YouTube is the most popular video sharing website in the UK, beating Google and MySpace, according to a report by HitWise.The site takes a 60% share of the market, which is more than twice Google’s share and 10 times that of MySpace. YouTube’s dominance in Britain is even more complete than in the US, where… Continue reading YouTube Is Most Popular Video Sharing Website In UK

Yahoo! is said to be in talks to buy MySpace and Bebo rival Facebook, for a figure thought to be close to $1 billion (£526 million).Any move on the social networking site, which is the seventh most visited site in the US, could anger Microsoft. Last month, the software giant signed an online advertising deal… Continue reading Yahoo! Could Buy Social Networking Site

IPC Country & Leisure Media (CALM) has announced the promotion of Adrian Booker to associate publisher of its sports titles.Booker joined IPC Media in 2000 as the first intake of the graduate training scheme run by the UK’s magazine distribution company, Marketforce.He worked as a circulation executive within CALM for two years before moving to… Continue reading IPC Promotes Booker

The decline in ITV1’s ad revenue is expected to continue into the fourth quarter of the year, following an 18% decline in Q3. A report in today’s Financial Times says that advertising revenue is now expected to fall 20% year on year for the three months to December. In addition, the broadcaster looks set to… Continue reading ITV Ad Revenue Decline Expected To Continue In Q4

Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) has announced that advertising revenue for both its national and regional divisions declined year on year for the 11 months to the end of August. DMGT’s national division, Associated Newspapers, saw total advertising revenues fall by 2% (6% excluding acquisitions), with DMGT putting the “robust performance” down to strong… Continue reading DMGT Ad Revenues Decline

A new report from Informa Telecoms & Media shows that 40% of homes in Western Europe will have digital TV by the end of this year. Informa’s Western European TV report forecasts that the region will pass 100 million digital homes during 2010 and reach 116 million by the end of 2011, equivalent to a… Continue reading Bundles And Convergence Driving Digital TV Takeup

Virgin Radio and TalkSport could have their AM radio licences removed by Ofcom by 2012, so that the regulator can use the spectrum for new digital radio stations.Three new national stations and a range of local stations could be made out of the spectrum used by the two national AM services, according to Ofcom’s director… Continue reading Virgin Radio And TalkSport Could Lose AM Licences

ScreenFX, the digital screen giant, has been chosen as the sole marketing channel to launch street fashion label Ascension.Ascension, an ethically and organically produced clothing range, will be featured on the ScreenFX nationwide shopping centre network from the start of September.The mall media format was chosen for the launch to specifically target students and younger… Continue reading Fashion Label Chooses ScreenFX To Launch

Major changes are underway at the Times newspaper, with the business section of the title integrating its online and print operations.According to a report in the Guardian, online journalists have recently moved into the paper’s business section on the first floor of Times House and print journalists have been filing stories for the website.Times Online… Continue reading Newspapers In Multi-Media Reshuffle

British Gas London is to become the first ever client to place a sponsored editorial feature into Time Out‘s Reporter section.The deal, which kicks off mid-September 2006 and will run weekly until mid-March 2007, is part of a new press package created and negotiated by Carat Sponsorship, which will also include a presence on Timeout.com,… Continue reading British Gas In Time Out Sponsorship Deal