet-enabled TVs are the first to roll out the service, with Logitech to follow soon.
In a week that saw believers in paid-for content win a debate against the ‘freemium’ model, Apple’s new Newsstand service has been praised for helping drive publisher revenues and subscriptions.
Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, on the ‘smaller’ players – Nokia and Sony…
Havas has reported 7.3% organic growth in the third quarter of 2011, with growth in all major markets except France. Group revenue was up 5% to $541.8 million.
WPP has cut its full-year growth forecast to 5% after reporting organic revenue growth of 4.7% in Q3 – down from 6.7% and 5.6% growth in Q1 and Q2.
The UK’s national newspaper websites saw usage figures fall during September, with all audited sites recording a drop in daily average unique browsers.