BBC One’s Olympic coverage continues to dominate the TV ratings, with almost 11 million peak viewers tuning in to the action between 8.30pm and 9pm.
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Channel 4’s new viewer engagement strategy has signed up five million people, up from two million at the end of 2011.
Facebook’s share price is down to an all time low of $19.82 after the company announced that 83 million of the social network’s 995 million profiles are fake.
According to Reuters, US pay TV subscriptions have dropped by more than 400,000 this year. In Q2, Time Warner Cable saw video subscriptions fall by 169,000; Comcast 176,000, Dish 10,000 and DirecTV 52,000.
New research by BrandScience, part of Omnicom Media Group, has found that cinema advertising delivers €3.07 additional revenue for every Euro spent across Europe, and £2.84 for every Pound spent in the UK.
Almost 19 million viewers tuned in to BBC One last night to see Usain Bolt win the 100m final in 9.63 seconds, just 00.5 seconds slower than his own world record.
The National Readership Survey has developed a series of infographics, the first of which (below) details the readership of newspapers and magazines on tablets and e-readers.
Absolute Radio posted an impressive performance in the latest RAJAR release for Q2 2012 – particularly in the London market where other stations struggled to hold on to listeners, and with the popularity of its Christian O’Connell breakfast show.
Listening to radio via a digital platform in terms of weekly reach has increased by 10% year on year, with 24.2 million people now tuning in to radio via a digitally enabled receiver (DAB, DTV, internet) each week (up from 22.1 million in Q2 2011).
Radio listeners in the UK continue to favour Chris Evans’ BBC Radio 2 breakfast show, which enjoyed a 3.3% YoY rise in weekly reach in Q2 2012. However, the show slipped below nine million listeners after a -3.0% QoQ decline. Evans picked up Music Radio Personality of the Year at the Sony awards in May.