There were over 4 billion text messages sent in the UK during December 2006, according to figures announced today by the Mobile Data Association (MDA). It is the first time that text messages have broken through the 4 billion mark, and this huge total takes the overall figure for 2006 to 41.8 billion, beating the… Continue reading Record 4 Billion Texts Sent In December
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A new report from eMarketer estimates that there will be 136.1 million Europeans online in the five largest European Union countries and advertisers will spend $7.5 billion to reach all Western Europeans, up 25% from $6.0 billion last year. The Europe Online Advertising report analyzes the many, diverse factors driving internet advertising growth throughout the… Continue reading Western European Online Advertising To Reach $7.5 Billion
By 2010 more than half (55%) of all the video content consumed online in the US will be user generated, representing 44 billion video streams, according to a new forecast from Screen Digest. Screen Digest says that the user generated online video market (UGOV) exploded in 2006 and by the end of the year, user… Continue reading US User Generated Content To Grow
The founders of VoIP service Skype, entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, have named their new social-networking meets TV-programming internet venture Joost.Previously code-named the Venice Project, Joost is currently undergoing testing. It is described by its creators as putting together the “best of TV and the best of the internet” by creating a piracy-proof online… Continue reading Skype Founders Launch New Internet Project
Virgin Mobile is thought to have sold less than 10,000 handsets for its recently launched mobile-TV service, despite a £2.5 million advertising campaign.Virgin Mobile has also recently cut the price of the Lobster phone, the only handset which is able to receive the service, from £199.99 to £99 for pre-pay customers..A report in today’s Guardian… Continue reading Poor Sales For Virgin Mobile TV Handsets
An estimated 20,000 complaints have been made to Channel 4 and Ofcom about racist abuse on Celebrity Big Brother.Reports in the trade press claim that the majority of the complaints received by both Ofcom and Channel 4 are in relation to comments made towards Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty by contestants Jack Tweed, Jackiey Goody and… Continue reading Big Brother Racism Complaints Reach An Estimated 20,000
Fru Hazlitt has been appointed to the new position of managing director, GCap London and will also join the board of GCap Media. Hazlitt, 43, will take responsibility for Capital Radio and Choice FM, in addition to GCap Media’s national commercial sales and online operations and will report directly to Ralph Bernard, GCap CEO. Hazlitt… Continue reading Hazlitt Appointed GCap London Managing Director
ITV is no longer interested in buying cinema advertising business Pearl & Dean, which SMG had hoped to sell for up to £20 million. According to reports in the trade press, ITV has pulled out of a possible deal as it was worried that a purchase would be blocked by competition authorities. ITV currently owns… Continue reading ITV No Longer Interested In Pearl & Dean
Richard Addis, the former editor of the Daily Express and FT Weekend, is to launch a free daily newspaper in London at the end of March.The new paper, called Newsstand, will be delivered each weekday morning to 30,000 upmarket London homes.According to reports in the trade press, the paper’s content will come mostly from third… Continue reading New Free Paper For London
Sky is to launch a large scale marketing campaign to promote a triple-play offering of broadband, TV and telephone.The new package, called See, Speak, Surf, has a £20 connection fee and customers will also have to pay BT line rental of £11 per month.The TV package will include all of Sky’s basic channels, including Sky… Continue reading Sky To Launch Triple Play Bundle