Groupe Bollore, owned by French entrepreneur and Havas chairman Vincent Bollore, has further increased its stake in Aegis Group to 19.15%, increasing from the 19.10% share reached yesterday. The company’s latest purchase of 629,939 shares at 126 pence per share is described as a financial investment by Bollore, as opposed to a strategic holding. However,… Continue reading Bollore Continues To Raise Share in Aegis
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Highbury House Communications saw its share price shrink this morning following news that Mike Frey, the company’s chief operating officer, is to leave the company with immediate effect, not to be replaced.The company confirmed in a statement to the City this morning that Frey had resigned his post by mutual consent, with the company making… Continue reading Highbury Dips Following COO Resignation
GCap Media’s indie music station Xfm has teamed up with V2 Music to compile the first original music based content for podcast, giving listeners the chance to download free, legal podcasts.The 15 minute podcast features exclusive versions of three songs from Elbow’s current album, Leaders of the Free World, as well as exerpts from an… Continue reading Xfm Teams Up With V2 Music In Podcasting Venture
Today sees the first overnight TV figures published on MediaTel.co.uk, with data provided by TNS allowing fast analysis of the previous day’s viewing for terrestrial broadcasters, as well as ITV2 and Sky One.Last night saw BBC drama Waking the Dead score impressive audience figures, with a peak of 7.1 million viewers in its final 15… Continue reading MediaTel Launches Extended TV Database With Overnights
Cable operator Telewest has widened the reach of its Teleport on-demand service, extending the technology to Essex, offering customers TV and film content at the push of a button.The service, which offers the same control as watching a DVD or video, enables users to pause, fast forward and rewind as many times as they like.The… Continue reading Telewest Widens On-Demand Access
Highbury House Communications has announced the departure of Mike Frey, chief operating officer of the group revealing the news in a statement to the city this morning. According to Highbury, Frey left the company by mutual consent with immediate effect and will not be replaced. Last month, Highbury appointed Kelvin MacKenzie as executive chairman of… Continue reading Frey Leaves Highbury House
Groupe Bollore has continued to raise its share in Aegis, with the latest reports revealing that Vincent Bollore has purchased more shares, increasing his stake in the media and communications agency to 19.1%, up from the 17.4% level announced on Saturday. Bollore is moving closer and closer to holding a 25% level in the company,… Continue reading Bollore Increases Aegis Stake To 19.1%
ITV looks set to suffer a £190 million deficit in its advertising income resulting from a poor performance from ITV1, with media agency Starcom forecasting the broadcasters share of the television advertising market to fall by 5.5 percentage points in 2006. Despite ITV’s expected fall, Starcom estimates the TV ad market for 2006 to be… Continue reading ITV To Suffer £190 Million Advertising Income Loss
Third generation phones (3G) exceeded 50 million by mid 2005, with the roll out of 3G services creating pressure for carriers to earn cellular data revenue and spawning a multitude of cellular devices of every shape and size, according to new research from In-Stat. According to the high tech market research firm, wireless handset component… Continue reading World-Wide 3G Phones Pass 50 Million
Media and communications group, Aegis has bought 100% of the equity of business media planning and buying agency, Just Media Limited (JML), for £10 million.JML was founded in 1995 and will bring clients including Adobe, Borland, Cognos, Compuware, MessageLabs and Seagate to Aegis.Commenting on the acquisition, Robert Lerwill, chief executive officer of Aegis said: “The… Continue reading Aegis Buys JML For £10 Million