Now in its third year, the competition, in association with the Student Radio Association, aims to identify the most talented student radio presenters, with the winners being given the opportunity to present two shows on The Hits Radio, as well as one to one coaching from What Goes On Media.

The latest ABC results for the July – December 2012 period have revealed that both the regional media groups and print titles are down, with few seeing any growth at all – but online is looking healthy.

Commercial terrestrial television channels have largely seen a strong performance in their network advertising revenues for the period January 2012 – 13. Only Channel 4 saw a drop in revenues from January 2012, down -17.3% – while Channel 5 was up more than 20%.

Lebedev owned titles see restructure after last week’s successful bid to broadcast ‘London Live’ TV in the capital.

The daily newspaper market was up 2.1% January 2013. The Sun performed best, seeing a 5.8% increase on the previous month, bagging an extra 132,000 copies, followed by the Daily Mirror with growth of 2.3% (23,847 copies).

The Daily Mail & General Trust has seen its online digital advertising revenues increase 51% as its print titles have seen a -9% drop in the three months ending 30 December.

Marketers need to apply the same seriousness to planning, budgeting and measuring campaigns with a social media element as is expected from the best traditional campaigns, argues a new report.

Tuesday 5 February sees the return of the hugely popular Future of Media Research event in central London. Chaired by BBC News media correspondent Torin Douglas and run in partnership with Nielsen, themes this year include Big Data, NRS PADD, measuring VOD and asking if it is even worth trying to measure and monitor social media?

According to a survey of US internet users, conducted by Nielsen for the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM), people still most often talked about TV shows while in the same room, face to face or over the phone.

The Independent online has seen a good level of growth for December 2012 according to the latest data from ABC. With a 13.8% increase on the previous month, the website bagged an extra 117,590 unique daily browsers, bringing its total up to 970,899.