The King was a big draw for ITV1 last night, with Young Elvis In Colour grabbing a peak of 3.6 million adults (an 18.9% share of the audience) in its 9pm timeslot.The insightful documentary, shown 30 years after the death of one of pop culture’s biggest icons, featured rare colour archive and home movies of… Continue reading Elvis Gets A Big Audience For ITV1

High profile ‘threequels’ have seen UK cinema admissions up almost 28.5% year on year in June to 11.2 million, according to the latest figures from the Cinema Advertising Association.Films such as Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Shrek the Third, Ocean’s Thirteen and Spider-Man 3 have spurred the upturn.The third instalment in the Pirates… Continue reading ‘Threequels’ Boost Cinema Admissions To 11.2 Million For June

Bebo.com became the most visited social networking site from within the UK in July, attracting 10.6 million unique visitors, an increase of 63% over the start of the year, according to the latest figures from comScore.It was closely followed by social networking behemoth MySpace.com, which enjoyed a 25% increase in traffic over the same time… Continue reading Bebo Becomes Most Visited Social Networking Site In July

WPP has reported a 5.3% increase in like-for-like revenues for the six months to the end of June, helped by acquisitions in China and India and faster growth in the US. WPP posted a pre-tax profit of £338 million, a 6.9% on the same period last year. Its reported revenue rose 2% to £2.9 billion.… Continue reading WPP Revenues Increase 5.3%

GCap’s share price dropped today following the release of the latest RAJAR listening figures, which revealed that in Q2 Capital Radio had its lowest ever share of the audience. At one point this morning, the company’s share price fell by 9% to 216p, from yesterday’s close of 237.5p. However, at 1.05pm, GCap’s price had rallied… Continue reading GCap Sees Share Price Fall After Poor RAJARs

More than 59 million Americans (37.3% of all active US internet users) visited newspaper websites on average during the second quarter of 2007, according to custom analysis provided by Nielsen//NetRatings for the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). The NAA says that this is a record number representing a 7.7% increase over the same period a… Continue reading Over 59 Million Americans Visited Newspaper Websites In Q2

Social networking services will dominate a burgeoning market for mobile user-generated content, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Globally, end-user generated revenues from social networking, dating and personal content delivery services will increase from $572m in 2007 to more than $5.7bn in 2012, with social networking accounting for 50% of the total by… Continue reading Mobile UGC Revenues To Rise Tenfold By 2012

A repeat of the James Bond movie Die Another Day, on ITV1 at 8pm last night, performed admirably well, beating Big Brother and a repeat showing of BBC One’s popular crime drama Waking The Dead.The classic action movie, which features the awesome Madonna song of the same name, had a peak adult audience of 4.3… Continue reading Bond Bags The Viewers

Jim Hytner, Barclays’ group brand and marketing director, is to leave the bank in November to become commercial director of Top Up TV.In his new role Hytner will be responsible for expanding Top Up TV’s commercial opportunities.He joined Barclays in 2004, having resigned as marketing and commercial director of ITV (see Hytner Quits ITV After… Continue reading Jim Hytner To Join Top Up TV

Easy Living the women’s monthly magazine, is to get its own channel on YouTube, following the launch of Vogue, Glamour and Brides on the video-sharing site.The new channel will show cookery videos featuring the magazine’s food editor, David Herbert.Abigail Chisman, general manager for Conde Nast Interactive, said, “We’re keen to capitalise on this premier destination… Continue reading Easy Living Magazine To Get YouTube Channel