Revenues at outdoor advertising group JCDecaux fell by 2.7% in the third quarter, as conditions in Europe remained weak. However, the company is seeing some signs of an advertising recovery in the US. This is in line with first half comments made in September (see Weak Europe Mutes JCDecaux’s First Half). Revenues from billboard advertising… Continue reading JCDecaux Revenues Dip In Q3 As Europe Remains Tough

The standardisation of online advertising formats came a step closer today as the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) and the Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe (IAB Europe) launched a new initiative to promote global consistency. The two groups are hoping that the development of a set of standard formats will make online as easy to plan,… Continue reading Industry Bodies Herald Standard Online Ads

Worldwide revenues from on-premise web conferencing are set to rise from $361 million in 2003 to $1.5 billion by 2007, according to a new report from the Radicati Group. As the technology improves, increasingly executives are turning to video conferencing via the web in order to save on corporate travel expenses. Anxiety over air travel… Continue reading Web Conferencing Revenues To Rise Fourfold By 2007

The growth of non-terrestrial television channels continues to put pressure on the major terrestrial stations, with ITV in particular showing continued audience share declines. According to the latest Trends In Television report from the IPA, ITV’s share of viewing continues to inch downwards with a slight 0.4% points year on year drop to 23.2% in… Continue reading ITV’s Share Of Viewing Dips Again In Latest IPA Report

The Office of Fair Trading has allowed advertisers to join its negotiations with Carlton and Granada over the conditions that will prevent the merged ITV from monopolising the market for airtime sales. The OFT had originally planned to confine negotiations over the suggested behavioural remedies to the merging parties and the advertising industry’s representative bodies.… Continue reading Advertising Industry Consulted On ITV Merger Remedy

Profits at Richard Desmond’s media group, which publishes the the Daily Express and Daily Star, fell by more than 50% last year, according to accounts filed at Companies House. It is reported that pre-tax profits at Desmond’s holding company, RCD1 slumped to £8.9 million in 2002 from £20.8 million the year before. Margins were affected… Continue reading Profits Down At Desmond’s Media Group

The drive towards Broadband Britain is in danger of stalling as consumers become increasingly confused and angry over the rising tide of spam, viruses and pop-up advertising. A new year-long study from The Work Foundation and the Broadband Stakeholder Group suggests that regular internet users are being put off adopting broadband because the time they… Continue reading Dark Side Of Internet Keeps Broadband Britain At Bay

US business-to-business print advertising spend fell by 3.6% year on year in August, according to the latest figures from American Business Media. Ad pages were also down, by 6.4%, from last August. The summer months saw a noticeable decline in B2B advertising (see US B2B Advertising Slows In July) and in the year to date,… Continue reading US B2B Adspend Down 3.6% In August

The number of mobile phones worldwide exceeded the number of fixed-line phones for the first time in 2002 and half of the world’s population will have access to a phone by 2005, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Figures from eMarketer’s Wireless World report show that fixed lines increased by almost 60% between 1995… Continue reading Mobile Users Outnumber Fixed-Line Customers

A senior executive at Carlton is understood to have been appointed to oversee the company’s £4.5 billion integration with Granada to create a single ITV company. The move will serve to reassure some Carlton employees that the deal remains a merger, rather than a take-over by Granada, which is the largest shareholder of the new… Continue reading Senior Carlton Executive To Oversee ITV Integration