GCap Media’s total revenues for June were up 6% year on year, ahead of the company’s expectations, and were up 2% year on year for the three months to 30 June, according to its first Interim Management Statement. The company said it has seen an encouraging trend in radio advertising revenue since its preliminary statements… Continue reading GCap Media Revenues ‘Ahead Of Expectations’
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Five is conducting a review of its procedures and co-authoring a handbook for independent producers as part of its initiative to improve viewer trust, with Channel 4 and the BBC also addressing the issue.The channel is reviewing its processes, contracts and supplier relationships to ensure viewers can have total faith in the broadcaster.Five is also… Continue reading Broadcasters Look To Improve Viewer Trust
GCap is to merge eight AM and DAB digital Classic Gold radio stations with the seven AM and DAB digital Capital Gold stations to form the national Gold network, going live on-air and online from 7pm on Friday, August 3.Gold will be aimed at ABC1 35-54 year old music fans and aims to distinguish itself… Continue reading GCap To Launch Gold Network
Emap is increasing the frequency of its young women’s magazine, More, changing the title from fortnightly publication to weekly, in a move said to counter the threat of readers defecting to IPC’s Look, which launched at the beginning of this year.From September, lifestyle glossy More will double its print output, hoping to head off the… Continue reading Emap Puts More Into Women’s Weekly Market
Paul Corley, the managing director of GMTV, is to stand down from the breakfast broadcaster following the company’s recent phone-in quiz scandal.In April, Corley appeared on the GMTV sofa to apologise to viewers over failures in its premium-rate phone quiz, and will now step down in September.The GMTV call-TV scandal erupted following a Panorama investigation… Continue reading GMTV MD To Leave Following Phone-In Scandal
JCDecaux has announced that its revenues for the six months to 30 June were up 7.7% to €1 million compared to the same period last year. Excluding acquisitions and the impact of foreign exchange, organic revenue growth was 6.9%, reflecting a strong second quarter. Core advertising revenues, excluding revenues related to the sale, rental and… Continue reading JCDecaux Revenues Increase
A new study on in-game advertising from Double Fusion and Interpret has found that 75% of gamers engage with at least one ad per minute across most, but not all, game types, whilst 81% of gamers engage at least every other minute. The research, designed with and conducted by new media research firm Interpret LLC,… Continue reading Gamers Engaging With In-Game Ads
Internet TV advertising could achieve revenues of up to $10 billion worldwide by 2011, according to a new industry report from Understanding & Solutions. Understanding & Solutions adds that this equates to 18% of the internet advertising market for that year, forecast at $57 billion. However, there is an internet TV ‘goldrush’ in progress, as… Continue reading Internet TV Ad Revenues Could Reach $10bn Worldwide
The worldwide online population will increase from 1.1 billion users in 2006 to 1.5 billion in 2011, representing 22% of the overall worldwide population in that year, according to a new report from JupiterResearch. The Worldwide Online Population Forecast, 2006 to 2011: Emerging Economies Catalyse Future Growth report shows that Brazil, Russia, India, and China… Continue reading Global Online Population To Increase
Nuts, the men’s magazine published by IPC, is to launch a TV station on Freeview later in the year.Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) and IPC Media will launch NutsTV in a four-hour block from 9pm to 1am later this year on Freeview, with more platforms to launch at a later stage.The channel’s programming will be live,… Continue reading Nuts To Launch Digital TV Channel