United Business Media has released interim results for the six months ending June 30, with PR Newswire operating profits up by 14.7%. CMP Information’s first half revenues grew by 6.6% on an underlying basis, reflecting strong performances by the business’s events and its key print titles. However underlying profit in the half fell 8.3%, primarily… Continue reading United Business Media Releases First Half Results

Havas, the sixth-largest global advertising and communications group, has announced organic revenue growth of 4.4% for the first half of the year, with revenue of €729 million. The group also recorded organic growth of 5.4% in the second quarter, after a rise of 3.2% in the first quarter. Net new business for the first half… Continue reading First Half Revenue Increase For Havas

US consumer electronics marketers spent $1.9 billion online in 2006, or 13.7% of their ad budgets, according to new research from eMarketer. However, according to the Consumer Electronics Online: Converged or Confused? report, skepticism about ease of use, integration and hidden costs are keeping many would-be buyers on the sidelines. eMarketer says that the industry… Continue reading US Consumer Electronics Marketers Spent $1.9bn Online

A new report from eMarketer predicts that more than 50% of the US population – 155.2 million people – will watch video online next year. The Video Advertising Online: Spending and Audience report says that the high engagement factor of video, combined with the internet’s tracking and targeting capabilities, offers a valuable revenue stream for… Continue reading Over Half Of US Population Will Watch Online Video

The sci-fi series Heroes landed on terrestrial TV last night, with BBC Two showing the first two episodes back-to-back.The first episode, on at 9pm, picked up a peak audience of 4.1 million adults (a 20.9% audience share), whilst the second instalment, on at 9.40pm, managed to get a peak of 3.8 million adults (a 19%… Continue reading Good Start For BBC Two’s Heroes

June revenues increased for terrestrial channels by 4.5% year on year, although ITV1 was an exception as its revenue fell by 4.1%, likely due to the World Cup coverage dominating ITV1’s schedule this time last year (see England Score With Biggest World Cup Viewing Figures).Channel 4 had a very good month as it saw its… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – June 2007

Setanta is to launch a sports news channel on Virgin Media, replacing Sky Sports News which the cable operator lost when it became embroiled in a dispute with Sky over the carriage of its basic channels.Virgin Media lost the Sky channels in March (see Sky Anytime? Not For Virgin Media Cable Homes), with the dispute… Continue reading Setanta To Launch Sports News Channel

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 in… Continue reading GCap Media Revenues ‘Ahead Of Expectations’

A new report from Nielsen//NetRatings reveals where Britons are spending the most time whilst surfing the web and using internet-related applications.According to the Nielsen//NetRatings study, the 30.6 million Britons active online in June 2007 spent a total of 31.8 billion minutes surfing the web and using internet-related applications – an average of 17 hours 21… Continue reading New Research Reveals What Britons Do Online

Tens of millions of British people are still unaware of when their region will turn off its analogue television signal and switchover to digital, according to a report.An estimated 33 million people in the UK, 73% of the adult population, are still in the dark on this matter, according to research conducted in May and… Continue reading More Than 70% Of UK Adults Still In The Dark Over Switchover