Aegis Group, the media communications and market research network, has acquired Market & More, a European market research company with operations in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France. Market & More provides full-service custom research to a blue-chip client base of major European and multinational FMCG companies, including Procter & Gamble, Interbrew and Danone Group. Aegis… Continue reading Aegis Acquires European Market Research Group

The FT this morning reports that talks are being held today between Rupert Murdoch and key News Corp TV executives regarding the company’s position on troubled German broadcaster Kirch. BSkyB holds a 22% share in Kirch’s pay TV operation and decisions must be made on the future of this arrangement and the put option BSkyB… Continue reading Murdoch In ‘Make Or Break’ Talks Over Kirch

Radio First, the company which has recently launched a set of football club-affiliated radio stations (see Radio First On Target For Football Station Launches), today said that the ventures should become profitable in the medium term. The group managed to reduce losses from £2.0 million to £0.8 million, in the full year ended 30 September… Continue reading Radio First Sees Medium Term Profit In Football Stations

Gaming consoles will not succeed in offering a myriad bolt-on functions, such as MP3 players, personal video recorders (PVR) and hubs for digital cameras, but they will benefit from broadband connections to the internet, allowing online console gaming to take off. This is the message from Game Consoles Connect – a new report by Forrester… Continue reading European Broadband Growth Will Drive Online Gaming Consoles

Business digital subscriber line (DSL) subscriptions in Europe will be worth $7.9 billion by 2006 according to a new report Incumbents Will Control Booming Business DSL Market from the Yankee Group. This is compared with a forecast $7 billion derived from residential asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) services. Although business subscribers will account for only… Continue reading Business DSL Market Will Be Worth Almost $8 Billion by 2006, Says Yankee Group

“The online media sector is in disarray,” says McKinsey Quarterly in a rather sobering assessment of the industry’s struggle for revenues in the digital world. In its Q4 2001 report McKinsey says that as both powerful media incumbents and pure-play internet companies alike struggle to make revenue online, the temptation to abandon the world wide… Continue reading 95% Of Pure-Play Online Companies Will Fail, Says McKinsey

Global home networking households are expected to grow from 5.6 million at year-end 2001 to 47.0 million in 2006 – a compound annual growth rate of 53%, according to research by Strategis Group. The Strategis Group believes that home networking will play a major role in the communications lives of millions of people throughout the… Continue reading Global Home Networks Will Number 47m By 2006, Says Strategis

WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell, speaking at the World Economic Forum in New York, has said that he sees no signs of a recovery in the global economy or advertising market despite the upbeat forecasts of some commentators at the World Forum. “I’ve seen no blue sky or green shoots. Nothing tells me the global… Continue reading Sorrell Sees ‘No Blue Sky’

Not everyone attending the World Economic Forum in New York had as negative an outlook as WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell (see Sorrell Sees ‘No Blue Sky’). Although the general consensus of opinion seems to be that an upturn in the economy should be expected no sooner that Q3/Q4 2002, there are some who believe… Continue reading Whispers Of Recovery From WEF Meeting In NY

Census data released by the US Commerce Department, show that more than half of American households and more than half of all Americans are now connected to the internet. The figures were released as part of A Nation Online, a new study using Census data to track internet usage in the United States. As of… Continue reading Over Half US Population Is Now Online