The nation’s rolling news services saw a surge of viewing last month, triggered by the Live 8 concerts, the announcement of London’s winning Olympic bid, the terror attacks on the capital and the IRA’s announcement of an end to its armed campaign.The string of high-profile events saw the BBC’s rolling news channel, News 24, topping… Continue reading BBC Tops Charts For Rolling News Coverage In July
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Emap Advertising has announced the appointment of Steve Payne to the newly-created post of strategic planning director for magazines, underlining the company’s focus on strategy and the increasing recognition of planning and buying departments as separate entities.The new position is the first of its kind in the publishing industry, with Emap claiming it marks an… Continue reading Emap Appoints Payne As Magazine Director
Virgin Radio’s station manager, Steve Taylor, has been appointed creative commercial director for Emap Radio, leaving Virgin to help Emap reinforce its commitment to generating creative solutions for clients.Taylor will lead the award-winning teams delivering to national, regional and local customers across all of Emap Radio’s brands. The focus will be on compelling ideas, engaging… Continue reading Emap Radio Poaches Taylor From Virgin
Asia-Pacific remains the world’s primary growth region for wireless networks, with Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan forecast to catch up with Japan and South Korea thanks to the recent 3G network launches, according to eMarketer. The analyst’s latest report, Asia-Pacific Wireless: Mobility on the Cutting Edge, predicts less mature wireless markets, such… Continue reading Asia Pacific Remains Strongest Growth In Wireless Arena
The emergence of online bingo in internet gambling has tapped into extra revenue streams for the expanding market and brought more female gamers online. The latest analysis from online intelligence firm, Hitwise, shows that gambling sites as a whole attract 8% fewer visits from female internet users than average for all websites, with betting on… Continue reading Surge In Women”Soft-Gambling” Online
Online shopping this holiday season is predicted to reach $26.2 billion, an increase of 22% from last year’s total of $21.5 billion. According to the latest forecasts from eMarketer, this year’s estimates for online retail revenues represent a jump of almost 50% from the $17.4 billion spent in the same period in 2003. E-commerce is… Continue reading US Online Shopping Forecast To Rise By 22% This Holiday Season
Reports in American newspapers over the weekend have claimed that a rift between Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan was behind his surprise decision to leave News Corp, announced last week.The Wall Street Journal and New York Times both published claims by un-named sources that Murdoch’s eldest son and heir had felt uncomfortable in recent… Continue reading Murdoch Departure Was Due To Family Rift
The BBC has revealed record online audiences for its coverage of the Live 8 concerts last month, with an unprecedented 14.6 million page impressions over the course of three days marking the largest ever volume of traffic to a BBC Radio and Music website.The Live 8 WAP site for mobile phones was also well received,… Continue reading BBC Sees Record Online Audiences For Live 8
June saw a new record for text messages, with a total of 86.7 million messages sent on average per day throughout the month, topping 2.6 billion messages in total, according to new figures from the Mobile Data Association (MDA).The MDA showed person to person texts sent across the UK GSM network operators last month to… Continue reading Text Usage Continues To Rise Throughout June
Paris based advertising group, Havas, has announced a new leadership of Euro RSCG Worldwide following the resignation of James R. Heedin, resulting in the formation of a new international team to lead operations. Mercedes Erra and Stephane Fouks have been named as the executive co-chairmen of Euro RSCG Worldwide, with David Jones assuming the position… Continue reading Havas Announces New Structure For Euro RSCG Worldwide