Brokers Warn Of Tough Six Months, Downgrades Media Sector Shares The media sector is about to face a tough six months, according to the latest forecasting report from ABN AMRO. The broker yesterday cut its stance on the sector to “underweight” and downgraded its recommendation on 22 out of 32 media stocks. The reasoning behind… Continue reading Brokers Warn Of Tough Six Months, Downgrades Media Sector Shares
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When ITV introduced self-imposed peak time audience share targets early in 1998 the industry was surprised and sceptical at how they could be achieved. Within a few months of the announcement it became clear that ITV intended to remove the News At Ten, replacing it with a later bulletin and opening the way for more… Continue reading Insight Feature: Moving Targets At ITV
Collapse In Internet Value Does Not Affect Reuters Strategy, Says Chief Executive – 13 February 2001
Revenues at information services company Reuters rose by 15% to £3.6 billion for the year ended 31 December 2000, according to financial results released this morning. Pre-tax profit rose by 4% from £632 million to £657 million and earnings per share were up 26% at 37.9p. During 2000 Reuters began laying foundations for a new… Continue reading Collapse In Internet Value Does Not Affect Reuters Strategy, Says Chief Executive – 13 February 2001
According to The Media Audit, a syndicated survey of both online and traditional media in more than 80 US markets, the web sites of America’s newspapers are building a commanding lead over other local media web sites. Television and radio are lagging in a market which sees newspapers attracting to their web sites, an audience… Continue reading US Newspapers Winning The Battle For Web Audiences
The IPA has countered recent speculation about a slowdown in advertising with research suggesting that more companies will increase their media adspend for the coming year than will decrease it. Nearly half of around 300 respondents to the Bellwether Report, a questionnaire survey of UK-based companies, said that 2001 budgets compared to last year’s spend,… Continue reading Bellwether Report: IPA Counters Claims Of Advertising Slump
E4, the new youth entertainment digital channel from C4, has secured a carriage deal with Sky Digital ahead of its launch on Thursday. The channel will now be available across all major multichannel platforms. Sky is to broadcast a spoiler on the new channel’s opening night, however, on its own rival entertainment channel, Sky One.… Continue reading E4 Secures Carriage with Sky
The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising’s quarterly survey of marketing expenditure, due out tomorrow, will cast doubt on fears of a recession in the advertising industry. The Bellwether Report, which releases figures for the last quarter of 2000 and predictions of marketing spend for 2001, is expected to forecast lower rates of growth, however. Nick… Continue reading Fears Of Recession Exaggerated, Says IPA
Even though only a quarter of the global Internet population will reside in the United States by 2005, only one-third of American online businesses are targeting global markets, according to Jupiter Research, the worldwide authority on Internet commerce. Jupiter analysts predict that the Asia Pacific region will outpace the US within less than five years… Continue reading Asia Pacific set to outgrow US Online Population by 2005
According to new figures from IDC the development of new technologies in the telecommunications sector is set to continue with ‘minutes of use’ (MOU) in Western Europe set to rise from 91.5 million per year in 1999 to 47 billion in 2004. During the same period, revenue will rise from $11 million to $2.5 billion,… Continue reading European IP Telephony Services Revenue Will Exceed $2.5 Billion By 2004
The first major web venture from the National Magazine Company has been put “on hold” after the dotcom slump put the frighteners on the publishers. A UK version of US site Women.com was said to be in the planning stages in June last year, and although a launch date was not set, Natmag’s deputy managing… Continue reading Natmags Gets Cold Feet, Puts Women’s Website on Ice