Granada has warned of dire consequences for ITV and ONdigital if the changes to media ownership rules are delayed for at least another two years, as is likely following the opening of Parliament last week. In a leaked correspondence published in this weekend’s Sunday Times, Granada chairman Charles Allen and CEO Steve Morrison told the… Continue reading Granada Warns Of ‘Potential Disaster’ For ITV

Regional newspaper publisher, Johnston Press, this morning said that trading for the first five months of the year has been better than expected, with like for like advertising revenues up 3% on the same period last year. In its pre-close period trading statement, Johnston said that despite the prevailing mood of economic uncertainty, it expects… Continue reading Johnston Press Sees Positive Second Half

According to the reports in the German press, US group Liberty Media is looking to boost its interests in the German cable market (see Insight Analysis: Deutsche Telekom Sells Cable Franchises To Liberty Media) by acquiring a stake in Tele-Columbus, the cable TV service owned by Deutsche Bank. The FT also suggests that Liberty is… Continue reading Liberty Media To Acquire Further German Cable Operators

Today’s trading statement from global advertising and communications group, WPP, has indicated a slowing of organic growth from within the company, according to analysts at ABN Amro. The broker points to a fall from 6% revenue growth in the first quarter, to ‘almost 4%’ for the first five months of this year. This indicates a… Continue reading Underlying Growth Slows At WPP

Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has unveiled electronic tearsheets for advertisers, providing an alternative to the costly and time consuming process of physically sending newspaper copies to advertisers to confirm that ads have run. Dow Jones has developed the system in partnership with Engage Inc, a marketing software and interactive media company.… Continue reading WSJ Pioneers Electronic Tearsheets

United Business Media (UBM) has announced that profits in its US-based high tech magazines division, CMP, will fall below expectations. In a statement today ahead of pre-closed period meetings with analysts, the company said that the expected slowing of market decline during May had not occurred and that despite “robust actions” results for the division… Continue reading Profits Warning at United Business Media

In the midst of adspend gloom, DFC Intelligence reports that online video streaming growth hit 215% in 2000, including 29% via broadband, and that 15% of this video streaming inventory is now being exploited with in-stream advertising. Paul Palumbo, author of the report, Interactive Broadcast Video: Streaming Video Market 1998-2004, noted “expanding content availability, increasing… Continue reading DFC Reports Boom In Streaming Adspend

The appeal of instant messaging has helped boost sales from ecommerce sites according to new findings from Cyber Dialogue. The service, first introdued by AOL in 1997, is now used by 40% of all internet users and has been added to ecommerce sites to enable potential shopers to ‘chat’ to customer service rep or contact… Continue reading Instant Messaging Appeal May Be Exploited To Boost Online Sales

IDC forecasts that US PC sales will drop in 2001 for the first time ever after revising their growth forecasts for 2001 from 2.2% to -6.3% year on year. Worldwide forecasts have also declined from 10.3% to 5.8% for the same period. The currently poor economic climate is blamed for the cuts and IDC now… Continue reading IDC Predicts Decline In US PC Market

Despite showing some signs of succumbing to the poor economic climate IDC forecasts that the global handheld devices market will continue to grow. IDC estimates that by 2005 compound annual growth rate in the market will increase worldwide shipments to 70.9 million. The most popular device is forecast to be personal digital assistants which IDC… Continue reading IDC Still Optimistic About Handheld Market