More people are watching digital television in the UK than ever before, according to Ofcom’s latest Digital Progress Report. Digital television viewing in the first quarter of 2006 in the UK was up from 69.5% at the end of 2005 to 72.5% or 18.2 million. For the first time, digital terrestrial households exceeded analogue terrestrial… Continue reading Digital Television Thriving In UK

Advertising revenue at ITV1 could fall by as much as 23% next month, according to media buyers. Britain’s leading commercial channel is expected to see disappointing figures for June, with revenue perhaps falling 3 to 5% year on year in the run up to the World Cup. Many advertisers were deliberately avoiding the World Cup… Continue reading ITV Ad Revenue To Tumble

The Carphone Warehouse has received a huge response to its offer of free broadband through its TalkTalk service, with initial demand significantly ahead of forecasts, reveals the group’s preliminary results for the year ending April 1 2006. According to Charles Dunstone, the chief executive officer of The Carphone Warehouse, it has connected more customers in… Continue reading Free Broadband Exceeds Expectations For Carphone Warehouse

Daily Mail & General Trust is to lose its place on the FTSE 100, based on market capitalisations at the close of business last night. The company, whose group businesses include Associated Newspapers and dmg world media, has performed badly all year, seeing its share price drop 20% in that period and failing to sell… Continue reading DMGT Loses Place On FTSE 100

WPP’s poor share price performance could cost its chief executive, Sir Martin Sorrell, up to £44 million, despite a leap in his pay cheque by more than a third to £3.3 million. Sir Martin could still get his full bonus if WPP’s share price takes off over the next three years. However, for the maximum… Continue reading WPP’s Poor Share Performance Costs Sorrell £44 Million

ITV is to cut 40 jobs from its Meridian and Central regional news teams and Sky News is also to cut jobs as it revamps its schedule. Reports in The Guardian say that Sky News could axe Sky Report and World News Tonight, with a formal announcement to employees about their futures expected to come… Continue reading News Channel Job Cuts

The 20 largest cable and DSL providers in the US acquired a record 3.1 million subscribers during the first quarter of 2006, according to the Leichtman Research Group. The top broadband providers have almost 46 million high speed internet subscribers, with cable having nearly 25.8 million broadband subscribers (see Broadband Accounts For Over 42 Million… Continue reading US Broadband Record

Worldwide unit shipments of personal video recorder (PVR) products reached 19 million in 2005, an increase of 60% on the 11.9 million units shipped in 2004, says new research by In-Stat (see PVR Subscribers To Reach 34 Million By 2010). The study predicts that this figure will reach 42 million by 2010, showing that PVRs… Continue reading Worldwide PVR Shipments Hit 19 Million

May began with a positive diagnosis for the UK advertising industry, with expenditure forecast to rise this year by 2.6%, ahead of the 2.2% predicted for the US and 1.4% for the Eurozone. The figures from the Advertising Association and World Advertising Research Centre also showed that advertising expenditure in the UK grew by 1.8%… Continue reading INSIGHTanalysis: Media Healthcheck – May 2006

More and more UK companies are moving their advertising budgets online, according to a new survey carried out by the Online Marketing Show (OMS). The survey, in its second year and coming ahead of the show on June 7-8, had 40% of respondents say that they spend 26% or more of their marketing budget online… Continue reading Commitment To Online Marketing Increases