BSkyB has confirmed it will launch a legal challenge against the competition regulator’s ruling ordering it to sell the majority of its 17.9% stake in ITV. Sky, which will lose hundreds of millions of pounds selling down the stake to below 7.5%, said it would lodge its application with the Competition Commission tribunal (CCT) today.… Continue reading Sky Confirms Legal Challenge To ITV Stake Ruling

Caroline McDevitt , managing director of IPC Advertising, has been confirmed to sit on the panel at MediaTel Group’s ‘Future of Consumer Magazines’ seminar to be held in March.McDevitt has held the position since early 2006, having joined IPC in 2005 as director of group advertising. She also took on the position of chair of… Continue reading IPC’s McDevitt Confirmed For ‘Future of Consumer Magazines’

Facebook has seen its UK monthly unique users figure fall by 5%, from 8.9 million visitors in December 2007, to 8.5 million in January 2008, according to Nielsen Online.This represents the first fall for the site, which is still ranked number one and has an audience 712% higher than it was a year ago.MySpace, ranked… Continue reading Facebook Sees First Drop In Unique Users

Owen Van Natta, Facebook’s chief revenue officer, will be leaving the company next month after a short tenure.Van Natta was instrumental in initiating two major deals with Microsoft, setting up an exclusive three-year advertising agreement and negotiating the software giant’s $240 million (£124 million) investment in the firm back in October.Van Natta told the Wall… Continue reading Senior Facebook Exec To Leave

Up to 500,000 programmes are downloaded or streamed from the BBC’s iPlayer every day, and over 17 million have been streamed or downloaded on-demand in the application’s first seven weeks, according to new figures from the corporation.Daily volumes have been increasing strongly during January and February and last week the total number of streams and… Continue reading Over 17m Shows Downloaded On iPlayer This Year

The return of Hotel Babylon was no match for Liverpool’s last minute win in the UEFA Champion’s League last night, with the game attracting just under 5.7 million adults on average to ITV1.Liverpool’s 2-0 triumph over Italian league champions Inter Milan gave the channel a 24.4% audience share between 7.30pm and 10pm, whilst the start… Continue reading Liverpool Win Triumphs Over Opposition

BBC Worldwide has signed a deal to offer paid downloads of shows such as Life on Mars and Torchwood on iTunes.Around 10 series will be made available on the UK iTunes store at about £1.89 per episode. Viewers can then watch the shows on a Mac or PC, iPod with video, iPhone or Apple TV.“We… Continue reading BBC Shows Now On iTunes

From tomorrow, publishers will be able to report both their print circulation and website unique user figures on a monthly basis for the first time in a new single report from the ABC.The new Multi-platform Monthly Report will detail month on month and year on year figures for both on and offline properties. In addition,… Continue reading Publishers To Be Able To Report Monthly Print And Web Figures

Universal McCann and Bauer Advertising have announced a year-long partnership deal, bringing together car insurance company MORE TH>N and Magic 105.4.Launching this month and running through to February 2009, the concept was created from a joint initiative between Universal McCann and Bauer.Running under the banner More Is… Giving You More Indulgence, the campaign features a… Continue reading Bauer Announces Year-Long Magic Partnership Deal

A new report from market research company, RNCOS, has found that the global IPTV market is currently dominated by Europe but it is expected that Asia will emerge as a stronger competitor to Europe in coming years. ‘Global IPTV: Market Analysis and Forecast to 2011’ says the number of broadband subscribers in the Asia-Pacific region… Continue reading Asia To Emerge As IPTV Competitor To Europe